Online Discussion Event on Meetup.com,

The Personal Creed Organization

UC Berkeley, CA. July 2024 to present – Rumi Roulette and Bob Dylan Go-Round

Join us every Tuesday for fulfilling conversations centered around understanding ourselves and our histories. Every meeting we take a song, poem, or other learning stimuli and apply it to our lives or our understanding of the world.

Bob Dylan Go-Round: After everyone feels welcome, we’ll each share our familiarity with Dylan’s songs. You might never have heard one of his songs. Or his songs might have been woven into every year of your life since you were a teenager.

As we get to know each other a little and find out what about Dylan and his work strikes our interests or curiosities, we’ll choose a song we’d all like to hear and talk about.

We’ll listen to the song. We’ll open our conversation and see where it goes.

Rumi Roulette: Rumi Roulette is a learning experience that first originated in our classroom at American High School in Fremont, CA, like the World Wisdom Project and the Personal Creed Project.

On certain Tuesdays we’ll be riding with Sufi poet Rumi. This event “takes its shape from the shore it meets,” as Zora Neale Hurston said about love. Depending on the choices attendees make on the spot, this event is different every time. With practice, we can find ourselves entering into the experience of sohbet, the connection of souls in conversation. Poet and popularizer of Rumi’s poems Coleman Barks explains, “There is prayer, and a step from that is meditation, and a step from that is sohbet, the mystical conversation.”

Once we all feel welcome, we’ll whirl up a poem democratically to explore in conversation with Rumi and each another. We hope you’ll join us in our latest unique foray into the Meetup version of Rumi Roulette.

We’d love to meet you there!