Tiny Experiments:  Discovering Your Path to Health & Happiness

Tiny Experiments: Discovering Your Path to Health & Happiness

Join Eat for the Earth for a plant-based potluck and a provocative presentation to help you find your way to the life you want!

By Eat for the Earth

Date and time

Location

Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist Church

1024 Cayuga Street Sundean Hall Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Play to Succeed!

This sequel to Dr. Steven Leib's previous presentation about Tiny Habits is based on the concepts in the new book Tiny Experiments (2025) by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD. Dr. Le Cunff is a neuroscientist and founder of Ness Labs, a platform dedicated to neuroscience-based learning and creativity. Her thesis challenges traditional goal-setting by advocating for a playful, experimental approach to personal growth and habit change. It encourages small, low-risk experiments that embrace curiosity, uncertainty and even failure in ways that promote adaptability, self-discovery and long term behavior change.

In this inspiring presentation, Dr. Leib will engage participants in a discussion of these concepts as they might specifically relate to plant-based nutrition and healthier behaviors in general.


Let's Eat Together!

We will start our time together with a whole food, plant-based potluck. Please bring a dish to share that is made exclusively from whole plant ingredients and is free of added oil. Please avoid bringing dishes containing meat, dairy, fish, eggs, or other animal-derived ingredients.

Here are some recipe sites for inspiration:

If you are new to this way of eating, feel free to bring something simple like a fresh fruit platter or green salad.


Join Eat for the Earth for a delicious, healthy meal and learn how you can craft a healthy, happy life!


About the Presenter

Dr. Steven Leib is board certified in Family and Lifestyle Medicine. A 1978 graduate of UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Leib served a residency in family medicine at UCLA from 1978–1981. He supported hundreds of patients to transform their lives through lifestyle changes as a physician in private practice in Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley for forty years.

Dr. Leib currently facilitates the Lifestyle Medicine Book Club that meets monthly at the Felton Library. He also leads a Walk with a Doc experiential Henry Cowell State Park program incorporating many of the pillars of lifestyle medicine in the healing environment of nature. To sign up for this free program, go to Mountainparks.org and look under the “Redwood Rx” list of activities. Offered every third Saturday at 12:00pm through the month of October.


What to Bring

in addition to your plant-based dish to share, please bring your recipe or a list of ingredients. And please invite your friends!


To Find Us

Drive towards the back of the parking lot. About halfway down you will see a smaller parking lot towards the left. We are in Sundean Hall, between the side parking lot and the street.


Donations are Appreciated.

All donations go to support the nonprofit Eat for the Earth.

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Eat for the Earth makes it easier for people to eat more plants and less animal products to sustain all life on earth. Many people are unaware that there is a connection between our diets and climate change, species extinction, pollution of our air and waterways, deforestation, and many other serious environmental challenges. Eat for the Earth partners with institutions such as government, education, media, corporations, and nonprofits to adopt policies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with food production. Through changing human dietary patterns, we can make a difference.

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