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Welcome to Lifelong Learning at Wofford Summer Term classes and events and Group Travel for 2025-2026are now posted online. Registration begins May 6 at 9 a.m. Registration Help Guide Summer 2025Term Flyer > Class Offerings > Personal Growth

Personal Growth   

While only annual members can attend our classes during the academic year, we invite non-members to register for our summer classes. This opportunity is in addition to special events and trips, which are open to all students year-round. Summer term is a great time to see what Lifelong Learning has to offer if you’re new to Spartanburg or to our program. Annual memberships will be available for purchase between August 1, 2025 and March 20. Benefits of an annual membership run through June 30. 

Note: Annual members receive $10 off any class during the summer term. Special events are excluded from this offer.

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  • Listening to the Sacred: Hearing the Call of your Authentic Self 
  • Course Fee: $31.00
    Dates: 6/3/2025 - 6/24/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 4
    Location: Central United Methodist Church  Colosseum
    Instructor: Kay Stricklin
    Taking a clue from Christian theologian, Frederick Buechner who said: "Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." We will identify all sorts of things that speak out to us. Birds, pets, music and traffic, beloved voices and troubling doubts. Listening carefully for deeper meaning, we will explore the sacred dimensions of our daily lives. Come with a curious heart and mind. Journals and writing and drawing materials are necessary. Nothing fancy. Just something you will enjoy using. 
 

  • Words Matter: How to Speak Your Mind 
  • Course Fee: $31.00
    Dates: 6/3/2025 - 6/24/2025
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 4
    Location: Central United Methodist Church  Garrett Room
    Instructor: Linda Powers
    In this course, we will explore community, conversation and the ways that words matter. We will practice some words, phrases, attitudes and ways of thinking about interpersonal relationships. Our techniques will be drawn from Civil Discourse -- EUREKA! -- Empathy, Understanding, Respect, Endorsement, Common Ground, and Assertion. We will spend most of our class time experimenting with language and addressing communication challenges. No lectures, no homework, no tests, action-packed, full of fun and new ways to think about talking! Can we talk??? Let's try it and see!
 

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