• ONLINE CONVERSATION COURSES
• starting in September and October 2025​​

Mid-Week Good News Club
10 weekly lunchtime meetings for busy people

course number: Pa4154H
8 October- 10 December, 2025
​Wednesdays 14:00-15:30

The midday meal is an event which requires a lot of conversational skills between bites. There are certain societal rules of conduct in most English speaking cultures which expect people to keep things upbeat and positive and to avoid bringing the mood down, and not to complain without an acceptable level of humour. ​Holding onto Hope in Hard Times: Mid-Week Good News Club
Without a naive rejection of critical thinking and true bad news, this is
a weekly space to create balance, find inspiration and empowerment,
and focus on how to remain hopeful and stay strong.

for more info and info on how to register using the course number
Pa 4154H
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2 online
non-fiction 
​book clubs (C1 and FLINTA b2/C1)

next session from 9 September- 9 December 2025
14 meetings
Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm
course number : Pa 4206H

Discussing Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch"

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Pa 4206H
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and FLINTA only
9 October- 11 December, 2025
Thursdays 4-5:30 pm
Pa 4207H


Discussing  historian Bethany Hughes' "Venus Aphrodite"  


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Pa 4207H




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 feel free to contact me.
[email protected]
​+4917680060245
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2 online courses
​(1 FLINTA)
Waterfall of Words/Breaking through what blocks us: Speaking, Reading, and Generative Writing Exercises to increase confidence using English​ (B2-C1)

2 weekly courses!
Pa4155H Tuesdays 4:00-6:30 pm
7 October- 9 December, 2025
and
Pa4156H  (FLINTA only)
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
9 October- 11 December, 2025

Get Past your fears of using English and explore
releasing your thoughts onto paper in a safe,
confidential, and non-judgemental space.
Discuss weekly reading assignments from
Natalie Goldberg’s encouraging book https://
www.thelitpub.com/reviews-interviews/a-voice-
in-my-head-a-review-of-natalie-goldbergs-
writing-down-the-bones and using prompts of
you will write for 5-15 minutes without
stopping to allow, often surprising, free-flowing
thoughts through your pen onto paper. In the
practise adapted for non-native speakers, you
can use your language for words you can’t find,
and we will find them together afterwards. The
goal is not to produce great, or even good
writing, but rather, to loosen up and gain
confidence in a respectful group. The
agreements will include confidentiality, non-
judgment, also of one’s self, and you can share
as little or as much of your spontaneous writing
with us as you are comfortable with. More
about the author: https://nataliegoldberg.com/

Pa 4146F
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and last but certainly not least, an online weekly writing and storytelling group focused on sharing
REhumanizing Stories. That is, the personal stories of people who are included in excluded, marginalised, and categorised groups of humans who have experienced societal and political dehumanization and how it is used in order to justify greed, inequality, oppression, and hideous acts of injustice through a constructed, entitled, self-righteous belief in superiority and that some humans lives are more valuable than others. This can only be achieved by distancing and "othering" groups of people, demonising ignoring the true stories of individuals in which their relatable, and often admirable, humanity cannot be denied. The stories you bring can be yours, or the stories of people you know personally. The can even be your researched stories of lesser known historical figures. 
This course is offered as a weekly online B1+/B2 course: Pa4115H  8.10.2025- 10.12.2025  Wednesdays from wherever you are.
Note:
2 general Storytelling one-week intensive workshops (1 FLINTA only), which both qualify as an official Bildungurlaub, will be offered from
29.9.2025-2.10.2025 Monday-Thursday at the VHS on Prenzlauerallee 227, in Berlin. 
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www.vhsit.berlin.de
for more info and info on how to register using the course number Pa4162H

FLINTA only
22-26.9.2025 Monday-Friday at the VHS on Prenzlauerallee 227, in Berlin. 
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www.vhsit.berlin.de
for more info and info on how to register using the course number Pa4163H