THE WEEKLY THURSDAY NITE SESSIONS These brief evening sessions provide deep relaxation and stress reduction through guided meditations and contemplations. Additionally, they provide opportunities for self-reflection, resolution of internal tensions, and increased self-awareness that can enrich the experience of day-to-day life. Equally importantly, they provide an opportunity for individuals with shared values and beliefs based on compassion and loving kindness to form a community of shared inte …

The primary aim of this group is self-work and self-understanding. It offers an empowering class/group session that is focused on bringing higher frequencies of love, light, wisdom and empowerment into our daily lives. We meet every few weeks to learn, meditate and use techniques to heal daily issues in our lives, as well as manifest what we want. This is done primarily by tracking and clearing unresourceful subconscious patterns and replacing them with patterns of our choice. We also access hig …

ENTER INTO YOUR GOD GIVEN DESTINY THROUGH SMALL RELATIONAL GROUPS (DC, MD and VA) How to Study and Understand the Bible:  Teaching Series by Pastor, Dr. Michael A. Donaldson Thursday's May 9 - June 27, 2013, 7-9 PM in Alexandria, VA. The Bible is the best selling book of all time, but the least understood. Would you like to learn how we got our bible and learn methods for effective personal study?  If so, then join us for this special session. Topics Include: History and Canonization of the Bib …

We are a group of individuals, who seek knowledge and truth, who take steps to better ourselves, who are either new to the faith of Islam, Interested, or seeking a connection with others in faith. We are joined together to support one another through interaction, conversation, and activities. The goal of the group is to give the newly converted/ reverted Muslim access to others, in order to grow in their understanding and interest, while creating an open environment for sharing. The group is al …

See our message board for information accessible to nonmembers here. The Mycological Association of Washington's meetup group (the "MAWDC Meetup group") is a group for people interested in wild mushroom collecting in and around Washington DC. This group is operated by members of the Mycological Association of Washington (“MAW”), a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed and operated to support public education about mycological interests. See http://www.mawdc.org/.  In addition to wild …

We're an ALL-volunteer, non-profit, non-denominational group of spiritual singles from the Greater Washington, DC Area, with activities in Virginia, Maryland and DC. Please feel free to join us for spiritual, cultural, health, creative, musical, educational and social activities. Also, since we are an ALL-volunteer organization, we invite and encourage anyone to put on an event!  In fact, please do so - it's what makes our organization work! All ages, cultures and beliefs are welcome - and frien …

Meet fellow Real Estate Buyers, Wholesalers and Investors in the D.C. Metro! Gain access to off the market deeply discounted properties, share best practices and network with your peers. Discuss properties on the market, contracts, mortgages, creative financing, property management, and anything else about local real estate. All are welcome! We aim to nurture long term organic partnerships based on the expertise, experience, and passion of our members.  All we ask is that you give as much as you …

We are a Sunday afternoon Meetup group for board games, card games, trivia contests, and other challenges of luck, strategy and fun.  Events are held in the DC Metro area and are Metro Rail accessible. We meet in the DC Metro Area.  Game events include: Eurogames: Settlers of Catan, Carcassone, Bohnanza, Thurn und Taxis Party games: Trivial Pursuit, Cranium, Apples to Apples Strategy and Tactics Games:  Risk, Axis and Allies, Stratego, Battleship Card games:  Spades, Eucre, Canasta, Hearts We …

Are you passionate about your art or craft? Are you into mixed media, painting, sewing, crafts, knitting, drawing, or photography. Would you like to share your experiences?  Would you like to learn  how to break into the biz of selling your handcrafted creations?  If you are looking to meet and network with other artists and crafters in the area this group is for you. We will have meet and greets, show and tell, and visit local art events. Also, once you join you will have access to lots of info …

We are a group of Real Estate Investors with years of experience ranging from new to seasoned real estate investors. DMV REI United Meetup welcomes any and all new or seasoned real estate investor! Just by attending you will learn how to locate and evaluate the Best kind of Deals to buy, how to start investing with no Money or Credit, how Knowledge with ACTION beats information every time, how and why Wholesaling Real Estate is the foundation of a successful real estate career , why right now is …

I decided to start an accessiblity meet up group to get a feel for people who may be looking for a church home or group that caters to the need of individuals with special needs. I myself have family members who are spiritual and have special needs so i know there is a need in the washington area community for this type of ministry.

“I Am Diversity In Technology” Meetups fill a vital void in the regional technology eco-system – a space specifically geared towards the needs of the minority tech entrepreneur. The I AM DTECH (#IAmDtech) Meetups are monthly, alternating between Baltimore and Washington, DC on the last Wednesday of the month. The Meetups allow for unmatched networking opportunities and access to resources relevant to building diversity in the regional tech entrepreneurship space. Each Meetup will include imparti …

Welcome to the Washington DC Scrum User Group! This group is for Washington DC area Agile evangelists, thought leaders and enthusiasts that are passionate about all things Agile and Scrum. Meetings are held monthly and are mainly discussions, workshops, or open space type sessions covering various topics about Agile and Scrum. Meetings will usually occur on the 3rd Monday or Tuesday night of the month and will be in a location that is metro accessible in the Washington DC/Arlington/Alexandria …

Russian Klub focuses on the enhancement of the Russian and international experience. With this experience as our common goal, our activities assist our members to exchange, practice and enrich themselves in the languages. Our group is open to everyone with similar interests for the languages, cultures, and meeting other Global Russians and Internationals in the Washington DC Metro area. Here is what we do, We welcome event organizers and project managers to organize international events using o …

