Verde Valley Sedona List #1-94   

Do you have a quilt or sampler passed down through your family? Over three sessions, we will share stories, learn about the fabrics, learn how to label, document, and preserve your family memories.

Music cleanses the mind and frees the soul. We'll listen to some of the world's greatest classical music composed by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Franck, Mussorsky, Saint-Saens, Vaughan-Williams, Copland, Barber and Bernstein. Thanks to YouTube, we'll watch performers close-up in their home concert halls. This is not an analytical class. We'll simply listen and briefly say how the music makes us feel. Please Note: This class skips a week for Labor Day 9/7.

Curt Walters is the best known living painter of the Grand Canyon, and has spent five decades observing and interpreting one of the world’s most complex landscapes. We will view a selection of Walters' Grand Canyon and Sedona paintings to understand the context, techniques and visual impact across his masterworks. We will explore Walters' art while developing an eye for close looking and formal visual analysis in landscape painting.

Almost all doctor's offices offer a medical portal, aka patient portal, personal health record system, patient engagement platform, or healthcare web portal. Accessed via a phone app or a browser to provide medical records, scheduling and communication securely. These portals, sometimes frustrating, can be tremendously helpful for managing your healthcare and resolving issues with your providers. Learn how to keep better records and work more effectively with the fragmented healthcare system.

Most people spend more time planning a vacation than understanding their investments. This three-session course covers stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs and annuities — and how to put them together into a real financial plan. Topics include asset allocation, risk and return, portfolio construction and the most common mistakes investors make. No prior experience required. Walk away with vocabulary, confidence and tools you can actually use.

What happens to everything you have worked for when you are gone? This two-session course takes an honest, practical look at estate planning and the transfer of wealth at death. Whether your estate is large or small, this course will help ensure your assets end up exactly where you intend.

The program would help attendees better understand health claims, medical statistics, screening tests, lab results and learn how to ask informed questions during medical visits. It is designed for a general audience and requires no technical background. There will be lots of examples with a little simple math.

Thinking a little foggy? Forget where you put your cell phone? Join our class to learn brain-power boosts. We'll solve puzzles, do memory exercises and practice physical stretches. We'll talk about good brain-nutrition, and take quick walks outdoors to clear the brain and re-oxygenate our bodies. Share your favorite techniques for remembering and learn from others.

Level 1 is for people new to Tai Chi and those wanting to be more comfortable with the initial moves. Tai Chi is a gentle slow exercise for the mind and body.

Level 2 is for those who have completed level 1, and are ready to learn more. Tai Chi is a gentle slow excercise for the mind and body.

Over the years OLLI has purchased many titles from Great Courses. We have access to over 250 titles that can be streamed from your home. If you sign up for this class, you will be given access to the Prescott OLLI account, and can stream at will for the session. Learn about music, history, mindfulness, science and travel.

By presenting relevant concepts and data, this on-going course aims to equip each participant to be an educated consumer of news on a wide range of economic topics. Discussions will be fact-driven and nontechnical. No formal economics training is required. Please Note: This class skips a week for Labor Day 9/7.

Participants are invited to give short (10–20 min) presentations on a key issue shaping American democracy—covering such aspects as governing principles, current challenges and global comparisons. Each presentation will be followed by open discussion aimed at fostering civic awareness, critical thinking, careful listening and respectful dialogue. Together we will deepen understanding of community values and engage in meaningful conversation about America’s changing role in a changing world.

The scope and complexity of history invites efforts to simplify and explain its patterns and outcomes. Why do some societies last, and others don't? What effects stability, economic growth, the degree of political power, etc? Let's explore some of the major theories addressing these issues.

David McCullough’s 1776 is the 3rd and final in our series celebrating the 250th anniversary of the courage and genius of those who laid the foundation for an American Republic & Democracy. Having previously reviewed McCullough’s John Adams and George Washington, our focus will now be the year 1776. Each week will include interviews & speeches by McCullough on this year and the Founding Fathers, as well as clips from various historic documentaries and the HBO Miniseries, John Adams.

This course focuses on the history of India since the Great Mahabharata War. We will explore significant facts and features of the history of India over the past 5000 years and highlight the philosophical, religious and cultural aspects over this period. Please Note: This class skips a week for Labor Day 9/7.

The PCT is a roughly 56 mile trail around Prescott, divided into 11 segments. This session we will hike segments 1-6 which range in length from 5-9 miles and can contain a lot of elevation change. These are not beginning or easy hikes but are the prettiest and most challenging segments of the PCT. Breaks will be taken as needed. So lace up your hiking boots, grab your poles and join us in this great hiking adventure. Please Note: This class skips a week for Labor Day 9/7.

Metaphysics addresses the experience of brushing up against the Veil; the borderland between your experience as a body of sensation & perception and your experience of "your self." Topics may include Dreams, Visitations, Astral Travel and the relationship between Reincarnation, Karma and Past Life Recollections. This topic is not from a scientific view. This class is an interactive approach. Should you choose, you will be able to share your metaphysical experiences.

Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s insights into the threefold nature of the human being we will discover how our inner life of thinking, feeling and willing is directly connected to diverse physiological processes, not just to the brain. We will also explore how the forms found in the skeleton reveal in a striking way human threefoldness. These discoveries have far-reaching implications for education, psychology, medicine, and art as well as for society at large.

Mining for copper, gold and silver occurred in the Black Hills around Jerome from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. This presentation will detail the environmental impacts mining and smelting operations has had within the Upper Verde Valley and what has been done over the years to remediate the environmental legacy mining left behind.

When we perceive something, we attach meaning to it…and that impacts how we feel!! Can that be intentionally changed? Aren't we are often stunned when someone else responds differently than we are!! What impacts our perspective? What is the role of advertising, of subliminal cues, of illusions, of personal framework? Come enjoy exploring the pervasiveness of perspective and practice generating new possibilities and tolerances.

Ready to stop letting the past, other people, or your environment hold you back? In this course, we'll explore practical, concrete steps to raise your vibration and manifest your best life. Topics include releasing the past, protecting your peace, living in the present moment, extending grace to others and thriving with dignity in spaces that don't always value your worth. Come ready to reflect, grow and transform. No additional materials required.

Organize your thoughts, photos, artwork, letters, diaries, and emails. We will write in class and at home - yes, homework. Bring paper, pen, and/or laptop. Your first chapter will be on your grandparents, second chapter on your parents, then chapters about your life divided into 15-year segments. Writing topics will be suggested, and your work edited. You may read your work aloud to the class, if you like. Please Note: This class skips a week for Labor Day 9/7.

During this class, we will stretch the term “journaling” beyond what we think it is or should be, to what it could be. We will explore and imagine different forms and focuses for recording notes from our daily lives such as collage, correspondence logs, commonplace entries, travel storytelling, and more. Simultaneously, we will tune in to each of our own interests and purposes — stretching how we approach our routine “keeping track” and seeing what emerges that is illuminating and generative.