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Growth Lab: Unlock Your Potential
Join us at Growth Lab, where curious minds gather to explore ideas that fuel both their personal and professional growth. Each session dives into strategies and insights across psychology, philosophy, longevity and cutting-edge tech — designed to help you unlock your best self.
Whether you are an entrepreneur or a spiritual explorer, expect thought-provoking talks, interactive discussions, and a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to bettering themselves. Whether you're seeking inspiration, new skills, or meaningful connections, Growth Lab is your space to grow.
Upcoming events
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The Neuroscience of Psychopathy: Trust and Deception (tickets on LUMA)
Mont, Carrer d'En Bot, 5, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, CT, ESIn any room of a hundred people, one or two of them are wired to charm you, use you and feel nothing about it. We like to think of psychopathy as something rare and monstrous. The research says otherwise.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ON LUMA HERE: FROM 12 EUROS
Most of those people never commit a crime. They become your charismatic new hire, your investor, your co-founder, your partner.
The initial charm is real. So is what comes after it.In this Growth Lab LIVE session, Adolf takes you inside the neurobiology of deception and the "dark triad" of psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism. You will look at what separates violent offenders from the polished white collar operators who cause far more damage, why women's manipulation patterns look different from men's, and what the evidence really says about whether any of it can be changed. Expect a serious, unsentimental take on a topic that usually gets sensationalised.
Prof Adolf Tobeña has spent his career mapping the brain circuits and hormonal machinery behind predatory behaviour, and the flipside question that matters just as much: how the rest of us decide who to trust, and why we are so easy to fool. Trust is a fast, ancient, largely unconscious calculation. Manipulators are extremely good at hijacking it.
About the Speaker:
Adolf Tobeña is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he led the Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine for two decades. He is the author of Neurología de la maldad and Manipuladores, has published 15 books and over 160 papers, and won the European Science Communication award in 2004.
What you'll learn
- How to spot the behavioural signatures of manipulation early, before the cost lands on you or your business
- Why charm is the first tactic, not a personality trait, and what usually follows it
- What brain imaging and hormonal research actually reveal about predatory behaviour, and where the science stops
- Why highly manipulative people cluster in leadership, finance and politics, and what that means for how you hire and partner
- How your own trust instincts work, and the specific conditions that make them easiest to exploit
Agenda:
- 1845h - Doors open
- 1900h - Talk starts
- 2015h - Q&A
- 2045h - Drinks & Networking
Tickets: https://luma.com/2jk62gbl?utm_source=meetup
Join us at Growth Lab, where ambitious minds gather to explore ideas that fuel personal and professional growth. Each session dives into powerful strategies and insights across psychology, philosophy, longevity, economics, and cutting-edge tech — designed to help you unlock your best self.
Expect thought-provoking talks, interactive discussions, and a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to bettering themselves. Whether you're seeking inspiration, new skills, or meaningful connections, Growth Lab is your space to grow.Follow us on Instagram: @Growthlablive
Join our Meetup Group: Growth Lab | Barcelona Talks & Events3 attendees - €12.00
The Cellular Clock: How Your Body Keeps Time (tickets on LUMA)
The Cover Club at the Sir Victor Hotel, Carrer Rosselló 265,, Barcelona, ESYou already know your body keeps time. What you probably don't know is that the timekeeping doesn't start in your brain. It starts inside individual cells, billions of them, each running its own clock built from nothing more than genes switching each other on and off.
It's a strange idea.TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ON LUMA HERE: FROM 12 EUROS
In this Growth Lab LIVE session Keith Kennedy, postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, takes you inside the machinery. A cell has no hands, no pendulum, no battery. And yet networks of interacting genes can produce something that behaves remarkably like a clock, letting cells anticipate the day rather than just react to it.
Your brain's role is less about setting the time and more about conducting: keeping billions of independent clocks in agreement so the body works as one coordinated system rather than a crowd of cells all doing their own thing.
That system is robust enough to hold steady for a lifetime, yet flexible enough to be knocked sideways by a long-haul flight. Understanding how it does both tells you a lot about why some disruptions to your rhythm bounce back in a day and others take a week.
