Archive of South West | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 2
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Basic Woodworking 2
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesImpress your friends with the beauty of your lapped and through dovetail joints. Using your new skills you will make a simple dovetail box with a lid to take home. The course follows on from ‘Basic Woodworking 1’, but is also suitable for people with other basic woodworking experience. Contact us to find out if...
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Basic Woodworking 2
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesImpress your friends with the beauty of your lapped and through dovetail joints. Using your new skills you will make a simple dovetail box with a lid to take home. The course follows on from ‘Basic Woodworking 1’, but is also suitable for people with other basic woodworking experience. Contact us to find out if...
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Basic Woodworking 1
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesSet solid foundations in tool sharpening and maintenance, wood selection and preparation. Make basic joints including framing and lengthening joints. An intensive four day course suitable for beginners as well as those with a little (perhaps school day) experience. You will make a bespoke picture frame to take away with you.
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Basic Woodworking 1
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesSet solid foundations in tool sharpening and maintenance, wood selection and preparation. Make basic joints including framing and lengthening joints. An intensive four day course suitable for beginners as well as those with a little (perhaps school day) experience. You will make a bespoke picture frame to take away with you.
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Introduction to Woodwork
Listed on January 13, 2017 by Boat Building Academy in Featured CoursesAn absolute beginner’s introduction to the hand and power tools and materials used by boat builders and furniture makers. This is a classroom-based course with some very simple bench work.
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Faust and the Devil
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Arts in Residence in Featured CoursesThe legend of Dr Faustus has fascinated writers and musicians since the sixteenth century. Faustus, intelligent, restless, self-deluding, has inspired the most intense and tender of compositions, and shocking scenes in drama and fiction. We will explore Renaissance, Romantic and twentieth-century approaches to this disturbing and resonant tale. Bartley Lodge is a splendid Grade II listed...
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Bookbinding – Half-leather
Listed on December 12, 2016 by The Grange in Featured CoursesThis course will cover the skills required to bind a hardback book with three-quarter leather binding. Some binding skills required.
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Bookbinding – Limp Vellum
Listed on December 12, 2016 by The Grange in Crafts & Textiles, Featured Courses, Learning for LeisureA chance to learn the skills of limp vellum bookbinding. Beginners welcome.
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Systemic Constellations
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesUncover hidden dynamics in your relationships, family or organisation in order to release potential and find new ways forward.
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How to Change the World
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis immersive weekend will help to identify ways to overcome the obstacles that might hold you back.
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Future Sense
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesHow can humanity evolve, and learn to work together? This weekend of collaborative enquiry will reveal ways to grow our “Whole Intelligence”
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Guitar Masterclass with Craig Ogden
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesA masterclass opportunity to study with one of the best classical guitarists of our generation.
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Monteverdi Madrigals
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesIn this Monteverdi year, come and spend a weekend singing and learning about his music from a world-class specialist in his music.
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Running with the Mind of Meditation
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesEnjoy a weekend improving your running techniques with guided mindfulness/awareness meditation, group discussions and a one-to-one with the tutors
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Pillars of Strength Salon 4
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis salon will focus on the virtues of Courage, Discretion and Magnanimity
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Pillars of Strength Salon 3
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis salon will focus on the virtues of Contentment, Patience and Clarity
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The F.M Alexander Technique
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesLearn how to relieve pain, improve posture and breathing, and relieve tension and stress.
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Introduction to Ayurveda
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesWe will cover Ayruvedic philosophy; the basics of anatomy, physiology and constitution; diagnosing with pulses; de-toxing, diet, herbs and lifestyle.
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Pillars of Strength Salon 2
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis salon will focus on the virtues of Selflessness, Compassion and Courtesy
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May Day Festival
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesFree taster workshops from our extensive 2017 programme, stalls, delicious home-made organic food and ice cream, children’s activities, live music and singing, Maypole dancing and more
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Nature Consciousness and Personal Transformation
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis fascinating course will reveal how you can live with meaning and purpose in co-operation with nature spirits and the natural world.
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Esoteric Philosophy
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesLearn about the profound implications of modern spiritual development and the means to express the soul more effectively in the outer world.
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Our Intelligent Body
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesCultivating body-mind awareness through movement
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DIS/rupt Textile Workshop
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesStarting 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.
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Re-wilding the Soul
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis 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.
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Introduction to Sounding Bowls
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesThis workshop for Sounding Bowl owners (and prospective ones) takes you through all you need to know to care for and play your Sounding Bowl.
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Leading with Grace and Resilience
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesA conversational workshop on a new paradigm of leadership from Rising Women, Rising World.
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Mindful Drawing
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesMindful Drawing is an exploration of drawing as meditation. This fascinating approach stimulates us to observe and capture the beauty of life
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Re-inventing Organisations
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesRSA film of Frédéric Laloux with discussion
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Speaking with Confidence
Listed on December 12, 2016 by Hawkwood College in Featured CoursesTransform your communication skills in job interviews, public speaking, presentations, teaching or social groups and learn how to express yourself freely.
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