Imagine a world where every child gives and receives consensual loving and nurturing touch EVERYDAY! Picture yourself as a 2nd grader, and your day begins with a 10 minute routine involving giving and receiving a massage from your classmates. This simple routine can create countless benefits including: lowering of stress levels, calming the nervous system, increasing concentration, the ability to say yes or no to touch and improving effective communication. The benefits are endless! I will share with you this AMAZING concept in 5 captivating minutes!

Cardboard and Duct Tape: Those words give a spark in some creative people's minds. I have always been fascinated on how people create such great, intricate things, such as gears, computers, and most of all, cardboard creations. I really love creating projects, mostly achieving that big goal. "How do I get that good, too big of a goal": Thoughts like that can limit you and can be frustrating. My name is Josh, ten years old, and I will show you how I achieved these things.

This 100-year-old time tested learning model ironically provides a cutting edge, progressive, and research based education. Learn how Waldorf methods inspire creativity and teach conceptual and analytical thinking, preparing children for the 21st century. Learn the joy and beauty of Waldorf, the fundamentals of this unique model, and why every child deserves the opportunity to discover their highest academic and creative potential in a stimulating, artistic, and developmentally appropriate learning environment.

Intimacy is all about communication – if you want someone to open their body to you – you have to open their heart first by building trust and understanding.

Most foreplay starts with connecting through communication and it happens long before you enter the bedroom.

Discover the secrets of courageous intimacy, compassionate conversations, fearless listening – what it really take to have a powerfully-vulnerable-loving relationship… that’s what I have been exploring for clients… and more importantly, for myself and my incredible lover

Food Security has been put in jeopardy since the Green Revolution at least. Agriculture as practiced has no resiliency do to its shallow roots on many levels. Knowingly breaking principles of nature is a poor practice in itself and I'll tell how and why. I’ll discuss the biological & ethical reasons for mis-placed beliefs. You ain't heard blasphemy till you've hear this.

Every year hundreds of thousands of writers around the world write 50,000 words of a 1st draft of a novel in 30 days. I was skeptical the first year I participated, but now my life revolves around writing. We had almost 800 writers in Fort Collins join us during the last National Novel Writing Month. Are you crazy enough to join us in 2012?

Learning to get past the worry of future success, and simply relying on the process leading up to accomplishment as a means to gauge the worthwhileness of an idea. This talk will also incorporate ideals from literature and philosophical arguments on the meaning of life.

I hate zombies. I hate them so much that I've come up with a workout to prepare for when the zombie invasion comes. I'll share the workout with you, so that you can defend yourself when they come. I assume you hate zombies too!

Romance Of The Three Kingdoms is one of the 'Four Great Classical Novels' of Chinese literature. It's a great story and more people need to know about it. Gene O would like to give a brief description of the novel as well as how someone unfamiliar with Chinese literature could learn more about it before diving in.

I started brewing beer, now its all I can think about. You can start making great beers in your own kitchen a shoestring budget. I will show you how to create a great beer for you and your friends to enjoy.

Aura Portraiture artist, Carol Skylark, shares her methods of seeing your aura in a show and tell format with experiential exercises to get you to see auras too. Many amazing paintings and journeys of transformation depicted and explained.

Your technology is trying to kill you. From your iPad to your cell phone, laptop to TV, your technology is secretly planning to dispose of you.

It’s high time to get turned-off. I’ll invite you into the secret, homicidal world of technology and teach you how to avoid an untimely death by binary.

What will life look like after oil peaks, industrial agriculture collapses, and we begin to feed ourselves with whole, healthy food? I'll tell you...it is beautiful.

There is a proper technique, certain inviolate rules,with playing air guitar. I have a calling to enlighten the world. I'll start in Ft. Co.

As stress increases in the workforce, companies are using mindfulness techniques more and more to create a happier workplace. Sally of Sally's Healthy Living shares her 30+ experience with mindfulness and the workplace and the amazing results that it can produce.

The Hollywood Formula is a recipe for elements and structure that create a movie or story with engaging and satisfying emotional content. In five minutes you'll learn the basics of the formula, and then we can take a look at some great movies and see the formula in action!

be you. be us. hOURschool. city as floorplan.
imagine crowdsourcing your town for communities of practice. imagine people gathering in spaces of permission to be. per choice. imagine unlikely connections enlivening a city.
learning. sharing. alive. mesh.
join us.
http://www.slideshare.net/monk51295/be-you-book-draft

In 2012 do you want to change your life? Do you want to make some changes personally, professionally, or physically? I want to present on simple steps that anyone can do that can make significant impacts on their life.

My desire is to ignite people in Fort Collins to set goals, embrace change, and innovate. I would enjoy the opportunity to speak and help my community.

For More Information About Me Please Visit My Site at www.clintandrews.org