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Life Skills Training Seattle

Learn essential life skills such as time management, communication, and financial literacy in Seattle to enhance your personal and professional growth.

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Virtual Public Speaking + Presentation Skills

General Assembly @ Online Class, Seattle, WA

Whether you are delivering a zoom webinar, speaking to an entire company or a few clients, your presentation skills establish your credibility and impact. Join us for an updated workshop that will teach you top tips and actionable strategies for presenting confidently online. Presenting online for the first time? Not a confident presenter, even in person? This hands-on workshop goes through all the possible disasters that could happen and gives...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Rose Pruning

UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom

Learn the right way to prune roses: hybrid teas, climbers, & landscape roses. Class will cover the best time of year to prune, the right tools, and techniques for ensuring healthy long lasting roses. This lecture series is designed for those who work in landscape maintenance. Each lecture provides information on tools and techniques for quality pruning with better long-term results and customer satisfaction.

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Japanese Garden Pruning

UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom

This class will cover pruning Japanese upright maples (fan pruning), Japanese laceleaf maples (shell pruning), pruning pines (cloud pruning) and shearing masses of lower story plants. This lecture series is designed for those who work in landscape maintenance. Each lecture provides information on tools and techniques for quality pruning with better long-term results and customer satisfaction.

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Foliar Pests and Diseases

UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA

This class will introduce you to common foliar pests and diseases often seen in spring in the Pacific Northwest, including rusts, mildews, anthracnose, bacterial blights, tent caterpillars, mites, lacebugs, root weevils, and aphids. Plant Health Care (PHC) approaches to management, including acceptable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods will be covered. The course will include field diagnosis practice, as well as an indoor lab session for everyone...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Conifer Pests and Diseases

UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA

This session will focus on insect pests and diseases that impact the health of landscape and native conifers in our region, including rusts, twig and needle blights, needle casts, scales, adelgids, bark beetles, and moths. We will examine samples in the classroom and the field. Plant Health Care (PHC) approaches to management, including acceptable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods will be covered. We will do diagnosis practice both in the...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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$125
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All About Conifers

UW Botanic Gardens

All About Conifers: Tree Identification, Management and Landscape Use Conifers provide the structural framework for many gardens, serving as specimen trees, focal points, screens, and hedges. Unique growth habits along with contrasts of foliage color and texture can provide year round interest in any size garden. In the dark days of winter a golden cypress can light up the garden with colorful foliage, and a prostrate weeping hemlock can soften...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Restoration Project Design

UW Botanic Gardens

Class attendees will learn about the restoration project design process in order to plan and implement more successful and cost effective ecological restoration projects. They will learn how to develop a design that meets project goals with the given site conditions and how to respond adaptively to unexpected changes. After an overview of project development and implementation topics, attendees will be split into teams to perform a field site assessment...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Male Allies Workshop

General Assembly @ Online Class, Seattle, WA

80% of men believe it’s important to fix issues women face in the workplace. For well-intentioned men, gender bias at work must be made explicit and personal in order to rewire tendencies and get men actionably supporting female colleagues. In this experiential workshop, male employees increase awareness of the difficulties faced by women in their workplace – and across all workplaces and industries – and learn methods for becoming allies to...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Reiki Masters Training

Lisa Guyman

The Reiki Masters attunes you to the Master Symbol and activates the highest level of Reiki. The following is part of Reiki Masters: Experience a guided meditation and be attuned to the Master level of Reiki Be attuned and open to the full level of Reiki energy Become aligned to your higher-self allowing for more guidance Learn the Master symbol, the Reiki symbol for awakening and experience the energies of the symbol Get any of your Reiki...

