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Fwd: MBA Project Newsletter: Youth Retreats & Public Trainings

by Romy Ilano

this is a cool youth outreach organization that works with kids and meditation might be interesting for sudo room folks! *Romy Mimi Ilano* * * *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com* *http://www.romyilano.com* +1 (415) 779-6237 skype: romy.ilano ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mind Body Awareness Project <info(a)mbaproject.org> Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:33 PM Subject: MBA Project Newsletter: Youth Retreats & Public Trainings To: Romy <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> ** … [View More]Mind Body Awareness<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> Project<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…>Newsletter - August, 2013 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed537b&id=81df63a054…>. <http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> Donate Now »<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> [image: Follow on Twitter] Follow us on Twitter<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> [image: Friend on Facebook] Visit Us On Facebook<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> [image: Forward to Friend] Forward to a Friend<http://us6.forward-to-friend2.com/forward?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed537b&id=81…> MBA's First Overnight Youth Meditation Retreat! This summer MBA achieved its longtime goal of taking a group of youth on an overnight residential meditation retreat. Participants were recruited from our longtime partner the METAS program, a tutoring program for youth in the Richmond, CA area. Ten youth and young adults (ages 14-20) participated in this 3-day, 2-night retreat, and it was a triumph! Our retreat took place at Redwood Glen, a beautiful retreat center nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains with breathtaking views and hundred year-old redwood trees. The youth who took part in this retreat were amazing! We took them through mindfulness meditation exercises, deep sharing activities, long periods of silence, and advanced compassion practices. We hiked around the woods and meditated in the forest, by a beautiful stream, and discussed life at night by the campfire. Upon its completion, every young person who participated in the retreat was interviewed about the experience was like. Without exception they described how beneficial they felt the retreat was, mostly citing reductions in stress, contemplation about life, and an increased emotional awareness. Most of the youth said they would like to repeat the experience next year, and would even like to extend it to a five or six-day retreat. MBA would like to thank its generous supporters and partners who made this retreat happen. It was a deep and transformative experience, and has laid a blueprint for many MBA residential retreats to come! Support MBA Youth on Retreats. Donate $250 Today<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…> . Our first retreat was so successful that MBA is in the process of planning one - two retreats for Summer, 2014. We need your help! Donating to MBA will provide youth the opportunity to engage in deep mindfulness practice and have life-changing experiences. Our youth come from low-income neighborhoods, contending with issues of violence, substance abuse, and trauma. MBA does not charge any fees to the youth we serve or their families for any of our programming or retreats. We rely on support from wonderful people like you who want to spread mindfulness and give young people the opportunity to learn more about themselves and gain skills not only applicable, but critical, to their lives in the real world. A contribution of $250 sends one youth on retreat. Our goal is to bring at least 20 – 30 youth on retreat next summer. Please consider a donation of $250<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> today to help us reach this goal! Daylong Training Series: Sign up for remaining 3 for discounts! In our last newsletter, we announced our public daylong training series, lead by MBA Executive Director Sam Himelstein. The first training took place on July 21st and was a great success! There are three more trainings scheduled for 2013: “Mindfulness-Based Group work with High-Risk Adolescents” on 8/18, “Working with Resistant Adolescents” on 9/15, and “Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for High-Risk Youth” on 10/13. The cost for each daylong training is $150, or $325 for if you attend all three. Continuing Education credit is available for Psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. Join us and learn how to spread mindfulness throughout your work with youth! For detailed information about these trainings, visit our website<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…> or register here<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…>. *Copyright © 2013 Mind Body Awareness Project, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you signed up for our mailing list and/or sent us a donation. http://www.mbaproject.org *Our mailing address is:* Mind Body Awareness Project 478 Santa Clara Avenue Suite 200 Oakland, CA 94610 Add us to your address book<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed537b&id…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> unsubscribe from this list<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…>| update subscription preferences<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed537b&i…> [View Less]

11 years, 8 months

Bioinformatics meeting - 7pm Sunday 11th August

by Ryan Bethencourt

Dear All, I just wanted to announce the second Bio-informatics class at Sudo room, all Sudo'ers interested in getting a deeper understanding of bio-informatics are welcome to attend. After the last successful Bio-informatics class with 21 attendees, Ron's very kindly offered to volunteer again to help teach aspiring digital biohackers the tricks of the trade :) Just as a side note, Oakland nights live is currently booking a slot on Sunday but the text on the booking says that it's on … [View More]

11 years, 8 months

Reorganizing has begun! Join!

by Marina Kukso

Come join us! We are taking things out! Have a thing you want to stay in the space? Want to help? Cooommmee! Marina

11 years, 8 months

Where is the ladder?

by Yardena Cohen

We had a wonderful ladder. It was tall, safe, had two sturdy feet. It said Rachel in blue marker all over it, because it belongs to a sudoer who let us use it for a long time. It is now missing, just when we need it for space cleaning. Did any of you take it? Does any of you know where it might be? If this got stolen we will be sad.

11 years, 8 months

brain hacking on hawking

by Steve Castellotti

Hey all- My name is Steve and was involved in several Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) hacks on McHawking, the wheelchair robot, back when it lived at Noisebridge: http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Controlled-Wheelchair/ <http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Controlled-Wheelchair/> About 3-4 of us are banding together over the next several days to revisit and extend that work. Jake gave a heads up as to its new location and we're all looking forward to visiting the … [View More]

11 years, 8 months

Cool Mold! [Pictures]

by Jonathan Levin

Hey Sudoroom: I made pickles this week and some fancy-looking mold grew on them. Not good for eating, but a treat for watching, so I thought you'd all like to see! It reminds me a bit of an electron micrograph of a growing axon (see here: http://www.bio.miami.edu/ktosney/images/ResHomSEMgc.jpg) Bonus points to any of you who can identify the type of fungus (I haven't been able to yet). -Jonathan

11 years, 8 months

don't forget: ORGANIZING EVERYTHING WEEKEND

by Marina Kukso

i normally don't elevate my voice, but it WILL be organizing everything weekend starting tomorrow morning. we have already started sorting, identifying, and moving things around. please come any time tomorrow to move lots of stuff and get sudo room clean, beautiful, usable, and useful! - marina

11 years, 8 months

hive mind

by Hol Gaskill

"For large groups of ants, it isn’t necessary for all the ants in the colony to even visit each nest once. Instead of being based on individual comparisons, the colony's decision is based on positive feedback and a quorum rule." http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/when-decisions-are-tough-it-pays-to-…

11 years, 8 months

Two new Biohacker articles - Serious Wonder and East Bay Express

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, Two great new articles on Biohacking and DIY Bio mentioning Glowing Plants, Biocurious, Counter Culture labs, Berkeley Biolabs and many more groups/people in our movement! East Bay Express - Biohackers http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/bio-hackers/Content?oid=3669408 Serious Wonder - DIY Biohacking coming to a Lab near you http://www.seriouswonder.com/diy-biohacking-coming-to-a-lab-near-you Rock on! -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com www.… [View More]

11 years, 8 months

Attention Ambulance Hackers

by J.C.

Anyone interested in/on hacking in/on the ambulance? I've got a few projects in mind, chiefly in gearing up for longer trips outside the bay area (aka: Burning Man), and in the short term getting around hackerspaces in the bay area to build along the way. Right now I'm tapped on space and resources, and can only drive short distance, or not at all, so would be great to find somewhere/someone nearby to work on some mechanical issues. I'd also like to double the floor space by adding storage … [View More]

11 years, 9 months

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