The following descriptions are for courses offered by the UW Women’s Center throughout the year. These descriptions are for reference only and do not indicate a schedule of course offerings. For current quarter classes, please click here to visit the Class Schedule page for the current quarter.
Gentle Hatha Yoga
Instructor: Carol Trenga
Gentle Hatha Yoga is a Hatha style of yoga that caters to the individual student’s needs via adaptation of postures. During class, we will move in and out of postures, linking the movement with breath. Enjoy stress relief and a meditative experience while taking a break from the day to rejuvenate. Bring a yoga mat and a small blanket to class.
Gently Moving On
Instructor:Jennifer Martin
Do you struggle with ending friendships,
business relationships, or romances that
don’t work for you anymore? Do you feel
uncomfortable fi ring your gardener, your
hairdresser, or saying, “no” to one more
volunteer request? Culturally, we are
programmed not to be “quitters,” so it’s
no surprise that most people never learn
how to gracefully bow out of relationships
or commitments when they’re not getting
their needs met. In this class you’ll learn
when, where, and how to end all types of
relationships without burning your bridges,
and gently move on in your life. Whether
you’d like to quit your job, turn down a
second date, get out of an obligation, or
end a romance, breaking up doesn’t have
to be hard to do when you know how. (visit
www.MoreLoveMoreJoy.com to learn more
about the presenter). Register now and
starting living the life you always wanted.
Get What You Want: Writing Winning
Letters & Emails
Instructor: Ariele Huff
Whether you’re after a promotion, a new
account, stronger ties in business, a new
job, a better deal, an apology, a refund,
or freebies, a few well-placed words can
turn the trick. Learn the basics of creating
persuasive messages in this to-the-point
workshop where we’ll look at specifi c
student needs as well as general rules.
House Party How-To’s
Instructor:Lisa Arnold
Among nonprofi t organizations, house
parties are popular fundraising tools.
They often involve less investment
of time and money than do other
fundraising methods. Learn 10 ways to
enhance the potential of the house party
to attract donors and raise money. This
workshop is for board, volunteers, and
staff of small-to-medium organizations.
Gender Differences in Financial
Management
Instructor:Judith Tronsrue
Financial goals and issues for men and
women are often quite different. What
are some of the issues ? Sometimes, they
simply do not match or, at best, they
are dissimilar in how they are met. How
do we get unbiased objective advice to
meet our goals? How do we deal wisely
with them? This workshop should answer
some of your questions.
Grow Your Soul Garden
Instructor: Susan Blair
You’re healthy, and you’re moving through life reasonably well. But sometimes you feel overwhelmed by the daily grind, and you feel like something’s missing. With all the attention you’ve been giving to your family and/or career all these years, have you been neglecting you? Are you doing what you really want to do? It’s time to uncover, discover and recover your passion! It’s time to bloom and blossom into your Essential Self! Through the exercises, discussions and homework in this workshop, you will learn what feeds your soul --- and what sucks your soul dry. A workbook is provided at no additional cost.
Limit: 15 students
How to Control Food So Food Doesn’t Control You
Instructor: Susie Casserd
Are you frustrated with your weight? Are you done with diets, meal plans and keeping a food journal? Learn how to access your inner wisdom to overcome emotional eating. Join Professional Life Coach Susan Casserd, who has been there herself and will show you what you need to know to build a thriving partnership with your own body! Find out what frees you and sustains you from ever returning to the world of overeating, dieting and feeling out of control with food. You will feel better the minute you know you are on the right track.
How to Create a Plan to Achieve Your Career Goals
Instructor: Lisa Quest
During this 4-hour class you will learn the business principle of strategic planning and how to apply this concept to yourself in order to create your very own personal strategic plan, which will help you to achieve your career aspirations in the shortest amount of time and the most efficient manner possible. You will learn how to assess your assets and liabilities (your strengths and weaknesses), how to identify your differentiators (your distinctive assets), how to obtain customer feedback (to test your beliefs), how to evaluate your competitors, how to determine your goals (short and long-term), and the key methods to implement and ensure success (checking progress, celebrating success). Please bring a snack or brown bag lunch. Bring $15 materials fee payable to instructor.
How to Manage Food through Self Talk
Instructor: Susie Casserd
Please join emotional eating specialist and Professional Life Coach, Susan Casserd, CPC, for a provocative discussion about the most powerful piece of information you need to become free of emotional eating. In just three hours, you will learn concrete strategies for managing your self-talk, the conversation going on inside you that determines many of the choices you make and how good you will feel. We are the managers of our health. Your management style is a choice. Eating through frustrating events is a self-management choice. By gaining the right information, you will stop gaining unwanted weight. Anyone can learn these invaluable skills, and apply them to their own lives starting today!
Integrating Fundraising, Public Relations, and Volunteer Management Into Your Organization’s Work
Instructor: Lisa Arnold
PTAs, neighborhood associations, small and medium-sized nonprofit organizations, and other cause-driven groups often struggle to find the money, people, and publicity to support and advance their work. This class offers easy, quick, and low-cost strategies to integrate fundraising, public relations (P.R.), and volunteer recruitment/management into your organization’s efforts to “fight the good fight.” In particular, it highlights how to utilize the overlap between fundraising, P.R., and volunteer management to improve your group’s success in all three areas.
Intermediate Bellydance
Instructor: Jalene Hernandez
Continue building and refining your dance movements. Learn short dance combinations, basic rhythms and finger cymbals. Some experience necessary.
Intermediate Spanish
Instructor: Normando Lint
Spanish for advanced students. Class is conducted in total Spanish. Learn to communicate with native speakers as you enhance communication in verbal expression and written compositions. Become more proficient in the Spanish language through composition, dialogue, and lectures. Use of handouts and a textbook for reading.
