Archive of (2) April - June | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 7
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Interpersonal dynamics of executive coaching
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis online course explores the role of psychological and emotional factors within the coaching process. During executive coaching programmes, coaches are often engaged in triangular relationships - not only with the individual client, but also with stakeholders from the sponsoring organisation. This course explores the coach's inter-personal and relationship management skills that enable effective coaching...
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Tey time: the works of Josephine Tey
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesTime to revisit the novels of Josephine Tey! You will gain from this course an overview of her life and works and come to appreciate the variety of her narrative techniques in The Man in the Queue, Miss Pym Disposes and The Franchise Affair. Lastly, we will follow Inspector Grant's investigation into the case of Richard III in The Daughter...
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From here to the edge of the observable Universe
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesHave you ever wondered about planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter, vacuum energy, or if we are alone in the Universe? If so, this non-mathematical introductory course on modern astronomy is for you. The course will take the form of a tour starting in our solar system and ending at the limit of our...
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Creative writing for teachers
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesWhether you aim to teach adults or children, this course is designed to equip you with the skills you need to get the best results from your students. The fundamental elements of creative writing will be covered alongside coaching in how to create a class atmosphere conducive to creativity and how to encourage, support and...
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One day, one novel: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis day school is part of the 'One day, one novel' series for 2015-16. Each day school focuses on one novel and through a series of lecture and class discussions, helps you to study the novel in great depth, getting to know the author and the text as closely as possible.
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One day, one novel: Middlemarch
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis day school is part of the 'One day, one novel' series for 2015-16. Each day school focuses on one novel and through a series of lecture and class discussions, helps you to study the novel in great depth, getting to know the author and the text as closely as possible.
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Beginners’ French: Meet the French
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesWanting to improve your communication skills? This course will give you the opportunity of practising your French no matter how rusty or hesitant. Get an insight into the life and personality of a few French celebrities and also learn how to engage with people you meet in everyday situations. The course is conducted entirely in...
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Advanced Italian: A cultural grand tour of Italy
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesA weekend on Italian language, literature and culture, offering those with a fair or good knowledge of Italian the opportunity not only to practise and improve their language skills, but also to read, translate and discuss a selection of work by Italian writers and to watch original audio-visual material related to the topic of the...
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John of Gaunt
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesJohn of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340-99) is one of the most high-profile, and best-documented, English noblemen of the Middle Ages. This course will explore his life as a way into topics such as the Hundred Years War, the Great Revolt of 1381 (in which Gaunt was public enemy number one) and developments in the...
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French crime fiction: from Vidocq to Vargas
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis course examines the French side of cross-Channel competition and exchange, through key authors who have influenced crime writing since its establishment in the mid-19th century. The themes will be: i) the growth of French detectives in in inquisitorial system of justice; ii) the educational importance of the historical past on the events of the...
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Prehistoric Britain: an archaeological introduction
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThe course will look at all aspects of prehistoric development in Britain. We will explore topics such as Bronze Age burials, flint and metal implements, Stonehenge, megalithic burial mounds, stone circles, Iron Age hill forts and settlements, agriculture, fields and farming. We will discover how prehistoric societies developed from their early origins into the formalised...
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The promise of Enlightenment
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesWhat is the Enlightenment? What was its promise and has it failed? The Enlightenment ushered in a modern era of belief in progress through reason and science. This course is an opportunity to participate in the great philosophical debate over the promise of Enlightenment.
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The Spanish Civil War
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThis year sees the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The war was a major event in 20th-century Europe and attracted passionate interest across the world. This course introduces you to debates over the war's origins, its effects and the causes of Franco's victory as well as the passions roused in...
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Music for the cinema: the neglected art
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesWhat exactly does music do for films when we wouldn't expect it in the theatre? Why is it no longer the force it once was? From the closing years of the silent era to close on a hundred years of 'the talkies', we trace and analyse the role of music 'in the film cast' with...