Advanced 18 and older
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2023 Ecological Restoration Symposium

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

2023 Ecological Restoration Symposium: Beginning Again – Ecosystem Restoration from the Ground Up This symposium will be an in-person and virtual hybrid event, bringing together researchers and practitioners to address the complex process of restoring native plant communities from the ground up, from structure removal to soil remediation & community engagement.  This symposium will guide attendees through the complex process of restoring...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Taking the Edge off: Pruning for Natural Areas Workshop

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

This lecture and hands-on workshop will cover how to manage and prune native vegetation adjacent to trails, drives, and streets for optimal environmental functions, appearance, safety, & visibility. This class is open to everyone, but geared towards public works, maintenance, and landscape crew members as well as community stewardship volunteers, supervisors, and field staff. Natural area landscapes hold an important place and functions in...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Creating Closed Terrariums

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

Join this workshop to learn how to build & maintain your own closed terrarium! Class supply fee covers all necessary supplies.  Terrariums are micro gardening environments that allow you to view nature up close and display it as a work of art. Closed terrariums require less watering than traditional terrariums. During the day, condensation will form on the glass, then in the evening as the glass cools, the moisture returns to the soil....

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Psychology & Copywriting: Web Content That Converts

General Assembly @ Online Class, Seattle, WA

Do you struggle to write web pages, emails, blogs and other digital copy that capture and hold attention? Are you having trouble convincing online visitors and leads to say “Yes!” at the final step? Well here’s some invigorating news. You don’t need to be a pro copywriter to convert the curious into customers. The key to writing web copy that connects and sells is understanding psychological triggers - how people think, behave and make choices...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Native Plants 101: Edible Native Plants

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

Learn to safely identify many of our native edibles here in the Puget Sound area as well as ways to incorporate native edible plants into your home landscape!  This class will include a small tasting of different native plants you can grow and harvest as well as a short walk around the Union Bay Natural Area to take a look at some of the native edibles and compare them to invasive look-alikes. Children are welcome, but class content will be...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Plant CSI: Leaf Spots, Curl, Galls, and Holes

UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA

Plant CSI: Leaf Spots, Curl, Galls, and Holes - Foliar Pests & Diseases Become a Plant Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)! Learn about key plant diseases and insect pests that can cause problems for favorite trees and shrubs in the landscape. Why does it seem like overnight your favorite shrubs and trees get so many leaf spots? Should your kinnikinnick leaves be so thick, curly and red? And what insect is eating your rhododendrons and azaleas?...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Plant CSI: Cankers, Conks, and Rots - Decay Pathogens

UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA

Learn how to identify and manage fungal decay diseases that affect native tree species in the Pacific Northwest. Gain essential skills in recognizing decay pathogens for proper tree health assessment and structure evaluation. Discover effective Plant Health Care (PHC) approaches and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods for disease management.

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Terrarium Workshop

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

Learn how to create an indoor garden in miniature. Terrariums are a micro gardening technique that allows you to view nature up close and display it as a work of art. Instructor Tassy de Give, author of Rooted in Design, will guide you on building a terrarium and how to maintain it. Learn how to create an indoor garden in miniature. Terrariums are a micro gardening technique that allows you to view nature up close and display it as a work of art....

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Kokedama: Moss Ball Workshop

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

Learn the ancient Japanese art of Kokedama gardening and create a unique living sculpture under the guidance of instructor Tassy de Give. Discover the history and materials used in this fascinating art form at UW Botanic Gardens.

(13) All levels 18 and older
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Restoration Project Management

UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA

Class attendees will be introduced to restoration-relevant project management concepts in order to plan and implement more successful and cost effective ecological restoration projects. Considerations of project management like identifying project needs and stakeholders and researching sites, as well as creating project schedules and budgets will be discussed. Class attendees will also be introduced to important resources for restoration practitioners...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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A Closer Look: The Centennial Garden

UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA

The Centennial Garden is at its best in summer. The garden, completed in September 2017 in partnership with the Seattle Garden Club, was designed as a colorful destination at the south end of Azalea Way, overlooking the pond and with views to the Lookout Gazebo. Ray Larson, our Curator of Living Collections, will talk about the plants in this new garden, and which ones are at their best during each season of the year. Your $5 at the door donation...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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