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This Month’s Being Game: Being Forgiving Our monthly “Being Game”, which comes from the Sacred Commerce practice and book of the same name, is practicing an aspect of the divine throughout each month and that we take turns interpreting, defining, and expressing. This month’s game is Being Forgiving – a very powerful way of being. […]

Featured Merchant: Back to the Roots Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora two months before they graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009. A chance mention of the notion that mushrooms could be grown from recycled coffee grounds sparked an interest in growing healthy food and creating local jobs from […]

Free Authorize.net Mobile App Did you know that Authorize.net offers a mobile application that is free with your Authorize.net account? This app is a great way to process transactions using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch at off-site events (an Android app is coming soon!). All transactions are recorded in the Merchant Interface and your […]

Goin’ Phishin’ In an effort to protect you against fraud we want to keep you informed about the latest phishing scams reported by Visa and Mastercard. Phishing is an attempt to garner secure information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by posing as a trustworthy source in an email or instant message. Links […]

Dharma Attends May 2012 BALLE conference We attended our first Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) conference this past May and had such an enriching experience that we know it will be the first of many. It was held in the beautiful city of Grand Rapids and brought in people from all over the […]

Dharma Attends Wisdom 2.0 Event On May 11th and 12th, I attended the first annual Wisdom 2.0 Business conference in San Francisco, which addressed health and wellness in the workplace. Presentations were focused around leading research and applications of employee productivity, well-being, mindfulness, creativity, meaningfulness, and wisdom. Over 300 attendees were actively engaged in the […]

Dharma Sponsors Global Exchange Human Rights Awards We continued our tradition of sponsoring the Global Exchange Human Rights award on May 10th and were so grateful to participate in the 10th anniversary of this special event. It was a festive evening, with silent auction items (we won a signed copy of Chip Conley’s just-released book, […]

Dharma Attends SF Made’s Ramp It Up Event This past Wednesday night, Dharma was honored to join the rest of the SF Made community at their “Ramp It Up!” event, at one of San Francisco’s great breweries, Speakeasy Brewery.  They graciously opened the doors to their beautiful space, and hosted this event for the community. […]

Featured Merchant: Incredible Adventures We’ve had the incredible good fortune of working with Incredible Adventures for years now, and really appreciate all they do.  As an outdoor travel company, they specialize in small group tours to natural and adventurous settings near San Francisco and Las Vegas.  Since 1993, the company has been offering safe, reliable […]

This Month’s Being Game: Being Complete The book Sacred Commerce defines “getting complete” as restoring full love with one’s self or another.  In the book we’re asked to “consider that wherever you are incomplete, it interferes with your ability to be here now”. This month we are practicing Being Complete by reflecting on what that […]