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Conservation science
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThere is no doubt that natural habitats and the species they contain are under severe threat from human disturbance; from tropical rainforests to the polar ice-caps, no area of the planet has escaped. In this course, we will explore key issues in modern conservation. Rather than bemoaning losses, we will focus on what can be...
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Quentin Tarantino: the good, the bad and the cult
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesControversial, provocative and endlessly quotable, the films of Quentin Tarantino are celebrated and criticised in equal measure. This day course will take a close look the director’s style, influences and central themes. What makes his work so successful but so divisive? If you’ve ever wondered what a reservoir dog is, this is the course for...
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Writing fiction for children of primary school age
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesFunny, adventurous, wacky, imaginative, interesting books aimed at children between 6 and 11 years old are always on publishers' wish-lists. This course aims at helping you develop characters, plot, style and ideas, never losing sight of the current market, to get your children's book written and published.
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Masters of British landscape from Gainsborough to Goldsworthy
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesLandscape is everywhere; an obvious subject for painters and one which has inspired many of our greatest masters, from Gainsborough, Constable and Turner to the Pre-Raphaelites and Stanley Spencer. Come and spend a weekend exploring their struggles, their triumphs, and the passion that drove them to change the ways we look at nature forever.
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Tracing the origins of the British using genetics, linguistics and chroniclers
Listed on January 29, 2016 by Madingley Hall in Featured CoursesThe origins of the British seem to have been securely laid out since Bede in AD 731, who described the coming of the Anglo-Saxons, and since Buchanan in AD 1582, who suggested that the early British were from Gaul, ultimately leading to the modern concept of an Iron Age 'Celtic' Britain. However, the traditional views...
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Open Day – How a Traditional Book is Made
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesHow a traditional book is made - our annual book skills open day
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Bookbinding
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesGerman fine paper bookbinding.
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Letterpress Printing
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to letterpress printing.
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Flower Painting
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesA beginner’s course for painting flowers in watercolour.
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Painting Plein Air
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesLearn to paint outside with an easel
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Mindfulness & Meditation
Listed on January 14, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesAn introduction to mindfulness & meditation.
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The Four Seasons in Music and Painting
Listed on January 14, 2016 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesOur weekend will explore the inspiration painters and composers have drawn from the seasons of the year. The featured artists will include Botticelli, Breughel the Elder, Monet, Turner and Friedrich, while there will be music by Vivaldi, Haydn, Delius, Tchaikovsky and others. Abingworth Hall occupies a country estate that dates back some...
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Composers in Exile
Listed on January 14, 2016 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesThe weekend will explore a wide variety of music, all of it written by composers who for various reasons were living far from their homelands. Among the composers to be featured are Handel, Stravinsky, Korngold, Rachmaninov, Chopin and Bartók. Sheafhayne Manor is a Grade II listed Elizabethan manor house, commanding wonderful views across the East Devon...
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Chinese Brush Painting for Beginners
Listed on January 11, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThis course will introduce you to the basic techniques of Chinese brush painting and give you the tools to paint in the traditional Chinese way: Xuan paper, ink and colour. The tutor will explain the characteristics of Chinese painting and, through a series of hands-on exercises, you will practise the techniques learnt.
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Moving Figures in Watercolour
Listed on January 11, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThis is a unique opportunity to practise watercolour techniques whilst learning how to depict movement of the human figure. Through demonstrations, you will be shown how to visually express the dynamics of the figure, whilst learning the principles of motion, including impressions of dancing, exercising and other movements of the human body.
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Discover your Inner Artist
Listed on January 11, 2016 by Missenden Abbey in Featured CoursesThis course is for anyone wanting to find new ways of expressing their creativity through mixed media. It is an exciting opportunity to create ideas from surprising sources, developing them in ways that will achieve several varied and exciting outcomes using techniques such as printing, wire work, paper and textile manipulation.
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