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2023 Apr 08

Arboreal Sonorities: Sound Walk in the Arboretum | Saturday Walk

10:00am to 12:00pm

Trees are highly sonorous entities. Not only do they generate sound when pumping water up their trunks and branches or serving as habitats for other species, but they can also receive and respond to sound waves! Artist, researcher, and educator Jacek Smolicki has captured these sounds in the Arboretum and in other environments, from the Pacific Coast rainforests to the Arctic Circle. Participants will start in the Hunnewell Lecture Hall to learn about acoustic ecology, then embark on a walk, listening to the sounds captured in the Arboretum and beyond. Please bring your own headphones (...

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2023 Apr 10

Arboreal Sonorities: Sound Walk in the Arboretum | Monday Walk

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Trees are highly sonorous entities. Not only do they generate sound when pumping water up their trunks and branches or serving as habitats for other species, but they can also receive and respond to sound waves! Artist, researcher, and educator Jacek Smolicki has captured these sounds in the Arboretum and in other environments, from the Pacific Coast rainforests to the Arctic Circle. Participants will start in the Hunnewell Lecture Hall to learn about acoustic ecology, then...

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2023 Mar 15

Care Talks–Caring For Older Loved Ones

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Part of well home design is removing obstacles to better health. We'll share tips on how to use principles from “The Home Edit” and Marie Kondo but with a twist for seniors living at home. This session also covers “visitability” which is how to make your home age-friendly for visiting relatives, and how to help seniors with “solastalgia,” or distress that comes from environmental changes.

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2023 Mar 14

Digital Wellness – What it Means, Why It Matters, and How to Begin

12:00pm

Now more than ever the majority of our waking hours are spent in front of a screen – work, shopping, school, mail, news, and entertainment. And this list doesn’t account for texting, scrolling through social media, or Zooming with friends and family. Did you know the average person checks their phone 150 times a day? That 69% of people check their device first thing in the morning? And that people spend an average of 6+ years on social media in a lifetime?

This class will help you become more aware of some uncomfortable truths about your digital habits. You will learn why it is so...

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2023 May 22

Drawing from the Present: Mindfulness and Art

12:00pm

In these sessions, we will continue to explore mindfulness, using visual art exercises as a vehicle for practicing present-moment attention, an awareness that is open, curious, and non-judgmental.

This workshop requires no art experience. In fact, we won’t actually be “making art.” Our focus will be on mindfulness; if something delightful happens on paper, that will be a welcome bonus.

Each session will follow the same basic format: some sitting meditation to start, then a mindful art session, and then questions and discussion.

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