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    • 13/11/2019 - 18/12/2019

      St. Michael’s Church Community Centre, SW13 0NX

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Don’t Suffer with Painful Muscles: Try Somatic Movement

The leaves are beginning to fall and the days are becoming shorter; autumn has arrived. It’s a new season and a great opportunity to do something new for yourself – Somatic Movement!

What is Somatic Movement?  It’s a slow, safe and gentle form of therapeutic movement developed to re-educate your brain to safely release, lengthen and relax muscles. It helps you discover muscles that have become habitually contracted, learn how to release them, and reduce muscular pain.

Join expert Carole Marshall for a six-week programme to raise awareness of the way you move and respond to stress, and the impact that it has on your body. We will address a different area of the body each week, learning movements that encourage relaxation and and realignment. Building week by week, Carole will encourage and enable you to develop your own 10-15 minute daily practice.

Filed Under: Blog, Classes, News Tagged With: coaching, muscles, stress

Mastering Black and White Drawing with Michael Ajerman

Our super-popular drawing course with expert Michael Ajerman returns in autumn 2019 with a focus on the exciting Felix Vallotton exhibition currently held at Royal Academy. In this 4-week course, students will explore how blacks and whites are used powerfully and poetically in his paintings, along with looking at Vallotton’s interiors which skilfully carve line in a flawless fashion.

Vallotton’s exhibition at the RA has caused a shudder amongst those whom have seen it. Art lovers say that it’s an exercise in disquiet; powerful; poetic; and haunting.

Under Michael’s expert guidance, this is a rare opportunity to study a master of the Belle Èpoque, learning skills which explore line, form and the power of the line on paper.

Absolutely no skills nor expertise is required, and Michael will provide all materials for you. He’s hosting this class at the wonderful OSO Arts Centre, easily reached by public transportation.

To learn more, click here.

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Grow Your Business with Coaching and Mentorship

Barnes Class is delighted to announce we have teamed up with business coach and mentor Harleen Chadha. which will help you identify your next critical move in your life/career or business.

Harleen has a proven track record of helping people achieve their goals by empowering you to smash through your limiting beliefs. Just look at this quote from one of her delighted clients:

Harleen has an insightful and fearless approach to coaching, balancing gentleness and sensitivity with firmness when it is needed. She pushed me to explore my boundaries and really discover what is deep inside me. She helped me focus on what is really important, so that I could prioritise actions and move forward to make the changes that I wanted to make but in which I had felt stuck and unable to move. I would highly recommend her as a coach.

– Allison Lindsay, Business Psychologist, London

Harleen will help you find your inner voice, crystallise your vision/goals and create a strategic action plan to steer your way towards your soul-led goals.

Harleen is offering her one-to-one business and lifestyle coaching and mentorship as one-to-one sessions in either 6 or 10 blocks. These can be conducted in the manner you find most convenient to suit your busy schedule:

  • Virtual, using Skype
  • Telephone
  • Face-to-face in a local cafe

To learn more and to book, please click here.

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Barnes Class Celebrates 2-year Anniversary with Brand New Classes Chosen by Student Vote

1 May 2017 – Local business Barnes Class has announced new classes to be offered in the spring, just in time for their second anniversary. The female-led team is celebrating two years of success for the startup program in May, which offers leisure and learning classes across subjects, all taught by local Barnes experts. From cookery to meditational yoga, they look forward to many more exciting, inventive, and engaging courses to come.

Throughout the year, Barnes Class has offered a myriad of choice designed to fit around the busy schedules of Barnes families as well as appeal to our more mature residents interested in learning a new skill. To that end, local artist Michael Ajerman returned with a series of his best-selling drawing classes, including an observational drawing course which just wrapped up this March. Ajerman utilised his years of experience as an artist alongside the exciting art scene in London to structure classes around exhibits or artists he admires. In May, he’ll return with a new offering of training students to perfect the technique of drawing faces, a tricky subject indeed.

A Barnes local and yoga teacher of over 20 years, Ali Gilling has continued to offer dynamic programming for those looking to keep fit and re-center. This year, in addition with her Mindful Yoga class which has become a student favourite, Gilling developed new courses like Yoga for Runners, an excellent cross-training tool, and an all new 8-week program called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. This exciting new offering is taking place now through the month of May, and is designed to help students become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress.

