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Reverence: Being Alive in the Sacred and Accountable to the All?

hubbe002 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:01:46 +0000

Is reverence about being alive in the sacred and being accountable to the all?

Does reverence precede religion?

If the basis of reverence originates from "do unto others as they would do unto you", does reverence exist?

The purpose of this class is to openly and deeply explore the true sacredness of reverence and bringing reverence into the place of a daily, ongoing process.

Facilitator email(s):

Please call for additional information

Facilitator's experience:

Chuck has graced the earth for over 60 years exploring, seeking, living and observing.

Facilitator phone number(s):

612-501-2742

Class minimum size:

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Description: Openly and deeply exploring the true sacredness of reverence.

Teach-In: Cargill's Corporate Personhood and Impacts on our Food System

Hillary L. — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:03:18 +0000

Workshop date(s) & time(s):

Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 15:00 - 17:00

Description: Concerned about corporate control of the food system? Learn about what corporate personhood is with a Cargill Inc. case study.

Come discuss the super-powers of corporate personhood as they relate to BigAg. We will case study Cargill and talk about issues such as:

-BigAg Executives & FDA: revolving door
-What is corporate personhood?
-Cargill's role in NAFTA and Free Trade agreements
-Impacts of Cargill's monopoly (vertical integration)
-"Commercialization of photosynthesis" and impacts for the 99%
-What we can DO about it!

Facilitator's experience:

I have been organizing with grassroots groups to pressure Cargill Inc. to take responsibility for their supply chain issues with palm oil and other rainforest-threatening products for 2.5 years. I facilitate democratic style workshops where we build off of the collective knowledge in the room.

Location

Common Roots Cafe Common Room

2558 Lyndale Ave. S

Minneapolis, MN 55405

United States

44° 57' 20.5668" N, 93° 17' 16.9512" W

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator email(s):

hillary@ran.org

Additional workshop time information:

One time, 2 hour workshop

Address:

Common Roots Cafe Common Room

2558 Lyndale Ave. S

Minneapolis, MN 55405

United States

44° 57' 20.5668" N, 93° 17' 16.9512" W

See map: Google Maps

Performance & Poetry

JP Hansen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:32:34 +0000

This class will listen and view poetry in performance—audio, film, and live. The Twin Cities is a hotbed for this type of poetry, and we will take advantage of this opportunity.

Performance poetry takes many forms: highly dramatic reading, spoken word, hip hop, even types of singing. All will be explored.

We will discuss and, perhaps, critique the performances. We will also bring in performance poets to help us better understand their art and the art form in general.

Finally, we will do our own writing and performing. Nobody will be asked to do something they don't feel comfortable with, but some sharing will be encouraged. If desired, a class members may receive critique from me or their classmates either in a public discussion or privately.

Facilitator email(s):

jh4090@gmail.com

Facilitator's experience:

As for me, I have been an active, publishing poet since 1989. While I am not only a performance poet, performance has always been one of my central interests. If curious, check out my website at jeffersonhansen.com. I was a college professor and English teacher from 1988 to 2009. I am now a freelance editor and writer.

Facilitator phone number(s):

612-819-7253

Class minimum size:

Class maximum size:

Time/Location

Class times:

Thu, 01/12/2012 - 20:00 - 21:30

Location Accessibility:

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Description: A class/workshop that listens to, views, and attends performance poetry events. We discuss, feature guest poets, and write/perform ourselves.

Programming & Design

gavin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:16:01 +0000

Enrollment is now active. Feel free to email / tweet / +1 / blog or repost this url so we can get some more signups.

No location has been set but we have options. Before class is officially nailed down to dates I would like to have a meet up with all interested students where we can talk about locations and ideas about what people are looking for in this class.

This is an experimental course designed to cover all aspects of web design and development in one program. The goal is to be project orientated and quickly move from basics into advanced topics like programming and interface design.

The goal is to have classes every other Saturday (dates not finalized) for three hours. Then two to three hours of "take home" work. This course should be about six hours a week.

