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There were five couples--all in their 20s and 30s--in the workshop run earlier this year by Peter Fraenkel, director of the PREP Couples Program at New York University's Child Study Center. Fraenkel noticed something curious: when four of the men showed an eagerness to share their feelings more extensively with their partner, the response was, in effect, "What is this guy's problem? He's so needy...
...Mediation and levitation may not be for everyone. But if you still must stop the madness, the Bureau of Study Council's Stress Management workshop (5 Linden St.; 495-2581; beginning in November, six FREE weekly meetings; Friday 2:30p.m. to 4 p.m.) offers a practical review of personal reactions to stress, identification of lifestyle and behavior causing emotional turmoil. The catch: group therapy means a roomful of new best friends...
...Mona Lisa is said to be the most reproduced painting in history--but the corporate approach of Media Arts brings the argument to a new level. "I have an N.C. Wyeth hanging in my office that was a tire ad in 1916," says Scott Usher, president of Greenwich Workshop, a publisher in Shelton, Conn., "and very few art critics are going to say Wyeth was just an illustrator." Norman Rockwell battled the same demon, and Andy Warhol took heat for suggesting it was O.K. to have assistants do some of the work--a tactic several populist artists now use. Collectors...
...Arlington, Va., in a program called Leadership Lessons from History, gives participants a chance to commune hypothetically with Honest Abe and other great leaders. The sessions are billed as metaphors for dealing with contemporary management problems. Tigrett's most popular program, at about $1,000 a person, is a workshop at the Civil War battlefields in Gettysburg, Pa. On the fields that saw 51,000 men killed or wounded, groups of executives listen to a Lincoln impersonator, clad in black and wearing a stovepipe hat, field questions about his critical decisions...
...activities were going to the jazz workshop," she says...