Diplomatie

Lakeline Toastmasters is one of the Austin Area’s most accomplished Toastmasters Clubs. We are proud of our diverse members who are striving to be better communicators and leaders. You are invited to visit us on any Friday, in person, to experience how the Toastmasters program improves communication and leadership skills. Location: Cedar Park First United Methodist Church 600 W Park St, Cedar Park, TX 78613 Time: Meeting starts at 7:15 PM, Doors open at 7 PM For more details go to [https://lakeline.toastmastersclubs.org/](https://lakeline.toastmastersclubs.org/)

We'll chat, eat, and maybe even play a few games. We'll be at the table with the green flag (unless I forget the flag!) Ni babilos, manĝos, kaj eĉ ludos kelkajn ludojn. Ni estos ĉe la tablo kun la verda flago (kondiĉe ke mi ne forgesos la flagon!). Hablaremos, comeremos, y quizás hasta juguemos algunos juegos. Estaremos en la mesa con la bandera verde (¡si no se me olvida la bandera!).

Join @studiokollisions for our next guided creative workshop, ["Paint Your Own Ceramic Pipe"! ](https://events.humanitix.com/ceramic-pipe-painting-studiokollisions) We will be creating and designing black underglaze designs on the white ceramic pipe surface. All materials provided including your blank ceramic pipe, black underglaze, stencils, examples, guided instruction and assistance from your host, Sam Kins, and the full, final firing and finishing processes to complete your new piece! After our session, your new masterpiece will be finished and fired over the next 2-3 weeks by your host, Sam Kins. We will coordinate pickup schedule options once the firing process is complete. Let Sam know before you leave the workshop if you need your pipe mailed out after it is completed. Additional shipping costs will be added in this case. This open-guided workshop is designed to offer a relaxed, self-paced creation experience with available guidance to ensure you love what you make! Your host, Sam Kins of @StudioKollisions, will be available throughout the workshop, providing tips, tricks, and inspiration. All materials provided. **[Limited spots available, so reserve your ticket today.](https://events.humanitix.com/ceramic-pipe-painting-studiokollisions)** Door tickets via Venmo/Cash are limited, but available! **WHERE:** *@factoryon5th* 3409 E 5th St. Austin, TX 78702

Love poetry? We're devotees of the line and line break too. Whether you're a reader, a writer, both (or possibly even neither?), we invite you to hang out with us, have a cozy matcha latte or a big fluffy pretzel, and talk about poems. Join *Difficult Friends* for a casual mixer at Easy Tiger to celebrate National Poetry Month in April! **About Us** This group is a project by *Difficult Friends,* a community-run arts & humanities salon: [Website](https://www.difficultfriends.com/) ⟡ [Substack](https://difficultfriends.substack.com/) ⟡ [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/difficultfriends/) It's part of our Creative Friendship Lab events line-up! The Creative Friendship Lab encourages people from all walks of life to explore the rich emotional and social world around them, while pursuing individual and shared creative projects. We invite both serious artists and just-budding amateurs to come enjoy our events and experiments. **Event Details: Our National Poetry Month Mixer** This week, we'll be meeting at Easy Tiger at the Linc at 2 PM on April 19th to just chitchat. I'll be printing out some of my favorite poems to share with y'all and leave on the table as discussion starters, and there will be pens and paper available for people who want to doodle! But yeah, just a casual hang. No assignments or readings this week! If you'd like to see what we do when we're in full writing mode, check out our previous workshops on [Origin Stories](https://www.meetup.com/creative-friendship-lab/events/313938791/) and [Emotion, Memory, and Color](https://www.meetup.com/creative-friendship-lab/events/313994687/). Looking forward to seeing everyone there\~\~ Thank you in advance for bringing your passion for poetry to our group! I was particularly excited to see some people writing poetry for the first time at our events earlier this month. Whether you’re just starting to explore your own creativity or you’ve been committed to it for decades, we hope you’ll join us for this lowkey mixer of poets & lovers. **Supporting Our Community** Most of our events are offered on a donation basis to minimize financial barriers. Please consider making a donation if you would like to contribute to our mission, allow us to offer more meaningful events, and help defray the costs of our [meetup.com](http://meetup.com/) hosting fees. Or not! We appreciate the many ways in which everyone contributes to our community, whether via financial or other means—simply by showing up and being kind, you are doing a good thing :-) **About Me (Personally)** I'm a writer living in Austin with my dog, Cookie. If you're interested in following my thoughts, you can find me at [https://substack.com/@rachelsummercheong](https://substack.com/@rachelsummercheong) I love long essays, fiction, and philosophy. I also like to draw and go out dancing

**Let’s build the kind of friendships that make life richer.** **Once a month we gather for a relaxed and stylish Sunday Brunch at one of North Austin’s great restaurants. Each event is a chance to connect with other amazing women, share stories, laugh over great food, and create genuine friendships.** **This group is for women in their mid-30s to mid-40s who enjoy good conversation, positive energy, and building a supportive circle of friends.** **Each month we’ll rotate restaurants so we can explore some of Austin’s best brunch spots while creating a community of women who enjoy showing up for each other.** **Come if you enjoy:** **✨ Good food & brunch cocktails** **✨ Meaningful conversation** **✨ Laughing until your cheeks hurt** **✨ Meeting intelligent, kind, fun women** **Our goal is simple: build a great group of women who enjoy life together.** **Bring your good vibes and we’ll see you at brunch.**

Another one of my favorite outside venues! And this band is amazing! Come join me for fun with dancing, maybe singing along, socializing and I’m sure drinking will be done! Details below, copied from one of our amazing fellow groups: °Join us for a FREE live concert with North of Luck-Austin's high-energy cover band spinning rock hits and party favorites all night long Bring your lawn chairs, dancing shoes, and good vibes! Meet us for a bite to eat and socialize. No cover. Free parking. Let's rock Cedar Park -see you at the birdy!

