We are now ready with a program. This is the first alert of Meetup opportunities scheduled for this summer and fall. Will be sending out reminders and info notices to get you motivated to attend. More Later. Dick

This hypnosis meetup is for both practitioners and other interested persons who want to discuss hypnosis, hypnotherapy, neurolinguistic programming, subliminal media, behavior modification, and other related topics. Certified practitioners, especially those who are willing to provide demonstrations, are encouraged to attend, although we are open to anyone with any level of ability or interest.

Bring your laptops, sketch pads, and a creative spark. This "open workshop" is a mobile space for socializing, working on your own personal (or collaborative) projects, sharing with and learning from each other, and exploring new and provocative design: from hardware (i.e. www.arduino.cc) to software (i.e. anything Google, Ruby on Rails and other MVC Frameworks, Drupal, cool open source projects like Processing) to digital art (i.e. CS4) and web media (Flash, CSS, etc). There are wonderfully cre …

Our group exists to study and practice the teachings of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The group is part of over 600 centers worldwide and have been inspired and directed by Lama Ole Nydahl. The people you'll meet here are lay (no rules or vows) practitioners with families and jobs who take turns sharing the teachings at public meditations. Each regular meditation begins with a 10 minute introductory dharma talk and is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation on the Lama. The …

In early 2010, my wife Sharon and I started A Partnership Of Diabetics (A-POD) in the Phillips Community of south Minneapolis—considered the most culturally-diverse, economically-challenged in Minnesota. If we can make our program work here, we thought, it just might work anywhere! We began without a cent of grant money using just our Social Security and pension funds. The Center for Changing Lives of Lutheran Social Services initially provided us with a meeting space. Advertising through Meet-u …

This user group is for people who develop or are interested in developing applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Do you have a project you'd like to create? Whether you're just into sharing ideas, or you would like to get some help developing your million dollar app, this is the group for you! You'll meet other developers and entrepreneurs in your area with whom you can discuss opportunities and get inspired. We'll also do a "deep dive" into more technical topics at some of the meetin …

We're a group of people interested in making games to be run on Microsoft's Frameworks and hardware. Whether you're looking to make Windows games, XBOX Live, Windows Phone Games or HTML5 games, this is the group for you. It doesn't matter if you're a programming god or a total newbie, everyone is welcome to join in.

At any moment, see what your mind is doing. It is going into the past or the future. It is angry about the past or anxious about the future, isn't it? When this oscillation of the mind stops, THAT is when you get in touch with the source of energy, which is YOU. All the human values that we treasure and cherish - Happiness, Joy, Love, Compassion, Caring, Friendliness, Enthusiasm, Creativity, Relationships - can only be lived and experienced in the present. But, when we are caught up in the chat …

Moms with a Mission Plum Moms Club, powered by Stroller Strides, was created to nurture the minds, bodies and spirits of moms and their children everywhere. Connect with other moms at playgroups, enjoy moms’ nights out, and give back to your community through “Moms with a Mission” activities. Joining is free — there’s no cost to becoming a Plum Moms Club member. Ready when you are! We welcome new members any time of the year. Stroller Strides, the country’s largest fitness program for new moms, …

The Twin Cities R User Group is the local R user group for Minneapolis and St. Paul. We have a monthly informal "Happy Hour", and every 2-3 months have a meeting with guest speakers.

A group to meet and discuss, learn and present on the myriad of web technologies that Google supports, promotes and offers. Main discussion board at https://groups.google.com/group/gdg-tc.  Join us on Google Plus!

Hi! It's difficult to connect with other women geeks on a regular basis in the community. This group is for anyone interested in technology, hacking, or just making new friends with similar interests! We will have gossip sessions over hackathons, days when we just sit in a coffee shop coding away on our own projects, discuss the latest and greatest in technology over fun dinners/lunches, informal meet-n-greets with invited female tech figures in the community and more! Members can suggest additi …

This is a group of Minnesotans getting together to discuss programming JavaScript in the browser, on the server, on mobile devices, and everything in between. JavaScript veterans and newbies alike are welcomed and encouraged to attend! Meets the last Thursday of the month at Refactr in Minneapolis.

