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Newtown Continuing Education Spring 2020 Brochure Newtown Continuing Education 10% Early Located In Newtown High School Registration Discount 25% Senior Discount Available Through 12 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook, CT 06482 Available At All (203) 426-1787 Times 2/21/20 www.newtowncontinuinged.org Table of Contents Hello Friends Old and New, Spring 2020 I don’t know about you but I always look at spring with an eye to doing something new. It feels like a new world after a COURSES PAGE # long winter’s nap. I can look forward to planning a road trip, starting a new project, planting a new garden. What’s in your Animal Husbandry 6 plan book? Need some help with that new project? Maybe a class? Arts 4-6 Glass Art 4 Fiber Art 4-5 We have 44 new classes as well as many of your old favor- Visual Art 5-6 ites. Bus Trips 15 Our new classes include: Qigong and Tai Chi Easy, Karate, Career Development 1 One Dance, Advanced Cognitive Training For Added Mind- fulness, Jazz, Reading Tarot Cards, Mosaic Garden Art, Classes For Age 16 And Up 20 Sandblasted Garden Party Lights, Classic Mending and Alter- Computers 8-9 ation Techniques, Basics of Drawing, Studio Fashion Photog- raphy Workshop, Raising Goats, Beginners Guide To Seeds, Gardening 7 Gardening Indoors For Happy Houseplants, The World of History 7 Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, World of James Fenimore Cooper, Lon Chaney, The American Revolution, Smartphone How To Register 18 Photography for Beginners, Smartphone Photographic Art Instructor Application 21 For Everyone, Using Gmail and Google Calendar, Power- Point, Windows 10, Backup Strategies, Google Docs and Language 12 Google Sheets, Long-Term Care Planning, Short Story or Online 14 Memoir Writer, Medicare, Medicaid, Family Life Planning, Yoga With Eliza Ann, Safe Boating/Personal Watercraft, Bus Personal Development 1-3 Trips: Culinary Institute of America, Metropolitan Museum Planning For The Future: A Series of Art, Great Jack-O-Lantern Blaze, Highline and Hudson For Boomers, Seniors and Family 10-11 Yards and more! Recreation 12-13 If you have any questions or we can be of assistance in any Registration Form 19 way, please call our office at (203) 426-1787 or visit our SAT/ACT Prep 20 website www.newtowncontinuinged.org. Teenage Driver Education 20 Elissa Gellis Well Being 7 Director Newtown Continuing Education WERACE Adult Education 14 What’s Happening In Newtown 16 If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. ~Martin Luther King Jr.~ www.newtowncontinuinged.org CAREER AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Page 1 SECURITY OFFICER LICENSE TRAINING WRITING FOR REACH COLLEGES: NEW CLEAR HOME, CLEAR Prepare for your Connecticut Security Officer SHOW! DON’T TELL! HEART Guard License with LJB Security Training. Learn how to write dynamite college admis- One of the top New Year’s Resolutions aside Upon successful completion of sion essays. This one-night class offers the from losing weight is this course, you will be issued a powerful, attention-getting Show! Don’t Tell! getting organized! It’s training certificate, required to Techniques for writing narratives that LEAP Spring Cleaning time! accompany your licensure appli- off the page. Examples and Are you overwhelmed cation to the Connecticut Depart- appropriate handouts guide by clutter but unsure ment of Emergency Services and Public Pro- students to write effective how to organize it? Have you made past at- tection. This dynamic course covers infor- compositions. Copies of the tempts to declutter and get organized only to mation about the Security Industry, how to be book Show! Don’t Tell! How be disappointed? This class shows you step- a Security Officer, and job exploration. Con- to Personalize College Applications with 75 by-step how to clear the clutter. More than necticut laws will be reviewed, pertaining to: actual student writing samples will be availa- just information, you will put into action the the security industry, self-defense and the use ble for perusal and purchase. Students and best organizing solution. Organizing is a skill of force, and citizen’s arrest. In addition, you parents are encouraged to attend together. that can be learned and this class is the first will learn about: the use of force continuum, Private editing sessions may be arranged for a step. Please bring a purse/handbag/backpack fire safety, the history of security, work place fee when students complete their essays. to class (do NOT pre-organize.) You can also violence, terrorism, communication skills and email questions you would like to discuss more. No discounts apply. Course #2321 