A movie this big deserves a big dinner! Join us after MICHAEL for fun and delicious dinner at another CMG-favorite restaurant, CAP CITY FINE DINER! RSVPs are limited for the dinner portion of this event! Here are complete details: CAP CITY FINE DINER: This upscale diner from Cameron Mitchell is known its “retro-cool” atmosphere, modern twists on classic comfort food and their “showstopper” desserts! The menu reimagines nostalgic dishes like meatloaf, beef stroganoff, and pot roast with gourmet twists. The menu also offers vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options with lots of apps, cocktails, salads, sandwiches, burgers (including a black bean veggie burger), the most welcome return of their Veggie Plate (with Hummus) and more. Desserts include their 24K Carrot Cake, Coconut Cake and Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Pie. MENU: [https://capcityfinediner.com/locations-menus/gahanna/menus/dinner/](https://capcityfinediner.com/locations-menus/gahanna/menus/dinner/) RSVP: Dinner immediately following the movie at nearby CAP CITY FINE DINER! Please RSVP for here for the dinner portion of this event at Cap City Fine Diner. Since the dinner portion of this event is limited, please only RSVP if you plan to attend. If your plans change, please update your RSVP as early as possible. Please RSVP in both events, if you plan to attend the movie and dinner. Look forward to seeing you there, Dan

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Attend a free seminar on how to have successful and lasting relationships. At this seminar you will learn: How to spot and handle negative and toxic relationships. How to get through the "rough patches" in a relationship. How to choose the right people to work with. The three things that make or break any relationship. How to make a good relationship great. All are welcome. Be sure to click on the red "Attend" button below to come to this local event. We look forward to seeing you there. Hosted by the Dianetics and Scientology Life Improvement Center of Central Ohio.

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who want to discuss international travel and culture, and anyone who enjoys getting together for good conversations."

This is a free, in-person meeting on the subject of betrayals, losses and how to get over them so you can build lasting relationships. Burdened by a stressful relationship? Unhealthy relationships can trigger feelings of anger, despair or self-doubt. They can create dwindling spirals of fights and seeking to make-up, or trying to “pin the blame” on someone or something. If you don’t find the RIGHT reasons, or select the correct sources of the problem, the problem can just get worse and worse. Whether in love or personal ties, with friends or at work, our life really IS affected by the quality of our relationships. Good ones can promote pleasure and survival while less optimum ones can lead to annoyance, anger, self-doubt, stress, or even affect our health and ability to survive well. Whether you are suffering from a divorce, or a painful break-up, don’t know who to trust (or who to CHOOSE) as a partner, friend, boss or employee - the anxiety of relationship troubles can really make a mess of things. Maybe you’ve suffered a betrayal, or are dealing with hostility or criticalness or invalidation. Dwindling relationships can involve destructive behavior, where we hurt those we love, or start succumbing to self-destructive thoughts, attitudes or behaviors that spiral out of control and affect much more than our immediate relationship. Past losses in love or life can affect how we act or react to new people and situations and hold us back from even starting to create new, possibly great relationships! How can one get back onto a saner course of action? Come to our Meetup, where we can introduce you to some of the knowledge, tools and techniques of the breakthroughs in the field of the mind that we can apply to this ever important area of life: human relationships! Break free from self imposed limitations Here we will discuss: • How to “erase” the trauma of past hurts and betrayals so that one isn’t always repeating past mistakes. • Why and how do the negative emotions of others affect you? • Why is my partner withdrawing and what can I do about it? • Why do we sometimes feel compelled to hurt the ones we love? • Fights & arguments - what's really behind them? • What underlies “corrosive criticism” or the need to invalidate self or others? • How one can stably change one’s outlook on life so they can affect positive change? • Where do compulsive destructive behaviors come from and what can be done about them? • How to form closer bonds & keep growing the relationships with the people you care about? • How to enhance one’s own ability to survive and create positive healthy relationships whether in love, family & friendships or in work, business or one’s career? Relationships can be hard and life itself IS challenging. Why not arm yourself with the knowledge and breakthroughs that have been made about the mind, mental reactions & interpersonal relationships, so that one has better awareness and control over themselves and life in general. Learn where painful experiences are “stored” and how they can unknowingly affect us. You will also find out how one can “erase” those past painful experiences so that one is free to move forward without being tripped up by the past. Learn too, about what can lead some people to become “toxic” personalities and how to identify those traits in others so you won’t be tripped up trusting the wrong person. Our free Meet-ups occur in a safe environment where one can learn, without fear of judgment or criticism, and without the recommendation of harmful mental techniques or therapies, just how YOU can get yourself onto a happier & more successful path: in love & in life. We look forward to having you join us! This class is sponsored by the Dianetics & Scientology Life Improvement Center of Central Ohio.

Bienvenue! Columbus French Conversation group invites you to our Saturday morning French conversation club. Expect a casual and welcoming atmosphere in which to learn french! I will bring my laptop so we can look up new vocabulary as needed! The venue is a beautiful French restaurant so you can really get into the zone :)