JAMES LEONARD PARK

  My Career in

ALTERNATIVE ADULT EDUCATION

    I have been active in various adult education efforts since 1966,
when I first became involved in the Free University movement.
From 1968-1979, I was deeply involved with the Minnesota Free University,
serving many years as the editor of the quarterly bulletin, the FreeYou.
And I also offered many of the classes.
During many of these years, 20% of the MFU classes were taught by me.

    In later years, I was deeply involved in the adult education program
of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis.

    And most recently, I have become involved in the
Experimental College of the Twin Cities:
http://www.excotc.org.

    When I calculated the total number of classes I have taught,
the total came to over 200 different groups of people.
These usually were held once a week for a few weeks.
I have offered 30 or 40 different classes.
My most popular class discusses love.

    The following is a list of the classes I am still interested in offering.
Each title leads to a comprehensive course description:

Becoming More Authentic:
The Positive Side of Existentialism


New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships


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


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


Right-to-Die Discussion Series

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


Opening to Grace:
Transcending Our Spiritual Malaise


Which Gods Do Not Exist?
Selective Atheism


Imprinted Sexual Fantasies:
A New Key for Sexology


Creating a World Peace Force



    The following are one-session workshops:

Living Cheaply:
How I Survive on SSI


Romantic Love Is a Hoax! 
Emotional Programming to 'Fall in Love'


Romantic Jealousy:
Cause and Prevention


Loving without Needing:
Seven Pre-Existing Needs and How to Transcend Them



Created 12-5-2008; Revised 2-8-2009; 2-26-2009; 3-27-2009


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