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Learn essential life skills such as financial literacy, communication, and time management in Chicago's Life Skills classes, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to thrive in various aspects of their personal and professional lives.

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Plant Propagation Techniques

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Discover the fundamental principles involved in plant propagation. Each session is scheduled at the ideal time of year to ensure success of the technique covered.  Detailed laboratory sessions will cover seed collection and growing, hardwood cutting of flowering shrubs and conifers, grafting of conifers and flowering trees, and the division and layering of perennials and flowering shrubs. 

(127) Beginner 18 and older
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$312

2 sessions

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Seasonal Container Series

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Each season, you will explore the Garden grounds and discover an array of striking plants, interesting color and texture combinations, and unique container arrangements. You will create a seasonal container at each session for your sunny or partial-shade patio or porch.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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$356

4 sessions

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Art Institute of Chicago: Drag Queen Un-Highlights Tour

Museum Hack @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL

Come through ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got a Queen in the house! We took our Un-Highlights tour and turned up the fabulousness with special guest appearances by Chicago Queen, Wanda Screw of Sadhaus. She’s serving face and serving up the juiciest stories from the Art Institute. Trust us - this ain’t some busted boring museum tour. Join our renegade tour guide + Wanda for a fierce, high-energy, two-hour group tour as you sashay away through...

(428) All levels 16 and older
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Mini Retreat: Living Closer to the Earth

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Reconnect to the earth the way nature intended at this mini wellness retreat with certified holistic health coach and yoga instructor, Pam Gross. Using natural healing practices to support our well-being, we’ll unplug and relax into the Garden through soulful yoga, nature bathing, harvesting, and cooking with healing herbs.  Meet with Garden horticulturist Lisa Hilgenberg at the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden and learn about the...

(127) All levels 18 and older
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$139
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After Hours A+ Certification 2012

ONLC Training Centers

If you are getting ready for a career as an entry-level information technology (IT) professional or personal computer (PC) service technician, the CompTIA® A+® Certification course is the first step in your preparation. The course will build on your existing user-level knowledge and experience with personal computer software and hardware to present fundamental skills and concepts that you will use on the job. In this course, you will acquire the...

(7) Beginner 18 and older
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Mastering Your Presentations

Turpin Communication

Are you looking to enhance your presentation skills? Does your team or team member need help to be a more efficient and effective presenter? This two-day comprehensive and interactive mastery-level workshop can meet those goals and help to improve leadership skills.  It builds the skills business presenters need to more effectively communicate their message and move the business forward. Throughout the class, you will work on your own real-life...

(2) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Cannabis Cultivation (Online)

Discovery Center @ Virtual Classroom

This course is designed as an introduction to home organic cannabis cultivation for Illinois medical marijuana patients and caregivers. Cultivation topics will include: Cannabis growing strategies: Organic vs. Traditional Cannabis harvesting, trimming, drying, curing Cannabis strains, genetics, methods of use. Overview on legal and social issues associated with this endeavor Get a comprehensive understanding in the arts of growing cannabis...

(282) Beginner 16 and older
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ThetaHealing® Basic Certification Training

Infinity Foundation @ 1280 Old Skokie Valley Rd, Highland Park, IL

ThetaHealing® offers a technique to change beliefs and heal on all levels, in all of your bodies. An effective energy modality, it is especially pertinent for troubling times that can release fear, resentment, and regret. It is also a mind-body technique that uses the energy that flows through all things to produce instantaneous and permanent change at the cellular level. This results in physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation. Connect...

(33) All levels 16 and older
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$440

3 sessions

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Past Life Regression Training for Mental Health Prof

Infinity Foundation @ 21950 Riverwoods Rd, Lincolnshire, IL

Past Life Regression Training for Mental Health Professionals There is an explosive interest in regression therapy and spiritual psychotherapy. Expand the scope of your practice to provide your clients with additional support. Past life regression therapy is often useful when conventional therapy, which emphasizes experiences in this life, does not work. Sometimes the root of the problem or issue is in a past life.  As the soul returns...

