misc.joy – explorations by kenley

  • Mindfulness and Social Media: Shifting Perspectives

    One of the results from the past few weeks of mindfulness practice, first a few days at Deer Park and now a few days at the Wisdom 2.0 conference, has been a looking deeply at my social media presence. I love the technology and am relatively active on several networks. I heavily use Twitter and…

  • All This Relates to Everything

    This is what Ev of Twitter fame said during his interview with Soren Gordhamer from the stage of Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco – all this relates to everything. Brilliance in five words. Wisdom 2.0 is a tech conference, but it’s not. It’s business conference, but it’s not. It’s a wisdom gathering, a dharma…

  • Mindfulness Workshop at USC

    In conjunction with Wake Up!, I will be leading a Mindfulness Workshop at USC in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 10 for young adults ages 17-35. Learn more and register online. Space is limited.

  • What I Read in 2012

    This is a reasonably accurate list of the books I read in the last year: nine eleven non-fiction and six fiction titles. That said, since I didn’t keep track as the year went by there may be a couple missing titles. Non-Fiction What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us Guy Kawasaki (ebook) The New Jim…

  • Possibility for the Beloved Community

    I’ve noticed in myself that I have awareness of the tragedy that happened today, it’s filling my streams, but I have no desire to dwell there or debate the various issues. Seeing the headlines is enough. I’d like to start a discussion on building the Beloved Community. I think it can applied to so many…

  • Accessing Dharma Talks by Thich Nhat Hanh

    We are currently in the midst of the Winter Retreat and Thich Nhat Hanh is giving dharma talks on Sunday and Thursday mornings (CET) each week. As in the past, most talks during winter are in Vietnamese with translations. The schedule will probably change slightly once we near Christmas and New Year. If you are…

  • Experimenting With a More Sustainable Business

    I think many of you know I’m a technologist and that I enjoy playing with the latest gadgets, apps, and social media options. According to a recent article (Big Data is not the new Oil) in the Harvard Business Review, “Our browsing habits, our conversations with friends, our movements and location — all of these…