Lecture Classes in Denver

This course welcomes people of all genders and sexualities and is a safe space! In this course we will explore important facets of a fulfilling, pleasurable, happy and healthy sex life! We will focus on how to optimize pleasure, both solo and with a partner or partners, how to reshape the ways we think about sex and our bodies, and of course how...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but YOU ARE YOUR OWN RESCUE. Focus on your own growth and thrive in ANY environment! In my “Accountability & Goal-Setting Hacks For The WIN!” In this 60-minute class, you learn: Misconceptions & Truths about accountability and Goal-Setting (get my accountability checklist, too).⠀ The key components...

It's true! As women we’re full of compassion, we’re intuitive and we want to help! We want to make things better!! But in the business world, women are sometimes accused of being TOO SENSITIVE, or even worse, “too emotional”. What a career killer! So where do we draw the line? How do we overcome career setbacks and professional disappointments...

3 Keys to Prioritize Self Care during Challenging Times for Women in the Work Space and at Home As Women, taking care of ourselves has never been more challenging or more essential to our well being and the well being of our loved ones. Deep down we all know, if we don’t take care of ourselves we won’t really be able to take care...

This course is an introduction to astrology charts.  Learn the characteristics that distinguish each planet, astrological house and zodiac sign.  A Natal Chart is a diagram that describes the position of the planets and their relations with the twelve constellations at the time of birth.  Upon successful completion of this course,...

The Prisoner, the fifth volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and the opening passage of le roman Albertine, “the Albertine cycle,” is a portrait of obsessive love. Albertine, the prisoner of the title, prowls the golden cage of the narrator’s house, swathed in luxury, the object of his jealous, possessive fixation. How does romantic love...

Existing alongside the so-called formal economy—of employment, production, ownership, and sale within a recognized legal regime—is a shadowy realm of economic activity that takes place “out of sight,” “off the books,” and without ordinary social and political sanction. The informal economy employs legions of street vendors, domestic workers,...

In this workshop you will learn the major, profound and lesser aspects of chart interpretation, encompassing squares, trines, conjuncts, oppositions, grand squares, grand trines, inconjuncts, sextiles, orbs, midheavens, ascendants, descendants.  The significance of chart components including glyphs, degrees, house rulers, and angles.  ...

Food affects each of our lives. It is a global issue in which all people are stakeholders. We all need to eat, and food production is the largest provider of jobs worldwide with over 1.3 billion people employed (GIS Geography). Recent research reports that there are maybe 10 more seasons of “regular” agricultural practices before our food systems...

From the aerial views provided by army hot air balloons to the synchronized camera/machine-guns of World War I to the contemporary sensing operations of military drones, perception has always been linked to destruction. As Paul Virilio wrote, “the function of the weapon is the function of the eye.”  Militarized nation states understand this...

In many ways, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a haunted book—and in turn, one that has haunted readers and writers since its publication in 1847. Join us for a series of lectures that begin with Brontë’s classic Gothic novel, then continue into its literary afterlife, up to the present moment. We will read Jane Eyre alongside texts that take...

Full Course Name: Communities Under Capitalism: Meeting our Needs During Crisis When government fails to help us through times of crisis, how can we meet each other's daily needs and make sure our communities are taken care of? In the face of capitalism that often feels ruthless we must look to other forms of community care. These are the activities...

How does music reflect the experience of physical decline and the confrontation with death? This question lies behind the notion of late style: the belief in a distinctive musical idiom, of visionary purity or unresolved complexity, achieved by great artists toward the end of their lives. Today the idea has assumed the status of common sense, applied...

Femonationalism: Race, Reproduction, and Right-Wing Feminism How and when have colonial and racist oppression been perpetrated in the name of women’s rights? How did eugenics, xenophobia, and nationalism become the project of some feminists, even to this day? While feminist liberation struggles continue to dream abolitionist futures and shape history,...

Full Course Name: Horses, Oysters and Pigeons: How Creatures Helped Create New York City Yet the city is also shaped by forces that are not as obvious or visible but nonetheless have had significant impact on the city: its animal inhabitants. Join us as we look at the city’s culture and history through horses, oysters, and pigeons—those...