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Our Intelligent Body

Cultivating body-mind awareness through movement

DIS/rupt Textile Workshop

Starting with brightly coloured fabrics, we will cut, insert, and overlay strips to change the fabric surface. A course for those with an enthusiasm for colour and stitch.

Re-wilding the Soul

This writing retreat is an invitation to explore the untamed terrain of our souls by connecting to the earth’s landscapes and our cosmological origin story.

Introduction to Sounding Bowls

This workshop for Sounding Bowl owners (and prospective ones) takes you through all you need to know to care for and play your Sounding Bowl.

Leading with Grace and Resilience

A conversational workshop on a new paradigm of leadership from Rising Women, Rising World.

Mindful Drawing

Mindful Drawing is an exploration of drawing as meditation. This fascinating approach stimulates us to observe and capture the beauty of life

Re-inventing Organisations

RSA film of Frédéric Laloux with discussion

Speaking with Confidence

Transform your communication skills in job interviews, public speaking, presentations, teaching or social groups and learn how to express yourself freely.

Flutes Inspired

This intensive course includes flute choir, chamber music, and technique classes as well as yoga and Feldenkrais sessions.

Painting the Seasons: Spring

Explore your creativity through painting and colour. Cultivate your connection with Nature and the renewing season of Spring

Music of the People

The folk music inheritance has inspired composers across many national traditions, sometimes in arrangements designed to preserve music that might have been lost in the new industrial age, and sometimes as the basis for major works in the concert hall. We will explore aspects of this rich legacy, with illustrations on excellent hi-fi equipment. Originally a coaching inn, Highgate...

The Classical Symphony

The Viennese Classical Style lies at the very heart of the symphonic literature, and is dominated by the work of four great composers: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. We will explore aspects of this rich repertoire, including how the style developed from its beginnings through to its maturity. Sheafhayne Manor is a Grade II listed Elizabethan manor house, commanding wonderful...

Patchwork

Patchwork

Recorders

Recorders

Patchwork

Patchwork

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen in Budapest

The shock of the new: Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring

The Music of William Walton

Learn to code: developing simple web applications

This one day course will take you through the process of developing a simple web application that uses Java and HTML services. The course will consist of a number of programming lab sessions which step through the process of editing, assembling and running a simple program. By the end of the course you should be...

A history of English furniture, 1500-1830

A history of English furniture from its beginnings in 1500 through to the beginning of the Victorian period using, as a framework, the woods principally utilised, and combining this with art and social history. The course will aim to provide an appreciation of English furniture, and there will be an opportunity to handle some items.

An introduction to coaching

Coaching is an increasingly popular and widely used approach to developing people in their working and personal lives. This introductory course will provide an understanding of the nature of coaching and introduce you to the key skills and techniques in both organisational and personal development settings.

Sing Africa!

Stars, stripes and maple leaves — songs from across the pond