Are you ready for 2024? Have you wrung all the juice out of the last 12 months? Join writer and executive coach Jason Shen in making the most of New Year's Day with a set of journaling exercises that you'll complete during the salon. We do not grow wiser simply with time. We must actively…
Love playing with words but feeling stuck? Boost your creativity at AI writing workshops with an award-winning video game writer Charlene Putney! Do you love to play with words? Do you sometimes feel creatively blocked? Do you need some new techniques and exercises to loosen up your mind and your pen? Do you find it hard…
Love playing with words but feeling stuck? Boost your creativity at AI writing workshops with an award-winning video game writer Charlene Putney! Do you love to play with words? Do you sometimes feel creatively blocked? Do you need some new techniques and exercises to loosen up your mind and your pen? Do you find it hard…
Join novelist and theologian Tara Isabella Burton (Here in Avalon, The World Cannot Give, Social Creature) for a collaborative workshop designed for InterIntellect members who have followed a series of prompts and exercises (listed in the Discord) from March 1-April 8, 2024. This workshop (fiction and personal essay/creative nonfiction both welcome) is designed for InterIntellect…
Join AI founder Farzad Khosravi to dive into the world of first principles thinking in this dynamic workshop designed to transform your problem-solving approach. This unique event centers on real-time, interactive learning experiences, where participants become an integral part of the process. I will invite volunteers to present their challenges, and together, we embark on…
Welcome to the first episode of "The Quantum Quill: A Summer Series of New Writing Workshops to spice up your Mondays and maybe even your life." In this session, "Write Your First Romantic Comedy And Unfreeze Your Love Life," hosted by Christopher Hogg, you’ll dive into the art of writing romantic comedies. Discover how the…
Join playwright Matthew Gasda (Dimes Square, Zoomers) and novelist Tara Isabella Burton (Here in Avalon) for a conversation about chronicling the post-pandemic era, the "vibe shift" of 2020-22, and capturing culture beyond the culture wars. We'll be discussing Matthew Gasda's plays, Dimes Square and the new Zoomers, asking: "What does it mean to chronicle a…
Join us for Episode 3 of "The Quantum Quill: A Summer Series of New Writing Workshops to spice up your Mondays and maybe even your life." In this session, titled "What Is Plaiwriting? Find Your Ethical Ludic Limits In A Playful Guided Writing Journey Around The Madness of AI," Christopher Hogg will lead you through…
How do we make flirting a mode of moving through the world? Join Flirting Coach Ms. G to navigate what flirting looks like, feels like, and why we should be flirting all the time, with everybody. What if we thought of flirting as a way to shower everyone we meet with the most playful, attentive…
In this introductory salon, we’ll define key terms like “psychedelic” and “set and setting” in order to show how Jewish wisdom, practices, and narrative can serve as both the container to have an altered experience and the framework through which to prepare for, navigate, and integrate it. Through the Jewish calendar, sacred containers of time,…
A grandson of the Baal Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidic Judaism), Rebbe Nachman (1772-1810) originally from Bratslav, Ukraine, is growing in popularity to this day as thousands of pilgrims travel to his gravesite in Uman, Ukraine, every year, even during the war, to pray and connect spiritually. Rebbe Nachman is known for his mandate…
Nature is truly breathtaking. No matter how you look at it, you will always find mesmerising complexity at any scale—whether its microbes on the tip of your middle finger, a choir of frogs in your local pond, a picture of a forest taken from a helicopter, or a picture of the stars taken by a…