It is important to have students that understand how to use a computer (how to get pictures off their camera, how to “google” things, how to check their bank statements online, how to install software) but you do not need to have any formal training to take this class. We will be starting at the bottom.

Facilitator email(s):

gavin@gavinm.com

Facilitator's experience:

Former instructor at two local colleges (6 years), full time web developer/programmer/designer (12 years)

Class minimum size:

Class maximum size:

Time/Location

Class times:

Sat, 01/07/2012 - 11:00 - Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:00

Location Accessibility:

Location not set.

Additional class location information:

Looking for a location (need a computer lab)

Description: Experimental design/programming course

Traditional Artisans: Preserving the Folk School Education

Steve G — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:12:34 +0000

Workshop date(s) & time(s):

Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 12:00 - 21:00

Description: Traditional Artisans for the Preservation of Traditional Crafts

Apprenticeship once offered an individual the opportunity to learn a craft from masters of that craft. Nowadays, apprenticeship is difficult to come by, which is precisely why this workshop/class/school/folk festival is being created. The purpose of this workshop/class/school/folk festival is to bring together the skills of old to pass them on to others in an effort to preserve the beauty of not only the craft but the culture of the craft. If you are interested in traditional skills/crafts, we welcome you to join this workshop. When enough interest is generated, we will begin offering opportunities to learn the following skills and begin planning our own Folk Festival - complete with an evening barn dance!?!:

Spoon/Knife Carving
A Spoonful of Creativity: Learn to Carve a Wooden Spoon and/or Cheese Knife
October 30, 2011; 12-5ish (material fee ~$30, beginners and experienced carvers are welcome)
Class size will be ~10 apprentices/professional instructor with additional craftspeople available to assist. Bring a high quality, sharp knife (Mora Knifes are great!)

Many folk traditions include the carving of beautiful spoons for use at home and as treasured gifts. The purpose of this class is to pass on that tradition by sharing the joy of learning traditional knife strokes and carving techniques to carve your own beautiful, durable and useable wooden spoon and/or butter/cheese knife! This class will begin with a brief presentation on spoons from across the world while you prepare to carve a useable spoon and/or knife. While you carve, the instructor will share mesmerizing folk tales and discuss woodcarving topics such as sharpening, decorating, finishing and design techniques. Feel free to bring your new and old wooden spoons to share. We will have some tools for student use and additional spoon blanks for sale.

Facilitator's experience:

Jim is a professional woodturner, incorporating traditional slöyd handwork and techniques. Fred is a professional woodsmith with extensive experience in Swedish crafts. Tom is a professional woodsmith with extensive experience in Scandinavian and European rural crafts, emphasizing on green woodworking. Steve is a professional engineer who dreams of becoming as proficient in the wood working trades as the other facilitators.

Facilitator email(s):

steve@stevegorg.com

Building an Earth Oven

josh.tolkan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:56:16 +0000

I would like to organize a class to build an earth oven. I have done this before but never here in Minneapolis.

We will start with a classroom session talking about the science behind earth plaster construction and thermal mass cooking. Then we will build the oven over a series of approximately 8 sessions.

This class is early in formation. In order to make it work and do it cheaply, we will need to find:

1) somebody who has a whole lot of clay soil that we can remove from their yard
One Possible way to do this is by building a raingarden for someone. In building the rain garden we can extract lots of clay soil.

2) Find someone who owns some land nearby who would like an earth oven. Anyone?

3) Find someone with a truck who can haul clay and sand for us.

Until we find these things we will not set a date for this class. However, if you are excited about this please feel free to contact me. Lets work together to find the resources we need to make this happen. It is possible if it takes a long time figuring these logistics out we will do this class spring semester. In the meantime, lets work together to track down what we need, and maybe build that rain garden.

There is also a possibility that this class will be done in collaboration with the Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (EJAM). They are starting a grassroots natural building campaign with North Minneapolis residents

Facilitator email(s):

josh.tolkan@gmail.com

Facilitator's experience:

I am a certified Permaculture design and have experience natural building in Israel and at Carleton College.

