Co-Facilitator: Dana Wagner

This Fitness Center class provides LLI participants with access to the Fitness Center in a supportive and welcoming environment. The class is designed to promote strength, mobility, and overall wellness. Members will work at their own pace while receiving guidance, as needed, from certified personal trainers. Class participants may use the Fitness Center during scheduled class times and have access to on-site personal trainers Melissa and Lauren, who are available to assist with equipment use, exercise modifications, and general fitness support. This class is ideal for individuals looking to maintain or improve fitness while enjoying the motivation and community of an LLI group setting.

The session will meet 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 9-11 for 8 weeks. This session will be repeated later in the semester.

Registration Deadline: January 23

Co-Facilitator: Carolyn Hopkins

Let’s make those New Year resolutions stick! In this interactive course, members will follow the step by step process for change recommended in the best selling book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Learn how setting goals is not necessarily a good thing and what works better. Through openness and discussion, we will support each other in our efforts to change.

Book Not Required: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Fun with chocolate! Discover how to truly savor chocolate. Learn the history and health benefits of chocolate and test your knowledge with chocolate trivia. And, oh yes,...tasting!

This introductory class on transgender experiences and issues covers basic topics across three classes of an hour each, with plenty of time for discussion and interaction. The course is written and presented by trans folks, and covers gender experiences and how we talk about them these days, how being gay relates to being trans, gender nonconforming and non-binary experiences, they/them pronouns and neopronouns, and how to help trans people, both in one’s life and systemically. No prior knowledge necessary. Each class will build on prior discussion.

This same course will be repeated later in the semester.

Discover the folk tales and mythologies from around the world that explore the themes of the Wild Woman archetype, the forces that stand in the way of female self-awareness, and the necessary growth cycles of life, death and rebirth. Author Clarissa Pinkola Estes, a Jungian psychoanalyst, theorized that the woman and the wolf share a primordial bond. She attempts to realign the psyche of her female patients with the creative, instinctual, passionate and fierce aspects of their own natures embodied in the female archetype. We will explore stories about Vasalisa and Baba Yaga, LaLoba, Bluebeard, St. Lucia, La Llorona, The Little Match Girl, Baubo, The Crescent Moon Bear, the Woman With Hair of Gold, The Ugly Duckling and more! Everyone welcome...join our discussion!

This class will cover Chapters One through Six in the book.

Guest Speaker: Laura Meredith, Waubonsee Instructor of Psychology

Required Book: Women Who Run With The Wolves By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Tell me what you want, tell me who you want me to be, tell me what would make you happy.” These are the cries that drive people to Co-Dependents Anonymous. The characteristics of excessive caregiving, difficulty setting boundaries, low self-esteem, people pleasing, and fear of abandonment create relationships ripe for dysfunction. In this class, we will look at these characteristics more closely and plummet the gems of goodness that are hidden within. Like all of life, nothing is simple, nor can this class make it so. Instead, we can begin to see examples in movies, politics, and sports how some form of codependency can be used to enhance relationships and the world around us. As lifelong learners, we can begin to discover the art of distinguishing the good news hidden in the bad news.

Co-Facilitator: Dana Wagner

This Fitness Center class provides LLI participants with access to the Fitness Center in a supportive and welcoming environment. The class is designed to promote strength, mobility, and overall wellness. Members will work at their own pace while receiving guidance, as needed, from certified personal trainers. Class participants may use the Fitness Center during scheduled class times and have access to on-site personal trainers Melissa and Lauren, who are available to assist with equipment use, exercise modifications, and general fitness support. This class is ideal for individuals looking to maintain or improve fitness while enjoying the motivation and community of an LLI group setting.

This session will meet three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 9 - 11 for 8 weeks. This is a repeat of a previous session.

Registration Deadline: March 20

Co-Facilitator: Jo Ann Gryder

Guest Presenter, Christine Hepinstall, will walk attendees through the basics of American Mah Jongg. One of the most interesting of board games, Mah Jongg can seem daunting. Join this class for beginners and learn from a seasoned player.

This same class series will be repeated in the afternoon.

A Beginners Guide to American Mah Jongg by Elaine Sandberg - available at libraries and online (not required but suggested)