Local authors featured as part of Friday's TEDxCarsonCity event

Carson City’s most impassioned TEDx enthusiasts will come together on Friday for a day of information, inspiration, networking and dialogue around the theme Creating the community you want to live in.

The event will take place at Brewery Arts Center’s Black Box Theater and will feature an incredible line-up of speakers on topics ranging from innovations and ideas to health to technology and the arts. Attendees will also have an opportunity to network at an on-site lunch event.

For those that were unable to get the tickets which sold out in the first few hours, the event will be broadcast live via Ustream on the front page of the TEDxCarsonCity site. Additionally, there is opportunity to view from an overflow room at the Brewery Arts Center’s Performance Hall allowing for additional networking, gathering and community building.

Ultimately, TEDxCarsonCity is an incubator for great ideas, a perfect opportunity to meet people who are doing interesting things, and a way to explore the interconnectivity that joins us. In this spirit we have created a temporary TEDxCarsonCity “Bookstore” located in the Grand Ballroom of the Brewery Arts Center at 449 West King Street feature local bookstores: Dog-eared Books and Friends of Carson City Library (aka Browsers Corner) with local authors on hand to sign and discuss their books.

Local authors; Mike White will be available for book signing from 9:30am-1:30pm, Josee Perrine will be available 12:30pm-5:00pm and Kym Maehl will be available all day.

Mike White will have three books available that day: 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada, Best Backpacking Trips in California and Nevada, and Best Backpacking Trips in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Mike was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He learned to hike in the Cascades and honed his outdoor skills while attending Seattle Pacific University. After college, Mike relocated to the high desert of Nevada, where he was drawn to the beautiful and sunny Sierra.

In the early 1990s Mike began writing about the outdoors full time. He expanded Wilderness Press' Trinity Alps (now in its 5th edition) and then wrote his first guide, Nevada Wilderness Areas and Great Basin National Park. Subsequent books included the Wilderness Press Snowshoe Trails series, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Afoot & Afield Reno & Tahoe, and Top Trails Lake Tahoe.

He collaborated on updated versions of Sierra North and Sierra South and also contributed to Backpacking California. He has written for Sunset and Backpacker magazines and the Reno Gazette-Journal. He teaches hiking and snowshoeing classes at Truckee Meadows Community College and is a featured speaker for outdoor groups.
Kym Maehl, PhD, CHT, CRC, CSL, will have her book, The Lunar Key: An Adventure in Understanding Your Dreams on hand as well.

Dr. Kym Maehl is an Integrative Life Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist with a dynamic practice based here in Carson City. She has been a counselor for over 20 years and has successfully worked with groups and individuals worldwide in assisting authentic transformation. In addition to her private practice as a Counselor and Life coach, Dr. Maehl teaches classes in integrative healing modalities and the creative arts.

She holds a PhD in Holistic Ministries, an MA in Counseling and Educational Psychology, and is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Rehabilitation Counselor, and Strategic Life Coach. Dr. Maehl is passionate about the need for inspired holism in both individual and collective consciousness and it is her goal to advance awareness by teaching, coaching, and providing accessible and thought provoking courses and seminars. Her first book, The Lunar Key - An Adventure In Understanding Your Dreams, is available on Amazon. For more information go to http://spiritcounseling.org/about_us.

The Saber-Toothed Tiger: The One Reason Women Stay with Abusive Men, a book by Josée Perrine, M.A., MFT, LADC will be in the TEDxCarsonCity Bookstore as well. Ms. Perrine received her Master's degree with distinction from the University of Nevada, she is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and she is also a Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. She has extensive experience in the mental health field as a Mental Health Counselor and clinical supervisor, and is the recipient of a Nevada Senatorial Award for her work. Ms. Perrine is an instructor at the University of Nevada, Reno where she teaches for the Human Development and Family Studies Program. Ms. Perrine works with individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in counseling survivors of domestic violence, abusive relationships, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She is experienced in performing Drug and Alcohol evaluations and skilled in group therapy, especially substance disorder groups and survivors of domestic violence groups.

TEDxCarsonCity is an independently produced event, operated under a license from TED, was organized by community volunteers and is aimed at creating dialogue as well as giving people a forum to share their passions, ideas and experiences.

Speakers for the event will be a mix of local and out of town live presenters coming from as far as New York City, Vancouver BC, Nashville and San Francisco. Additionally, the day will be rounded out with 5 Official TED Talk videos to support and inspire ideas of the day.

More Information
The event is Friday, April 8, 2016, opening remarks begin at 9:30am and will go until approximately 4:40pm. The live event can be viewed on the front of the TEDxCarsonCity webpage.

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