We are living in an unprecedented time, and it’s common during a crisis for people to forego the arts. And yet. Even amidst great uncertainty, a landmark, a flag ora familiar image can cue us to return to our humanity. Art represents the cultural ethos of our time, the glue between people, the bonfire of our ideas and the embrace between our ancestors and our successors. With many places currently closed, could this be our local, cultural renaissance?
This Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, join us for a virtual studio visit with artist Jenie Gao. Jenie is a full-time artist and a first-generation Taiwanese-Chinese-American. She will share insights into her practice, what she’s working on during the shutdown and what she envisions could come after this.

Join us on our DreamBank Facebook Page for new crafting ideas and tutorials you can do right from home! These crafting videos, geared toward adults and older kids, will be posted every Saturday in May at noon. 

Keep a lookout for other crafting videos for kids, geared toward our younger dreamers, posted every Monday in May at 10 am.  

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One way to combat anxious feelings about the week ahead is through meditation.Christopher Vandivort is an MD at the University of Wisconsin and uses meditation to stay grounded in a very chaotic workplace — the Emergency Room. In this enlightening discussion, you will learn the importance and benefits of meditation, how to incorporate practice in your life and put what you learned to practice through a guided to find calm. 

Join us for this event on our Facebook page on May 31 at 4 pm CDT.

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Pump up your week with a full body workout! Join Gym 608 for High Intensity Interval Training, better known as HIIT. You’ll be challenged to push yourself in quick bursts with minimal rest, which helps maximize your workout and keep you burning calories long after you've ended your workout!

People do business with those they know, like and trust. LinkedIn is the perfect online social platform to create awareness, affinity and credibility by using branding and relationship-building strategies. During this presentation, Sue Gresham, aka “the LinkedIn Lady” will share with you seven simple yet necessary must-haves for success on LinkedIn. Whether you are new to LinkedIn or an active user, you’ll benefit from attending and learning what it takes to grow your personal and business brand on LinkedIn.

Whether you're leading teams, companies or personal projects, infusing compassion into your leadership style has a long-lasting, positive impact on you and your team. Learn how to infuse compassion into your leadership style with Karla Angel, a Confidence Coach for leaders in tech. You'll leave with new insights, reflection tools and evidence-based practices to use going forward.

Do you often feel too busy with not enough hours in the day to do all the things on your plate? In this experiential talk drawing from positive psychology and mind-body medicine, Dr. Shilagh Mirgain will provide empirically supported strategies to help you optimize your energy so you can make the most of the time you have been given. You’ll explore techniques to keep your energy high throughout the day, learn how to actively reduce those things that drain your energy and increase those things that sustain you. By implementing an approach of pacing yourself and efficiently recharging, you’ll have the optimal energy to do the long term work of turning your biggest dreams into a reality.

Start feeling happier and healthier with this relaxing, body-strengthening yoga session in DreamBank’s inspiring space! This combination is designed to help you achieve a renewed attitude of mindfulness and gratitude. Yoga newbie? No worries. We’ll teach you the basics and provide a yoga mat.

Uncover your little one’s innate musicality with music-making activities using their voice, body and instruments! Local early childhood music teacher, Julie Mazer, will guide your child’s journey with simple rhythmic and melodic concepts. They’ll even get to create their very own musical instrument to take home!

Express your creativity on canvas! Join us for a free two-hour painting class with an instructor from Stickman Painting Studio. You’ll be guided step-by-step as you bring a gerbera daisy painting to life! This event is perfect for guests ages 12 and up.

Customize your next workout with bands! Whether you’re new to exercise, looking to freshen up your routine or just want to sweat, this training combines several different band exercises for a full body workout. Learn key exercises that can strengthen your flexibility and mobility, work on injury prevention or post injury recovery and enjoy simple exercises you can do the rest of your life. All muscle groups are fair game — you just choose the difficulty!

Come join essential oil expert Mary Boersma and learn how to pamper yourself with natural ingredients to create your own therapeutic grapefruit and peppermint body scrub! Featuring a delicious mixture of grapefruit and peppermint essential oils, we’ll lead you through the benefits of each ingredient and teach you how to customize it to your unique needs. We’ll even add in a secret natural ingredient to give it a nice pink color! This scrub will help to invigorate and refresh your skin! This event is perfect for guests ages 12 and up.

Studies show that happy employees are 20% more productive in the workplace.  But what makes us happy?  And how do you maintain happiness under pressures like these?  When faced with work pressures it’s joy that can get you through. Joy comes from making a progressive movement towards your purpose. In this session, we’ll talk about the difference between happiness and joy, why joy matters at work and how you can find more joy in what you do. Nancy, Certified Professional Life and Career Coach,  will share practical strategies for increasing productivity, engagement, happiness and joy in your workplace. 

Are you a blue, green, gold or orange? Does your personality fit your job, the organization you work for and your manager’s leadership style? In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll discover your personality color spectrum and how you can use the True Colors™ Personality Model to better understand your professional world.

Venga y comparta con nosotros una práctica de yoga suave con movimiento consciente y relajación en el acogedor espacio de Dreambank.Este evento es gratuito y será dirigido en español e inglés por Sahira Rocillo. No podemos esperar a practicar contigo. Este evento está abierto a todo el mundo, incluso si es la primera vez que practicas yoga. Se proporcionarán colchonetas de yoga.

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Join us in a gentle yoga practice with mindful movement and relaxation in our inviting space. This free event will be led in both Spanish and English by Sahira Rocillo. We can't wait to practice with you. This event is open to everyone, even if this is your first-time trying yoga. Mats will be provided.

Learn how small shifts in thinking can have a big impact on your life--especially when you’re pursuing a dream. Join Alecia Jacobson, life coach and owner of Gym 608, as she shares tricks and techniques that will help you recognize what isn’t serving you and gives advice on how to transform your mindset in a way that will transform your life!

Thinking about freelancing? Join Madison-based freelancer and entrepreneur, Matt Nelson, for a discussion about freelancing in the current gig economy. After discussing whether freelancing is right for you, Matt will talk about how to set up your business, home office, and build a portfolio that will attract new clients. Matt will also be sharing valuable tips and tricks to find new clients, manage existing clients, and package and price your services.

Spend a morning meeting new friends at DreamBank! While the kids enjoy interactive story time and crafts, grown-ups can explore our exhibit and enjoy a cup of coffee in our inspiring space. Free snacks, fun and learning abound so bring your hungry bellies, listening ears and colorful imaginations! 

Many of us don’t spend our limited resources of money and time on what we value. And that means we’re not consuming happiness. In this talk, Dr. Christine B. Whelan explains how we can have that perfect fizzy mix of buying experiences, services and prosocial spending — even without a millionaire’s budget. Dr. Whelan, a.k.a. “The Happy Professor” at UW-Madison, will take us through an overview of her very popular Consuming Happiness class — including the real definitions of words like thrift, materialism, affluence and purpose — and leave us with next steps and strategies to spend our limited resources of time, talent and treasure in ways that bring us more joy.