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Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Melbourne (Easy English) 6pm
🌏 Make new international friends in Melbourne. Come alone, practise your English, and enjoy a relaxed social night. 😊
A friendly meetup for networking, language exchange, and real conversation — open to everyone.
Why People Love Lounge Asia
🍜 Asian-focused event
🤝 Many guests come alone
💬 No need for perfect English
🌏 No games or forced introductions — just enjoy the conversation
Lounge Asia began within the Asian community, so people from Asia often feel comfortable and at home here. At the same time, everyone is welcome — locals, expats, travellers, students, returnees, digital nomads, and globally minded people.
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How to Join
1️⃣ Tap "RSVP" on this page
2️⃣ Show your Meetup QR code at reception
3️⃣ Collect your name tag and start meeting people
✅ Free entry for the first 145 RSVPs
✅ AUD 5 after the first 145 RSVPs, or within 24 hours before the event
✅ RSVP early to get the best deal
✅ Limited capacity — please RSVP early
Many people attend alone, so don't worry if it's your first time.
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How to Find Us
📍 Venue
Diesel Bar & Eatery
Melbourne CBD
⏰ Time
Every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6:00 pm
🚶 Getting There
Enter via Little Lonsdale St only. No entry from inside Melbourne Central.
Our Lounge Asia organisers will be there to welcome you 😊
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🍺 Please Support the Venue
This event is free or low-cost because the venue supports our community. Please purchase at least one drink during the event. Your support helps us keep organising events at great venues.
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💚 Please Be Respectful
Lounge Asia is a friendly social event where everyone should feel comfortable and welcome.
🚫 This is NOT a pickup or dating event. Anyone who makes others uncomfortable may be removed immediately.
Not allowed: harassment, unwanted attention, MLM / crypto / religious recruitment, or anything that makes others uncomfortable.
Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry or ask anyone to leave.
🪪 A valid government-issued photo ID is strictly required for entry. No photo ID, no entry. Driver's licences must be issued by the government of the country where the event is held.
📸 Photos and short videos may be taken for community and promotional purposes. If you prefer not to appear, please let an organiser know when you arrive.
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Lounge Asia is already growing in Australia and is now expanding across Asia — Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Our goal is simple: More friendship, more understanding, and more genuine connections across cultures.
📱 Instagram: @_lounge_asia
🎥 Watch Event Video: [\[WATCH EVENT VIDEO\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw)
🎁 VIP ACCESS (Founding Members)
Join the VIP list for early access to our official app & special party invites.
[👉GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
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🌏 Come say hi!
Hey, come hang out! 来一起玩吧! 一起來聊天吧! 気軽に遊びに来てね! 편하게 놀러 와요! มาเจอกันนะ! Tới chơi nha! Tara, sali ka na! Yuk, gabung! Хамтдаа цуглацгаая! Komm einfach vorbei! Jom join kita!
See you at Lounge Asia!
Tutors connect and create
## Tutor Connect & Create
A friendly meetup for tutors to meet each other, share ideas, and try a new activity together. The goal is to build a community of knowledge.
## What it is
* A relaxed get-together for tutors of all subjects.
* Open to people who enjoy teaching and learning.
* A chance to talk, share experiences, and make new friends.
## Good activities
* Icebreaker games.
* Mini sharing circle: “What do you teach and what do you enjoy?”
* Creative activity, like a puzzle challenge, drawing task, or group quiz.
* Short discussion about new teaching ideas or tools.
* Optional food, tea, or coffee.
## Why tutors would come
* They can meet other tutors.
* They can learn fresh ideas.
* They can try something fun and different.
* It feels social, not too serious.
## Sample event description
**Tutor Connect & Create** is a casual meetup for tutors who want to connect, share ideas, and explore new activities together. Whether you teach maths, English, music, or anything else, you are welcome. Come along to chat, collaborate, and enjoy a fun activity in a friendly space.
## Better title ideas
* Tutor Social Circle
* Tutors Unplugged
* Teach, Chat, Connect
* Tutor Hub Meetup
* Learning Together Meetup
I can also write this as:
* a Facebook event post,
* a flyer ad,
* or a short invitation message.
