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acrylics classes at Enrichment of Life Movement (ELM). There, she developed a love of painting scenes from nature, particularly birds.

She gives her favorite people paintings and, six years ago, began sharing her craft in a Beginning Acrylics class she leads with co-teacher Joan Rockwell.

“People come in and they have their own idea of how they want something to look and we kind of just help guide them to their vision,” Posey said. “Art is kind of inside you and you use that to look at other things.”

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attorneys or medical people or businesspeople,” she said. “They’re outside of their element, and it is so exciting to watch them grow and change and create.”

Shai Robkin, Seniors Enriched Living (SEL): ‘Behavioral Economics’

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In his business life, Shai Robkin, 69, helps companies and organizations understand the science of how human beings behave and make decisions so that they, in turn, can make better decisions.

For the past five years, the Sandy Springs resident has been teaching classes in senior programs throughout metro Atlanta. Currently, he’s teaching at Seniors Enriched Living (SEL).

Most of the time, he titles his classes “Introduction to Behavioral Economics.” Other times, he teaches classes titled “The Predictably Irrational Consumer” or “Econ Fun01.”

“I like to say people enjoy thinking about thinking,”

Robkin said. “I talk about just the everyday types of things which influence our decisionmaking — all of what’s called behavioral biases — the things we’re not aware of that very much influence our behaviors.”

That might mean looking into why organ donation rates are significantly higher in one country than another or why he’s found that so many seniors tend to be very loyal to Heinz Ketchup over other ketchup brands.

A native Atlantan, Robkin has owned and directed several companies in Israel and several in America, including, since 1984, Vernon Library Supplies, Inc.

Teaching in senior programs gives him the chance to “spend time with some of the most wonderful people in the world,” he said.

“These are people who want to remain intellectually curious, engaged, and they come from so many different backgrounds. That’s one of the things I love about it — people are bringing their own experience,” Robkin said. “If you ask me, there’s nothing more fun than just spending time with intelligent, inquisitive people.”