Classes Supporting Creative Living - Personal Growth

 

 
SuperLearning: Learn More Quickly by Dealing With Your Thoughts and Feelings
  How can we reclaim the ability to learn more efficiently?  Through simple, effective techniques, we can help one another use our minds to greater capacity.

Teacher: David Joyce

 
   
  Listening for Better Communication  
  What stands in the way of true listening? Why is it often difficult to get people to listen to us? Learn and practice some simple techniques to cross the barriers between yourself and others.

Teacher: David Joyce

 
     
  Mental Health and Creativity  
  We need to be reminded that the essence of our human nature is creative.  The maintenance of our mental health is indelibly tied to our need to express our creativity.

This workshop is useful for individuals who identify themselves as creative, however, it is especially beneficial to those who have been told that they do not have a creative side - but wish they did.

Teacher: Frederick Rule

 
     
  Playful Adults = Smarter, More Joyful Adults  
  Learn simple techniques for including more play in your life. You'll think better, perform better, and enjoy more of life. . Live a little lighter!

Teacher: David Joyce

 
     
  Deepening Our Relationship With Our Elders  
This workshop discovers new methods of communicating with and supporting our elders while taking full advantage of the diminishing opportunities to make a deeper connection and complete the cycle of relationship.

Teacher: Bill Simpson

 
     
  Driving From the Right side of the Mind: a Metaphor for Living  
  What are our patterns of freeway driving?  How do they reflect our cultural and psychological underpinnings?  Can the process of growing as a driver provide guidance on growing as a human?

Teacher: Frederick Rule

 
     
  Parent 2 Parent  
  Parents have the most important, the most difficult and possibly the most complex job in the world.  This workshop teaches parents how to discover the tools, techniques and resources to assist them in improved parenting while providing the support they need to overcome the sense of isolation and over-whelm.

Teacher: Frederick Rule

 
     
  Working With Problem Students  
  The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness of the nature and character of our young people with significant problems - generally referred to as at risk and discover what we can do to help.  

Teacher: Frederick Rule

 
   
  What's Wrong with Men Today? Nothing!  
  In this class, a group of men will explore questions such as What is masculinity, and who defines it? Are the qualities of kindness, love, and compassion feminine, or inherent parts of every human being - male and female?

Teacher: David Joyce

 
     
  Exploring Male Oppression  
  The goal of this workshop is to expose the unspoken and perhaps unrecognized attitudes and social conditioning of males in our society and the tremendous price we all pay as a result of it.  

Teacher: Frederick Rule

 
     
  Ending the Cycle of Violence  
  The goal of this workshop is to stop humans from hurting other humans and them selves through a deeper understanding of the nature and causes of the cycle of violence.

Teacher: Frederick Rule

 
     
  Nonjudgment: The Power of Loving Acceptance, and How It Can Transform Your Life  
In this workshop we will explore methods for allowing the liberating power of Love to flow in our lives in a conscious way.   We will learn how to dispel those fear-based judgmental attitudes that seem so natural and normal but in fact are holding us back from experiencing the abundant health, happiness, and love that are our divine birthright.  

Teacher: Simon Kahn

 
 
   
  Releasing Anger, Embracing Peace: The Art of Self-Management  
  The goal of this workshop is to help you move beyond anger - that is, to learn how to manage the powerful emotional triggers of your anger, rather than have them control you.  We will explore the sources of anger to gain a better understanding of how this dynamic operates.  

Teacher: Simon Kahn

 
     
  How to Resolve Conflict and Create Peace in Your Own Family  
  This workshop will heighten your awareness of the quality of communication within your family, and give you practical tools for experimenting with alternative ways of handling the challenges of living with others in a harmonious way that honors each member of the family as an individual, and strengthens the family as a whole.  

Teacher: Simon Kahn

 
     
  Menopause: What a Man Needs to Understand About a Woman  
  In this workshop you will be given a better understanding of menopause as an important time of passage in a woman's development.  The focus is on how we, as men, can know what to expect -- how to meet the challenges of menopause, so that we can live with and support the women in our lives as they go through biochemical, psychological, and spiritual change (and as we go through our own changes).  

Teacher: Simon Kahn

 
   
  From Transition to Transformation:  Making the Most of Life's Changes  
  Whether we initiate change or it is thrust upon us, our values, self-worth and identity can be radically challenged in the process.   Loss of a job, death of a loved one, or retirement are a few examples of changes requiring major inner and outer adjustments.

In this interactive class, you will learn how to successfully navigate times of uncertainty and upheaval.  By understanding the typical stages of transition, we begin to harness the potential for personal growth, new directions, and positive solutions.

Teacher:  Kaya Stasch

 
     
  Recovering From Loss  
 

Whether the loss is through the death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship or other loss (a job, a way of life, etc.), grief can be debilitating. 

This 13 week healing course, based on the book by John James Russell Friedman, The Grief Recovery Handbook, is powerful yet gentle. The course leads us to discover the foundation for grief, society’s “rules” that hinder recovery, and the way through grief to the knowledge and experience that missing and sadness do not have to be incapacitating, devastating or unbearable.

Teacher:  Elaine McBroom

 
     
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