Stoa in the pub
"Stoa in the Pub"
We get together once a month for an informal chat about random Stoic
topics and their application to our lives
Every One is welcome!
Location: Vapiano, 334 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
Vietnamese Dinner in Victoria Street
Join me, meet new people and enjoy delicious and reasonably priced Vietnamese foot. Close to public transport, tram and train.
Study Technology FREE Workshop! - How to improve your study or teaching.
Applied Scholastics Study Technology is able to improve anyone's ability to study.
Millions of people are already using this technology and whole countries are now adopting it.
- You can learn Faster with less stress
- You don't forget the information
- You stay interested in the subject
- Your marks increase
English literacy rates routinely improve by 25 to 35 percent. Likewise, student test scores improve dramatically with students routinely meeting or exceeding grade level expectations in EVERY ACADEMIC SUBJECT.
Our workshop will be focusing on how students learn.
Study Technology can easily be incorporated into any educational activity—from classroom instruction and curriculum design to employee training or homeschooling. It provides a stable foundation enhancing all educational efforts.
Study Technology is what teachers, tutors, trainers, parents and students can use to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
No matter the curriculum in your current academic setting, Study Technology offers proven teaching strategies and resources that can help resolve classroom issues and improve student achievement.
No matter if you are a teacher yourself or a good students or bad student we can all do better at study once we have this technology under our belt.
Teachers who use this technology report amazing turn around with once troubled students.
The application of Study Technology has quite literally changed millions of lives.
You are most welcome to bring along a friend or those that struggle with study. (any topic)
If you are unable to attend this meetup then let me know, We can arrange for you to meetup at a different time and date.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!
Hi Architects,
Welcome to our next AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup for 2026, including more exceptional speakers and topics! :-D
At each meetup we covered off various pillars in detail, best-practices and insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework.
And giving away drones, of course. Lots of drones.
**Please also note that AWS Security now requests a company name and company email where it is available. If you are a student, please list your institution and your student email address at that institution 👍**
We’ll be updating throughout the month with more speakers and our speakers so far this month include:
* **Mike Taylor, Solution Architect, TiDB**
**Will your data infra keep up, if your product goes viral? Well-Architected lessons from Kimi and Manus**
As AI transitions from static prompts to autonomous, action-oriented agents, traditional data architectures often break down under the pressure of unpredictable scaling and relentless write workloads. We will explore the infrastructure of two massive-scale AI platforms, Kimi and Manus, through the lens of the well-architected framework.
* **SkillzLab Well-Architected Build Session**
**Well-Architecting App Build-off**
In this build session, we will have a live build-off with Students competing with AWS Builders and a drone for the most upvoted well-architected app on the night.
This month's menu will include:
* Pizzas
* Beer: Nastro Azzurro
* Wine: Big and red 🤤
NB: Please check in up the stairs from the ground floor to the Mezzanine Level.
So come join us at 5:30 for a 6pm **SHARP** start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and friendly networking after our talks :-)
Tired of Linkedin’s "thought leadership”, spam and advertising?
Join https://well-architected.me/ , the AWS community built for architects, developers and cloud professionals.
* Connect with experienced AWS practitioners
* Preview upcoming AWS Meetups and relive past content
* Create and review beautiful AWS case studies in minutes
* Prepare for AWS certifications with curated quizzes
* Show your manager and reports you’re well-architected
(Please note that by registering to attend you agree to your details being shared as and where required with Amazon Web Services and AWS Well-Architected User Group partners)
Reason Events This Week
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What is Art For? On Emotion, Aesthetics and Creativity
A painting that brings a person to tears. A banana worth 6.4 million dollars. A photograph ending a war. What is behind these phenomena? Please join us this Sunday to discuss the Philosophy of Art, where it comes from, what makes it powerful and why it is a universal across time and cultures.
We will meet at the Captain Melville at 2pm for a 2:15pm start sharp. **Please note the new $5 mandatory donation entry fee** (cash or transfer on day) to help with MeetUp subscription costs, venue costs, etc.
