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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-08-2024 to 05-08-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Beth Kimel, FacilitatorTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreHave you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the sound expert demonstrates some useful vocal exercises and shares tips on how to speak with empathy, he offers his vision for a sonorous world of listening and understanding. We will watch this TED talk together and then engage in dialogue... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-28-2024 to 05-28-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:30 PMInstructor: Jonina Duker, Certified Book Discussion LeaderTerm: 2024-2Location: Online Class(Please note: We are reading the novel itself; we are not reading the 2020 graphic novel, with the same title.) It took the author over two decades to finish his anti-war novel, inspired by his being an American POW imprisoned in a Dresden slaughterhouse during the Allies’ 1945 aerial bombardment. The work combines elements of autobiography, historical... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 06-05-2024 to 06-05-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Beth Kimel, FacilitatorTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreSir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. We will watch this TED talk together and then engage in dialogue about it. Refreshments will be served! (See other TED Talk discussions, class #305 and... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 06-25-2024 to 06-25-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:30 PMInstructor: Jonina Duker, Certified Book Discussion LeaderTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassIt reads like a thriller; yet the story of an almost ten-billion dollar disaster is all too true and a harbinger of times to come. Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada used to be America’s biggest foreign supplier of oil. Then came May 2016, and the usual cyclic fire in the adjacent northern-climate forest burned until August 2017. Charles Darwin credited the... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-10-2024 to 07-10-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Beth Kimel, FacilitatorTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreStress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-23-2024 to 07-23-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:30 PMInstructor: Jonina Duker, Certified Book Discussion LeaderTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassIt’s July, in Michigan, first during 1988 and then during 2020. First it’s the Tom Lake summer stock company performing Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”, and then it’s the female lead Lara and her family harvesting their cherry-orchard farm while isolated on their own in the pandemic. It’s the third time we’re turning to Oasis crowd-pleaser Ann... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 08-20-2024 to 08-20-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:30 PMInstructor: Jonina Duker, Certified Book Discussion LeaderTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassDespite being dyslexic and dysgraphic, Pip Williams grew up loving words: “‘I was like one of those Olympic swimmers who started swimming because he had asthma. My dad knew I had difficulties spelling, so he gave me three dictionaries.” So it’s not a surprise that her best-selling first novel is historical fiction about the Oxford English Dictionary... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 16Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 08-26-2024No Class: May 27Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Oasis MembersTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThis group provides a forum to engage in intellectual conversation with a peer group and explore areas of common interest. Topics for discussion are selected by the group. There is a designated moderator. No class May 27. Limit:... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 17Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 08-26-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Oasis MembersTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThis group provides a stimulating forum to engage in conversations on a wide variety of political, cultural, and newsworthy topics, as well as other issues of common interest selected by the group. There is a designated moderator. Limit:... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 35Class Date(s): 05-03-2024 to 08-30-2024Day(s) of the week: Tuesday, FridayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Oasis MembersTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThis group meets on Tuesdays at 10:30 am and on Fridays at 12:30 pm. It provides a forum to engage in intellectual conversation with a peer group and explore areas of common interest. There is a designated moderator who suggests topics and provides background materials in advance. Limit:... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 17Class Date(s): 05-07-2024 to 08-27-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 01:00 PM → 02:30 PMInstructor: Oasis MembersTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThis group provides a forum to engage in intellectual conversation with a peer group and explore areas of common interest. Topics for discussion are selected by the group. Limit:... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 3Class Date(s): 05-16-2024 to 07-18-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Libby Merrill, FacilitatorTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreParticipants will be invited to suggest topics of interest for a relaxed and lively discussion by the group. Topics will cover a wide range of issues and concerns. Meetings will take place in-person at Oasis. Meeting Dates: May 16, June 13, and July... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 17Class Date(s): 05-02-2024 to 08-29-2024No Class: July 4Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 01:00 PM → 02:30 PMInstructor: Oasis MembersTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThis group provides a forum to engage in intellectual conversation with a peer group and explore areas of common interest. Topics for discussion are selected by the group. The role of moderator rotates each week from among those who volunteer. No class July 4. Limit:... read more
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Featured Peer-Led Discussion GroupSessions: 18Class Date(s): 05-03-2024 to 08-30-2024Day(s) of the week: FridayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Oasis MembersTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThis group provides a forum to engage in intellectual conversation with a peer group and explore areas of common interest. The role of moderator rotates each week from among those who volunteer. The moderator for that week solicits topics in advance and distributes to the whole group brief descriptions/questions related to them, giving everyone a chance to... read more