World Cafe x Island within : Power behind Passion projects 小島療癒．一缽初心
Do you have a passion project? At some point, we all long to make life more meaningful. A passion project can be something small, like helping those around us, or something bigger, like creating change in our community or the world.
As you pursue yours, who, or what keeps you going?
Your support network might include people who lift your spirits when you feel low or show up when you need help. It might also include animals, plants, or beliefs that give you strength.
On Saturday afternoon, 28 November, join us for an immersive exploration of the support network that powers our passion projects. In Peng Chau, an outlying island where we can slow down and step away from the city’s hustle and bustle.
Date | November 28, 2026 (Sat)
Time | 2:00pm-5:00pm
Capacity | 8-12 people
Language | English as primary language
Host | Shirley Lam (@lcwshirley), Zero Chan (@island_within)
Location | Island within, Peng Chau (30-min ferry ride from Central Pier)
Dual experience: Singing bowl and World Cafe
First, relax.
Served with tea, we will settle into a 30-minute immersive singing bowl and gong session. When we’re caught up in everyday life, it can be hard to hear ourselves clearly. Slowing down creates space to soften, listen, and simply be.
Then, reflect.
From this calmer place, we’ll come together for a World Café conversation—a space for intimate, honest reflection on the support that sustains us and our passion projects. World Café is a format driven by intentionally crafted questions, designed for 12 or more people to think together. Through rotating small groups, we will discover collective wisdom about support network.
Come to relax and reflect. Leave feeling refreshed, grounded, and more connected to what keeps you going.
The Space: Island within
Leave space—when you empty it out, more possibilities can emerge.
Island Within is designed in the form of a Home Studio. While living daily life here, what is learned is gently integrated and shared through retreats. The space is kept as open as possible, furnished only with what is necessary to reduce visual clutter. Draped curtains serve as private areas when needed.
Zero and her Planetary Singing Bowls
About a 15-minute walk from Peng Chau Pier, stroll along the seaside and let both your body and mind embrace the slower pace.
Your hosts
Shirley Lam
Facilitator / Founder of World Cafe CAT
Shirley Lam is an advocate for facilitation and a workshop host dedicated to promoting facilitation skills and hosting World Café conversations. Through professional exchanges and community sharing, she helps people learn and practise dialogue facilitation in a range of settings.
World Café CAT hosts themed World Café conversations in local shops and community spaces. These gatherings invite participants to explore their own thoughts, listen to others’ stories, and tap into their collective wisdom, while discovering and supporting the spaces that host them. Since its launch in December 2023, the initiative has held more than 85 events.
Zero
Mindfulness yoga, singing bowl instructor, IFS practitioner
Zero has worked in holistic wellbeing for over eight years, leading hundreds of workshops and events and gaining extensive experience through one-to-one sessions.
Over the years, she has explored a wide range of practices, including mindfulness, yoga, singing bowls, gongs, energy healing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
In recent years, she has made singing bowls her main area of study, travelling to Nepal on several occasions to learn from teachers across different traditions, from chakra-based to planetary singing bowl systems.
She has also established Island Within, a seaside sanctuary on Peng Chau, where she brings together and shares what she has learned. Through immersive experiences, she invites people to reconnect with their inner selves and explore a path towards living authentically and with greater ease.
FAQ
☕ What is World Cafe?
World Cafe is a discussion format driven by intentionally crafted questions, designed for 12 or more people to Think Together. 🌎☕️
In the process, participants are divided into small groups to discuss a question, and then join a new group to discuss the next one.
There will be three rounds, each 15 to 20 minutes.
After that, everyone comes together to share what they learned. We'll be able to take home the main ideas, themes, and insights that emerged from the discussions.
📝 What can you expect?
2 pm Doors open. Rest and have a cup of tea.
2:30 pm-3:00 pm Singing bowl session by Zero
3:00 pm-4:15 pm World Cafe: Part 1 Small group discussion
4:15 pm-4:45 pm World Cafe: Part 2 Harvest
4:45 pm-5:00 pm Mingle + wrap up
💰What is the cost?
Early bird: HKD 580 (til Oct 31st, 2026)
Standard: HKD 600
✨ What happens if the event has sold out?
You will be placed on the waiting list. If a spot opens up, I’ll reach out to you so you can decide whether you want to join. If no spots become available, a full refund will be issued