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Please join us for our 2nd Annual Friendsgiving Potluck, with immaculate vibes curated by the co-hosts of Clubhouse.

Whether you're native to LA or not going home for the holiday, let’s celebrate Friendsgiving with the family we've created here in Echo Park. Contribution is highly encouraged - bring a classic Thanksgiving dish or a favorite from your own family or culture. This can be anything from a main, side, dessert, or even a beverage! This is a chance to share flavors, stories, and traditions. Let’s gather at Groundfloor to celebrate the power of community through good food and meaningful connections. 

ADD YOUR DISH TO THIS GOOGLE DOC: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sdTwBOfru8bqse2qgne9bb_MGG2LC4nfhlhouiZmNTc/edit?usp=sharing

Please join us for our 2nd Annual Friendsgiving Potluck, with immaculate vibes curated by the co-hosts of Clubhouse.

Whether you're native to LA or not going home for the holiday, let’s celebrate Friendsgiving with the family we've created here in Echo Park. Contribution is highly encouraged - bring a classic Thanksgiving dish or a favorite from your own family or culture. This can be anything from a main, side, dessert, or even a beverage! This is a chance to share flavors, stories, and traditions. Let’s gather at Groundfloor to celebrate the power of community through good food and meaningful connections. 

ADD YOUR DISH TO THIS GOOGLE DOC: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sdTwBOfru8bqse2qgne9bb_MGG2LC4nfhlhouiZmNTc/edit?usp=sharing

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Bookworms! Discuss your favorite books, authors, genres, and literary events. We usually meet on the first Monday of the month for a book chat. [note if this month is different] 

This month we'll be meeting to discuss our Book Club pick, [title] by [author].

There will be yummy snacks, beverages, and juicy conversation about a book that is sure to spark some thoughts.

Book Club is welcoming new members and we’d love to see you there.

Shop with us! This is a holiday marketplace centering photographers who are selling prints, merch, and services. Get gifts for loved ones, friends, family, colleagues and more! This event is open to the public and inviting the community to support local Black photographers, artists and vendors.

Presented by PLAYHAUS PHOTO COLLECTIVE & THRIVINGARTIST.LIFE

Fresh Sounds presents Alfred Banks from NOLA! Come listen to his music and enjoy a fresh JuneShine!

Join us for an evening of music and movement! We’ll start with an intimate listening party to dive into Polartropica’s latest tunes, followed by a beginner-friendly line dancing session brought to you by Polartropica and your very own Cass. We’ll be clearing out the lounge to make room for dancing, laughter, and plenty of good energy - boots encouraged, sparkle optional. Yeehaw!

Slide into the weekend with drinks, snacks, and seriously good vibes at Five o’Groove—our signature Friday happy hour hangout.

Whether you’re winding down from the week or just warming up for the weekend, come kick it with the crew for some easy laughs, tasty bites, and a playlist that keeps the energy just right.

✨ Expect:

– Refreshing drinks

– Yummy snacks

– Chill convo & new connections

– That ahhh-it’s-Friday feeling

Bring your good energy and let’s groove into the weekend, one sip at a time.

Bringing people together is at the heart of Groundfloor, and there are few better ways to do that than through cuisine. Whether simple or extraordinary, food creates shared experiences and lasting memories! We can't wait to see your smiling face and whatever you buy, cook, bake, or improvise. This will be a Friendsgiving special edition so time to dig up that recipe from your grandma for gravy, pie, stuffing, etc. You know, that secret recipe that you will never share ;) Don’t forget to bring containers for leftovers so you can enjoy a great meal or two in the coming days. More details to follow as this will be a collab between your usual Potluck organizers and GroundFloor itself! It will be extra yummy :D

Donation based class 

We'll meet in the lounge between 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm for a delicious cup of tea, and there will be free blank journals with a prompt card for those who want them.


Nadia Oye will guide us through a restorative yoga session that will leave us feeling refreshed and recharged. Afterwards, she will have a few 10-minute mini-Reiki sessions available to book in the quiet library.


What to Expect: Come as you are - this session welcomes complete beginners to experienced practitioners. Nadia will offer modifications and variations so everyone can participate comfortably. The focus will be on gentle movement, deep breathing, and releasing tension from the day.


Yoga Session Details:
• Gentle warm-up and centering
• Restorative poses held for longer periods to promote deep relaxation
• Breathwork techniques to calm the nervous system
• Brief meditation or savasana to close the practice


What to Wear: Comfortable, stretchy clothing that allows for easy movement. Layers are recommended as body temperature can shift during relaxation.


Things to bring: Water bottle, personal yoga mat, eye mask, blanket, journal, small pillow, warm socks.


About your instructor: Nadia Oye is a RYT-certified yoga teacher based in Oakland, California, with experience teaching hatha yoga, breath work, and meditation. She offers compassionate sequences for all bodies and levels, energy assists, and breathing practices. Her energetic healing offering includes intention-setting, guided meditation, and hands-on (light touch) Reiki.


