Topics of conversation:

* Explanation of TRIZ

* Examples of 3 lenses: Taking out; Merging; Brainstorming

* Conventional wisdom is wrong 100% of the time

* Emotional response, left/right brain activity

Experience with a ghost as a child, Evidence of reality of ghost, More than normal number of deaths in the neighborhood, Brother's suicide and how it could have been prevented, Importance of communication within family

Topics of conversation:

* Stories from school, home, church.

* Inter generational stories

* Growing up on a small farm in 1950

* Having a sense of the past to understand the present

* The small family farm

Topics of conversation:

* Coral reef preservation and climate change's effect on coral reefs

* Gulf oil spill and how it effects coral reef health

* Ecological issues in our society and world

* Participation by scuba divers and citizens in marine conservation

Topics of conversation:

Definition of alternative and complimentary medicine

How medical community is using integrative medicine

How military is embracing CAM for wounded warriors

Examples of CAM

Dietary supplements and FDA rulings

Topics of conversation:

Background/history of tarot

Self-awareness is key to empowerment

Role of tarot is to attain empowerment

Hear an actual reading

Topics of conversation:

What does transformation mean?

Why are people afraid to change?

Rising above struggle

Why past experiences hold back transformation?

Suggestions for transformation

Topics of conversation:

* TRAP sequence - Threat, React, And, Protect

* Spousal threat in marriage

* Predictable pattern of interaction

* High divorce rates and causes

* Creating choice points to save a marriage

Topics of conversation:

* How patterns and actions of the past influence current behaviors

* Why people go on "auto-pilot" and ways to change it

* Why people are hesitant to make changes in their lives

* Difference between mindfulness and awareness

* Tools for change: visualization and free association writing

Topics of conversation:

* Leading physicists are exploring multi-dimensions and multi-universes

* Have we lived here before? Previous realities

* UFOs and Ancient Astronauts

* 9/11, political atmosphere, and power in office

* 2012 - convergence of Forces