There is no pre-requisite preparation necessary, nor a philosophical background, all that is required is a curious mind. These discussions are both a Socrates Cafe style discussion and lively metaphysical dojo, in the spirit of learning and friendly debate, so please feel free to challenge assumptions and be prepared to have your own assumptions challenged.
This event is also posted to the Philosophy Circle group.
We will explore the topic through a range of questions, including:
**What is Art?**
* What comes to mind when we use the word ‘Art’? What are the categories of objects or activities that you would consider to be art?
* Which of these are art?: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1_1nl2_GKbGzzSbXsRRsnAZlkmNVqWPjm
**Emotion**
* Is art a luxury or necessity in life? Is it essential to happiness?
* Why is art so effective at making us feel powerful emotions, even when we know it doesn’t represent reality? Are these ‘true’ emotions, or somehow different / simulated?
* Why do we sometimes seek our art that makes us feel sad?
**Objectivity**
* Is there such a thing as objectively bad art?
* Are there intrinsic properties that make something aesthetic (beautiful)? Are they universal?
* Are there objective standards of ‘taste’? Can one person be said to have better taste than another? If so, on what basis or criteria?
**Value**
* What gives art its value? Why do we consider replicas differently? Is naturally occurring beauty different to art?
* What compels humans towards art? Is there an evolutionary / biological explanation for the seemingly wasteful expenditure of resources on outputs that have no practical function?
**Creativity**
* Are only humans able to appreciate art?
* Are only humans creative?
* Is there such a thing as something truly new, or is every idea or expression a recombination of existing inputs into a different configuration of outputs?
* Can a machine be creative? If not, what is the constraint?
* Could we ever regard AI-creativity in the same way as that of a human?
Hope to see you there!
Spread Eagle Pub Trivia
Special trivia event at the Spread Eagle in Richmond on a Sunday!
Free trivia in the bar and restaurant from 3pm to 5pm with “Million Dollar Mick”.
Thanks go to Mark for booking the table for this one.
They have a parma special for $20 as well.
Philosopher's Walk - Royal Botanic Gardens
Weather looks reasonable on Sunday. Participants are invited to join us for a walk and talk about science, philosophy, AI and emerging technology.
**Schedule**
* **10.30** am – Meet outside the entrance to the Royal Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre (near the Observatory House, and a walk away from the Shrine of Remembrance)
* **11.00** am – Venture into the gardens and walk the outer path anticlockwise, spiralling inwards towards the lake
* \~1.00 pm – (optional) Lunch by the lake, (BYO or there are Terrace Café options)
**Getting there:** If coming by **tram**, get off at Stop 19 - Shrine of Remembrance/St Kilda Rd
**Parking** is free on Anderson St far side of the Botanic Gardens ([near eastern gate B and Tecoma gate C](https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/melbourne-gardens/interactive-map/)) subject to time limits in some stretches (mostly 3 hrs) - which is the only free parking area near the gardens that I can find. Check signage on the day. See this [PDF for more detail](https://athsvic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The-Tan-Parking-Map.pdf).
**Possible discussion topics**
* Latest AI models - Anthropic's Mythos and Fable blocked after US bans foreign use
* AI Pause / Stop - will it work? (Regulatory catch-up, xrisk, global-coordination & geopolitical arms races, enforcement & logistics, existing capability overhang)
* Technical AI safety - Mechanistic interpretability, linear probes, RLHF, behavioural evals
* General AI alignment approaches: control vs motivation:
\- control \(External Constraints\) focuses on building walls *around* the AI to restrict what it can do, trip wires etc.
\- motivation \(Internal Alignment\) focuses on changing the AI’s inner desires so it *wants* to be ethical/help humans/act in accordance with the well-being of all sentience
* AI ethics: how is it related to AI safety? What should be the target for AI alignment? Should the target be aggregate human preferences, religious doctrine, moral naturalism or something else?
* Metaethics and ethics
* Moral realism: a stance-independent moral ontology, useful for capturing non-arbitrary moral choice
* Moral anti-realism: error theory, non-cognitivism, moral relativism etc
* Can AI be fault-tolerantly aligned to moral realism or anti-realism?
* Is sentience required for moral reasoning or moral deliberation? Can it be a hindrance?
