Programme for 40 Classes on People & Power
September 2008 – July 2009 and for (scroll down) 6 ‘Writing Our Own Stories’ Workshops from Mid-October to Mid-November
Classes will again run on Tuesday mornings (10.30 to 12.30) and on Wednesday evenings (7.30 to 9.30), will take place in the North Laine, Brighton, UK, and will be facilitated by Francis Clark-Lowes. The drop-in fee is now only £6 per class. Book and pay for five classes in advance and the fee reduces even more to £25 - i.e. £5 per class. And this includes refreshments! Contact Francis (see ‘Contact’ page) to enrol. You will then be given the exact location of the classes.
2008
Five introductory classes
02/03 Sept: What is Power?
09/10 Sept: The Power of Groups
16/17 Sept: The Power of Language
23/24 Sept: The Power of the Individual and of the Mind
30 Sept/1st Oct: Obsessional Power
Fifteen classes on powerful people (please suggest others)
07/08 Oct: Adolf Hitler
14/15 Oct: Winston Churchill
21/22 Oct: Bodicea
Half term
04/05 Nov: Tony Blair
11/12 Nov: Gordon Brown
18/19 Nov: Margaret Thatcher
25/26 Nov: Henry VIII
02/03 Dec: Marilyn Monroe
09/10 Dec: Jesus
16/17 Dec: Theodore Herzl
Two-week Christmas break
2009
06/07 Jan: Sigmund Freud
13/14 Jan: Clement Atlee
20/21 Jan: Prince Charles
27/28 Jan: Lady Godiva
03/04 Feb: Karl Marx
Fifteen classes on powerful groups (please suggest others)
10/11 Feb: The family
Half term
24/25 Feb: Voluntary associations / trades unions / the masons / football supporters’ clubs
03/04 Mar: The nation / the state (as two distinct groups)
10/11 Mar: School / Academia
17/18 Mar: The armed forces
24/25 Mar: Islam / The Mosque
31 Mar/1 Apl: The rich
Two-week Easter break
21/22 Apl: Christianity / Churches
28/29 Apl: City / town / village
05/06 May: The media
12/13 May: Judaism / Jewishness
19/20 May: The people
Half term
02/03 June: Multi-state groups: Europe, the Arab World, the Latin World, the UN, global identity
09/10 June: Male / female / gay
16/17 June: The company / corporation
Resolving the problems of power: disempowerment and empowerment
23/24 June: The wrestling match of power
30 June/1 Jul: Recognising power and how it disempowers us
07/08 July: Empowering ourselves 1: techniques
14/15 July: Empowering ourselves 2: morality
21/22 July: Empowering ourselves 3: accepting our ultimate powerlessness
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6 ‘Writing Our Own Stories’ Workshops start in Mid-October
These two new series of 6 workshops, running in parallel at two different times, will be facilitated by Christine Hollywood. They will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. on Mondays at the same venue as the People and Power classes, and the fee for all six classes (drop is not possible in this series) will be £36, sustaining refreshments included. There is one place remaining on the Tuesday afternoon class, and six on the Monday evening class. If enough students express an interest in a later start on Monday evening, this would be considered. Here is the programme:
14 & 20 Oct: Introduction and beginnings
21 & 27 Oct: Places
28 Oct & 3 Nov: People
04 & 10 Nov: Events
11 & 17 Nov: Fragments and threads
18 & 24 Nov: Connections and conclusions
Christine writes: ‘All of us have many stories. This series of six workshops provides an opportunity to explore through writing and memory some of the stories that make us and shape us. The workshops will evoke memory through the work of published authors and poets, writing prompts and journal so the places and people we remember may be captured in writing. Your writing can be kept as a record for yourself and significant others or used as a tool for looking at the past and its impact on the present. It’s up to you. Perhaps you will want to write and write….’
Christine has completed the MA in creative writing and personal development at Sussex University. At the moment she is working on a collection of poems. She also works as a freelance writer. Christine has written promotional material for local and national organisations and articles for print and online publications.
Contact Francis (see ‘Contact’ page) to enrol. You will then be informed of the exact location of the classes.