Creative Mornings

While on a two day girls trip to San Diego in April, we came upon a long line of young people waiting to attend something right next to our hotel.  We couldn't imagine what it was.  Why were all these 20,30, and 40 year olds waiting in line at 9am.  Concert tickets?  No, they were in line to attend the monthly meeting of Creative Mornings.  I had not heard of Creative Mornings before this encounter, and am so happy to know what it is.

Creative Mornings was started in 2008, and has monthly meetings in over 170 cities throughout the world.  It's a breakfast lecture series for the creative community, and it's free.  Many of the attendees are young entrepreneurs or wanna be entrepreneurs.  They sign up for a lecture once a month with other creative types in the audience.  The speakers are varied group of young people, all creative and innovative, who give a short motivational lecture.  What a fabulous idea!

The other interesting concept I learned about that same morning was a workspace called wework.com.  Their mission statement is to create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living.  It began in 2010, as a place for start up companies to share workspace and share ideas.  The workplace becomes a community, with everyone trying to help each other.  Any type of business can rent space at wework.com, but the workplace becomes more than just a place to work.  It's a way to cut down on expenses and have a better work experience.

The work place has changed so much in the last twenty years.  New, innovative set ups make the work place friendlier and more like a community.  It's a great way for start up companies on a budget to get office space.  What surprised me, although I don't know why, was that at both wework.com and creative mornings, everyone was under 45.  They work in such a different way than we did, but the result is happier and more creative workers.  Anyone can go to the Creative Mornings lectures.  If we hadn't been rushing off to get our donuts at the Donut Bar that morning in April, I'd be able to tell you first hand all about it.  I'm telling you second hand.  We were told all about it by one of the regular attendees.