New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships
NEW WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS
Name of facilitator: James Park
E-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
Phone: 612-871-7275
Course description:
Explore new perspectives for creating
more open, free, and growing relationships.
In five sessions we will explore 8 themes:
Session 1:
Meeting the other men and women of the group.
Introducing all the themes and distributing books.
Session 2:
(Ch. 1) recovering from romantic illusions;
(Ch. 2) becoming more Authentic;
Session 3:
(Ch. 3) maintaining freedom in love;
(Ch. 4) transcending pre-existing needs;
Session 4:
(Ch. 5) preventing jealousy by becoming unique;
(Ch. 6) opening to loving more than one person;
Session 5:
(Ch. 7) reinventing sex;
(Ch. 8) outgrowing masculinity and femininity.
Our resource for this seminar is: New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships by James Park.
Click here for more information about the text.
Over 60 pages are available on the Internet.
These 8 chapters will be available in class for $20
Or you can buy the complete book in the sixth edition, 2007, for $35.
See options for buying these chapters.
James Park is an existential philosopher and the leader of this seminar.
A comprehensive course description appears here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-NWL.html.
The Facebook Page for the Experimental College
has pictures of both of the EXCO classes on love held so far,
spring and fall 2009.
As you will see in these pictures,
this EXCO class draws more women than men.
Class Time: each session is two hours.
Class Dates: to be arranged.
Place:
The fall 2009 class has now been completed.
But there is a virtual class discussed below.
Class size: This class had about 20 different people
when it was offered in spring 2009.
15 people attended the first meeting
of the fall 2009 offering.
These are good sizes for such a seminar.
Thus, even tho there are more than 100 people
who have expressed interest,
the next series of discussions
will probably have about 15 men and women.
This is not a lecture series.
The basic content is printed in the book.
Rather, we have maximum discussion
among the self-selected group of people who attend.
Are YOU looking for new ways of loving?
If yes, click to join our e-mailing list.
Facebook Discussion Group on Love
If you are serious about exploring new ways of loving,
you can join an experimental electronic discussion group
created by means of the Experimental College of the Twin Cities.
These are the main features of this experiment:
(1) participants from anywhere on Earth.
(2) a Facebook Page on love:
"NEW WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS"
(3) no charge for the course;
but you will need a copy of New Ways of Loving.
(4) 8 weeks to read and discuss.
See complete details here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ED-NWL.html
What experience do you bring to this class?
James Park has led such discussions dozens of times,
during which he wrote and revised the book.
Most classes were in the Minnesota Free University.
Learn more about his career in
Adult Alternative Education
including several other possible classes.
If you have the time and curiosity to dig deeper,
even more information about James Park
will be found on his website,
An Existential Philosopher's Museum,
which has more than 1,000 'rooms'.
(Revised 3-15-2010)
REPORT ON THE FALL 2009 CLASS ON LOVE; FUTURE PLANS
New Ways of Loving held all five of its planned sessions.
The number of people attending was 15, 12, 10, 9, & 8 respectively.
Each session always included lively discussion.
A picture of most of the participants
now appears on the Facebook Page for EXCO.
Because we never had enough time to discuss each chapter,
these participants (and others anywhere in the world)
are invited to join an on-line discussion group,
which will explore one chapter each week
(instead of two chapters per week as in the face-to-face seminar).
A full explanation of this alternative appears here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ED-NWL.html.
Because only about 20% of the people interested
can actually attend the face-to-face class,
no matter where and when it meets,
this class will be offered again
when there are 200 people on the e-mailing list,
which will probably be about summer 2010.
Suggestions for a good time and place are welcome.
Perhaps you have a ready-made group
that would like to discuss New Ways of Loving.
The on-line experiment will probably begin in early 2010.
A Google Group has already been established
for discussing this book.
Write for more details.
If you have any suggestions or questions,
write to me directly: e-mail:
Yours,
James Park, EXCO facilitator
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