Thursday, January 12th Workshop Schedule

Mindshare LA & The George Greenstein Institute are Proud to Present:

No Resolutions! Workshop

at the Project Butterfly loft, a hidden gem in Downtown LA.

RSVP: mindfocus.eventbrite.com

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(Doors 7pm) 7:30pm – 10pm / Workshop Description

• Do you think making New Year’s resolutions is a yearly farce?

• Do you find you never keep your resolutions?

• And then find you get frustrated with yourself for not doing so?

Don’t make resolutions! Make change!

Participants will leave this interactive workshop with experience:

Distinguishing goals from strategies!

    Mapping of doable strategies as opposed to feeling overwhelmed by larger than life resolutions.

    Approaching the goal setting process with heart and mind in synch.

    Reframing reward thinking to move oneself further towards the goal as opposed to stumbling over endless data sorting and self indulgence along the way.

Join Mindshare LA and GGI for a “No Resolutions!” workshop and learn how all successful thinkers — from entrepreneurs to engineers, from monks to systems scientists — have used strategic goal setting techniques to “be here now” and stay on track. Neuroconsultant & design thinker Dr. G. will introduce you to the iterative art and systems science behind mapping your goals for 2012. The workshop covers the 3 effective brain smart / mind awake tips for inhibiting reward as well offer time-tested, change management methods for integrating both superficial and deep layers of narrative that accompany big and small goals.

Mindshare LA / Thursday, December 15th 7pm / Doors & Happy Hour Mix and mingle with the most exciting minds of LA and enjoy music, hors d’oeurvres, games & prizes! Happy Hour is from 7-8:30pm. 8:30pm / Talks Secrets and Lies “The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived” - Oscar Wilde MC, “Secrets & Lies“ Douglas Campbell / Co-Founder & Curator, Mindshare LA Secrecy, deception & trickery, we humans are a devious bunch. From playful myths as children to dark schemes as adults, we constantly mask the truth. We must question everything on our quest to find it. Doug is a community constructor, experience engineer and tuxedo traveler. He co-founded Mindshare LA in 2006 as well as the interactive collective Syyn Labs in 2009. He likes wearing tuxedos for charitable escapades.

The Largest Scientific Instrument Ever Built Tristan Ursell / Biophysicist, Stanford University What is the biggest scientific device ever built? What was it for? Did it prevent the end of the world? How did it spur one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time? The answers are revealed during this interwoven, true tale of rocks, gigawatts, water, waves, salt and steel. Tristan Ursell is a passionate teacher and communicator of science, exploring the interface of science, policy and daily life. He works as a biophysicist at Stanford University, as Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Law, Science and Policy, and is a resident of the infamous Langton Labs intentional community in San Francisco.

How to Become a Human Lie Detector Vanessa van Petten / Curator and Speaker, ScienceOfPeople.org We are told hundreds of lies each and every day–from advertisements, our colleagues and, of course, from our friends and family. Is there a way to know when people are lying to you? Can you become a human lie detector? New research shows that yes, we can detect lies from facial expressions, body language and voice tone. In this presentation Vanessa Van Petten will share the latest research and tips on lie detection. Vanessa Van Petten is an author and expert on human relationships. She runs ScienceOfPeople.org, a website where readers can find the most interesting research on human behavior in easy to understand and sometimes humorous terms. She has been featured on CNN, in the Wall Street Journal and on the Real Housewives of Orange County for her work with parent and teen relationships.

College of Lockpicking: Pick it like it’s 1899 Jamie Schwettmann / Founder and Teacher, College of Lockpicking You can pick your friends. You can pick your beer. But can you pick… a lock? Discover the inner workings of locks from the 20th century BC and which ideas from the original designs are still found in locks today. Learn the parts of a modern pin-tumbler lock, and what makes picking them possible. Then join us at the College of Lockpicking table to try your hand at this mysterious art! College of Lockpicking holds the philosophy that removing the veil of secrecy from the traditionally-guilded study of locks fundamentally alters the way we approach security, technology, personal property, and our communities, thereby enabling a more holistic consciousness of the interplay between our delicate social contracts and the illusion of security.