(33) All levels 16 and older
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$499

3 sessions

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Introduction to Beekeeping

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Learn all the basics needed to start keeping bees. This includes what to expect, how to put together equipment, how to get bees in your hive, finding the queen, feeding, what to look for after the bees are installed, and seasonal chores. There will be hands-on exercise in the field. All participants are required to bring their own bee-suit. No extra suits will be available at the class.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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Storytelling for Success: Pitch, Present & Persuade

General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL

In this class, you'll learn how storytelling techniques from film and other narrative arts can take your pitches and presentations to the next level. You'll also practice crafting personal stories that quickly establish trust with audiences and colleagues. Takeaways A more compelling pitch for your company/product Storytelling tricks of pitch masters like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk Techniques for quickly connecting with audiences A better grasp...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Business of Gardening

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? Learn from a former Chicago Botanic Garden certificate program student who started 15 years ago and now has two successful, profitable companies.  This course will teach you what you need to know to form your company, estimate to make a profit, marketing and advertising and much more. Everything begins with a dream and a plan. Enrollment is limited for this course. Note: The School's CEUs=...

(127) All levels 18 and older
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$287

6 sessions

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Edible Landscapes Featuring Containers

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL

Transform a small space into a beautiful and functional garden. This class will show you the best practices for keeping edible and ornamental plants happy and healthy in your container garden. It includes hands-on work and an informative lecture with plenty of time for questions.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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Seed Saving

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL

Learn the how and why of saving seeds for thrifty gardening and farming, biodiversity preservation, and food sovereignty. In this course, you will receive open-pollinated seeds to take home with you as well as information to help you feel confident saving seeds for future farm and garden seasons.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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Crop Planning

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL

This workshop covers site analysis, vegetable garden plan components, space saving techniques and spacing, cool- and warm-season crops, crop and variety selection, three-season and succession planning. There will be crop plan examples and a template for you to start your own crop plan. Bring a drawing of your farm site with dimensions.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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ACLS

Citywide CPR @ 1900 E Golf Rd, Schaumburg, IL

Enhance your skills in treating adult cardiac arrest victims and cardiopulmonary emergencies with the redesigned ACLS course at Citywide CPR. Learn the importance of basic life support CPR, integrating advanced cardiovascular interventions, and effective team communication during resuscitation. AHA ACLS Provider Manual or eBook required.

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$155
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Achieving Enlightenment

Infinity Foundation @ 1280 Old Skokie Valley Rd, Highland Park, IL

Attaining true peace occurs when you open yourself up to forgive yourself or others. Ascend to different spiritual levels through your own personal experiences, by practicing unconditional love and forgiveness, even in small ways, and get closer to achieving true inner peace. Strengthen your ability to see with spiritual sight to gain an incredibly useful perspective about yourself and other people. The great spiritual teachings of A Course in Miracles...

(33) All levels 16 and older
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$310

2 sessions

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Gain an Amazing Sense of Aliveness and Empowermen

Infinity Foundation

Enrich your life and natural capacity for an open and loving heart with loving kindness. Use this deeply meaningful and profoundly effective practice to deepen your connections with everyone—even the difficult people in your life. This practice deepens concentration, connection, fearlessness, and genuine happiness. Join Sharon Salzberg, one of the most influential meditation teachers in the West, author of Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art...

(33) All levels 16 and older
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Real Love with Sharon Salzberg

Infinity Foundation @ 1280 Old Skokie Valley Rd, Highland Park, IL

Real love is about developing a core within and an ability to love beyond reciprocating. It invites you to practice courage, as well as resilience, self-forgiveness, acceptance, gratitude, and letting go. Join Sharon Salzberg, one of the most influential meditation teachers in the West, in her most recent work and upcoming release, Real Love. Move beyond the standard definition of love as intense affection, romance, adoration, strong attachment,...

(33) All levels 16 and older
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$340

2 sessions

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Access Consciousness Bars™

Infinity Foundation

There are 32 points on your head which, when gently touched, effortlessly and easily release anything that prevents you from receiving what you want. These points contain all the thoughts, ideas, beliefs, emotions, and considerations you have stored throughout your life. This is an opportunity for you to let go of everything holding you back. You may have noticed that your life is not yet what you would like it to be. Each Bars™ session can release...

(33) All levels 16 and older
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