Facilitator phone number(s):

414-828-0264

Class minimum size:

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Description: I would like to talk to everyone who signs up so they can help us organize the workshop and make it happen

Kiswahili Discussion Circle

eric — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:29:18 +0000

this discussion group would be ideal for people who are either trying to brush up on speaking Swahili or who haven't yet had much exposure to Swahili but are serious about learning (e.g., you have plans to travel to East Africa). for beginners, we can offer some basic materials; however, the learning curve will be sharp.

people who have taken Swahili through St. Paul community education along with a local person who has briefly lived in Tanzania have committed themselves to help form the core of the discussion group... so this IS happening.

Facilitator email(s):

ourworldindepth@gmail.com

Location

TBA... location change... please contact facilitator Minneapolis, MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

eric lived in Kenya for two years and has taught beginning Swahili to 6 classes through St. Paul community education (and one time with EXCO).

Facilitator phone number(s):

651-644-1173

Time/Location

Additional class time information:

a dictionary/phrasebook would be helpful as well as internet access or even access to language software

Location Accessibility:

Yes

Address:

TBA... location change... please contact facilitator Minneapolis, MN

United States

44° 58' 47.874" N, 93° 15' 49.8096" W

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Description: Swahili language conversation

Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death: Our Existential Predicament

parkx032 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:31:42 +0000

LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND DEATH:

OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT

Have you noticed a loneliness that cannot be solved by love?
Are you sometimes aware of a depression not caused by circumstances?
Do you have free-floating existential anxiety?
Is your 'fear of death' out of proportion to the actual threat?
These 4 and 7 other similar phenomena will be explored in this electronic group.
Our method of exploration is looking deeply into ourselves.

This cyber-seminar will take place by means of an already-established Yahoo Group
called The Existential Freedom Group.
Each month, beginning as soon as 10 people have the book and are ready to discuss it,
we will read and discuss one chapter from a book called:
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death.

Over 50 pages from this book can be read on the Internet.
Just click the title above.
Students and faculty at the University of Minnesota
will find this book in Wilson Library.
And the publisher—Existential Books—offers to donate this book
to any public or academic library that will agree to put it on the shelves.
(Here are the details about this offer of free books for libraries.)

Readers who would prefer to own a copy
should buy it directly from the publisher.

A comprehensive course description will appear if you click those words.

Facilitator email(s):

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Locations

Class location: anywhere in the world Minneapolis, MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Class location: anywhere in the world Minneapolis, MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

James Park is the author of the book used in this cyber-seminar. Our Existential Predicament was developed and revised over several years of such seminars. Most of these took place in the Minnesota Free University: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-AL-ED.html. Much more can be learned about James Park by visiting his website: An Existential Philosopher's Museum: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ which now has more than 1,000 'rooms'.

Facilitator phone number(s):

(612) 871-7275

Class minimum size:

Class maximum size:

no maximum

Time/Location

Additional class time information:

Class time: anytime

Address:

Class location: anywhere in the world Minneapolis, MN

United States

44° 58' 47.874" N, 93° 15' 49.8096" W

See map: Google Maps

Description: Psychology

Living Will Workshop: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care

parkx032 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:05:41 +0000

LIVING WILL WORKSHOP:

CREATING YOUR OWN ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR MEDICAL CARE

Facilitator:

James Park, existential philosopher

E-mail:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone:

612-871-7275

Course description:

In preparing for our own deaths, we should to ask 24 basic Questions,
discuss them with our loved ones, put our decisions into writing, and appoint proxies.
This workshop will be an opportunity to meet with others who are asking the same Questions,
deciding their own medical ethics, and how they want to be treated at the end life.