9:30pm – Late / Interactions & After-Party

Stay for the interactive technology demo lounge, stocked bar, music and entertainment!

Explore the MUSIC, GAMES & ART on display!

ART, GAMES & INSTALLATIONS FROM

We Are Matik takes existing platforms to the next level by creating a richer user experience. They will bring back the latest version of “Anomaly”, an interactive piece that works like a game of “video telephone”.

Wise Guys will be in the house once again, conducting another social game!

Coined “The League of Extraordinary Nerds” by Fast Company Magazine, Syyn Labs is a Los Angeles-based organization that fuses the worlds of technology and interactive sciences with artistic mediums to design and construct visually dynamic spectacles that inspire thought and provoke conversation. (Read more…)

DIRECTIONS & PARKING The Mezz Bar, Alexandria Hotel, 2nd Floor. 501 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA, 90013 Street parking & lot parking available. (Also, yellow loading zones OK after 6pm.)

Mindshare LA / Wednesday, November 16th

7pm / Doors & Happy Hour

Mix and mingle with the most exciting minds of LA and enjoy music, hors d’oeurvres, games & prizes! Happy Hour is from 7-8:30pm.

8:30pm / Talks

The Crowd Effect

Understanding crowds for business, for community, and for survival.

9:30pm – Late / Interactions & After-Party

Stay for the interactive technology demo lounge, stocked bar, music and entertainment!

Explore the MUSIC, GAMES & ART on display!

See hte full program ^ RSVP here: mindshare.eventbrite.com

Monday, November 14th

Mindshare LA is Proud to Present a Special Screening of:

“Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists”

Drinks Specials 7pm-8pm | Screening & Q&A 8pm-10pm | Drinks Next Door at Jalisco

The Little Cart will be serving up gourmet food from 6:30pm onward.

mindscreen.eventbrite.com

BONUS Q&A with Entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell

Nolan is a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc and the Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of Newsweek’s “50 Men Who Changed America.” Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Game Designer of Anti-Aging Games, a website of games designed to stimulate the brain and created by Bushnell and two doctorate scientists.

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SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen…Tom Perkins, Don Valentine, Arthur Rock, Dick Kramlich and others. The film also includes some of our finest entrepreneurs sharing how they worked with these venture capitalists to grow world-class companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Atari, Genentech, Tandem and others.

Beginning in the late 1950?s, this small group of high rollers fostered a one-of-a-kind business culture that encouraged extraordinary risk and made possible unprecedented rewards. They laid the groundwork for America’s start-up economy, providing not just the working capital but the guidance to allow seedling companies to reach their full potential. Our lives would be dramatically different without the contributions that these venture capitalists made to the creation of PCs, the Internet and life-saving drugs.

SOMETHING VENTURED was conceived by Paul Holland, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Paul, a general partner with Foundation Capital, is co-executive producer of the film along with Molly Davis of Rainmaker Communications. The film was directed by Emmy-Award-winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.

(Watch the trailer here…)

“‘Without venture capitalists,’ Atari founder Nolan Bushnell says, ‘the future wouldn’t happen nearly so quickly.’ ‘Something Ventured’ provides ample evidence to support Bushnell’s claim.”

–Variety

“A completely unashamed love-letter to capitalism and its virtues. Something to be celebrated with a bit of caution.”

–We Got This Covered

Thursday, November 10th Schedule

  

Mindshare LA & Embody Tantra are Proud to Present:

Tantra / Communicating from Within

…at Peace Yoga Gallery & Cafe, another hidden gem in Downtown LA!

RSVP here: mindbody.eventbrite.com

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(Doors 7:30pm) 8pm – 10pm / Workshop Description

Join Charu, who enlightened the attendees at the June Mindshare LA, for the third installment of experiential evenings, where you will learn:

What is Tantra?

How does accessing our body and moving beyond shame transform the way we communicate?

