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Monday Adult Education Courses

See below our list of our Monday courses for the coming Autumn Semester

Communicating in Sign Language

​Introduction to ISL (Irish Sign Language)

  • Tutor: Denise Dowling

  • Monday Evenings

  • 8:00 pm to 9:00pm

  • 8 week course

  • Beginning 7th of October

  • Fee: €70

Denise Dowling has been an Irish Sign Language tutor for 15 years and was part of the team to successfully campaign to have ISL recognised as one of Ireland’s first official languages in 2017.  In this course you will focus on communication skills of comprehension and production, basic sentence constructions, common phrases and cultural aspects of the death community. You will also develop a novice range of communication skills with the ability to progress onto further levels in the second semester and can discuss how to progress further with Denise on your ISL skills.

Monday Meditation and Soundbath

  • Tutor: Hayley Power

  • Monday Evenings

  • 7:00 pm to 8:00pm

  • 6 week course

  • Beginning week of the 1st of October

  • Fee: €70

Hayley Power, creator of Organic Loose Leaf Tea, invites you to reset and get set for the week ahead with this hour dedicated to taking you from the intensity of the working week and grounding you for the week ahead. Using meditation and crystal sound bath tools, Hayley will encourage the body and mind to align therefore encouraging peace of mind and a positivity of thought, all necessary elements to achieve a successful week in work and in life. Hayley is an experienced therapist and wellness coach, owning qualifications in acupuncture, herbal medicine, reiki and body mind balancing. She has led large corporate groups on retreat for enhancing life skills and self empowerment and is happy to answer any further queries on available treatments.

Meditation
Scrabble Letters

Scrabble Club

  • Tutor: Denise Dowling

  • Monday evenings

  • 7:00pm to 8:30 pm

  • 8 week course

  • Beginning the 7th of October

  • Fee: €30

For anyone who enjoys a competitive and fun board game you are more than welcome to squabble for the title of Scrabble King or Queen on Monday evenings. Our reigning champion and tutor Denise will host the weekly clubs and welcomes all new members to attend for an hour of “memorable” entertainment.

Culinary Medicine

  • Tutor: Neil Hogan

  •  Monday Evenings

  • 7:00pm – 8:30pm

  • 8 week course

  • Beginning the 7th of October

  • Fee: €95

Founder and director for the Centre of Healthy Aging, Neil Hogan, has designed a medicinal food course that will inform your diet decisions, from food shopping to chopping. Neil Hogan is trained chef and a certified nutritionist dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities through nutrition education. 

 

Culinary medicine is an evidence-based, field of lifestyle medicine that combines culinary skills and nutrition education, with a particular focus on the health benefits of the traditional Mediterranean and the DASH diets.

 

Poor quality diet is one of the leading causes of chronic disease and mortality in our society. Ultra-processed foods laden with salt, saturated fat and sugar are everywhere, from supermarket shelves to the workplace and hospital cafeterias, and now account for more than half of our food supply.

Raw Vegetables
Photography Gear

Photography with David

  • Tutor: David O’Regan 

  • Monday Evenings 

  • 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm 

  • 8 week course  

  • Beginning the 7th of October

  • Fee: €90  

This course covers the foundational elements of photography. We will start by getting to know your camera whatever device it may be. We cover some of the basic technical aspects, and then move on to image making, and composition of different subjects including still life and portraiture in practice, and other in theory. This course also includes practice exercises by using your own camera in class as well as covering basic elements of photography. We have live photo session modules towards the end of the course to bring everything you’ve learned together in a practical manner. One of these will be a workshop and hosted in Cork Podcast Studio.  

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Your tutor David is a passionate photographer and is based here in Cork.  He has taught this course previously with great success. 

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