About us
Are you interested in understanding yourself more fully? Does learning more about who you are in a supportive community sound intriguing? If so, we think you'll feel at home as a member of this group.
- Our History: We began as a multigenerational team of diverse friends brought together by our shared experiences with the Personal Creed Project, a journey of self-discovery originally developed in the classroom. Now we share and celebrate with new friends here on Meetup what we've learned about the rewards of increasing self-knowledge. We welcome you to share and grow with us!
What We Offer: The Personal Creed Project guides us to uncover who and what have shaped us, what we value, and how we therefore choose to live. Beginning with an extended series of written reflections and conversations, the project culminates in a vibrant community celebration of our individual and collective self-knowledge. Participants of all ages find themselves transformed as they discover their values and explore how they wish to live them. Our group's events highlight and more deeply explore various aspects of the Personal Creed experience.
If becoming more keenly aware of yourself and others intrigues you, we invite you to participate in our current Meetup events:
There's our Tuesday Conversation Salons (inspired by Tuesdays with Morrie) with conversations about various angles on self-discovery:
- The ever-changing experience of Rumi Roulette (every other Tuesday at 6:00pm PT at the PCO Tuesday Salon). See event invite!
- Then there's Bob Dylan Go-Round (intervening Tuesdays) at 6:00pm PT at the PCO Tuesday Salon). See event invite!
- Look for periodic new Tuesday Salon events!
And there's our seasonal Personal Creed Cohort, when you join a small intimate group meeting weekly or every other week to support one another in going through the full Personal Creed experience of extended reflections, conversations and community presentations. Our Summer 2026 Cohort begins the second week in June. See invite.
Our online, in-person and hybrid events create conversations that help us find ourselves as individuals, explore our identities in community, and support each other in living the values we discover.
We look forward to meeting up with you!
Yours,
John, Dan, Daniel
and the Personal Creed Organization
Upcoming events
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Rumi Roulette: Whirling in Conversation with Sufi Poetry
·OnlineOnlineRumi Roulette (a Special PCO Salon event)
This is a special episode, since I have recently returned from Konya, in Turkiye, where I visited the Mevlana Museum where Rumi lived, taught, and is buried. My wife and I met a family of fellow pilgrims from Kazakhstan, an encounter that inspired me to write a poem about the experience of being a pilgrim. We'll share some of that experience in this episode. Hope you'll join us!
In this Salon conversation we take a chance, exploring ourselves and the universe in a random ride with the great Sufi mystic poet Rumi.
More than 800 years ago, Rumi wondered:
Who am I,
standing in the midst of this
thought-traffic?Isn't this also our experience today? Our distracted lives, especially our lives online, can erode our sense of ourselves and how we connect with others. What's the cure? Researcher Sherry Turkle suggests it's conversation. That’s what we offer every Tuesday at 6:00 pm PT in the PCO's Conversation Salon.
On certain Tuesdays we'll be riding with Rumi and his poems. This event "takes its shape from the shore it meets," as Zora Neale Hurston said about love. Depending on the choices attendees make on the spot, this event is different every time. With practice, we can find ourselves entering into the experience of sohbet, the connection of souls in conversation. Poet and popularizer of Rumi's poems Coleman Barks explains, "There is prayer, and a step from that is meditation, and a step from that is sohbet, the mystical conversation."
Once we all feel welcome, we'll whirl up a poem democratically to explore in conversation with Rumi and each another. We hope you'll join us in our latest unique foray into the Meetup version of Rumi Roulette.
We'd love to meet you there!
Here are some benefits of attending the PCO Tuesday Salon:
- Rediscover spontaneity
- Practice risk-taking in conversation
- Develop empathy
- Generate self-knowledge
- Gain social skills
- Experience community
- Build relationship skills
- Sharpen focus
- Enhance listening skills
- Heal from isolation
- Deepen soulfulness
Rumi Roulette is a learning experience that first originated in our classroom at American High School in Fremont, CA, like the World Wisdom Project and the Personal Creed Project. The Personal Creed Organization exists to support and promote self-knowledge in and beyond the classroom. In this Meetup Group we experiment with re-shaping these learning experiences for a wider audience.
Note: The event image is a detail from a stunning painting of a whirling Sufi, by Bay Area painter Farhat Ashufta. Used with permission and thanks.
1 attendee
Bob Dylan Go-Round Episode 6
·OnlineOnlineThis event has proven itself worthy of the Personal Creed Org's Tuesday Salon! And for the forseeable future, it will alternate week by week, Tuesday by Tuesday, with our popular Rumi Roulette!
