We spend our time discovering stories from everyone and anyone, but we don’t try to find out OUR OWN. Why not?! "Storytellers have the power to change lives." StoryWorks is a great way to find out your own story. The more you attend, the more you’ll know. These workshops are fun, brilliant, fantastic!!! We live and breath our stories every day, we create and destroy our realities with our stories. Please join us to in our next workshop to explore your stories, create new stories to live a more …

We believe that effective, ethically based communication is the key to unlocking human potential - individually, in families, in teams and can transform hierarchical organisations for the better, enabling them to be more productive, act more responsibly while creating value for staff and shareholders alike. At the level at which we work, we see increased empathy, decreased fragmentation, increased engagement. At The Academy of Oratory, we achieve this by using tried, tested and very practical te …

A group for the new breed of entrepreneur that wants to realise their dreams and do things differently. We're all about startups that put people first and measure success in happiness, as well as profits. We believe happy teams, storytelling and customer experience are key to delivering on vision. The future belongs to organisations that live their values, love their customers, have a clear purpose and focus on a strong company culture. Think Southwest Airlines over Ryanair. Agree? Then come joi …

This group has been set up to explore the emerging industry of Transmedia and Cross Media Storytelling by creating a forum for ideas, projects, networking, learning and collaboration. Each event is set up to bring together people who work to tell stories. So, if you work in Film, TV or other Media sectors then this is the group for you.

The Documentary Photography Review - Meetup Group is about exploring all aspects of one genre of photography - documentary photography. In the group we shall explore personal projects, refine our technique and storytelling abilities, as well as examine and critique work of other members and that of established documentary photographers. The groups exists to nurture members' skills and desire to create engaging and meaningful work, and will include presenting work, developing personal projects, d …

Bring more Creativity, Fun, Spontaneity and Playfulness into your life with the help of this group! We use painting, meditation, spontaneous storytelling and dance to help us to let go of the restrictions of our mind and embrace our deeper Creativity. And Creativity is Liberating, Alive, Playful and Joyful and is a Beautiful and Fun way to be in the moment and connect more deeply with ourselves, and ultimately Live with Freedom! Creativity is our most beautiful gift through which we can live our …

I'm looking for like minded people interested in writing for TV and Film to form a writing group and potentially a production company. I would like to collaborate on the development of films and television serials in the style of but not exclusively: TV: Battlestar Galactica, Sons Of Anarchy, The Wire, Weeds, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, X-Files, Californication, The Walking Dead, Dexter, etc, etc... Film: Mr. Nobody, The Matix, Fight Club, Hellraiser, Dawn Of The Dead, Dark City, Ev …

A lion tamer entering the cage needs to have guts of course, but not only. He needs to have knowledge. Without knowledge, he wouldn't survive among the lions. Without knowledge, fear becomes as strong as survival instinct... and that's a good thing! With the relevant knowledge, it's possible to tame fear and lions. Only, when it comes to public speaking, there are no lions, but people like you... I was so shy when I was young that I can assure you, it may seems a bit of a challenge, and it is, …

You're based in London and interested to network with people from the internet video community ( video content producers, video solution providers, video storytellers, internet video related startups? Are you a business owner/marketing professional and consider using the most powerfull medium to tell your story? We are the London's Online Video Community. We join together and discuss technical and creative innovation in the online video space! Lights, camera, action! Become one of us!

The world is increasingly full of change, complexity and uncertainty. It's time for a new mentality and a rethink of our organisations. We can unleash the potential of everyone in the workplace. It's time for less control, more collaboration. Fewer assumptions, more rapid feedback. More simplicity. It's time for less management, more leadership. Less meetings, more conversations. Less bonuses, more fulfilment. Less "fully utilised resources", more slack to foster innovation. Companies with a pos …

Let the numbers do the talking! This group is for those who work with numbers, deal with complex facts and figures and want to become more influential in their field. You might want to further your career or help your business take off, get more investment or win new clients. As numbers people, we have important facts and information - but we often struggle to get the message across and suffer from a reputation of being not very exciting or engaging... Yet, getting your message across in a compe …

This is a place for London-based transmedia creatives, scholars, and enthusiasts to gather informally and share information and news about transmedia projects and ideas.

We love listening to interesting stuff. From String Theory to Seventeenth Century Scandal and everything in between. We're foodies at heart, love the New Yorker, dabble with Freakanomics and have been known to indulge in a bit of RadioLab. There is just so much out there and finding it might be quite overwhelming. Also, the cool people making these amazing audio bytes (Audio/Podcast producers) need hints on making their programmes, what their listeners really thought and maybe some inspiration …

This group is designed for young children to learn Mandarin Chinese in an interactive, dynamic and fun way. Our plan is to promote Chinese language and culture to young children and to create a friendly multicultural learning environment for them. Our method consists in exposing toddlers to Mandarin through music, puppets, storytelling, talking, singing, playing, drawing, art&craft and many other activities. Socialising with other parents and children will be esential in this process. Any volunt …

We are a group of writers, artists of all kinds, and supporters of creative endeavour who live and/or work in Cricklewood. We run, attend and publicise arts, music and performance events in our area. Our most regular event is a fortnightly Open Mic and Art Show at The Windmill Bar, 57 Cricklewood Broadway.  Bring along a poem, a story, a song, a comedy routine... whatever you'd like to perform. (We've had accordians, blues guitar, poetry, belly dancing... you name it!). And of course lots of son …