Laughing Matter of Greater Boston Laughing Matter is a community service nonprofit organization that brings the therapeutic benefits of laughter and improvisational comedy to individuals in places of care, including hospitals, homeless shelters and senior centers. This Meetup serves as the Auditions Circle for prospective Member Performers of the Greater Boston Chapter of Laughing Matter. Individuals can audition in one of two ways: City-Wide Laughing Matter Audition City-wide auditions take pla …

This is a group to encourage regular group conversations for anyone interested in the application of Lean Startup Principles and the Customer Development process developed by Steve Blank and refined by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is a movement that is transforming the way new products are built and launched. To learn more, visit www.TheLeanStartup.com. The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries.

Scuba & Freediving in the New England Area Come on in. We've got what you need. Why East Coast Divers? East Coast Divers is dedicated to offering our customers the best in quality instruction, products and services. As the largest and most diverse dive retailer in Massachusetts, we are able to offer you excellent prices on the best equipment available. Our staff carefully field tests everything we sell for quality, value and dependability before we offer it to you, our valued customer. This pr …

The Akashic Records contain everything that every soul has ever thought, said, and done over the course of its existence – as well as all its future possibilities. This valuable information can help you with any aspect of your life journey. --From How to Read the Akashic Records The AR study group is intended to support the learning process in accessing the Akashic Records through The Pathway Prayer Process© presented in Linda Howe’s Book, How to Read the Akashic Records. Learning involves two …

A coding dojo is a place where programmers practice to improve their skills, using training techniques similar to those of martial arts training centers. Problems are presented and solved in a variety of formats and using a mix of approaches. The goal is not necessarily to solve the problem. The goal is to improve through deliberate practice: trying small steps, getting immediate feedback, thinking about how to improve for the next step, and repeating. Improvement comes from understanding an …

Chess is an incredible game...but with all the smartphones, Xboxes, iPads, and iPods out there, it sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. In fact, games don't have to be played in high def or with high-tech controllers to be fully engaging. Chess is one of those games. With a simple board and 32 pieces, chess continues to captivate amateurs and grandmasters alike. All you need is a basic knowledge of how the pieces move, a fair amount of concentration and insight and you have become a viable chess …

For artists who like to code and coders who love to create, This is a collaborative space for creative coders, designers, and artists to come together to share the latest tips, tricks, and techniques in any area from data visualizations, to generative art, to kinect hacks. Focusing on open tools like Processing, OpenFrameworks, Cinder, Protovis and R.

The best of everything: jobs, salary, life partners, discounted prices, opportunities, absolutely everything in life... can be yours, if you know how to communicate your wishes in a way that is most agreeable to your audience. Many people feel uncomfortable negotiating, thus shortchanging themselves because they refuse to engage in the process. Some view it as manipulation; or as a contest of wills in which power determines outcome, each party seeks to one-up the other, and the little guy doesn' …

Inspiration Chow Down Are you interested in following the latest digital trends? Do you like free pizza? The Big Studio is starting a monthly lunch Meetup and we will be providing plenty of both. This Meetup will have a rotating format but will always focus on highlighting trends in design and process. Some examples of the rotating formats are - Hosting Guest Speakers Start-up reviews Workshops Peer Reviews Trend Sharing Since the format will rotate from Meetup to Meetup we would love to take …

This group is for Practical Idealist to share ideas, skills and resources….a place to vision, debate and collaborate. Let's have conversations that have never happened before! Let's create real world solutions that celebrate our individual desires and honor the needs of our collective future. Let's enjoy the process and each other. I'm hoping to gather a diverse group of creative, positive people that truly embrace the gift of different perspectives and are excited to cross-pollinate. If you as …

Embracing the full spectrum from ancient traditions and the occult to cutting edge science, Soul Experiments Meetup gathers those intererested in exploring consciousness, spirituality, energy and the multidimensional nature of ourselves and reality. Let's experiment, play and learn together!  Let's create a safe space to share our experiences. Let's take the "woo" out of "woo woo". :-) Types of Meetups: We will be having several types of meetups. At least once a month there will be a free meetup …

Have you ever experienced that utter exhiliration of "being in the zone"? When everything felt perfect, you could see the world crystal clear and time seemed elastic? Taketina is a unique way that allows you to encounter that sense of "being in the zone". TaKeTiNa is a full-body, full-mind experience. It is simultaneously challenging and safe. No previous movement or music experience is necessary, and no drums are required. Participants come from a diverse array of backgrounds, ages, and intere …

The Boston Lean IT / Limited WIP Society is a local forum for sharing ideas and experiences of applying the Kanban Method and Lean Thinking to IT processes, including (but not limited to) software development, maintenance, and support. Lean Thinking can help IT teams, large or small, become more effective and productive. The Kanban Method has its genesis in Toyota's manufacturing processes, and was pioneered by David J. Anderson as a flow-based system for software engineering projects & operatio …

Whole & Natural Foods Cooking Co-Op & Support Group This group is for people who have discovered the value of whole and natural foods in their lives and want to support each other to eat in way that is healthy, nurtures the body and the earth, and tastes good! How can we have more community, joy, efficiency, health, and fun regarding cooking and eating? My intention is that this group will create community in cooking, happiness through meeting with others, an understanding of food and cooki …