When I invited my new friend Wayne to my place to show him my Bob Dylan records, neither of us had any idea that 40 years later we'd still be listening and talking about this artist. Back then I had most of the 20 or so albums Dylan had produced at that point to share with Wayne. Now we each also have most of the 20 more he's made since then. Each album's a world unto itself.
So we'd like to invite you to join us in Episode 6 of a roundtable listening and conversation session. Here's what we envision:
- After everyone feels welcome, we'll each share our familiarity with Dylan's songs. You might never have heard one of his songs. Or his songs might have been woven into every year of your life since you were a teenager.
- As we get to know each other a little and find out what about Dylan and his work strikes our interests or curiosities, we'll choose a song we'd all like to hear and talk about.
- We'll listen to the song.
- We'll open our conversation and see where it goes.
That's about it!
Join us for Episode 6 of this new event! Tuesday 5/19/2026 at 6:00pm PST!
See Bob Dylan honored at the Kennedy Center by Gregory Peck in 1997.
1 attendeeRumi Roulette: Whirling in Conversation with Sufi Poetry
·OnlineOnlineRumi Roulette (a Special PCO Salon event)
This is another special episode, since I have recently returned from Konya, in Turkiye, where I visited the Mevlana Museum where Rumi lived, taught, and is buried. My wife and I met a family of fellow pilgrims from Kazakhstan, an encounter that inspired me to write a poem about the experience of being a pilgrim. We'll share some of that experience in this episode. Hope you'll join us!
In this Salon conversation we take a chance, exploring ourselves and the universe in a random ride with the great Sufi mystic poet Rumi.
More than 800 years ago, Rumi wondered:
Who am I,
standing in the midst of this
thought-traffic?Isn't this also our experience today? Our distracted lives, especially our lives online, can erode our sense of ourselves and how we connect with others. What's the cure? Researcher Sherry Turkle suggests it's conversation. That’s what we offer every Tuesday at 6:00 pm PT in the PCO's Conversation Salon.
On certain Tuesdays we'll be riding with Rumi and his poems. This event "takes its shape from the shore it meets," as Zora Neale Hurston said about love. Depending on the choices attendees make on the spot, this event is different every time. With practice, we can find ourselves entering into the experience of sohbet, the connection of souls in conversation. Poet and popularizer of Rumi's poems Coleman Barks explains, "There is prayer, and a step from that is meditation, and a step from that is sohbet, the mystical conversation."
Once we all feel welcome, we'll whirl up a poem democratically to explore in conversation with Rumi and each another. We hope you'll join us in our latest unique foray into the Meetup version of Rumi Roulette.
We'd love to meet you there!
Here are some benefits of attending the PCO Tuesday Salon:
- Rediscover spontaneity
- Practice risk-taking in conversation
- Develop empathy
- Generate self-knowledge
- Gain social skills
- Experience community
- Build relationship skills
- Sharpen focus
- Enhance listening skills
- Heal from isolation
- Deepen soulfulness
Rumi Roulette is a learning experience that first originated in our classroom at American High School in Fremont, CA, like the World Wisdom Project and the Personal Creed Project. The Personal Creed Organization exists to support and promote self-knowledge in and beyond the classroom. In this Meetup Group we experiment with re-shaping these learning experiences for a wider audience.
Note: The event image is a detail from a stunning painting of a whirling Sufi, by Bay Area painter Farhat Ashufta. Used with permission and thanks.
1 attendeeBob Dylan Go-Round Episode 7
·OnlineOnlineThis event has proven itself worthy of the Personal Creed Org's Tuesday Salon. And for the forseeable future, it will alternate week by week, Tuesday by Tuesday, with our popular Rumi Roulette!
When I invited my new friend Wayne to my place to show him my Bob Dylan records, neither of us had any idea that 40 years later we'd still be listening and talking about this artist. Back then I had most of the 20 or so albums Dylan had produced at that point to share with Wayne. Now we each also have most of the 20 more he's made since then. Each album's a world unto itself.
So we'd like to invite you to join us in Episode 6 of a roundtable listening and conversation session. Here's what we envision:
- After everyone feels welcome, we'll each share our familiarity with Dylan's songs. You might never have heard one of his songs. Or his songs might have been woven into every year of your life since you were a teenager.
- As we get to know each other a little and find out what about Dylan and his work strikes our interests or curiosities, we'll choose a song we'd all like to hear and talk about.
- We'll listen to the song.
- We'll open our conversation and see where it goes.
That's about it!
Join us for Episode 7 of this new event! Tuesday 6/2/2026 at 6:00pm PST!
See Bob Dylan honored at the Kennedy Center by Gregory Peck in 1997
2 attendees
Past events
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