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Understanding Assisted Living
with Kaitlyn Morse
Choosing assisted living is one of the most important decisions a family can make. This 2-part workshop offers clear, practical guidance for older adults, caregivers, and adult children who want to understand options, avoid common pitfalls, and make confident choices. Through real-world examples and a simple evaluative framework, participants learn what truly matters when selecting a community. Kaitlyn Cunningham Morse, founder of Maine Aging Partners, helps families navigate care decisions with clarity and confidence. Her work is grounded, practical, and shaped by years inside Maine’s senior living industry.
Collette Tours Info Night
with Andrew Leighton
Interested in a travel experience with Collette Tours? Come join Andrew for more specific details about how these inclusive travel packages are backed by a century of experience. Collette (a family-owned and award winning leader in travel) is proud to show you the world. Their passionate tour design team travels the globe, creating new experiences and staying ahead of the latest travel trends. Plus, with a professional Tour Manager at your service and local guides by your side, you'll never miss a thing! Choosing Collette comes with benefits that take your guided travel experience to another level. Our inclusive tours provide you more value for your money and more of what makes travel special. SPECIAL NOTE: This Info Night is specifically focused on the current Collette Tours being offered through Merrymeeting: Spain's Costa del Sol & Treasures of Egypt (see page 47).
Understanding Constitutional Carry and Legal Use of Force
with Alice Bean Andrenyak
This three-hour course is for firearm owners and nonowners. You’ll learn what to do when you see an attack or if you are attacked and respond with force. You’ll learn how to contact the first responders, how prosecutors might view what you did, rules about concealed carry in the US and Maine, and various ways to protect yourself without using a firearm. Class taught via Zoom.
Portrait Studio: Proportion before Detail
with Ed Higgins
By popular demand, a reboot of Ed Higgins’ popular introduction to portraits. You’ll learn key elements of achieving likeness and accuracy of proportion through speed sketching drills, anatomy basics, working with the skull, and from life. If you need help choosing materials for the course, please contact the instructor directly (ed_higgins@icloud.com) before the first class. *No Class: 4/24.
Embodied Wisdom: Simple and Profound Connections for Health, Happiness, and Wholeness
with Jacey Goddard
Our body's perfect human design is just waiting for us to connect to it to support our health and wellbeing. You'll learn Dr. Goddard’s favorite wholeness-based and science-backed methods that help on many levels that you can immediately put into practice in your daily life. These practices can help you to: Calm your own nervous system, Decrease body tension and stress, Experience more wholeness and sense of self, Support your body's self-healing capacity, Make all the work you've done really work.
Studiocraft Workshop
with Ed Higgins
Calling all fine artists! Instructor Ed Higgins is offering a series of Studiocraft sessions to help you learn the essential skills of your vocation. We will cover topics such as: stretching canvas or watercolor paper; preparing surfaces with gesso or other grounds; cutting mats with a mat cutter; organizing and caring for your brushes, tools and materials; mixing paint and filling empty tubes; tips and tricks to transport your gear to and from the field, and; ways to use your sketches and studies to plan and execute studio work. *No Class: 4/24.
Flow and Gentle Yoga Live - Online
with Nicola Eden
From the comfort of your own space, experience the gifts of yoga through awareness of mind and body, attention to movement and breath, explorations in slowing down, down to the ground, and moments of settling into stillness, all to support your journey. Guided by Nicola, with a sustainable approach, and open to all. Nicola Eden is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher with a Maine State Teacher Certificate.
Explorations in Chair Yoga Live - Online
with Nicola Eden
Take care of yourself from the comfort of your own space. You are welcome to experience the gifts of yoga through awareness of mind and body, attention to movement and breath, studies in slowing down, and moments of settling into stillness, while in and out of your stable chair. Guided by Nicola, with a sustainable approach, and open to all. Nicola Eden is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher with a Maine State Teacher Certificate.