Table Manners

Table Manners Breakfast | It’s what you bring to the table.

The Table Manners Breakfast is an intimate bring-and-share breakfast gathering modeled to sow overall mental wellness in young South African men through themed conversations and collaborative thought-leadership; over eateries every monthly, for free.

The Table Manner Breakfast is based on a lived insight where many young men suffer hardship in silence as they live through the most critical time of their lives (age 21yrs to 35yrs) under the cultural doctrine that sights manhood and masculinity as a journey of self-imposed resistance towards addressing and dealing with issues that affect them deeply. As a result, men become heavy burdened and overwhelmed by life, leaving them desensitized and unfit to define a clear and well-infromed self-concept.

The table opens this conversation to 10 young men every monthly in pursuit of collaboratively reconfiguring the broken “male” narrative in South Africa. Working towards achieving a progressive state of wellness for all men in our country, especially where young men are central to substance abuse, su***de, crime, gender-based violence, r**e and many more tragic events that happen on a daily basis.

As a social development program, our conversations answer to greater ideals advocated globally and channels sufficiency in sustainable development through impactful and qualitative breakfast sittings. Although Table Manners Breakfast primarily addresses the male narrative, we also package and apply insights that help hammer-down issues around poverty, health, education, gender equality, women and girls. We believe that by understanding and correcting the male narrative in our country, we are able to afford the world one less issue to worry about in the society where men are concerned.

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