If you are reading this page, you probably already know what a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is, and you probably are one. "HSP" is a concept explained by Dr. Elaine Aron in her 1996 book "The Highly Sensitive Person." If you identify as a Myers-Briggs INFJ, INFP, or ISFP, there's a very good chance you're also an HSP. If you'd like to learn more, we highly recommend that you visit Elaine Aron's web site and take her sensitivity self-test: http://www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm This group was …

Come help us build a new community lab for the East Bay, focused on DIY biology and citizen science. A place to explore, learn, work on fun projects, tinker with biology and other sciences. Open to biotech professionals, scientists, and citizen scientists of all stripes. Be part of our community of creative thinkers, hackers and mad scientists!

Founded by Tara Russell of Three Month Visa Coaching and Consulting and run in partnership with Laurie Koski of Pink Shoe Tours, this is a great Meetup for seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers alike! Our Travel Book Club discussions and Travel Lectures Series events feature books and speakers to inspire you if you are currently dreaming of "hitting the road" as well as provide necessary resources for planning and realizing that trip of a lifetime. Our focus is building a community of tr …

This group is for all women who like to travel, want to learn about a different culture and explore their dreams. Our members come from all around the general Bay Area. We are interested in adventure, food and wine, spas, creative endeavors, photography, shopping, design, gardening and much more.  Come and join us to: share your pictures,  share your travel stories, meet like minded traveling companions, get ideas about where to travel, talk  with women who have the same interests as you do, etc …

This group is meant to fill the surprising dearth of regularly meeting pagan/wiccan groups in the Berkeley/Oakland area. We celebrate and practice some of the cultural traditions of Celtic and Gaelic origin, including gaining a better understanding of nature by exploring seasonal change. Once enough people join, I hope to find a monthly meeting time that works for everyone. During our meetings we will engage in creative self expression, discuss what we are learning, create seasonal arts and craf …

If we leave it to the local news, Oakland’s reputation will be forever linked to the same old storylines: Art Murmur, racial tension, Brooklynization*, and crime. How can we work together to reveal the deeper story? Maybe you’ve been blogging for a while and want to meet new local people.  Maybe you want to increase your social media presence. Maybe you’re new to the area and full of stuff to say, and you need new connections to grow your audience. Or maybe you’ve always wanted to blog and just …

Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA is a network focused on empowerment, leadership, and growth of next generation arts and culture workers in the San Francisco Bay Area through knowledge sharing, learning opportunities, and partnerships. Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA’s events connect Bay Area arts and culture workers to each other, to the field at large, and to emerging ideas within and around it. Attendees can develop their skills, connect with peers, and find ways to sustain their commitment …

Do you want to transform public spaces into vibrant interactive places? Spearhead projects that prioritize bikers and walkers? Improve our public transportation systems? Promote energy efficient buildings? Revitalize our blighted neighborhoods? Infuse art and creativity into our urban spaces? We all have thoughts and ideas on any of these topics. Let’s collaborate. This group is meant to bring together urbanists, planners, designers, environmentalists, artists, developers and anyone else interes …

Bioregionalism is a concept that goes beyond national boundaries, but rather is a political, cultural, and ecological system or set of views based on naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions. Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that the determination of a bioregion is also a cultural phenomenon, and emphasizes local populations, knowledge, and solut …

ALL Levels Welcome! Everyone has a part to play! We are here for ONE THING - conversation in Japanese. Our time is spent focused on activities and games that improve our ability to communicate in Japanese and English. While dining out can be interesting - conversation seems to always just touch the surface. "Where are you from?" or "Tell me about your hobbies." Activities like going to show are fun - but we want to speak and communicate, not just watch. Language learning can be so much more. We …

Ruth's Table is a center where people of all generations come together to explore their creativity.  We offer weekly Tai Chi classes, gallery space, weekend workshops, modern dance, and more! Currently on display in our gallery is Mission: Russian Art By The Bay, a showcase of nine contemporary Russian artists. More information about our programming can be found on our website: www.ruthstable.org.  Check out our Programs page for info on upcoming classes and events. If you have any questions, fe …

Imagine lively people-scaled  communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for  retirement, for growing food or simply  living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has  ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on pu …

Mandarin English Bilingual Toastmasters - or MET - is a fun and friendly way to improve your Mandarin and English communication skills. Mandarin-speakers and English-speakers of all levels are welcome! You are invited to visit a meeting and observe as a guest.  Meetings start at 6:30 pm sharp every Wednesday.  Please note: advance RSVP and picture ID is required for entry into the building. You're welcome to visit our sister clubs in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Silicon Valley: http://www.m …