You know who you are. You see the dry cleaner sorting though a stack of paper slips and you think "I could write an app for that". You want to measure the steps in a process and improve it with an open source platform. We come up with ideas. We come up with ways to realize those ideas. We build web apps. We want to highlight trusted tools of the trade, cool projects that you are contributing to, and review cutting edge technology. When we have a solid group it would be great to pool together our …

Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul and surrounding area in Minnesota) Visualization group focuses on creating a community around visually telling stories (most often with computer technology and data). The group arose out of the desire of a handful people that wanted to discuss visualization across sectors, such as non-profits, journalism, museums, academia, arts, and the private sector. We welcome everyone; mostly likely you work with visualization technologies, work closely with people that …

Tennis Player, We're connecting players on the tennis courts throughout Minneapolis from Edina and St. Paul. We allow players to put post meetups. So feel that it is acceptable to promote an event that you will take ownership of and we'll let the meetup group know about it. We'll be running certain tennis socials, weekend tournaments and get togethers for the passion tennis players who want to play competitive tennis. If you want to meet up with other tennis players in Chicago than you should de …

We are a local user group for those 'sotans who administer, develop, design or admire web sites built on the concrete5 content management system. Our mission is bringing like-minded people together to share experiences, insights, and techniques. Our meetings are a mix of informal discussion, rumor milling, and interactive presentations. And beer.

Are you interested in using Ruby in your next mobile project? There are options now and good ones. RubyMotion is just started to get traction and JRuby on Android is a possibility as well. Come and share what you've learned in your trials and travails in Ruby Mobileland.

This is a group targeted to engineers (both dev and ops), tech professionals, managers, leads, architects and entrepreneurs coming together to learn about and share information on DevOps processes, tools, practices and benefits.

A place for WordPress enthusiasts to meet and discuss WordPress.

We are a diverse group who meet monthly to share our observations, insights and sometimes personal lessons, we find in the Great Books that still change the world. We use the Great Books Foundation's assorted collections, like "The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program" Series to allow us to make easy and quick reference to whichever text we're discussing. Great Books offer insights into human experience and common challenges to living a good life well, and offer happiness and hope for toda …

Who we are: Young professionals (between the ages of 20 and 40-ish) who are interested in professional development and gaining experience in nonprofit volunteer leadership. You can make a difference in the lives of children, teens, adults, and seniors by contributing your talents and skills in support of People Incorporated, the largest mental health service provider in Minnesota. We are recruiting new members for our steering committee, development/fundraising team, social events team, voluntee …

Metaphor is always with us in: what we read and write; what we see in media, film, T.V. and photography; in all forms of the arts, including the art of telling our stories from poetry to cultural fables to personal story, but it is also embedded in psychology and education. Metaphors are powerful and enrich our lives, but they also can have destructive impacts or sell us down the garden path making us think we need things that we don't. This Meetup will look at the art of metaphor. I will bring …

Are you ready for your next adventure? If so, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team In Training® (TNT) program is for you! TNT is the world’s first and largest sports endurance training program, helping people of all abilities complete full or half marathons, triathlons, Century (100-mile) bike rides and trail runs each year. In exchange for the world class coaching and training support, participants fundraise to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s vision of a world without cancer. Bein …

Collectively we are interested in learning more about Groovy and related topics, such as the framework: Grails. We want to get together and share our experiences, techniques, and knowledge to strengthen the rapid software development crowd here in Minnesota. We meet the2nd Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at the offices of SmartThings in NE Minneapolis.

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

A meetup for people interested in Haskell and Functional Programming in general. Beginners and Experts are welcome! We are currently looking for people to give talks at our meeting, if you've learned something interesting about Haskell, please come and share it!

I created this group to give people a place to come and workout with like minded individual on the same mission. This is not a fancy gym where you go and do not know where to begin. Every week we do Les Mills Pump Strength training followed by different amazing Cardio programs that always keep it interesting yet challenging enough to see results. We also have a private on-line place to ask questions regarding nutrition and what it is you might want to accomplish. I have created this venue so eve …