* Moral progress and indirect normativity
* AI safety, automated persuasion, the orthogonality thesis
* How epistemics (including science) makes progress
* Health, wellness, and how to live a good life
* Latest trends in AI: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude
* Economic impacts of AGI, automation, and unbounded inequality
* UBI and universal wealth redistribution
* The likelihood of future doom or utopia
* Human augmentation and hacking human potential
* Plato's cave
* Fun theory and value theory
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking." - Nietzsche, *Twilight of the Idols*
Philosophy discussions can feel quite sedentary - hence our experiment in cross-pollinating exercise with engaging discussion. Exerting mind and body together may produce a fascinating dynamic. A sedentary lifestyle (and, by association, philosophy) has been linked to depression, anxiety and chronic stress.
Ease the anxieties of the armchair philosopher engaging in mental gymnastics with minimal muscle movement - join our raggle-taggle crew of aspiring philosophers walking the talk. Healthy body, healthy mind.
Bring elemental protection (umbrellas, sunscreen, etc).
SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA)
## **SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA)** \- Melbourne\.
In-Person Lecture/Discussion.
***"The Physics of Spirituality."***
Speaker: **[Dr. Kim Sawyer](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Findependentaustralia.net%2Fprofile-on%2Fkim-sawyer%2C628%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExWGk4N0ZDVnZmd3NjMFpNZHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR68MS2W6igTE1I4Y7Xh9V4uCluwuykX2lF5a6vM2vnRMYLRsaikT8tz0dtKig_aem_OY2dKBcfgrIf8ujZ5yqhWg&h=AUB8tK_kJDEaXi2Ie1rmwE_zIDXEYvFSSPd6au_7V6wXiV1NT1u4d-08Sq1mfOozX0MiBycY1_p4dOpr3OMOM_hsKhcbfW7IJVjlOse8gy8yTaHDFL4SmXBYUR_VE5gTa1dDSYdhxJAKzA&__tn__=R]-R&c[0]=AUBGVZoA7kb0gkt-rRu34rQKnZbM0tA5VLLch4k_4co5-HnsDc0BGgYbNZX4qD20r19piXZ0PqkiPy8uk4-Ac-kANW3RkUtzjqiWRW3hb-4rBKxJob6B4tRFS2MHNiLldSVKmT_r1dNSIlhJw4BDEywHuXLuwzRsC5f6556H&c[1]=AUBGVZoA7kb0gkt-rRu34rQKnZbM0tA5VLLch4k_4co5-HnsDc0BGgYbNZX4qD20r19piXZ0PqkiPy8uk4-Ac-kANW3RkUtzjqiWRW3hb-4rBKxJob6B4tRFS2MHNiLldSVKmT_r1dNSIlhJw4BDEywHuXLuwzRsC5f6556H)** \- \(Melbourne University\)\.
*\~ SoFiA promotes the open exploration of religion, spirituality and the search for meaning. They welcome ALL viewpoints, including Atheism.\~*
Enquiries: sofmelbourne@gmail.com
**[SOFiA Website](http://www.sof-in-australia.org/).**
**[Facebook: 'Sofiatalk'](https://www.facebook.com/groups/sofiatalk/)** \- Please join their ongoing discussions\.
Letting Go – A Transformational 9D Breathwork Journey
***Letting Go – A Transformational 9D Breathwork Journey***
📅 Thursday 18th June
🕔 5:00 PM
📍 Aintree (Near Rockbank), Victoria 3336
**Are You Still Carrying the Weight of the Past?**
Do you find yourself replaying old conversations, holding onto resentment, battling self-doubt, or feeling trapped by patterns that seem to repeat no matter how hard you try?
Perhaps you've done the talking, the thinking, and the analyzing...
Yet something still feels heavy.
The truth is that many of our deepest wounds are not stored in the mind alone—they are stored in the body.
This powerful 9D Breathwork journey is designed to help you release what no longer serves you and reclaim the energy that has been trapped in the past.
Who Is This Journey For?
