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From: How to Academy To:j <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: How To: Be Mindful, Change the World, Use Twitter, Move to the Country. Plus Antony Beevor on his major new book on the Second World War. Date:Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:51:17 +0000 L. ,. Spring Programme and Highlights View this email in your browser 21.05.2015 Evening Event, 6:45pm-8:00pm how to: Ardennes 1944. Hitler's Last Gamble with Antony Beevor The Western Counterpart to Stalingrad EFTA00721269 This major talk by Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin, D-Day and The Second World War, timed to coincide with the launch of his new book Ardennes 1944, focuses on Hitler's ill- fated final stand when on 16th December 1944, Hitler launched his last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgium/German border. Although Hitler s generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in western Europe.... EFTA00721270 NEXT FORTNIGHT EFTA00721271 19.03.2015 Evening Event, 7pm • 8:30pm how to: Be Mindful (Introductory Workshop) with Louise Chester A small shift in your thinking can have a major effect on your life. Mindfulness is the smart new way to live. In the workplace it helps you build teamwork, enhance creativity and communication, and resolve conflict. In private life, it helps you to forget the fears of the past and future, and focus completely on the present and its potential. Being Mindful means making every moment count. This workshop is for those who have little personal or practical knowledge of Mindfulness. Louise Chester will help you understand... Read more and book. EFTA00721272 20.03.2015: Daytime Event. 9:30am•12:30pm how to: Get great publicity for your business — for free. (A Masterclass in doing your own PR) with Ann Wright 1. Do stories about you or your business never make it onto TV or into the papers? 2. Do you write press releases or pitches that never result in media enquiries? 3. Do your competitors get better coverage in newspapers or on TV? 4. Are you buzzing with ideas for newspapers or magazines but don't know how to approach an editor? It is a fact: editorial coverage has four times the value of advertising. And with thousands of websites, newspapers, magazines and broadcasters out there, the media is... Read more and book. EFTA00721273 25.03.2015 Evening Event, 6.30pm•8pm how to: Read the Qur'an with Mona Siddiqui Believed by Muslims to be the word of God, the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad fifteen centuries ago. It is addressed to everyone, regardless of class, gender or age. But what does this mean for the two billion people throughout the world who consult it every day? A sacred text and a great work of literature, but also a manual of guidance — the Qur'an teaches how to live a family life, how to marry, whom to marry, what to eat and how to do business. It outlines the rights of the people: women and children and parents, husbands, wives and neighbours. It tells governors how to rule in war and in peace... Read more and book. EFTA00721274 26.03.2015 Evening Event, 6:30pm•8:30pm how to: Remember with Ed Cooke An introduction to the imaginative techniques and stories behind the ancient arts of memory. Ed will lead an interactive, practical tour through the world of memory techniques, with numerous examples of how to boost your memory, how to forget and how to make sense of memory in the modern world. Ed is a co-founder of Memrise.com, the online learning platform, a Grandmaster of Memory, has been regularly placed in the top 10 of the world memory championships and holds degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy from Oxford University and from Rene Descartes University, Paris. In 2007 he trained Josh Foer to... Repeated due to popular demand. Read more and book. EFTA00721275 BUSINESS BRIEFING EFTA00721276 30.03.2015 Daytime Event, 10:00am-11:30am how to: The High Street, Out of Town Shopping Centres, Online — The Future of Retail with Chloe Markowicz Is digital killing the High Street? Chloe Markowicz will explore the threats and opportunities that retailers today face and explain how the High Street can remain relevant to shoppers in an increasingly online world. She'll demonstrate how retailers can convert browsers into shoppers by creating unique experiences and investing in convenience. Using case studies from the most innovative brands from around the world, Chloe will investigate how retailers are driving footfall in-store and giving people a reason not to shop on Amazon. Read more and book. EFTA00721277 POLITICS EFTA00721278 13.04.2015 Evening Event, 6.30pm-7.45pm how to: Understand the Prime Minister of India — Narendra Modi. ( And How to win an Election) with Lance Price Who is Narendra Modi and how did a `chaff wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? In this talk by Lance Price, the former Director of Communications at No 10 under Tony Blair, coinciding with his new book, " Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India", we will gain insight into an extraordinary man. A teetotal, celibate vegetarian. A man for whom there are no sports, no hobbies, no family ties. A 23/7 politician who sleeps 4 hours... Read more and book. EFTA00721279 08.04.2015 Evening Event, 7:30pm how to: Build a Campaign to Galvanise Communities, Improve your Neighbourhood or simply Change the World with Srdja Popovic Tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize and hailed as a world-changer by everyone from the World Economic Forum to Wired magazine, fifteen years ago Popovic was just a Belgrade rock kid looking for a party. In conversation with Nick Cohen he will explain how he became one of the leaders of Otpor! — the movement which overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic — and went on to train the pro-democracy activists behind the Arab Spring, Occupy, and many other movements.... Read more and book. EFTA00721280 BUSINESS WORKSHOPS EFTA00721281 31.03.2015 Evening Event, 6:30pm•8:30pm how to: Effective Networking for Business and Career Development with Judith Perle Are you as well connected as you could be? Do you regard networking as an 'optional extra'? Networking is crucial. Only if you understand how networks really work can you capitalise on your communication skills, and not miss the opportunities that come your way. Whether you are looking for a new job, to keep your career on track, to improve your skills, or to enhance your profile, this masterclass is for you. Judith Perle co-founded the training consultancy Management Advantage (ManAdvan.com) after ... Read more and book. EFTA00721282 15.04.20155 Evening Event, 6:30pm•8:00pm how to: Build Your Readership & Publish Successfully. (A Masterclass in Marketing for writers and publishers.) with Hellen Barbara Whether you're an entrepreneur looking to learn more about publishing, an aspiring or established author, or a publisher, it's important to learn how to navigate the publishing industry as new technologies and trends emerge. This class will teach you how to maximize your success by putting more emphasis on pre-publication marketing efforts, with actionable tips and ways to do so. Learn how to leverage your existing network to create the momentum and buzz you need to stand out in the ever-growing publishing arena. Read more and book. EFTA00721283 22.04.2015 Evening Event, 6:30pm•8:30pm how to: Speak in Public with Edie Lush All of us have to do it — "say a few words" — at one time or another. Most of us are terrified by the thought of it. But don't panic. This three-hour workshop will enable you to make fear of your audience a thing of the past. Does the prospect of addressing a roomful of people leave you weak with terror? Does your mouth dry up and your stomach turn over at the invitation to speak? Can you imagine a future in which you can stand up and speak to a crowd without feeling like a fool? Make your fear a thing of the past. This practical and interactive session is for people who want to... Read more and book. EFTA00721284 23.04.2015 Evening Event, 6:45pm•8:00pm how to: Use Twitter for Business with Chloe Markowicz Twitter has become an essential marketing tool, but what should businesses actually tweet about? How can they use the platform to actively engage their audiences and what pitfalls do they need to avoid? This seminar will cover best practice examples of the most creative uses of twitter and explore what so many brands are doing wrong. Chloe Markowicz is Deputy Editor of Contagious Feed - a bespoke intelligence resource that delivers strategic insight into brands and agencies around the world, including Diageo, Mattel, Razorfish, and BBDO.... Read more and book. EFTA00721285 27.04.2015 Daytime Event. 9:30am•12:30pm how to: Transform your Work Life (A Masterclass in workplace creativity and mindfulness) with David Pearl International expert on ' business as unusual', David Pearl shows how to be more creative, more curious and more conscious at work. David sees possibilities everywhere including in the tedious bits. This is an intensive, practical session (limited places) for people who want to innovate, boost productivity, get themselves or their companies out of a rut and find magic even in the monotony. David Pearl — creative confidante to top CEOs, business- and self-development specialist, speaker, author and arts-in-business pioneer.... Read more and book. EFTA00721286 28.04.2015 Evening Event, 6.30pm•8.30pm how to: Invest like Warren Buffett with Jonathan Davis Warren Buffett, often dubbed The Sage of Omaha, is widely recognised as the most brilliant investor of the modern era. A single $10,000 investment in his original investment partnership would today, if reinvested in his investment company Berkshire Hathaway, be worth more than $500m. Its shares have risen 10x in value over the last 20 years alone. Buffett himself remains in the top five of the annual Forbes Rich List, despite pledging to give away more than $30 billion of his fortune to charity in the last five years. His reputation as an investment genius is richly deserved, as a number of independent empirical studies have confirmed.... Read more and book. EFTA00721287 LIFESTYLE EFTA00721288 14.04.2015 Evening Event, 6.45pm•8pm how to: Change our Habits and Change our Lives with Gretchen Rubin When we change our habits, we change our lives... How can we make good habits and break bad ones? Gretchen Rubin, author of the New York Times bestselling The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, will tackle this critical question in her talk for the How To Academy. She will explain how to create the habits that will transform our lives, even if they've failed before. The secret, Rubin explains in her new book, is to pinpoint the specific strategies that will work for us. From finding the right time to begin a new habit, to setting up a counter-intuitive system... Read more and book. EFTA00721289 24.06.2015 Evening Event, 6.30pm•8.00pm how to: Make the Transition from City Life to Self- Sufficient Rural Living. (The 'Good Life' on a Smallholding.) with Simon Dawson Following a drunken misunderstanding one New Year's Eve, Simon Dawson inadvertently found himself leaving his lucrative life in London to start a smallholding on the wilds of Exmoor with his wife, Debbie. In this talk for the How To Academy, Simon will tell us how to up sticks and realise for ourselves ' The Good Life' and what adventures to expect along the way in transitioning from city to country life. Read more and book. 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