"http:www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Q-L-WILL.html"

Here are the 24 basic Questions on the Internet.
Each week we will discuss about 4 Questions.
The printed resource for this workshop is:"http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/AD-OUT-NET.html"

Your Last Year: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
About 100 pages of this 250-page book are offered free of charge on the Internet.
This book will be available in class for $35.
But you can return it for $30 at the end of class." http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/LWW-EXCO.html">
See your options for owning or re-selling the book.
See a" http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-LWW.html"
comprehensive course description.
At the end of this workshop, participants will have written, signed, and witnessed
Advance Directives for Medical Care.
You are encouraged to attend with your proxy

Facilitator email(s):

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Location

not yet established, probably Minneapolis MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

James Park is the author of the text to be used for this seminar: Your Last Year: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care

Facilitator phone number(s):

612-871-7275

Time/Location

Address:

not yet established, probably Minneapolis MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Description: Participants will write their own Advance Directives for Medical Care

Are You a Person of Spirit? Six Capacities of Our Human Spirits

parkx032 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:21:59 +0000

ARE YOU A PERSON OF SPIRIT?
SIX CAPACITIES OF OUR HUMAN SPIRITS

Name of facilitator:

James Park

E-mail:

PARKx032@UMN.EDU
(612) 871-7275

course description:

Shorter and longer course descriptions will be found here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-SPIRIT.html

Being together with other persons of spirit can help us to tune-in to our higher capacities.
In the first meeting we will attempt to define and distinguish these four dimensions of our selves:

(1) our physical dimension
(given by our genes);

(2) our emotional-psychological dimension
(learned since birth);

(3) our intellectual dimension
(characterized by words, verbal learning);

(4) our spiritual dimension
(beyond body, heart, and mind; manifest in the following 6 capacities).

Our human spirits show themselves in these six phenomena:

(1) self-transcendence, self-criticism, and altruism;

(2) freedom—our ability to shape our own lives;

(3) creativity—our ability to bring something new into being;

(4) love—which opens us to encountering others as Thou;

(5) anxiety—which puts us in touch with our underlying Malaise;

(6) joy and fulfillment—opening to living beyond angst and despair.

Because the life of our spirits is so fragile, it is very easy to ignore the budding of our spirits,
so that our spiritual life dries up and disappears.
If we want our spirits to grow, we must prize and nurture whatever inkling of spirit we have
rather than dismissing and forgetting these capacities because they lack immediate practical value.

Facilitator email(s):

PARKx032@UMN.EDU

Location

Lofts on Arts Avenue

1829 THIRD AVENUE SOUTH, APT. 218

MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55404

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

James Park is the author of the small book called Spirituality for Humanists: Six Capacities of our Human Spirits, which is the basis of this seminar.

Class minimum size:

Class maximum size:

Time/Location

Location Accessibility:

Yes

Address:

Lofts on Arts Avenue

1829 THIRD AVENUE SOUTH, APT. 218

MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55404

United States

44° 57' 53.442" N, 93° 16' 21.8244" W

See map: Google Maps

Description: a seminar gathering persons of spirit to explore six capacities of our human spirits

Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology

exco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:43:41 +0000

IMPRINTED SEXUAL FANTASIES:
A NEW KEY FOR SEXOLOGY

Facilitator:
James Park, existential philosopher

E-mail:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone:
612-871-7275

Course description:

We will read and discuss a book of the same name:
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology.
ISF offers a new explanation of human sexuality:
Each person is imprinted with specific sex-scripts
or sexual fantasies during our first 20 years of life.
Our first sexual responses are created not by nature,
not by nurture, but by mental imprinting.
If this hypothesis proves substantially correct,
it could revolutionize modern sexology.

Is this seminar for you?
Ten teasers from the text might help you decide.

Eleven chapters will be discussed in 5 sessions:

Session 1:
I. INTRODUCING THE SEX-SCRIPT HYPOTHESIS
This chapter is available free of charge on the Internet:
See the table of contents.
Participants in this class should read these 16 pages
before the first session.
After we introduce the class and the participants,
we will discuss this first chapter.
Copies of the printed book will be available in class
for the wholesale price: $25.