SEMU (South End Meet UP) CRAFT (Creative Recreational Artistic Foodie Technical) Wizards group is a chance for professionals, amateurs, patrons and anyone who is involved with or passionate about the Creative Economy (CE)  in the in the Boston area, to talk shop and exchange stories, ideas and information. It is hard enough for professionals in other fields in this economy to ply their trade, but for the pros in CE, it is even more brutal out there. Why be alone? Why not be part of a gang.... or …

This meetup group is for people who believe that our current two party system is not working, in large part because of the impact of special influence money on both our electorial process and on Washington. We support Buddy Roemer, a former Governor and Congressman who is committed to getting the secret money out of the process. As Buddy says, "We aren't Democrats or Republicans. We are Americans" www.buddyroemer.com

Are you creative, love sharing ideas and play well with others? This is the group for you! Here is an opportunity to join in with other passionate individuals to explore the world of ideas, self-expression, creativity and experimentation. Perfect for professional and amateur creatives of all types (performers, graphic artists, writers, singers/songwriters, comedians, musicians, film makers, dancers....you get the idea!) as well as educators/experts/authors, thought leaders, and those of us that …

This group was organized for all who are interested in internal arts of Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Nei Gong and meditation. I Liq Chuan is an internal Chinese martial art system based on principles of Zen and Tai Chi. Literally translated, the name means "mind-body fist" or alternatively "mental-physical boxing." Often referred to as the "Martial Art of Awareness" due to its emphasis on mindfulness training as the foundation for achieving martial skill. Training in I Liq Chuan improves mental focus, calm …

This group is dedicated to getting people drawing and exploring their drawing mind in all different settings. Please join us to discover and explore your Drawing Mind. Each session will be held in a different location and is offered as either a one and a half hour session or a one and a half hour family drawing Scavenger Hunt or a three hour workshop. The Drawing Mind is focused on enhancing and developing a process approach to drawing. To discovering your visual voice by drawing in a variety of …

In the Boston area there are many meetups that cover a large range of engineering topics. However, none are about image processing or computer vision. The Boston Image Processing and Computer Vision Group (BIPCVG) meetup fills this gap by providing an opportunity for the image processing/computer vision community to network, socialize and learn. It covers the basics as well as advanced subjects, and the hottest and latest developments in areas such as biomedical and mobile applications. The meet …

Welcome! You have made the important first step in meeting a group of people who share many of the same feelings that you are experiencing right now. We are modeled on the North Shore Divorced and Separated Group. The members have diverse backgrounds. This includes a wide range of professions, trades, economic and religious backgrounds. Over time, feedback from the people that join our group has been that they find comfort in meeting others who know what the divorce/separated experience is all …

Meditation is silencing the incessant chatter of the restless mind for that ... we ... begin ... with ... the ... breath. The process of meditation is simple - Close your eyes and be with your natural breath. Meditation silences the restless waves of mind, thereby preserving soul energy leading to good health, peace of mind and wisdom of life. Meditation done inside a pyramid, or underneath a pyramid, is called as Pyramid Meditation. This group is started to practice and teach meditation to each …

The great philosopher Socrates took Philosophy out of the realms of the elite-few and into the streets where, by promoting a method of inquiry among individuals, he challenged them to examine their own beliefs. Thus ensued an unraveling process for the individual, away from the world of appearances, towards Truth. Inspired by Socrates and in celebration of World Philosophy Day, a bunch of us Lovers of Wisdom created Philo-café. We aspire to conduct a similar Socratic dialogue, to bring together …

Boston Storm Users is a group for developers using or hoping to learn about Twitter's Storm real-time data processing framework. We get together to discuss best practices, to exchange ideas and to learn how to apply Storm to various engineering challenges. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used …

For those who want to design, engineer, and build innovative products using community and online tools. Physical products create and shape our environment. Everything from your razor to your house started as and idea, which was brought to life by a talented engineer or designer. Open Engineering is all about making this process faster with higher quality results. We will explore topics related to design, engineering, and manufacturing. Sometimes we will bring in open hardware projects to present …

We're a community of artists, designers, engineers, programmers, and hackers interested in working with creative coding platforms like openFrameworks, Cinder, Processing, Unity3D. We enjoy things like real-time graphics rendering, physical computing, robots, projection maps, and interactive art installations. We do this professionally, academically, artistically, or just purely for the joy of making awesome stuff, every day. We meet regularly and casually to share tips, swap ideas and form colla …

This group is for professional Boston-area ladies ages 25 - 34 who are looking to add some fun social events to their calendar (and make some new friends in the process). I've found that it's growing increasingly more difficult to expand my social circle now that I'm several years removed from college and consumed by my job. I imagine there are lots of Boston young women out there in the same boat! Despite the "professional" in the title, this isn't a networking group! The idea is to link togeth …

What I will be teaching you, you already know. All of us have a body in which we experience and interact with life. But have you ever thought about how our body is really just the house for our soul? Inside us reside the images and narratives of who we are- everything that has ever happened to us. The idea behind my original creation, Fusion-Improvisation, is that if we can engage and refine the vessel we call body, there is no limit to how we can reveal our souls. When we are skilled with our b …