**This experience is for anyone who is ready to:**
✨ Release emotional baggage and old pain
✨ Let go of resentment toward themselves or others
✨ Break free from repetitive patterns and self-sabotage
✨ Quiet the inner critic
✨ Heal from relationship wounds or childhood experiences
✨ Step into greater peace, clarity, and personal power
If you've ever felt emotionally or energetically weighed down by the past, this journey was created for you.
What Happens During The Journey?
**"Letting Go" is a deeply immersive 70-minute 9D Breathwork experience that combines:**
🌬️ Conscious connected breathwork
🎧 Immersive 9D audio technology
🧠 Subconscious reprogramming
💛 Emotional release processes
✨ Guided visualization
🙏 Forgiveness and gratitude integration
Through powerful breathing techniques and carefully designed soundscapes, you'll bypass the analytical mind and access the deeper emotional patterns stored within the body.
You'll be guided to release old stories, unresolved emotions, and limiting beliefs that may no longer serve your highest good.
What You May Experience
***Many participants report:***
💛 Feeling physically lighter
💛 Emotional release and relief
💛 Increased inner peace
💛 Greater self-compassion
💛 Improved clarity and focus
💛 Freedom from old emotional burdens
💛 A deeper sense of self-love and empowerment
Every journey is unique, and your experience will unfold exactly as your mind and body need.
**What To Bring?**
✔️ Yoga Mat
✔️ Blanket
✔️ Pillow
✔️ Water Bottle
✔️ Comfortable Clothing
✔️ Open Mind
Click the link below to reserve your spot:
***[https://buy.stripe.com/dRm00jb9F3wh7w1bCngA80y](https://buy.stripe.com/dRm00jb9F3wh7w1bCngA80y)***
No previous breathwork experience is required.
Simply come as you are.
A Safe & Supportive Space
This is not about fixing yourself.
**You are not broken.**
This is an invitation to release what no longer serves you, reconnect with your true self, and step into a new chapter with greater freedom, clarity, and peace.
***Release. Heal. Reclaim.***
*The wound is not your fault.* *The healing is your invitation.*
**🌿 We look forward to welcoming you.**
Philosophy Roundtable: Art
A painting that brings a person to tears. A banana worth 6.4 million dollars. A photograph ending a war. What is behind these phenomena? Please join us this Sunday to discuss the Philosophy of Art, where it comes from, what makes it powerful and why it is a universal across time and cultures.
We will meet at the Captain Melville at 2pm for a 2:15pm start sharp. **Please note the new $5 mandatory donation entry fee** (cash or transfer on day) to help with MeetUp subscription costs, venue costs, etc.
There is no pre-requisite preparation necessary, nor a philosophical background, all that is required is a curious mind. These discussions are both a Socrates Cafe style discussion and lively metaphysical dojo, in the spirit of learning and friendly debate, so please feel free to challenge assumptions and be prepared to have your own assumptions challenged.
This event is also posted to the Socrates Cafe group.
We will explore the topic through a range of questions, including:
**What is Art?**
* What comes to mind when we use the word ‘Art’? What are the categories of objects or activities that you would consider to be art?
* Which of these are art?: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1_1nl2_GKbGzzSbXsRRsnAZlkmNVqWPjm
**Emotion**
* Is art a luxury or necessity in life? Is it essential to happiness?
* Why is art so effective at making us feel powerful emotions, even when we know it doesn’t represent reality? Are these ‘true’ emotions, or somehow different / simulated?
* Why do we sometimes seek our art that makes us feel sad?
**Objectivity**
* Is there such a thing as objectively bad art?
* Are there intrinsic properties that make something aesthetic (beautiful)? Are they universal?
* Are there objective standards of ‘taste’? Can one person be said to have better taste than another? If so, on what basis or criteria?
**Value**
* What gives art its value? Why do we consider replicas differently? Is naturally occurring beauty different to art?
* What compels humans towards art? Is there an evolutionary / biological explanation for the seemingly wasteful expenditure of resources on outputs that have no practical function?
**Creativity**
* Are only humans able to appreciate art?
* Are only humans creative?
* Is there such a thing as something truly new, or is every idea or expression a recombination of existing inputs into a different configuration of outputs?
* Can a machine be creative? If not, what is the constraint?
* Could we ever regard AI-creativity in the same way as that of a human?