Session 2:
II. THE EVOLUTIONARY BACKGROUND OF HUMAN SEX-SCRIPTS
III. SEXUAL IMPRINTING AT CRITICAL PERIODS IN PSYCHO-SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Session 3:
IV. THREE LEVELS OF SEX-SCRIPTS
V. VARIETIES OF SEX-SCRIPTS

Session 4:

Facilitator email(s):

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Location

Lofts on Arts Avenue

1829 Third Avenue South

Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

James Park is an existential philosopher and sexologist. He is the author of the text used in this seminar. Those who have the interest and the time to explore more deeply are invited to visit An Existential Philosopher's Museum on the Internet: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/. This museum has more than 1,000 rooms. And the ones you might be most interested in will be found by entering the SEXOLOGY door.

Time/Location

Address:

Lofts on Arts Avenue

1829 Third Avenue South

Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Description: exco

Voluntary Poverty: How to Simplify Your Life

exco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:07:02 +0000

Name of facilitator:

James Park

E-mail:

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone:

612-871-7275

Course description:

VOLUNTARY POVERTY:
HOW TO SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE

Would you like to meet other people who live simply?
This seminar has become a gathering place
for people already committed to voluntary simplicity.

What ideas do you have for saving money?

This seminar will be an opportunity to share our experiences
of living on much less than most people think is essential.
Can we be happy earning and spending less than $10,000 per year?

How do you obtain the small amount of money you need to survive?
How do you manage to spend so much less than other people?
Can any of your techniques be used by others?

Here is the comprehensive course description for this class:
Voluntary Poverty: How to Simplify Your Life,
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-VP.html

Here you will find more details about the life-style of the facilitator,
who lives at 75% of the federal poverty level.
You will also learn more about our Facebook Page,
which is called "Simple Living in the Twin Cities".
(There is also more about our Facebook Page
at the bottom of this course description.)

This workshop will be just one meeting of two hours.
This should be enough to share ideas for living cheaply.

If you would like to know how I save money on electricity, for example
(paying only $21 per month), go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-ELEC.html

If you would like to read some books on simplifying your life,
go to the Simplicity Bibliography:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/B-SIMP.html

TIME:

The February 2010 meeting of this seminar
was attended by about 12 people.
We are likely to have another gathering soon.

Facilitator email(s):

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

I have been living cheaply ever since I retired from my one and only job in 1968, at the early age of 27 years.

Facilitator phone number(s):

(612) 871-7275

Class minimum size:

Class maximum size:

Time/Location

Location Accessibility:

Yes

Address:

United States

See map: Google Maps

Description: exco

Becoming More Authentic: The Positive Side of Existentialism

exco — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:43:12 +0000

E-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone: 612-871-7275

BECOMING MORE AUTHENTIC:
THE POSITIVE SIDE OF EXISTENTIALISM

Do you want to make your life more:
autonomous, focused, organized, and meaningful?
Using a small book of the same name,
we will first define Authenticity, take an Authenticity Test,
consider several possible Authentic projects-of-being,
and finally explore Authenticity as described by
Camus, Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Maslow.

If you would like to read a three-page presentation
of the basic concept of Authenticity, go to:
Becoming More Authentic:
The Positive Side of Existentialism.

Another way to describe Authenticity
is to ask where we are on any of
23 growth scales.
If you click the link above,
you will see a phrase describing where we all begin
and a contrasting phrase describing
the destination toward which we move
if we are becoming more Authentic.
For example, here is the fourth growth scale:
In original existence,
we 'pursue' culturally-provided meanings and goals.
Whereas as we become more Authentic,
we create our own meanings and goals.

Existentialism affirms our personal freedom
to re-create our selves:
What is the new purpose of my life?

The instructor is James Park,
existential philosopher and author of the text,
which will be available in class for $15.
(But see cheaper options for buying the book.)
A comprehensive course description appears here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-AU.html.

Class Time:

four meetings, two hours each,
to be arranged to suit the largest number of interested persons.

Class Dates:

Facilitator email(s):

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Location

to be arranged probably Minneapolis, MN

United States

See map: Google Maps

Facilitator's experience:

James Park is the author of the textbook. He has held many discussions of Authenticity while writing and revising the book.

Time/Location

Location Accessibility:

Yes

Address:

to be arranged probably Minneapolis, MN

United States

44° 58' 38.9352" N, 93° 15' 51.6636" W

See map: Google Maps

Description: Minneapolis