The Fairy Tale Experience
“…some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
The Fairy Tale Experience is a multi-week course where everyone gets to revisit the fairy tales they knew and loved. Cinderella will be there, as well as Beauty and her Beast, the Snow Queen and others. We’ll reunite with old storybook friends and make new ones as we examine tales from around the world. We’ll consider the many possible meanings they hold – for us as children and as adults. In the process we’ll discover what mattered to us then and how it has shaped and colored our lives right up to present day.
The class will look at the structure and meaning of fairy tales. It will also explore such common concepts as Evil in Fairy Tales, the role of Magical Helpers and what Happily Ever After might mean.
Each class is completely unique to itself. The participants bring their favorite stories and their very unique and particular perspectives – which changes everything. Like a meditative walk in the woods, we find new pathways and new discoveries each and every time.
Spring 2017
An eight week course starting in March 2016
Center for Lifetime Study at Marist College
CLS Office – Dyson Hall – Room 344
845-575-3000 ext 211
www.marist.edu/gpp/cls/registration
Spring 2016
An eight week course starting in March 2016
To register contact:
Lifetime Learning Institute at SUNY New Paltz
Registrar: PO Box 275
New Paltz, NY 12561
845-257-2892
website: http://www.newpaltz.edu/lifetime/
email: lifetime@newpaltz.edu
Fall 2016
A six week course to be held at:
Lifespring: Saugerties Adult Learning Community ,
Town Hall 4 High Street Saugerties, NY 12477
845 246 2800 ext. 452
website: www.lifespringsaugerties.com
email: lifespring.saug@gmail.com
A six week course at:
Mount Saint Mary College
Desmond Campus
6 Albany Post Rd., Newburgh, NY 12550
845-565-2076
www.msmc.edu/communiyyed
Spring 2015
There will be three different offerings of this course in Spring 2015.
1) An eight week course starting in March 2015
To register contact:
Lifetime Learning Institute at SUNY New Paltz
Registrar: PO Box 275
New Paltz, NY 12561
845-257-2892
website: http://www.newpaltz.edu/lifetime/
email: lifetime@newpaltz.edu
2) A seven-week course to be held at:
Lifetime Learning Institute, Bard College
PO Box 22
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-0022
845-758-7314
website: www. bard.edu/lli
email: lli@bard.edu
Class dates: TBD
3) A six week course to be held at:
Lifespring: Saugerties Adult Learning Community ,
Town Hall 4 High Street Saugerties, NY 12477
845 246 2800 ext. 452
website: www.lifespringsaugerties.com
email: lifespring.saug@gmail.com
Class dates:
Wednesdays: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 13, 20
Fall 2015
A six week course at:
Mount Saint Mary College
Desmond Campus
6 Albany Post Rd., Newburgh, NY 12550
845-565-2076
www.msmc.edu/communityed
Finding Solace and Spirituality
in Fairy Tales
October 10, 11 & 12, 2014
Come join us on this spiritual journey, as we explore the light and dark of Fairy Tales in a search for resilience and meaning.
These tales have been providing solace and spiritual guidance to us for millennia. Before they were relegated to the nursery they were told by adults to adults in every culture and every age. They have been distilling hidden meanings for a long, long time.
Under the veneer of Fantasy, Magic and Romance, Fairy Tales are really stories about Frustration, Grief and Despair. They tell us again and again about the power of Hope and the enduring mystery of Grace. Come find the reason these stories have survived and uncover the deeply spiritual role they still play in human life.
To view or download the brochure and registration form
in pdf format, click below:
Solace & Spirituality Brochure
This three-day workshop will be held:
Friday Oct 10 7 – 9
Saturday Oct 11 9 – 4
Sunday Oct 12 10-12
The Sanctuary *
5 Academy Street
New Paltz, NY 12561
Attendees can choose to come for the full weekend or Saturday only
Fees: $180 for full workshop $150 for Saturday only
A non-refundable deposit of $25 is required by October 3rd
to reserve a place. The registration form is available below.
Enrollment is limited to 15 persons
* Please note: The Sanctuary is not wheelchair accessible.
The workshop will be held on the 2nd floor
We hope to see you there…