Interintellect Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on nonviolent communication, the power of words, and the different forms of empathy. At this salon we will explore the topic of compassionate (nonviolent) communication from the words we use in a conversation to the way we listen to other people. Nonviolent communication evolved from concepts used in person-centered therapy,…
In their debut Interintellect Salon, Trstn opens a space to explore objects, things, materiality and the immaterial, and delve into and catalyze tangents. "Show and tell" is an activity common in preschool and elementary school used to develop storytelling ability among children. It can be an icebreaker, help bridge the gap of school and home,…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will discuss what it’s like to think about one’s work over the context of an entire lifetime. What are long games? One way of thinking about it is to work backwards from the end of your life. What do think you’ll wish to have accomplished, witnessed, learned, discovered at the…
In this new 4-part InterIntellect salon miniseries, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on Studio Ghibli movies and how it has brought together people across generations. Watch the movies on Netflix and come nerd out all you like. Nerding is good, nerding is encouraged! Originating from a tiny strip of land known as the Land of Rising Sun…
In their debut Interintellect salon, Kahil Corazo and R.J. Nestor invite you to an exchange of techniques and workflows for project management and task management in Roam Research. Many of us have been Roam for personal productivity and project management for more than a year. It sounds like a good time to exchange notes. We invite Roam Research users…
In this Interintellect Salon, hosts Matjaz Leonardis and Maybe Gray will explore hidden emotional needs and how they affect our lives. Much of what we do is motivated by the kind of sensations and feelings we want to experience. Some of our desires - like that for a delicious slice of pizza - are clear…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát leads a salon to answer three important questions about the worldview of the contemporary individual: Are we facing a crisis of authority? Are we facing a crisis of…
In this salon, Peter Williams will explore tactics to reclaim your conversational confidence and evade impostor syndrome. We’ve all felt like a dummy before. When you're part of an interesting, intelligent, interdisciplinary group it can seem like a daily occurrence. 👀 “In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the…
In his latest Interintellect salon, Alex Danco explores systems thinking, and the paradox of order amongst chaos. Here is a puzzle: There's only one thing we know for sure about…
Join Dr. Mark Jackson and Trent Fowler in a discussion of the fundamentals underlying this new paradigm in information processing, and what its economic impacts might be in the coming years. Few technologies have emerged in recent memory which have elicited as much breathless excitement and trenchant skepticism as quantum computing. We will be discussing the state of quantum…
In this salon Bronwyn Williams and Daniel Thomason ask ‘What Would Terry Pratchett Do?’, exploring the wisdom and insights of this much loved author. “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to…
In this salon, Danish-American literary critic and biographer Morten Høi Jensen leads a discussion of Thomas Mann’s journey from right-wing patriot to liberal democrat in an exploration of the fraught…
