In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will conclude the series by delving into facets of religion and what does it mean to be religious, what is death if not the…
Can you vividly describe your own way of connecting with others online? How about a way different from your own? If you are intrigued by these questions, then this salon…
Let's Get Mystical with Joanna Burns as she explores the use of tarot cards as a tool for self-discovery and therapy. While the tarot is mostly known to be a medium for divination used by mystical tarot readers, there is little discourse on how these mysterious cards have also been shown to be a powerful…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
In this salon, debut host Shubh Cheema shares the ups and downs of being in creative industries and invites you to share your own stories of the creative journey. My name is Shubh Cheema and I am an architect. I run my own studio and have completed projects across India. In-between, I co-founded a startup…
How do creativity and ideation work in a moment of absolute technology? What does your brain do when it dreams things into existence, and can machines ever replicate that? Join a discussion on AI art, NFTs and the Metaverse! My name is Dhruv Ghulati, and I am a product manager within the world of machine…
Interintellect host Patricia Hurducas will lead a conversation on the moments of incertitude in our lives, from moving to a new country to starting a new business. "Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you…
Join psychology professor and psychologist Dr Gena Gorlin, venture capitalist and writer Roy Bahat, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát for a discussion of work, rest, and the fully-lived life. Before the Holidays, we will gather for a roundtable-style salon to explore the much discussed but often misunderstood questions around so-called "work/life balance": how does the meaning we derive from our…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…
Unwind with Krupali in this salon where we will kick back in our most comfortable spots with our pets and our teas (or coffees) and possibly have a conversation about what the concept of 'rest' means to us individually. Never has the need for rest seemed more important than during this period of the COVID-19…
Debut host Sasha Chapin, is a slightly autistic writer/coach who's currently pursuing ventures in perfume, charter cities, meta-science, and talking to groups of people. We are in a time where being neurodivergent seems to be kind of good, to a degree. The fundamental characteristic of being on the spectrum is not hearing the social music…
Join linguist Colin Gorrie in the second in a series of salons investigating language for a look at how fictional languages are created. Many celebrated works of speculative fiction over the last hundred years have involved elaborate world-building, often to the extent of having whole languages or families of languages created for the project. Think…
