Wisdom Seminars
 

Based on the book
 

The Wisdom of Les Miserables:

Lessons From the Heart of Jean Valjean
 

by
 

Alfred J. Garrotto

 

(Unit Titles)

 

Unit 1

 

In Search of Wisdom

 

Session 1         “I Am Purchasing Your Soul”

 

Session 2         “Elusive Wisdom”

 

Session 3         “He Was But a Man”

 

Session 4        “A Distant Horizon”

 

Unit 2

 

The Primacy of Conscience

 

Session 1         “Compass of the Unknown”

 

Session 2         “Go In Peace”

 

Session 3         “The Violence of Thought”

 

Session 4        “Raise the Drawbridge”

 

Unit 3

 

My Name is Jean Valjean

 

Session 1         “A Name Too Small”

 

Session 2         “A Name is a Centre”

 

Session 3         “A Name is a Me”

 

Session 4        “Learning the Dad Thing”

  

Unit 4

 

Shock and Awe of Parenthood

 

Session 1         “A Heart Full of Freshness (1)”

 

Session 2         “The Primal Wound”

 

Session 3         “Real-Life Fantines”

 

Session 4        “A Gift in the Present Tense”

 

Unit 5

 

The Power of Story

 

Session 1         “Like a Mother”

 

Session 2         “Healing Stories”

 

Session 3         “Bedtime Stories”

 

Session 4        “Lost Angels”

 

 Unit 6

 

Last Words of Jean Valjean

 

Session 1         “To Me They are Gold”

 

Session 2         “Is He Pleased With Me?”

 

Session 3         “We Must Forgive Them”

 

Session 4        “Scarcely Anything Else”

 

For additional information about the above sessions,
contact Alfred J. Garrotto at
algarrotto@comcast.net 

 

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Updated February 1, 2008