Shamanic journeying is amazingly simple to learn and do, yet it’s a practice with the potential to bring great healing, depth, wisdom and clarity to your life. If you’re at a transition point in your life, needing to make a next step forward and not sure how… or if you're looking to heal old wounds (or problematic patterns, habits, compulsions, addictions) that you've worked on before, but that just haven't gone away... or, if you have ever felt like there is "part of you missing," or like you'v …

I am interested in having a group where people can exchange ideas, offer support and hold each other accountable. I called this meet up thrive or die because that's my motto for 2013 and I am looking for some like minded individuals to join in the fun. This group is perfect for anyone who wants more out of life. It really doesn't matter what project or goal you are working towards as long as you are committed to it. I think sometimes it helps to get outside of your everyday routine and immediate …

Our Third Act is a social movement, by and for older adults, powered by social enterprise. It is education and mutual support in action, as we create healthy and fulfilling lives as we age. American culture is obsessed with youth, and is stuck in an outdated paradigm of aging, so as we age we’re seen as “over the hill”, useless, decrepit and ugly. And, the societal systems for aging are far worse than negative social attitudes. Our financial structures, housing, and healthcare are completely dys …

Within each one of us resides a fierce sexual spirit. Unfortunately, today's American culture has relegated sexuality to a place appropriate only in the bedroom, under the covers with the lights off. It is often inappropriate to discuss not only sexuality but how our sexuality ties together with our spiritual health and wellbeing. Restore balance to your spirit and vitality. Reclaim your Sacred Sexual Power! Tap into your own life essence and embody your most Radiant Self! Yogi Ramadin's Sacred …

This is an organization dedicated to supporting an intellectually challenging and creative environment for anyone working in or interested in Analytics. The goal is to create a creative hacking culture within the Analytics community where people can have fun, feel challenged, learn and support one another, and network! When this group gets to five members I will organize the first meet up.

This is a group for those who feel interpersonally or emotionally in the range 10-20ish (despite being 18 or over in body), and find it difficult to connect socially in the "default" 20s (or older) culture of bars and pre-established groups of friends. If you see kids playing in the park and wish you could be like them, or dream of going back to a middle or high school dance because you wonder why the guys or girls around you don't act like they did back then, this is the group for you. You may …

Making friends is truly the beginning of making lasting memories. To make friends with science is truly to start with making good friends that make lasting memories about science. I'm starting a new revolution in the way science will be made socially for the community and ask the community to step in and help make science fun, engaging, real, social and most importantly lasting friendships. We take the complexity out of science to see the connection in everyday life. We take the fun in science a …

Evolvers are hope fiends and utopian pragmatists. We see the creative chaos of this time as a great gift and opportunity to rethink, reconnect, and reinvent. Evolvers appreciate pristine mountains, open source economics, and the precocious laughter of small children. Evolvers belong to the regenerative culture of the future, being born here and now. As part of the Evolver Social Movement, the Spores serve as hubs of cultural incubation and environmental activation that bring together diverse ind …

Are you a professional in a web-related field? A Tibet supporter? Interested in helping to make change happen? This group is for professionals working in web-related fields who support the Tibetan people's cause and want to help by contributing their ideas, skills and energy in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere with like-minded people. We would like to form a think-tank of talented people from multiple disciplines to creatively explore how web 2.0, digital video and social media can be us …

Goddess Time is a group for fun, social justice-minded women to laugh, play, and develop friendships.  In the words of Amy Poehler, "Uteruses before Duderuses. Ovaries before Brovaries." ;) Goddess Time is about enjoying and nurturing women and everything feminine.  This group is also meant to encourage sensitive discussion of social and cultural issues, especially: white-privilege, race, class, gender and sexuality.  Anyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. Our fabulous events will include …

Do you have many wires and left over pieces of electronic that need to find new homes? Wish for a random wire to show up in your life. Come to the San Francisco Wire Swap with your old wires and go home with traded useful wires.

Vedic Meditation is a simple process and can be learned by anyone, regardless of beliefs, even if your mind never stops and you think you can't meditate.  It is a simple technique practiced for twenty minutes twice a day while sitting comfortably in a chair with your eyes closed.  Vedic Meditation originated over 6,000 years ago in India, but it is culturally neutral and it does not required any change in your beliefs. According to research, benefits include:​ Lower stress levels Better concent …