Keith is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the Dynamical Systems Biology group, where he builds mathematical models of biological systems to predict how they behave over time, from single genes inside a cell to the rhythms of a whole organism. He studied Mathematics in the United States before completing a PhD in Biomedicine here in Barcelona, and has taught systems biology to students learning to model living processes.
What you'll learn
- How a handful of interacting genes can function as a working clock, and why that matters for anything you want your body to do at a predictable time
- Why your brain acts as a conductor rather than a timekeeper, and what happens to performance when that coordination slips
- What jet lag actually is at a cellular level, and why recovery is uneven rather than linear
- How mathematical modelling lets researchers predict biological behaviour before testing it, a way of thinking that transfers well beyond biology
Agenda:
- 1845h - Doors open
- 1900h - Talk starts
- 2015h - Q&A
- 2045h - Drinks & Networking
Tickets from 12 euros (must be purchased on Luma): https://luma.com/x8o2wcfg?utm_source=meetup
Join us at Growth Lab, where ambitious minds gather to explore ideas that fuel personal and professional growth. Each session dives into powerful strategies and insights across psychology, philosophy, longevity, economics, and cutting-edge tech — designed to help you unlock your best self.
Expect thought-provoking talks, interactive discussions, and a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to bettering themselves. Whether you're seeking inspiration, new skills, or meaningful connections, Growth Lab is your space to grow.Follow us on Instagram: @Growthlablive
Apply to Speak: Form here
Work With Us or Sponsor an Event: More info1 attendee - €12.00
The Science and History of Psychedelics (tickets on LUMA)
To Be Announced, Barcelona, ESPsychedelics have gone from criminalised to clinical in barely a decade. Trials with MDMA and psilocybin are now among the most promising routes we have for treating depression, PTSD and addiction, and the biomedical world has started to take them seriously.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ON LUMA HERE: FROM 12 EUROS
In this Growth Lab LIVE session Dr José Carlos Bouso walks you through the history of psychedelics, the therapeutic mechanisms behind them, and the very different settings they are used in, from clinical trials to sociocultural contexts. He will also look at what coexistence and dialogue between those worlds could realistically look like.
As the clinical use of these substances gains legitimacy, the traditional and community practices they came from are often sidelined, and in many places still criminalised. Same molecules, very different treatment.
So how do psychedelics actually work on the brain to shift mental health outcomes? And what happens to the movement if the science advances while the cultural context gets left behind?What you'll learn
- How psychedelics act on the brain, and why that matters for treating depression, PTSD and addiction
- Where the clinical evidence is genuinely strong, and where the hype has run ahead of the data
- Why the gap between medical and traditional use is the biggest challenge facing the field
- How to read psychedelic research critically, so you can tell a real finding from a headline
About the speaker:
Dr José Carlos Bouso is a Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in Pharmacology, and Scientific Director at ICEERS and Synàptic Clinic. He has run therapeutic research with MDMA and ibogaine, plus pharmacological studies on the long-term neuropsychological effects of cannabis, ayahuasca and cocaine. He has published over 100 scientific papers on psychedelics and psychoactive plants, and is the author of ¿Qué son las drogas sintéticas? and Cannabis Medicinal: De Droga Prohibida a Solución Terapéutica. He also wrote the prologue, epilogue and notes for the latest edition of Albert Hofmann's LSD, My Problem Child.
Agenda:
- 1845h - Doors open
- 1900h - Talk starts
- 2015h - Q&A
- 2045h - Drinks & Networking
Tickets from 12 euros (must be purchased on Luma):
https://luma.com/j0223v25?utm_source=meetupJoin us at Growth Lab, where ambitious minds gather to explore ideas that fuel personal and professional growth. Each session dives into powerful strategies and insights across psychology, philosophy, longevity, economics, and cutting-edge tech — designed to help you unlock your best self.
Expect thought-provoking talks, interactive discussions, and a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to bettering themselves.Whether you're seeking inspiration, new skills, or meaningful connections, Growth Lab is your space to grow.