Intermediate Yoga
Instructor: TBA
This class will begin with utilizing basic yoga postures (asanas) and work towards more intermediate poses. Extensive yoga experience is not required, however, students should have attended 5+ yoga classes in the last year and have a basic understanding of their own body and posture. A desire to learn and grow is a requirement. Each class will be followed by a 10-minute relaxation session in which we focus on finding silence within. Students should come on an empty stomach
Introduction to Dreamwork
Instructor: Colleen Boye Bollen
Discover the power of intentional dreamwork. Learn how to remember your dreams and use them to gain insights into your waking life. Throughout the ages people are used their dreams to solve personal problems, tap into their creativity and heighten their intuition. Bring a notebook and a dream to share.
Introduction to Home
Cheesemaking
Instructor: Linda Conroy
Learn to make some of your favorite
cheese in your own kitchen! This class will
demonstrate the process of making some
of the classic styles of cheese that we
all enjoy!! Participants will make and/or sample several varieties of cultured milk
products as well as cheese. Everyone will
leave with recipes and the skills to begin
making cheese at home. We will explore
approaches to pressing and curing cheese
in the home environment as well as learn
to turn whey into traditional ricotta. Fee
includes: instruction, samples, cheese to
take home, recipes, a list of resources and
a culture to get you started! $10 materials fee.
Introduction to Grant Research & Writing
Instructor: Barbara Miller
This class offers a broad introduction to the grant seeking process, particularly as it applies to grants for nonprofit organizations. Learn the basics of preparing your organization for successful grant writing, finding foundations and corporations whose interests match your needs, developing winning proposals and providing stewardship that promotes long-lasting relationships with grant makers. Several kinds of informational and resource materials are included as springboards for further exploration of the topic. 12 student limit
Introduction to Shamanic
Journeying
Instructor:Michelle McKinney
Journeying is an ancient self-empowering
practice that can be used for personal
healing and enrichment. With the use
of a drumbeat, our brainwaves slow to
a trance state enabling access to the realm of spirit. Benefi ts include enhanced
relaxation, personal empowerment,
physical and emotional healing, a way to
explore dreams, building relationships
with our helping spirits, and accessing
information and help in solving problems.
In this 3 hour presentation, participants
will receive an introduction to the history
and method of shamanic journeying,
and have the opportunity to experience
several journeys. Bring an eye-covering
or bandana, journal, blanket, and a snack.
Optional Materials Fee: $15
IRAs: How they can benefi t you
and your benefi ciaries
Instructor:Yvonne Naum
Are you taking full advantage of Individual
Retirement Arrangements (IRAs) available
to help you save for your retirement and
provide for your beneficiaries? There are
now a wide variety of IRAs, including
traditional, Roth, inherited, SEP, SIMPLE,
and 401(k) IRAs. Come learn about
eligibility, establishment and contribution
Class Locations
All classes are located in Cunningham Hall
(at the Women’s Center), unless otherwise
noted; EXCEPT for Yoga & Fitness Classes,
which are located in Bryant Building
(1117 NE Boat Street), Room 111 unless
otherwise noted.
deadlines, withdrawal restrictions and
requirements. Whom have you named
as beneficiary(-ies) on your IRA, and/or
are you named as beneficiary on an
IRA? Learn the importance of naming
beneficiaries, the benefit of ‘stretching’ an
IRA’s tax-deferred earnings, and inherited
IRA strategies newly made available to
non-spouse beneficiaries.
Italian I
Instructor: Nicoletta Machiavelli
This class is for those wanting to develop basic beginning skills in the Italian language. Excellent for those planning to travel to Italy or wishing to develop their conversation, grammar, and vocabulary skills. (Outside work will be assigned). Bring $6 to class for materials.
Italian II, Advanced Italian
Instructor: Nicoletta Machiavelli
This class is for those wanting to further develop skills in the Italian language. Excellent for those planning to travel to Italy or wishing to develop their conversation, grammar, and vocabulary skills. (Outside work assigned). Bring $6 to class for syllabus
Leadership
Instructor:Wendy Harman
Leadership is typically considered a male
domain. Think of the greatest leaders,
and you’ll be able to come up with more
male examples than female ones. The
reason for this is our love affair with the
rugged individualist, the John Wayne
character, if you will. Women have been
found to lead differently from men, and
when women recognize their strengths
in the leadership domain, it becomes
apparent that women have been leading
since the dawn of time. Come join us
in developing your leadership skills and
potential, and join the ranks of successful
women throughout history. Bring a
snack.
Life Long Easy Breathing
Instructor: Pippa Kiraly
Are you stressed out? Do you have asthma, panic attacks, sinus or other breathing problems? Come to hear about the Buteyko method of breath retraining which turns upside down all preconceived notions of healthy breathing, and helps alleviate many stressing related conditions. Developed in Russia after 1950, this non-invasive, simple method came to the U.S. in 1999. While you will learn some practical, easy measures to help your breathing, this is primarily an informational class. To retrain the body’s breathing mechanism takes more time and supervision than can be undertaken in 90 minutes. Please bring a notebook and pen.
Living & Dying
Instructor: Lee Staves
Come discuss the personal process and cultural traditions of grief in our society and bring your experiences and reflections to share. Poetry, individual writing, and expressive art on the subject are encouraged but not required to participate. This class is for anyone who is interested in getting acquainted with the grief process, for those who have experienced a loss, and also those that are experiencing health problems themselves. We will attempt to shed some light on this vast subject and its many forms. Please bring your lunch.
Long Term Care Insurance
Instructor: Judith Tronsrue
Long term care insurance? What is it
anyway? This workshop will give you some answers. Join us for a Powerpoint
presentation “Pearls of Wisdom,” and
discussion during which there will be
questions for you to answer that will help
you plan wisely for the future.
