We screen the shorts that should’ve been features. Then chat with an industry guest - and you!

Stay tuned for our guest announcement.

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.

Oakland Book Lovers! Super excited to read another book by Stephen Graham Jones this October, this time it will be The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Please contact me (Zarrin) if you have any questions.

Link to the book reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214565614-the-buffalo-hunter-hunter

Join us for our quarterly Insight Lab, an engaging and interactive workshop where we’ll navigate real-world challenges together using a structured framework designed for collaborative problem-solving. In small groups, we will share existing challenges in our work and receive thoughtful support from our entrepreneur community. This process will help you foster fresh insights, innovative approaches, and actionable next steps, helping you refine and evolve your practices in new and creative ways. Whether you're seeking solutions, new perspectives, or space to experiment with ideas, this session is designed to spark meaningful breakthroughs!

Entrepreneur Club is for anyone running their own business, or dreaming of starting their own thing, who wants a supportive community for innovating practices, navigating challenges, and creating sustainable income. 

There will be light bites and refreshments, and an option to hang out afterwards. Mark your calendar for 4th Tuesdays to stay engaged with this supportive community. 

Get ready to dance the night away at The Boo-gie Down — our grooviest Halloween bash yet! Wear your best costume and bring your favorite snack or drink . We’ll bring the eerie vibes, killer tunes, light snacks and a custom scary drink to keep things chillingly fun. Don’t miss out on the spookiest, most stylish night of the season — it’s time to boogie with the boos!

Join us on the floor Saturday night for some laughs with Don’t Tell Comedy. Don’t Tell Comedy brings live comedy experiences to cities across the nation. They showcase the best of the next generation of stand-up comedians through secret pop-up shows in unique locations! 

Are you ready to bust a gut? We sure hope so!

Doors open at 7:30 and show starts at 8 PM!

This event is FREE for members. If you want to bring a guest, you can buy tickets on their website and use the promo code GROUNDFLOOR for 10% off.

An invitation to be in a community practice of wellbeing, healing and joy. Get to know your fellow Groundfloor members beyond the desk through yoga and movement. 

Each month will have a different theme.

15-min Intentional Introductions & Caring Conversation 

1-hour: Vinyasa Yoga Flow & Meditation 

15-min: Community Sharing 

We welcome all of you. No movement or yoga experience required. This will hopefully feel like a nourishing space to simply just be. 

Host Bios

Sterling Spence is a community advocate with buildOn, musician with the band Westerly, and a yoga teacher facilitating classes throughout the Bay Area. His work at buildOn invites Oakland High Students to engage with civic activism and brings local volunteers and corporate sponsors into supporting youth agency. 

His work centers around building unity in the East Bay and amplifying global education efforts. 

As a yoga teacher, his practice emphasizes vinyasa flow as a way to break out of our routines and refocus on core values of connection, intentionality, and care.

Melissa Andrada (Mel - they/she) is Co-Founder & CEO of Fairground, a consulting collective supporting organizations to help their people feel safe, connected and joyful at work. ❤️Mel co-leads the Queer Yoga Collective at Arise and also teaches queer healing offerings at Soulflow. 

Outside of work, they can be traveling, surfing mellow waves and writing essays on grief and what it means to be human. Mel holds a masters in Cultural Studies and is completing a second masters in Clinical Psychology & Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies. 

PRIVATE EVENT

Join us for Wine Club on the 2nd Thursday of each month - with a different theme! We’ll gather for our usual vino-filled mixer with just a splash of wine wisdom, followed by introductions and the stories behind members’ wine selections. 

* Nervous about presenting? Don’t be! It’s low pressure and we truly want to get to know you and your contribution. Just a quick chat about why you picked your bottle (1-2 mins max). Pro tip: if you’re feeling shy about describing your wine, the Vivino app can save the day if you're winging it!

As always, we’ll have a spread of bites to accompany the wine. 

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

Whether you've had one glass of wine or 1000, this is the place for you. We will work our way up and down the coast of our wonderful state tasting everything and anything we want along the way! Did you know there are close to 5000 wineries in California? We'll be busy - come join us -- we are a friendly group with a lot of things planned! You'll never be bored!

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.

private event

Protective, energetic and eternally enchanting, humans have related to Earth's beautiful stones since antiquity. 

This immersive watercolor workshop explores the stories behind genuine mineral and earth pigments as you experience the paints firsthand. You'll create a frame-worthy piece of watercolor swatch art using pigments made of genuine rare, precious and semi-precious stones. All supplies are provided including tools, pure cotton paper, and professional and rare paints.

This is a ticketed event. Groundfloor members can purchase up to two tickets at the $15 member price using coupon code VALENCIA. Additional tickets are $25. Register here: https://abrstationery.as.me/enchantingstones

HOLD

"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!

The writer's circle is a group of Groundfloor members who convene on the 2nd Tuesday of the month for creative writing and connection. In addition to our monthly meet-ups we host casual drop in's throughout the month, so keep an eye on the chats. Whether you're working on a manuscript, writing for work, or new to writing and looking for creative inspiration, we'd love you to join us! No previous writing experience necessary. All are welcome.

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.

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!

The Creatives Club is your go-to hub for igniting creativity and making progress in your artistic endeavors. We want to The club hosts a diverse range of events, including Creation Hours, 30-day accountability challenges, Creative Speed Dating, and more.

Get spooky with us at GroundFloor for a night of costumes, music, and community. We’ll transform the space with eerie vibes and plenty of treats (and maybe a few tricks). Costumes are encouraged!

Expect candy, good music, candy, festive drinks, candy, and a chance to celebrate the season with your fellow GroundFloor members and friends.

Join us for a small-group exchange in an atmosphere of listening and shared inquiry informed by the work of philosopher and spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff.

This gathering is for those who feel a deep longing beyond the ordinary, who are willing to live with questions and who wish to attend, listen and share with sincerity.

No prior knowledge is required, just your openness and interest to listen to ourselves and others.

Logistical note: We plan to gather in the back garden.

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.

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.