Many new classes have joined the Barnes Class roster, in addition to many returning familiar faces. Flora’s Kitchen has again partnered with Barnes Class to offer tailored cooking workshops for beginners, teens, and even an all-men class. Social media expert Kathy Ennis brought her expertise to small businesses with a Social Media Marketing class, focused on bringing branding, networking, and content creation to companies, clubs and organisations. She returns in May with two new masterclasses, an introduction to both WordPress and managing a Facebook business page. A brand new Italian immersion class this winter offered students the chance to cook authentic meals while practicing their Italian language skills.

As part of a wider initiative to expand their timetable into new sectors and areas of expertise, Barnes Class polled former students to gain their valuable input into future classes and events. Although the new classes are yet to be formally announced, the team at Barnes Class are thrilled with the responses and fresh ideas and are investigating future classes in floristry, Spanish language and cookery, silk scarf painting, and even cocktail-making.

The Barnes Class team is passionate about engaging the local community with classes chosen by you. The polls are still open—let the team know what excites your passion for learning simply by clicking the link and sharing your feedback here.

Be sure to follow Barnes Class on Facebook for updates on new courses, fun local opportunities, announcements, and more.

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Guest Post: 5 Top Tips to Rock Your Social Media

[Ed: Barnes Class is delighted to publish this helpful article from local expert Kathy Ennis.]

What’s the best way for you to get your social media working so that it becomes a real benefit to your business?

That’s the 64,000 dollar question:

Many small and micro businesses approach their social media from the wrong direction; seeing it purely as a sales funnel. Of course we want all of our marketing to lead to sales, but if we use our social media like a barrow boy at a market – simply shouting out our wares and prices – we’re missing the point. Modern marketing is about engagement; it’s about understanding our target audience’s wants and needs so that we can engage with them on a more individual level. Social media enables us to do that really well.

So here are my 5 top tips for helping you achieving customer engagement and rocking your social media:

1 Know your customers / know yourself

There’s an old saying “People buy from people”, but often the end of that sentence is forgotten, “People buy from people, like themselves”.

Consider yourself as a consumer. How do you like to engage with people online; where do you spend your time; how do you react to businesses / suppliers online; what encourages you to engage or purchase goods online?

If you are using methods to market your business, or engage with customers online, that you don’t personally respond to, do you think your prospective customers will?

2 Understand the difference between broadcast and marketing

Social media gives you a brilliant opportunity to send out messages about yourself, your products and services, your reaction to news stories, brilliant quotes, funny cat videos ….

The problem is, that’s broadcasting, not marketing.

Here’s what I mean:

Broadcast is simply a shout-out message or your reaction to something; it’s not a planned approach to a specific, measurable objective – and it’s certainly not a methodology for true engagement.

It’s not to say broadcast is wrong, it’s just it needs to be part of a broader approach to your social media marketing.

3 Be your brand

It is my firm belief that the brand of every business is the outcome of the personal brand of the business founder. The business will be built on the shared knowledge, experience and core values of the business owner.

So, your social media output needs to be a mirror image of the brand of the business.

The stories you share, the words you write, the views you hold should be shared with your audience.

“People buy from people, like themselves”.

Being true to your brand may turn off some people; that’s fine. We’re all Marmite. Some people will love us; some people will hate use – but there will be enough people out there that love us and will want to buy from us. All the others? Well, they’re just missing out on something great, aren’t they!

4 Be proactive, be collaborative and give credit where it’s due

One of the most common challenges I hear expressed by small and micro business owners who are having difficulties with their social media marketing, is that they don’t know what to say.

Here’s the thing:

Would it surprise you to know that ‘You’ don’t have to be the one who’s saying it.

Let’s consider the 80:20 Rule.

If you’re finding it difficult to come up with lots of new and exciting content; don’t. Share other people’s. You need to give them full credit, of course – but you shouldn’t be spending all your time creating content, you should be spending your time delivering your products or services.

When I work with small and micro business owners, and we develop their social media strategy, I get them to identify 80% of shred content; leaving them with 20% of their own. So much easier to handle, don’t you think?

5 Do Something Daily

Not everything; not everywhere.

You need to be where your customers are (considering what I said above, it’s probably where you are) and you need to provide them with a daily dose of engagement.

Don’t do this social media stuff only when you feel like it. A little activity consistently is far more effective than massive bursts of information at irregular intervals. So, one post a day on Facebook or LinkedIn, maybe two Tweets a day on Twitter – remembering that the posts don’t have to be all your own, original content – can be enough.

And, as a time saver, there are some great scheduling tools out there: Hootsuite is good for Twitter and LinkedIn, Buffer is good for Twitter and Facebook has its own scheduling option.

So, follow these tips and you’ll soon be rocking your social media.

— Kathy Ennis

Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: social media

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