Degree-level part-time courses, workshops, and seminars
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The Vaughan Forum is a series of talks, workshops and discussions which are for anyone who is curious and wants to find out more.
We are a cooperative community benefit society set up to provide university-level education dedicated to the needs of part-time learners and to those wanting ‘a second chance’ to study.
Vaughan College Discovery Circles are member-led learning communities.
The session will cover a large ethnographic action research project – Muslims in Leicester – conducted for the Open Society Foundation and published in 2010. Dilwar Hussain, who coordinated the research, talks about this interesting project.
Aims of this workshop is to look at why do we feel stress or anxiety so much in our lives and what can we do to manage it better?
Why do we struggle to understand our relationships with family, friends or colleagues? What can we do to manage them better? A workshop suitable for both personal and professional development.
A CPD workshop for counsellors covering a wide range of issues designed for those working with LGBT clients.
This workshop aims to look at why do we do what we do. During it you will gain insight, through exploration of the three cornerstone approaches of psychotherapy and counselling, to help understand ourselves and find answers to the question of why we do what we do.
This workshop is repeated on Saturday 14 May.
A course for those working in psychological and caring/helping professions to help foster your own and your clients’ resilience and selfcare.
Working with trauma can present a unique challenge for the helping professional. This workshop will present the ways in which the helper can be impacted by engaging with
trauma and how they can help themselves so that they can continue to help others.
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Art galleries are full of artwork appreciated for their great artistic and aesthetic qualities, but what about the local art collection? This talk will look at the different ways that artwork can be used in local history research.
Compared to other academic disciplines, History gets a lot of prime time TV and radio time. It’s consistently popular, but what are the effects of the compromises needed to keep the viewers and listeners happy? This talk will give you an opportunity discuss how history has been broadcast.