Wellness Activities Science of Joy and Well-Being
Playing a Bridge Hand ONLINE: In this online, hands-on course, participants will learn to interpret clues from the auction and opening lead to plan and execute the play of a notrump and a suit contract. Using state-of-the-art bridge teaching and playing platforms, participants will learn how to count sure tricks in notrump and losers in suit contracts, develop tricks, and eliminate losers using various declarer play techniques. These techniques include promoting winners, establishing a long suit, finessing, trumping losers, managing entries, counting, safety play, and combining chances. • Active Skill Learning.
ONLINE: Everyone wants to lead a full, joyous, happy life. Over the past decade, there have been myriad scientific and peer-reviewed studies on the power of positivity and happiness. Can we learn to be happy? Will money do the trick? How about the perfect vacation or body or mate? In this online course, we’ll look at the evidence that all these roads lead to disaster, but walking in a garden or helping a stranger can make your day and help you learn the art of being happy for the rest of your life. Happy people are proven to have longer, healthier, more generous, more engaged lives to share with more friends and happier neighborhoods. Guided by the most recent research, we will pursue weekly exercises that have been proven to increase our well-being in the long term— and right now. • Facilitated discussion.
Prerequisites: Participants must have completed one of the following OLLI courses: The Language of Bridge or Modern Bridge Bidding I. The recommended book is an excellent reference source. Required supplies/fee: There is a $20 fee, payable to the instructor, for 10-week access to the online playing platform.
Samantha Shad is an award-winning author, successful Hollywood screenwriter, and entertainment attorney. She is the author of the acclaimed books The Write to Happiness: How to Write Stories That Change Your Brain and Your Life and Write Through the Crisis. She also is the screenwriter of the feature film Class Action, the television movie Vanished Without a Trace, and various network and movie rewrites for Ridley Scott, Steven Bochco, and many others.
Required text: • Eddie Kantar and Barbara Seagram, Introduction to Declarer Play (9781771400565) Recommended text: • Barbara Seagram and David Bird, Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand (9781897106518)
• 6 Mon, Jan 24-Feb 28, 9:00-10:15am • Online via Zoom • Maximum: 290; Fee: $70; Course ID: 3355
Henry Meguid is the current president of the American Bridge Teachers’ Association (ABTA) and the winner of the 2018 ABTA Teacher of the Year award. He is an American Contract Bridge League-certified online teacher and an ABTA Master Teacher, the highest-level bridge teacher certification in North America.
Personal Growth During Stress: Strengthening Perspectives and Practices for Well-Being
• 10 Tue, Jan 25-Mar 29, 1:30-3:30pm • Online via Zoom • Maximum: 32; Fee: $100; Course ID: 3352
IN PERSON: See listing on page 33.
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