Wednesday Trumbull HS ahead of time through her website— 7:00-9:15 PM Starts 4/22/20 Room C-3 InnerSpacesbyKaren.com. Course # 6244 Tues/Wed NHS Susan Berescik Fee $29 5:30-9:30 PM 3/10, 3/11 2 Classes Course # 5320 Wednesday NHS Louis Bonito Fee $125 STARTING AN IN-HOME 8:00-9:30 PM Starts 3/25/20 1 Class NEW BUSINESS ON ETSY Karen Pierce $39 SO YOU WANT TO BE AN NEW Are you a crafter, jewelry maker, wood work- AUTHOR, SHORT STORY OR er or other type of artist and Course # 5245 Wednesday NHS want to start to sell your 8:00-9:30 PM Starts 5/6/20 1 Class MEMOIR WRITER Karen Pierce Fee $39 Now that you have retired or have some free work on-line? Etsy is one of the top selling online InnerSpaces by Karen time, have you been thinking about a new Design career as a writer or putting together a family stores for artists. You will learn to to get your store up and running, create your brand and memoir? It can be very re- warding and create a legacy style to set you apart, design merchandise that for your family to comple- will sell, take eye catching photos, what not to ment your Ancestry Genealo- do and much more….!!! If you already have gy work. Remember, don’t procrastinate— a site, bring your laptop. Choose either night. you cannot do it later. This class will be a No discounts apply. hands-on, how-to approach by someone cur- rently writing three books and involved in Course # 6343 Wednesday NHS creative writing, editing, printing and publish- 7:00-9:00 PM Starts 3/18/20 1 Class ing. Kelly Rother-Morris Fee $ 44 Course # 5321 Wednesday NHS Course # 6344 Wednesday NHS 6:30-8:30 PM Starts 4/22/20 1 Class 7:00-9:00 PM Starts 5/13/20 1 Class Curt Symes Fee $29 Kelly Rother-Morris Fee $ 44 www.newtowncontinuinged.org Page 2 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT NEW THE HEALING PROMISE OF NEW ADVANCED COGNITIVE BEGINNER MEDITATION AND QIGONG AND TAI CHI EASY™ TRAINING FOR ADDED MINDFULNESS I Ready for the new and improved you? Learn MINDFULNESS This beginner class will explore what medita- to “Stay in the Best Shape of This program is based on recent research in tion is and what it is not; provide guided in- Your Life”. Activate “the the neurosciences that identifies a struction into meditation healer within” using tradition- very powerful info-processing and mindfulness practices; al Chinese reflexology, brain mechanism that decides provide methods for inte- breathing, gentle movement, how we elevate our understand- grating mindfulness into and meditation. Become bal- ing of what and when we process daily life and finding a still quiet place within anced, flexible, and graceful while relieving information. It involves making a deliberate that will ultimately reduce stress and empow- pain, reducing stress, and healing disease, effort to identify/recognize new patterns that er you to choose love over fear. NOTE: see enjoying mental clarity, peace, and relaxation. were not previously obvious. Some of our yogaaccessories.com or amazon.com to order There is a materials fee of $17 payable to the great scientists and innovators were able to: a meditation pillow (zafu) and meditation mat instructor at the first class. challenge the existing thinking, seek out and (zabuton). A yoga mat may be used in place recognize new insights and ideas that could of the meditation mat or you may use a chair. Course # 6431 Thursday NHS change their perceptions, develop new per- Limited to 15 students. 6:00-7:00 PM Starts 3/12/20 8 Classes spectives and discoveries. Through this semi- Audra Mace Fee $119 nar you will gain: useful information that will Course # 6112 Monday NHS help: improve understanding, challenge what 6:00-7:45 PM Starts 3/16/20 5 Classes is presented, become productive learners and Shyria Barker Fee $129 JAZZ—AMERICA’S MUSIC improve the quality of thinking. NEW Music in all of it’s forms is a funda- ADVANCED MEDITATION AND mental part of our Course # 6440 Thursday NHS MINDFULNESS lives. Jazz is the only true 7:00-9:00 PM Starts 4/29/20 4 Classes This course is designed to offer guidance and form that was created by Dr. Rudy Magnan Fee $99 support to individuals with foundational musicians in our country. mindfulness/meditation If you have ever been curious, know a little, MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS training to maintain, refine or would like to know more, join me as we and enhance their medita- explore this amazing music. Learn about the WORKSHOP—AN INTRODUCTION This one-evening workshop is designed to tion practice and bring it lives, music, and influence of pioneers like more uniquely into their lives. Meditation Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, reach the basics of medita- tion and mindfulness.