General Enrichment

Like you, I love a good story, but menstrual myths and mis-information are damaging our ability to understand, connect with and make informed decisions about our cycles and health care. In this evening of menstrual-myth busting, Fertility Awareness Educator Gabrielle Jansen helps you re-connect to the truth about your cycle. How long is a healthy cycle? When should ovulation occur? What causes late periods? Can the pill regulate my cycle? We’ll review just how the menstrual cycle works, what healthy menstruation looks like and spend time addressing your menstrual health questions.

Gabrielle Jansen BN is an Australian herbalist and certified Fertility Awareness Educator living in Midcoast Maine, who is passionate about menstrual health and cyclical well-being. Read more at www.witchmountainherbal.com.

This course will cover the most common scams currently circulating the community, the major “red flags” to watch out for, and the precautionary steps we can take to protect ourselves from falling victim to identity theft.

Amy Schram serves as BBB’s Manager of Community Relations. Her focus is to foster the business to consumer relationship and educate the public at large on all BBB programs and services. She delivers, on average, 200 programs each year speaking to thousands of business and community members throughout Eastern Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Maine Driving Dynamics is a Maine sponsored five hour defensive driving course that offers all drivers the opportunity to improve their defensive driving skills.   Course includes discussion of collision avoidance techniques, safety issues, driver habits and attitudes, and the basic elements that constantly challenge drivers on Maine’s highways.  It is taught by a certified Maine Driving Dynamics instructor in a format that engages students with lectures, videos, and class discussion/participation. 

Those completing the course will receive a three-point credit on their driving record and students 55 and older can receive an insurance discount from their insurer.  More importantly, students taking this course will be safer drivers. 

This ongoing workshop offers participants an opportunity to get the creative juices flowing, overcome the internal critic, and let heart and soul flow out onto the page! Just as importantly, it also provides a tight knit, supportive community of fellow writers with whom to share the fruits of your labor. The instructor, Elizabeth Potter, will present proven writing prompts and techniques to tickle your muse and coax even the most hesitant voice onto the page.

Elizabeth Potter is a teacher and poet residing in midcoast Maine. Her new collection of poetry “T’ai Chi of Leaves” was released by Moon Pie press in September 2016. Her poems have also been widely published in literary journals both locally and nationally. Elizabeth has been leading creative writing workshops for all ages for the past seventeen years.