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Learn essential life skills such as financial literacy, communication, and time management in Chicago's Life Skills classes, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to thrive in various aspects of their personal and professional lives.
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WCH: Local Food Business
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is intended for aspiring urban-agriculture entrepreneurs who are launching or planning to launch a local foods business. The course has been designed for those practicing sustainable urban agriculturalists who want to produce vegetable crops and agricultural products for sale in commercial markets. Course content has been developed in partnership with an M.B.A. team from DePaul University. Topics covered include: Direct and indirect...
Small Business for Local Food
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is intended for aspiring urban-agriculture entrepreneurs who are launching or planning to launch a local foods business. The course has been designed for practicing sustainable urban agriculturalists who want to produce vegetable crops and agricultural products for sale in commercial markets. Course content has been developed in partnership with an M.B.A. team from DePaul University.
Aquaponics 3 Day Intensive
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is for individuals seriously considering or already in the process of aquaponic food production on a commercial scale. This course is a comprehensive look at the design and build-out of a system, water quality, controlled-environment growing, daily operations, and growing techniques. Instruction will include hands-on work and lectures. This is a certificate course. Aquaponics Three-Day Intensive Course Sample Agenda Day One Meet...
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Graphics
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn the basic principles of landscape design illustration. This class introduces graphic design communication, focusing mainly on plans and elevation drawings. Discover how to express ideas using effective and enriched presentation techniques in a relaxed studio setting. Industry symbols, standards, and techniques will be explored, along with professional time-saving shortcuts, the importance of lettering, and the excitement of using color...
$749
Principles of Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn how to apply your design skills to create stunning garden spaces. Discover the spatial properties of landscape materials and how they can enhance your concept plans and construction-level drawings. Take your design knowledge to the next level with this professional course.
Seasonal Tree Walk
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature as you embark on a captivating journey through the changing landscapes of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Discover the hidden stories and secrets of the unique trees that grace each section of the Garden in this enlightening morning walk.
$30
Impressionism to 1920:4 Painters & Their Influence(16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Connect or rediscover with the influences of contemporary art, focusing on four major painters: Monet, van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse, and their influences. View their work, and we’ll discuss ideas related to how their focus on light, color and space transformed art from realism to abstraction.
TRI Bioregional Herbalism Certificate Course
The TRI Bioregional Herbalism Certificate Course, led by veteran herbalist Linda Conroy, will focus on teaching students how to incorporate herbs into their daily life to promote health and to develop the skills to use herbs for everyday ailments and injuries. Students will be led on plant walks where they will learn to identify and harvest herbs seasonally for food and medicine. In the classroom, students will be guided through the process of transforming...
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
The Permaculture Design Certificate course is a training program that utilizes the teachings of Bill Mollison’s Permaculture Design System. The goal is for you to achieve a basic working understanding in ecologically-based planning, site design, and management. Over three weekends (4-4-3) you will be taught the core permaculture ethics, principles, and practices. In your time, you will be begin to appreciate, understand, and be able to...
Herb Gardens
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Join Lake Forest Flowers' Eileen Weber, AAF for a hands-on floral workshop. Learn growing techniques of popular and unique cooking herbs and create a living garden of assorted herb plants for your patio to take home. Soil, container, and all plant material included. We will be working with soil; bring gloves if you prefer.
$95
Edible Wild Plants Certificate Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
Learn over 200 edible wild plants that grow in our bioregion through classroom, field and home study, but most importantly by eating or preparing recipes with them every class! You will receive an Edible Wild Plants Recipe book containing all of the recipes prepared by the instructor and students throughout the course and a printed certificate recognizing your accomplishment. There are so many reasons to learn how to identify edible wild...
Bioregional Herbalism Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
Bioregional Herbalism is a pathway to natural wellness. Discover how to engage with bioregional plants as allies and develop personal intuition and connection. Learn the basics of body systems, herbal terminology, and common herbal preparations with a focus on nourishment, wellness, prevention and support. During each Sunday class, discover several plants in depth, learn introductory health care topics and body systems, and make 1-2 herbal preparations....
Sketchbook Skills in the Greenhouses
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Sketchbooks are rewarding, personal, and a way to hone drawing skills. You will draw from nature, plein air-style, in the Greenhouses, using various portable media. Give yourself the freedom to sketch unique specimens without the pressure of producing a final plant portrait—instead, creating a record of your artistic journey. A supply list will be sent.
Orchids and Bromeliads Art Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Follow in the steps of intrepid explorer of the Amazon River basin and superb botanical artist, Margaret Mee, by working with her favorite plants—bromeliads and orchids. While they share the same ecosystem, bromeliads are much rarer as specimens for botanical artists. Use artist instruction to accurately and strikingly depict live orchid and bromeliad specimens in the medium of your choice. A supply list will be sent.
Deciduous Flowering Shrubs
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Study more than 60 different deciduous flowering shrubs (and their cultivars and related species) suitable for commercial landscape and home garden use in the Chicago region. Identification, cultural information, aesthetic qualities, and landscape uses of both common and more unusual shrubs will be emphasized. Upon completing this course, you will be able to select the most appropriate shrubs for your garden space and gardening style.
Achieving Leadership Success Through People
American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
The most successful leaders are those with the best people skills, especially during the most difficult circumstances. Poor communication and interpersonal relationships routinely thwart leaders who are otherwise technically competent. In order to succeed, leaders must be fully engaged with the individuals who make up their organization. Focusing skill-by-skill on P.E.O.P.L.E. (Professionalism, Empathy, Optimism, Partnering, Loyalty and Empowering)...
Business Writing Made Simple
American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
Your writing says a lot about you. Weak writing can be a sign that you lack professionalism and credibility. Strong writing conveys that you are skilled and trustworthy. This practical 1-day course comes packed with in-class exercises and offers immediate feedback to help you quickly develop this crucial skill. Learn a simple process for crafting a clear and concise message and get hands-on practice writing for the results you want—in the correct...
$1,495
Assertiveness Training
American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
In this training seminar, you will learn powerful assertiveness training exercises for improving your assertiveness skills to help you deal with conflict at all levels in the organization, discover techniques on how to be an assertive communicator, acquire ways to handle receiving and giving feedback and address business etiquette when professionalism and assertiveness are required. You’ll assess your areas of strength and growth in this...
Annuals and Biennials
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Annuals and biennials have a rich tradition and exciting future. During this course, focus on the most popular cool- and warm-season species along with a selection of the new cultivars and unusual plants, all of which are well-suited to container and in-ground gardening in the Midwest. Learn plant identification and cultural information and see examples of refined plant combinations and intriguing planting styles.
Achieving Success through Perseverance and Resilience
American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
What differentiates the successful people from the unsuccessful? The science underlying success has been studied in detail, and greater growth mindset, self-efficacy, optimism, and personal influence are at the core. These traits don’t always come naturally, howevever-but they can be learned. Experience this course to assess your current levels and learn an original approach to developing the mindset and competencies needed to achieve...
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