Agenda:
5:45 pm - 6:00 pm: Arrival into the space, enjoy a cup of green or herbal tea, and journal with prompts
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Yoga stretch and flow


Optional add-on: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: 10-minute Mini-Reiki healings in the Library
Your hostess will have a sweet treat and more tea for those who would like to hang out a little longer.

Ready to close the chapter on 2025 with intention—and open 2026 with clarity?

Join Story Coach Liz Morrison for a transformative workshop where you'll use creative, experiential exercises to reflect on the story of your year, uncover what truly mattered, and set a purposeful direction for what comes next.

This isn't your typical goal-setting session. 

Through storytelling, creative activities, visualization, and connection, you'll explore:

✨ Past: The highs, lows, and turning points that shaped your 2025

📍 Present: Where you are right now—and what you're ready to shift

🚀 Possible: The story you want to create in 2026

Using Liz's proven Narrative Navigation framework, you'll move beyond surface-level reflection to discover the deeper themes and patterns in your year. You'll leave with clarity on what you want to let go, what you want to nourish, and a compass to guide your next chapter.

What to Expect:

🔵 Guided reflection on your 2025 story (the moments, milestones, and meanings)

🔵 Creative, embodied exercises to help you visualize your year

🔵 Community connection—share stories, witness others, and feel less alone in the messy middle

🔵 A personalized story map for stepping into 2026 with intention and agency

This workshop is for you if:

🟣 You want to make sense of the year you just lived through

🟣 You're craving real community and authentic connection during the holidays

🟣 You're tired of setting goals that don't stick and want a more story-driven approach

🟣 You're ready to step into 2026 as the author of your own story

About Your Guide:

Liz Morrison is a Story Coach and Consultant who helps ambitious professionals and innovative teams navigate pivotal moments through personal storytelling. For 15+ years, she shaped human-driven narratives for Airbnb, Obama 2012, and even a Bravo dating show. After being laid off in 2020, she discovered how our stories can be more than memories—they're maps that lead to more purposeful and aligned futures. Now, through coaching, workshops, and consulting with organizations like Pinterest, Activision Blizzard, and Stanford, Liz helps her clients use their stories—past, present, and possible—to clarify their next steps, communicate with greater impact, and inspire meaningful action.

Learn more about Liz and how you can take control of your life story here: www.Liz morrison.com

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 🎉 Get ready for a Holiday Extravaganza like no other! 🎉 Wine Club and Music Club are joining forces for an unforgettable night of wigs, wine, and holiday tunes. This is the holiday bash you didn’t know you needed!

We’re kicking things off with a Holiday White Elephant Wig Exchange. That’s right, it’s a white elephant gift exchange of wigs! From glamorous to outrageous, any and all wigs are welcome! 🎁👩‍🎤 Whether you're gifting a classic ‘do or something fabulously outrageous, the more fun, the better! 

After we don our fabulous new ‘dos, we’ll dive into a festive Holiday Singalong Karaoke party. 🎶 We’ll provide the tunes, the lyrics, and even some fun instruments for you to bring your inner Mariah or Elvis to life. 🎤🎄

What to bring:

1) A brand new, gift-wrapped wig to swap with your fellow partygoers

2) A bottle of wine to share

3) Your best singing voice to show off your inner rock star

Activity Schedule:

:: 6:30 pm: Arrive & Mingle

:: 7:00 pm: White Elephant Wig Exchange starts

:: 8:00 pm: Holiday Singalong starts

A spread ofdelicious bites and festive snacks will be provided. We can’t wait to turn up the holiday cheer with you! ❄️🎶🎤🍷

Note: All members and their guests are warmly invited to attend Wine Club events; however, all attendees must be 21+.

Celebrate the season with us at our Groundfloor Oakland Christmas Party — a night full of holiday cheer, community, and good vibes!

🎧 Enjoy music from a live DJ

🍔 Grab delicious bites from a food truck

🎤 Sing your heart out at the karaoke station

🍪 Get creative at the cookie decorating station led by our beautiful, amazing Candace

☕️ Warm up with a hot cocoa bar

This is a time to come together, connect, and celebrate as we count down to the new year. Bring your holiday spirit and join in the fun — this is one Christmas party you won’t want to miss!

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Whether you dread the spotlight or are the first to grab the mic, humans are storytellers by nature and we have more storytelling skill than we realize. Molly’s combination of care and coaching creates a safe space where you have the rare chance to play in ways that strengthen your story-muscles. Come try simple, low-stakes improv games, then listen to our story-sharers. You might even be inspired to share your own 5-minute story.

This event is free for Groundfloor members. Want to bring a friend? Guests can purchase a ticket for this event using this link: https://www.connectwithstory.com/

Molly is a coach, strategy consultant, and artist; designing experiences that inspire individuals and teams to tap into their creativity for more impact with less effort. She's on a mission to connect people to their authentic voice, a deeper purpose, and the power of community. Because our voices matter, our story is a gift and connection is the key to unlock the best in us.