Follow us on Instagram: @Growthlablive
Apply to Speak: Form here
Work With Us or Sponsor an Event: More info2 attendees - €12.00
Desincronizados: Sueño, Horarios y el Cambio de Hora (ES)
To Be Announced, Barcelona, ESEl último domingo de octubre todos en España ganamos una hora de sueño. Suena a detalle administrativo, algo que notas durante un día y luego olvidas. La cronobiología lo ve de otra manera, y el Gobierno español ya está de acuerdo: el cambio horario dos veces al año apenas ahorra energía y altera los ritmos biológicos de toda una población, dos veces al año, sin un beneficio claro.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ON LUMA HERE: FROM 12 EUROS
Ese debate sigue abierto en Bruselas. Debajo de él hay una pregunta más grande que casi nunca nos hacemos. Tu cuerpo funciona con el tiempo solar, siguiendo la luz y la oscuridad. Tu vida funciona con el tiempo del reloj, siguiendo reuniones, horarios escolares y horas de apertura. Los dos rara vez coinciden, y en España coinciden menos que en casi cualquier otro país de Europa. Esa distancia no es una abstracción. Se nota en tu nivel de alerta, en cómo duermes, en la calidad de tus decisiones a las cuatro de la tarde y, con los años, en tu salud.
En esta sesión de Growth Lab LIVE con Ana Adan veremos qué coste tiene esa desincronización y qué se puede hacer al respecto.
La charla empieza por algo más personal que la política: tu cronotipo. Hay personas que rinden de verdad a las siete de la mañana y están agotadas a las nueve de la noche, y otras que hacen su mejor trabajo cerca de la medianoche. Es biología, no falta de disciplina. A partir de ahí, Ana aborda las alteraciones con las que convivimos sin ponerles nombre. El jet lag social, en el que desplazar el horario de sueño más de dos horas el fin de semana equivale a volar a otra zona horaria cada viernes por la noche. Los turnos laborales, y por qué algunas personas se adaptan y otras nunca lo consiguen. Y el propio cambio de hora, que parece trivial pero afecta especialmente a niños y personas mayores. Después veremos qué estrategias respalda realmente la investigación, que se reducen a una lista corta y poco glamurosa: horarios estables, exponerse a la luz en las primeras horas del día y el uso de melatonina en los casos concretos en que resulta conveniente. Es una charla sobre distinguir la cronobiología real del enorme volumen de consejos sobre sueño que se acumula encima.
Qué aprenderás- Qué le hace realmente el cambio de hora a tu cuerpo, y si España tiene razón al querer eliminarlo
- Dónde te sitúas en el espectro de cronotipos, y qué significa eso para saber cuándo hacer tu trabajo más exigente
- Por qué dormir más los fines de semana te cuesta más de lo que crees, y qué te está haciendo el jet lag social
- Cómo funciona el momento de exposición a la luz, y por qué las primeras horas del día importan más que las últimas
- Cuándo la melatonina es realmente útil y cuándo no
Sobre la ponente
Ana Adan es Catedrática de Psicobiología de la Universidad de Barcelona, donde dirige el grupo de investigación de Adicción y Patología Dual, integrado en el Instituto de Neurociencias de la UB. Sus líneas de trabajo abarcan la ritmicidad circadiana y las diferencias individuales, las repercusiones neuropsicológicas del consumo de drogas y la patología dual. Ha publicado más de trescientos trabajos científicos, pertenece al comité editorial de diversas revistas internacionales especializadas y aparece en todas las ediciones del Stanford Ranking del 2% de investigadores más citados desde su creación. Dirige el Máster en Drogodependencias en línea de IL3-UB y fue nombrada Socia de Honor 2021 de la Sociedad Española de Patología Dual.Agenda:
- 1845h - Doors open
- 1900h - Talk starts
- 2015h - Q&A
- 2045h - Drinks & Networking
Tickets from 12 euros (must be purchased on Luma):
https://luma.com/oevbcqn4?utm_source=meetupJoin us at Growth Lab, where ambitious minds gather to explore ideas that fuel personal and professional growth. Each session dives into powerful strategies and insights across psychology, philosophy, longevity, economics, and cutting-edge tech — designed to help you unlock your best self.
Expect thought-provoking talks, interactive discussions, and a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to bettering themselves.Whether you're seeking inspiration, new skills, or meaningful connections, Growth Lab is your space to grow.
Follow us on Instagram: @Growthlablive
Apply to Speak: Form here
Work With Us or Sponsor an Event: More info1 attendee
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