Hope to see you there!
Logosophy and a more conscious humanity
Connect with a supportive community dedicated to continuous growth. Together, we’ll dive into meaningful topics that help us become a little better every single day.
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Drunken Philosophy: Where Is Everybody? The Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter
Welcome to Drunken Philosophy, a casual, curious, social discussion club. Come grab a drink and a seat at The Oracle.
**Optional topic for this meetup: Where is everybody?**
In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi was talking about aliens over lunch and asked a question that still has not gone away: if the universe is so vast and so old, and even a fraction of those billions of stars have planets, where is everyone? By the numbers the galaxy should be crowded with civilizations. Instead we look up and hear silence. That gap between "they should be everywhere" and "we see no one" is the Fermi Paradox.
One of the most unsettling answers is the idea of a **Great Filter**: somewhere on the road from dead chemistry to a galaxy-spanning civilization, there is at least one step that is almost impossible to get past. Maybe the filter is behind us. Maybe life starting at all, or simple cells becoming complex, or intelligence ever evolving, is the freak accident, and we already cleared the hard part. Or maybe the filter is ahead of us, and advanced civilizations reliably wipe themselves out before they spread.
Here is the part that messes with people. If we ever found life somewhere else, even pond scum on Mars, most people would call it the greatest discovery in history. But it might be the worst possible news. It would mean life is common, the early steps are easy, and the hard step is still in front of us. So the eerie silence overhead might actually be the best sign we could ask for.
**Questions to wrestle with:**
* Is it better to be alone? Would you rather we find alien life and learn we are not special, or find nothing and quietly improve our odds of surviving?
* Where do you bet the filter sits, behind us or ahead of us, and why?
* If it is ahead of us, what is it? Nuclear war, climate collapse, AI, something we cannot even picture yet? And can we do anything about a filter we cannot see coming?
* Does any of this change how you live, or how humanity should be spending its time and money right now?
As always the prompt is optional. Come for the conversation, stay for the drinks, and bring your own questions.
Free In-Person Meeting: Get Over Losses & Betrayals, Build Lasting Relationships
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.
Sunday Brunch
Sleep in on Sundays. When you've had your fill of pajama-time, roll out and have some tasty brunch with your fellow Humanists!
LGBT Reads: In-Person Book Discussion
Join us for our June Book Club gathering where we will come together to discuss [The Queer Principles of Kit Webb](https://catsebastian.com/the-queer-principles-of-kit-webb/) by Cat Sebastian in a safe and welcoming environment. Make new friends who share your passion for books and connect with fellow LGBTQ book enthusiasts.
HCCO at the Pride Parade
We will be marching again this summer at Pride. Come ready to show your Pride and stand-up for every human's right to love, respect, and family!
* **Step-off:** 10:30AM
* **Route:** High Street from the Capital to Goodale Park
Update: We are meeting at Bob Leonhard's house. You can park your car there and we will carpool to the parade. This will eliminate you finding parking in the city and excessive walking.
You SHOULD BE AT BOB'S HOUSE BY 8:45 a.m.! We will leave for the parade at 9:15 am sharp!
Bob's address: 2858 Thorndale Avenue, Columbus, OH 43207
If you have questions, his number is 614-301-7436
Fun & easy way to play more tennis (read event description)
We’re still working to get more people into these Meetups, but our goal is to give PlayYourCourt members a few social tennis outings each week in addition to your practice sessions and Challenge League matches.
These Meetups are co-ed, super laid back, and all skill levels are welcome. Post your skill level and a suggested court in the comments section so we can round up as many players as we can for some tennis fun!
Also, if you’re looking to meet new practice partners or play some matches and you aren’t already in the PlayYourCourt Community, you can go here to see what we’re all about and sign up:
https://www.playyourcourt.com/tennis-community/columbus-oh/meetup/
If you love tennis, we’d love to have you! Be sure and watch the quick video that explains how everything works.
Happy hitting!
- Scott
Columbus Museum of Art, Free Admission Sundays
Let’s meet and wander the galleries! General admission on Sundays is free.






















