Mini-Calendar
Find your next moment to connect.
Explore Mini-Events in one place. Use Mini-Calendar to find event details and choose the gatherings that interest you.
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Meet. Share. Make room for new connections.
Mini-Events bring families, volunteers, and professionals together around shared experiences, practical ideas, and the Mini-Talks community.
A conversation, a shared activity, or a chance to listen can be a starting point. Mini-Events offer different ways to get to know the people and ideas behind Mini-Talks.
Some gatherings focus on making and exploring. Others make space for family experiences, professional perspectives, or news from the project. Find the format that interests you and check the calendar for event details.
Explore the event formats below, or start with Mini-Calendar to see what is listed.
Find your next moment to connect.
Explore Mini-Events in one place. Use Mini-Calendar to find event details and choose the gatherings that interest you.
Explore the calendar
Make, explore, and exchange ideas.
Mini-Workshops bring volunteers together around practical activities and creative ideas. Explore ways to contribute to Mini-Talks and learn through making together.
Explore workshops
Shared experiences. New connections.
Mini-Family Meetups create opportunities for families to meet, exchange everyday experiences, and get to know others in the community. Listen, share, or simply take part at your own pace.
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Questions that open conversations.
Mini-Expert Sessions bring professional perspectives into the conversation. Explore topics around communication and children’s everyday experiences, with space for questions and shared reflection.
Explore expert sessions
Stay close to what is taking shape.
Mini-Updates bring the community together around project news, ideas in progress, and next steps. Discover what is being developed and where you might like to get involved.
Explore community updates
A reason to come together.
Mini-Special Days make room for themed gatherings and shared activities. They offer another way to connect with the community around a common occasion.
Explore special daysMini-Community is a space where people who are touched by the selective mutism journey come together.
As a family going through this process ourselves, there were times we felt alone.
My family worked to reach other families going through the same journey and sought therapists experienced in this field.
We saw how important teachers' support is in the selective mutism process.
For my sibling to do comfortable speech exercises, we first informed the venues, then went there together as a family.
At restaurants, I would read the menu for my sibling. For a long time, they would whisper their order in my ear. Over time, my sibling started placing their own order. For us, the most important thing at restaurants wasn't the food — it was the process of placing the order.
At the supermarket, my sibling asked the dairy clerk for milk for the first time in a very hoarse voice. When we had previously informed the clerk about my sibling's process and they showed where the milk was, my sibling responded to the question "How many glasses of milk do you drink a day?" by pointing with their fingers first. Then, another day, they asked for a different product's location in a slightly louder voice.
My sibling and I prepared small survey questions to ask people on the street. Sometimes people stopped and answered. Sometimes they said "no time" and walked past. Sometimes there were even those who warned my sibling to speak louder, as it was the first time they heard my sibling's voice directed at strangers.
Nobody had bad intentions, but most people simply didn't know how to act. If we could have reached volunteers who were aware of this issue and could communicate with the child without pressure, this experience would have been much safer and more comfortable. That's exactly the kind of need Mini-Community was born from.
However, I am not a professional, and neither is my family.
In Mini-Community, no treatment or solution is offered.
It exists only so that no one walks this path alone.
It is open to everyone who wants to raise the voices of children with selective mutism, support the process, and walk this path together.
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