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The best free cultural & educational media on the web | Open Culture -- -- -- The best free cultural & educational media on the web | -- -- The best free cultural & educational media on the web -- -- Audio Books Online Courses MOOCs Movies Languages Textbooks -- K-12 th Grade K-12 -- eBooks Donate -- -- Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity –Take a Free & Timely Course Online in Health , Online Courses , Psychology | May 8th, 2020 Facebook Twitter Reddit Subscribe Google Whatsapp Pinterest Digg Linkedin Stumbleupon Vk Print Delicious Buffer Pocket Xing Tumblr Mail Yummly Telegram Flipboard Advertisement  The Great Course s has made available a free and rather timely course-- Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity . Divided into 24 lectures and taught by Molly Birkholm, the course gets introduced with the following text: Recent research shows that we grow into our best and most joyful selves not when we avoid our problems but when we embrace them, confident that we are resilient enough to work through them to an appropriate resolution. Our problems are an important part of our path. Resilience is our ability to physically, emotionally, and mentally bounce back from adverse circumstances. Without it, we would be down for the count every time we ran into a problem. Stuck in traffic and late for a meeting? It’s your resilience that allows you to make the necessary phone calls and keep moving forward, confident that you can handle this stressful situation as it evolves. Without it, you’d make a U-turn and give up. Recovering from the flu or recent surgery? It’s your resilience that helps you take care of yourself appropriately and look forward to a better future. Our capacity to thrive in life depends directly on our resilience. Sharing her own fascinating journey, as well as the latest research by neurologists and psychologists, trauma specialist Molly Birkholm shows us how to gauge our current level of resilience and improve from there. In Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity, you’ll learn how all of our challenges—from everyday stresses to life-altering traumas—can bring wisdom and growth. In 17 fascinating classes and 7 “hands-on” practice sessions, you’ll learn about and experience the process of building the inner calm and clarity of mind that create greater resilience. With Ms. Birkholm’s warm and optimistic demeanor, you’ll feel her encouragement every step of the way as you move toward building your best and most fulfilling life. Watch all 24 lectures above, or over on YouTube . Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity will be added to our collection, 1,500 Free Online Courses from Top Universities . 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Here's the gist: If you buy an All-Access pass to their 80+ courses , you will receive another All-Access Pass to give to someone else at no additional charge. An All-Access pass costs $180, and lasts one year. For that fee, you--and a family member or friend--can watch courses created by Annie Leibovitz, Neil Gaiman, Malcolm Gladwell, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese, David Mamet, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Helen Mirren, Herbie Hancock, Alice Waters, Billy Collins and so many more. If you're thinking this sounds like a pretty good way to get through quarantine, we'd have to agree. The deal is available now . Note: If you sign up for a MasterClass course by clicking on the links in this post, Open Culture will receive a small fee that helps support our operation. by OC | Permalink | Make a Comment ( None ) | -- Facebook Twitter Reddit Subscribe Google Whatsapp Pinterest Digg Linkedin Stumbleupon Vk Print Delicious Buffer Pocket Xing Tumblr Mail Yummly Telegram Flipboard -- Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments” in Music | May 8th, 2020 3.3k SHARES Facebook Twitter Reddit Subscribe Google Whatsapp Pinterest Digg Linkedin Stumbleupon Vk Print Delicious Buffer Pocket Xing Tumblr Mail Yummly Telegram Flipboard Advertisement King Crimson’s master guitarist Robert Fripp has had a career long reputation as an autocrat, and exacting, difficult taskmaster. He’s named an album, a band, and a record company “Discipline.” Drummer Bill Bruford once described him as an “an amalgam of Stalin, Gandhi and the Marquis de Sade,” according to The Telegraph . But recently, there’s been some activity on Fripp’s social media that can only be described as “silly.” In lockdown with his wife of 34 years, singer and actor Toyah Wilcox, we’ve seen them shimmying to the Twist on Easter Sunday: They dressed up as bees and ran around their Worcestershire garden: And performed a ballet with stuffed unicorns set to Ravel’s Bolero: Very silly indeed. But there is some music being made during all this madness, as can be heard at the top of this post. Last Friday, Fripp dropped the first in a 50-track series, Music for Quiet Moments . These ambient pieces will be drawn from all different years of the guitarist’s career, and will appear on most streaming platforms ( including YouTube and Spotify ), one a week, every Friday. “My own quiet moments,” he says in a blog post announcement , “over fifty-one years of being a touring player, have been mostly in public places where, increasingly, a layer of noise has intentionally overlaid and saturated the sonic environment.” He continues: “Some of these Soundscapes are inward-looking, reflective. Some move outwards, with affirmation. Some go nowhere, simply being where they are.” David Singleton, producer and Fripp’s business partner, added “a year at home without touring offers the chance to listen for the first time in many cases to existing live recordings.” The cover art for the first track features sculpture from Fripp’s garden by artist Althea Wynne. (You may not see it at first, but the sculpture is a take on Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe .) By the way, Fripp’s online diary is just as thorough and fascinating as the man himself, as well as revealing the soppy ol’ romantic whenever he describes his wife. It’s very endearing...another word I bet you didn’t expect to pop up in this post. As of this writing, his latest entry offers a preview of Music for Quiet Moments #2: Quiet Moments 2 is a sonic meditation on dying, loss and accepting, disguised as looping; so it is better equipped and able to go out and present itself in public; so more likely to escape the expectat...