ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES

by James Park

    During the last 30 years, I have led over 200 groups of adults,
in a wide variety of settings.
Offering courses has been the most consistent dimension of my adult life.
This is a list of seminars, workshops, and classes I am still interested in offering.

    These classes usually meet once a week for two hours,
with 10-20 people, lasting 4-6 weeks.
But they can be adapted to many other formats:
retreats for a weekend or a week,
day-long workshops, or brief presentations with Q & A.
All of them include maximum discussion among the participants.

    My most popular classes have alternative titles (separated by slashes /).
I welcome co-facilitators who wish to create new possibilities
around related themes. Full course descriptions are available.
When a course title appears in blue,
it can be clicked for further information.


Spirituality & Religion

1. Spirituality for Humanists: Six Capacities of Our Human Spirits
/ Spirituality for Atheists / Spirituality without Gods

2. Seminar for Persons of Spirit / Discovering Other Persons of Spirit
/ Sharing Our Spirits: Disclosing Our Depths / Spirituality Seminar

3. Introducing Existential Spirituality

4. Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death

5. Existential Loneliness, Insecurity, Absurdity, & Despair

6. Existential Depression, Meaninglessness, Splitting, & The Void

7. Existential Anxiety: Angst

8. An Existential Understanding of Death or A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety

9. Obstacles to Existential Freedom: Spiritual Growth for Humanists
(an advanced course on freedom from our Existential Predicament)

10. Lingering Questions about Our Childhood Religious Beliefs

11. Recovering from Dogmatic Beliefs and Totalitarian Religious Cults

12. Romans Demythologized / Exploring New Testament Mythology
/ An Existential Interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans

13. Four Dialogues on Religious Themes (from Top 40 Sermon Subjects)


Personal Growth & New Life-Styles

1. Becoming More Authentic: The Positive Side of Existentialism
/ In Quest of Authenticity / Self-Actualization Seminar
/ Finding Your Bliss and Following It

2. Creating a Community of Authentic Persons

3. Authenticity for Young Adults / In Quest of the Meaning of Life
/ Creating Your Philosophy of Life

4. Right Livelihoods and Low-Impact Life-Styles
/ Alternative Ways of Earning and Spending

5. Practical Simplicity: The Advantages of Voluntary Poverty
/ How I Live on $200 a Month (plus Housing and Health Care)
/ Simplify Your Life: The Philosophy and Practice of Voluntary Poverty

6. Surviving Your Mid-Life Crisis: A Support Group

7. After Children & Work: New Meanings for the Second Half of Life


Love, Sex, & Relationships

1. New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships

2. Romantic Love is a Hoax! / Getting Off the Roller-Coaster of Romance

3. How to Avoid Seduction: Recognizing the Romantic Predator

4. Loving without Needing: 7 Preconceived Needs and How to Transcend Them

5. Growing in Love: From Dependent Toward Authentic

6. Romantic and Sexual Jealousy: Causes and Prevention

7. Multiple Loving without Jealousy

8. Androgyny: The Best of Both Gender-Personalities

9. Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology
/ The Sex-Script Hypothesis:
Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Human Sexuality

10. Loving without Marrying

11. Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract

12. Voluntary Parenthood: Should We Have (More) Children?

13. We Like Being Single: Marriage Resisters Support Group

14. Feminism and Marriage: Saving the Best, Discarding the Rest

15. The End of Love: Letting Go of Harmful Relationships
/ Recovering from Love Gone Bad

16. Preparing for Divorce: A Support Group for Couples and Individuals

17. Masculinity / Femininity: Loving Beyond Our Gender-Personalities

18. Transcending Machismo: Positive Masculinity Workshop

19. Feminist Studies for Men

20. Creating Your Philosophy of Loving

21. Philosophies of Loving (a college course)


Existential Philosophy, Psychology, & Literature

1. Introduction to Existentialism

2. Introduction to Kierkegaard

3. Existential Fiction

4. Existential Psychology

5. Paranormal Phenomena

6. Philosophy & Science


Medical Ethics & Death

1. When Is a Person? Pre-Persons & Former Persons

2. Ten Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions:
Withdrawing Life-Supports, Voluntary Death, & Merciful Death

3. Appropriate Care for Alzheimer's Patients

4. The Living Cadaver: Medical Uses for Permanently Unconscious Bodies

5. 'Living Will' Workshop: Write Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care

6. Dialogs on Death

7. Taking Death in Stride: How to Die Well

8. Living with Life-Threatening Diseases

9. Liberty & Death: Working for the Right to Die

10. Three Differences between Irrational Suicide and Voluntary Death:
and between Mercy Killing and Merciful Death

11. Don't Kill Yourself: Psychological and Spiritual Reasons for Irrational Suicide

12. Is There Life After Death? Scientific and Philosophical Questions


    To arrange any of these classes for your group, call or write James Park:

telephone:

(612) 871-PARK

US mailing address:

James Park
Lofts on Arts Avenue #218
1829 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404

E-mail:

<PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU >


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