Bringing people together is at the heart of Groundfloor, and there are few better ways to do that than through cuisine. Whether simple or extraordinary, food creates shared experiences and lasting memories! We can't wait to see your smiling face and whatever you buy, cook, bake, or improvise. This will be a Friendsgiving special edition so time to dig up that recipe from your grandma for gravy, pie, stuffing, etc. You know, that secret recipe that you will never share ;) Don’t forget to bring containers for leftovers so you can enjoy a great meal or two in the coming days. More details to follow as this will be a collab between your usual Potluck organizers and GroundFloor itself! It will be extra yummy :D

Join us for a beginners-friendly poker game at Groundfloor. Come to learn more about poker or take a shot at the prize pool. Players of all levels are welcome to join.

If you're less experienced come 20 minutes before the event for a quick lesson on how to play poker and common strategies.

We will be playing 5 cards Texas Hold'em in a tournament configuration. Players can only buy back in if they lose all their chips and within the first hour of the game. The buy-in is $20 and will be sent to Benj via Venmo. Blinds will rise throughout the night to keep the gaming progressing. Top 3 players payout (50%, 30%, 10%). The remaining 10% goes towards event snacks and drinks.

Join us for a fun day of holiday shopping while supporting talented local makers, ceramicists, woodworkers, and more! This is our third annual holiday market at Groundfloor and we are so excited to bring this wonderful line up of artists to our community!

"Our Founders Club Sunday Coffee Meetup is focussed on accountability and sharing challenges! All are welcome, from current founders to anyone curious about entrepreneurship! We meet every Sunday to give quick updates on our projects, progress, and struggles, then dive into brainstorming solutions together and general catchups. We like to say it's like a little dose of ‘group startup therapy’ every week!

Come hang out, enjoy free snacks, and support your fellow founders. Feel free to message Vicki Powell with any snack requests :) See you on Sunday!

Excited to be back for our fourth annual EMERGE Craft Fair!

EMERGE Craft Fair started out in in the living room of Groundfloor and has become a staple of the SF arts and crafts scene! EMERGE Craft showcases the most talented artists and makers from around the bay area for a fun and interactive weekend celebrating creativity and small women-owned businesses!

It's another Friendsgiving with our Groundfloor Family. Save the date! More info to come. 

Interpersonal Club is a space for members to explore, inquire, practice and deepen in understanding around the many types of relationships and connections in our lives. Through the exploration of interpersonal neurobiology, communication skills, relational resonance and coherence, co-regulation, empathy, emotional attunement, attachment, collective consciousness and more, we will grow our connections in real time and deepen our capacities for authentic and embodied relationships with our friends, partners, families, children, collaborators, and communities. 

*A note about our club structure: Rather than centering consumption of content or replication of hierarchical group power structures, we will tend to center group process in Interpersonal Club, meaning that we will stay with the trouble of working/playing/exploring through any sticky or murky places that may come up as we learn to be in deeper community together. 

DISCLAIMER: Interpersonal Club and its events and offerings are for enrichment only and are not a substitute for therapy, counseling, or mental health support groups. 

About Jackie: Jackie is an Integrative Family and Relational Coach and is a relationally focused Occupational Therapist. She enjoys translating and applying macrocosmic concepts and principles to support client's lived experiences and embodied wisdom, all while remaining grounded in context and interdependence. Jackie works with people of all ages, guided by the vast and rich fields of interpersonal neurobiology, autonomic physiology, emergent strategy, sensory integration, panpsychism, dynamic systems theory, quantum theory, anthropology, and her boundless seeking heart.

Business Club is a monthly networking and peer mentoring opportunity for all professionals and creatives to connect, exchange ideas, and problem solve over their morning cuppa. 

The meetings are facilitated by Sophie Davies to ensure everyone has equal time to introduce themselves and ask for what they need.

How it works: After introductions the group breaks out into smaller groups to allow everyone to share “an ask” through peer mentoring with your makeshift advisory board. “Your ask” can be a specific idea that you need feedback on or a challenge you need help with. 

This work-related inclusive club is for everyone who understands that while we tend to work individually, we regularly encounter the same work challenges and believe that collectively we are stronger when we support each other and figure things out together. 

These gatherings are limited to 20 people, so please commit to staying for the duration of the session.

We often think of storytelling as something reserved for writers, speakers, or entrepreneurs—but storytelling is how all of us make sense of our lives. In this interactive workshop, we’ll simplify storytelling into its most essential parts so you can use it every day—to connect more deeply with others, better understand yourself, and even rewrite the old narratives that hold you back.

Through short prompts and group discussion, you’ll learn what makes a story compelling, how to spot meaningful moments in everyday life, and how sharing your stories can open new doors—personally and professionally. No experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to explore.

Ready to turn your homeownership dreams into reality? Join us for an evening that demystifies the Dream for All program — California’s innovative down payment assistance initiative rolling out in 2026.

Whether you’re a first-time buyer or just beginning to imagine owning a home, this session will help you understand how the program works, who qualifies, and how to enter the lottery for funding. We'll also cover other opportunities like FHA and VA loans. Dena Bliss will walk through the process, answer your questions, and share insights on preparing now to be ready when applications open.

Come learn how to make homeownership more achievable and take your first steps toward building a foundation of your own.