Coachella Music Festival 2014 starts (watch)

Amber Larson, Dev, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Youtube.com/user/Coachella (Ch. 1, 2, 3)

Watch the California desert festival streamed live on youtube both weekends.

Art, music, lovemaking, yoga, desert communing, shouting, contemplating, staying hydrated

These are the LINKS to Day 1, Channel 1. Channel 2. Channel 3. More

 

Girls of Coachella rave and barf on lawn

We can think, think, think, but sometimes we just have to dance. What is dancing? Rhythmic movement to cues coming in through other senses. Such movement makes us human, bonding large groups. Go tribal, go rural, go aural, but go. It need not make sense to the CPU. As long as the senses can sense it, our bodies can make sense of it. It's part of what the body is for, and there are many beings without bodies for lack of use. So use it. Schedule

Colbchella: Dancing to "Get Lucky" with Colbert (Daft Punk)

 

• VIDEO: Japan's "Penis Festival" goes totally nuts
• The radical vaginal art of Favianna Rodriguez (Berkeley)
• Weekly Progressive Events (OC)
• Hey, US Military-Industrial Complex, I'm not a bug splat
• 9-foot case with Sasquatch body goes on tour in US
• DNA shows that Sasquatches (Yakkhas) mated with human females, not accepted by mainstream media (MSNBC via LiveScience.com)
• Sasquatch is human relative, scientific study shows
• How our brains see something that can't be seen
• Top 10 Beasts and Dragons: How Reality Makes Myth
• Bigfoot, Nessie, Kraken: Cryptozoology Quiz 
• Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena

Mindfulness: Business and Behavioral Sciences

CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; KPCC (SCPR.org), The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, The Crawford Family Forum

Mindfulness - where business and the behavioral sciences intersect

Innovation and creativity are understood as necessary skills for thriving in a dynamic economy, but what is often left out is the role of transforming the mind itself -- as the Buddha recommended.

Today's overwhelming challenges require leaders to move beyond "being effective" to fundamentally change themselves and how they see and relate to the world. How can individuals and organizations let go of ego and transform mindsets to evoke creativity, productivity, and innovation?

In this edition of Southern California Public Radio's Drucker Business Forum series SCPR hears about a new model for creative and productive leaders, a model in which innovation is actually a complete mentality, not a business-led process.

Nick Udall, Ph.D., is CEO of nowhere (now-here.com) and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership, puts it this way: leaders have to "stop taking up space and start making and holding space" to help their organizations deal with facing the unknown.  They must turn the notion of leadership on its head and move beyond their own egos. Udall sits down with Drucker School Assistant Professor of Practice Jeremy Hunter, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University, co-author chapter "Making the Mindful Leader: Cultivating Skills for Facing Adaptive Challenges" in the new The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change, and Organizational Development.  They will explore how transforming the way leaders and groups relate, learn, and organize can lead to new patterns of thought and innovative action.

This insightful conversation will draw on their personal and organizational skills to show how awareness, perception, consciousness, and mindfulness can lead to more purposeful, sustainable, innovative -- and successful -- organizations.

 

Nick Udall works with CEOs and executive leaders of global businesses to develop breakthrough strategies and build cultures of innovation; Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership. His new book, Riding the Creative Rollercoaster: How Leaders Evoke Creativity, Productivity and Innovation, is out this month.

• WATCH live video stream, 8:30-9:30 am Feb. 13, 2014
• After event, let's go drink at DUMB Starbucks
• Cop goes undercover to talk to suspect in custody

Acoustic Xmas alt rock concert (webcast)

Ashley Wells, Dev, Wisdom Quarterly; KROQ.CBS.com
NOTE: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Webcast, Dec. 7-8 (FREE VIEWING FOR 24 HOURS ONLY)