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SP18-49 SENECA SPEAKS!
SP18-49 SENECA SPEAKS! Thursdays: 1-2:20 p.m. 8 Sessions: Mar. 8-Apr. 26 TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM David Eisner and Barbara Shocket Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher and classically-trained scholar who lived in the first century A.D., speaks to us with eternal truths across the centuries. In more than 100 personal letters, he teaches how to healthfully balance the powers of reason, emotion, and the pull between fate and free will. His plays, exploding with graphic restlessness and hyperrealism, dramatize the psychological upheavals…
Find out more »SU18-23 SACRED, PROFANE, AND THWARTED LOVE IN THE MOVIES
SU18-23 SACRED, PROFANE, AND THWARTED LOVE IN THE MOVIES Wednesdays: 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m. 8 Sessions: May 9-June 27 David Eisner and Barbara Shocket We will watch and discuss selected contemporary and classic films, which portray the joys, torments, sorrows, complexities, ironies, and paradoxes of the mystery which is—accurately or inaccurately—called love. With a psychological analysis of the emotional connections in these movie characters, we will decide for ourselves whether what we see is really love! Course Fee: $95; Member Fee:…
Find out more »SU18-03 TRANSFORMATIONAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE MOVIES
SU18-03 TRANSFORMATIONAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE MOVIES Mondays: 1-2:20 p.m. 6 Sessions: May 14-June 25 NOTE: No class on May 28 David Eisner and Barbara Shocket We will watch and discuss selected contemporary and classic films which portray psychologically and spiritually transformational encounters: weakness becoming strength, defeat becoming victory, despair becoming hope, lost becoming found, darkness becoming light. Through these human dramas, we can sense how difficult—but not impossible—resolutions to life’s struggles can be. Course Fee: $90; Member Fee: $81.
Find out more »I HEAR, BUT AM I LISTENING?
I HEAR, BUT AM I LISTENING? Wednesdays: 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m. 6 Sessions: May 16-June 20 Judy Rosemarin We hear everything, but are we really listening? Are you finding yourself frustrated with the polarizing and deepening divide occurring with friends and family about so many things in the world? This course will teach you how to listen for understanding; so that simmering silences and angry arguing can transform into greater mutual understanding. There are more choices than to shut down or…
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