How to become more aware of patterns in our bodies and allow that to transform our relationships.

Simple techniques for becoming more sensitive to those you are communicating with so you can truly hear & be heard.

What is at the heart of clear communication?

Make Sure to Bring a Pillow / Blanket & a Notebook!

NOTE: You will also get to experience a Tantric practice with the group: NO PARTNER NECESSARY! Tantra isn’t what many people think. There will be no nudity or sexual contact. This practice will begin to re-sensitize you to your world, making way for more delight, richness & pleasure in all that you do.

More from Charu

Many of us feel lonely, isolated from a genuine connection to ourselves, our families, our lovers and our world.

We often find ourselves thirsty on a deep level for something real, something that can remind us of the brilliance of being alive.

We search for it in books, modern gurus, various spiritual teachings… few of us experience what we know is possible.

We leave our Yoga classes with our bodies open and vibrant, but barely say a word to the person who was on the mat beside us.

We awaken in seminars or sermons where visions and possibilities are alighted before us with words, and still we are lost when it comes to fulfilling relationships.

We hear a call from within, a call that is buried, asking us to open our eyes and awaken to what it is to be alive in every moment. A longing to be looked in the eyes and be understood, not judged. A simple desire to reach out and truly ‘meet’ our neighbor… without any agenda, without any story, without holding back.

Who would you be if you surrendered to this voice within? Beyond what you have been taught, beyond society, beyond who you think you are?

For more info on Charu & Embody Tantra go to www.embodytantra.com

Wednesday, November 2nd Schedule

Mindshare LA & The UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center are Proud to Present:

Relational Mindfulness Games and Workshop

at the Temple of Visions art gallery, a hidden gem in Downtown LA.

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(Doors 7pm) 7:30pm – 10pm / Workshop Description

• How awake can be we be in interactions with other people?

• Does meditation have anything to do with relating to others?

• How much more honest might I be with others? Would that be a good thing?

Yes it would be a good thing!

Participants will leave this interactive workshop experience knowing:

How we can be more aware with others!

How we can meditate with others in mind to cultivate positive emotions in oneself.

Join Dr. Marvin Belzer, who led attendees through the first steps toward mindfulness at a Mindshare Presents.. workshop in July, for the next installment of mindfulness workshops!

We can deliberately cultivate mindful awareness of our thinking, habits, impulses, reactions, repetitive voices, and emotions. This awareness helps us break unconscious mental habits that create unnecessary suffering.

Mindfulness meditation is a good way to cultivate this type of awareness.– And so also are interactive (“relational”) mindfulness awareness practices!

Marvin Belzer will describe some relational mindfulness practices (“MAPs”) and guide participants in relational exercises them during this experiential session.

Relational MAPs encourage mental activities that are similar to those in solitary meditation practice, including the use of a neutral home base for the attention. The interactive mindfulness games offer an integration of the customary qualities of mindfulness meditation into structured social settings that make the beneficial effects of mindfulness more accessible to some individuals. And – these exercises are fun!

Effects similar to meditation would be expected if, as neuroscientist Dan Siegel conjectures, heightened self awareness in solitary meditation practice is associated with the brain activity underlying social attunement.

We also will do some brief mindfulness meditations as a foundation for the exercises.. Come see for yourself what can happen!

NOTE: Make sure to bring a pillow / blanket and a notebook!

More about Marvin Belzer and MARC

Marvin Belzer, PhD, has taught mindfulness meditation for over fifteen years and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). For many years he taught a semester-long meditation course in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green St. University, where he was a Professor of philosophy. He and Diana Winston were instrumental in developing week-long mindfulness retreats for teens in the mid-1990s.

MARC was created to bring to a renowned mental health research institution the ancient art of mindful awareness in a scientifically supported and rigorous form.The Jane and Terry Semel Institute at UCLA is dedicated to research and education of neuroscience and human behavior. MARC is a new center in the Semel Institute. Our mission is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society.

For more info on Marvin Belzer, his workshops, and the research at MARC, go to marc.ucla.edu/