This group explores the use of mobile cross platform development tools and web technologies such as HTML5 and Javascript to accelerate the process of designing and building mobile applications for the iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7/8 and other mobile devices. PhoneGap, appMobi, Appcelerator, Corona and other development tools leverage web technologies including JavaScriptand HTML5 and compile to various mobile device platforms. We are going to cover new, emerging tools such as Adobe Shado …

Welcome to the #1 Washington DC, MD, and VA Kick A.S.S. Group where we host activities for men and women of All Shapes, Sizes (A.S.S.)! This group is for women and men mainly in their 20's-40's who want to have fun exploring everything the DMV area has to offer. This group is for single people, married people, new-in-town or for people who have been in the area for a while; and most of all for anyone who wants to meet new friends and socialize. Our main goal is to have fun through outdoor activi …

We are the DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  We help advance computing as a science and a profession.  We do this offline through lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and professional development seminars.  We partner with ACM HQ, ACM Public Policy, ACM special interest groups (SIGs), DC area technical user groups, and area university Comp Sci and Info Tech departments. Join us if you like any of the following categories: http://acm.org/sigs Suggest a topic or speaker, w …

An independent user group for Ping Identity customers and other interested parties. This group is driven by customers; supported by Ping Identity. If you are interested in federation identity, identity and access management, or Internet-scale identity, this might be the group for you.

"When you grow up you have to drink beer." - Arnold Schwarzenegger Or whiskey, vodka, wine, whatever your drink of choice is, we don't judge! Even if it's the non-alcoholic variety. But be forewarned, this is a group for those that do like to partake in a drink (or two or three) now and again. The mission of this group is simple - to have fun and make new friends. The only requirement to join is that you are friendly, non-judgemental, and like to have a good time. We will be planning events on t …

We're a newbie-friendly Clojure user group oriented around talking about, learning about, and hacking on this awesome functional programming language on the JVM. We strive for openness and accessibility to all levels of experience. Our only prerequisites are an interest in building your skills in and furthering your understanding of Clojure, and your willingness to encourage and enable your peers to do the same. We also maintain a GoogleGroups list. You should consider joining this list if you w …

Glamour photography: is a genre of photography whereby the subjects are portrayed in a romantic or sexually alluring way. The subjects may be fully clothed, seminude, or nude. So if you really want to learn about and shoot glamour this is the group for you! Please join us. Welcome to the Glamour Photography Workshops & Shootout group of the Washington DC Metro Area. Our group is dedicated to putting on instructional workshops focused on teaching you or improving your glamour photography skills a …

A monthly meetup for folks working to acquire, preserve, steward, provide access to, exhibit and interpret digital cultural heritage. Meetups involve a few short lightning talks followed by a happy hour. A great opportunity for networking with others from the DC library, archive, museums community. We're content agnostic, where digital cultural heritage means everything from the arts and humanities collections, to astrophysical and geospatial datasets and we pride ourselves on being an open and …

Study group for Cisco, Juniper Networks, Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP. Use online study format but meet up once a month to talk about topics face to face. Study Topics - certification Internetwork Expert (INE) CCIE Routing and Switching Internetwork Expert (INE) CCIE Voice - Workbook Micronics Network (Narbik) CCIE Routing and Switching Certified Ethical Hacker Certified Information Systems Security Professional Lab by remote access CCIE R&S for both INE and Narbik track CCIE Voi …

This relational small group meet together to have fellowship and learn in small group bible study. We use a variety of formats from book series , DVD series to instruction (e.g. Willow-Creek, Hybels, David Platt, etc). We empower the participants to be a part of the disucssion and everyone has an opportunity to share. The group is limited to 10 people in each location to maximize group dynamics and involvement. Once the group achieves a sustained maximum of 10 people, we open up a new Bible Stud …

Do you like food? Do you like making new friends? Then join us at Fresh Friends and Food where we explore a new local (Washington, DC) restaurant with amazing food each week. Every Friday, Fresh Friends and Food makes a group reservation for ten people at a new restaurant (all metro accessible!). The food and alcohol bills are tallied up separately. The food bill is split evenly 10 ways and the alcohol bill is split evenly between everyone who drank. No muss, no fuss. So join us next Friday for …

Looking for a knitting/crocheting/needlework group in or near Falls Church City, accessible by public transportation? Me too! So I decided to start one. We'll begin by meeting at the Panera at 450 West Broad Street in Falls Church City, on Sunday afternoons from 3pm to 5pm, and can talk about changing the location and/or day/time as we go. First meetup will be 3/24/13. All skill levels/flavors of yarn or needlework welcome! Hope to see you there!

Who are we? Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to making a difference one child and one community at a time. The Kiwanis Club of Tysons Corner/Mclean, VA serves the community and its members by organizing volunteering opportunities as well as friendship opportunities. Our club consists mostly of mid-20 to 40-something aged adults, but we welcome all those interested in volunteering. What we do? In Kiwanis, through service (more than 12 million hours a year worldwide) an …

Thousands of D.C. youth and adults are without access to opportunities for growth and development. Given limited networks, many are forced to face the world of work alone, not sure where to turn and who to follow. Skills training and work readiness preparation is not enough. These strategies fail to address a critical workforce asset that millions of young jobseekers need just as much, if not more - Networks. Research indicates that up to 85% of available jobs are not listed in the newspapers or …