SMDM offers short courses, including this one: smdm.org/meeting/smdm...

…of existing in some stranded time zone distinct from all those in the outside world.…except, instead of waiting for a plane, we were waiting for devastation or deliverance.

…on professionals either kindly or officious; the same long walk to unappealing, overpriced commerce; the same creeping exhaustion that enters, like the quality of the air, almost the moment you walk through the door; the same sense of temporal dislocation...

…of the brevity of life and the great looming precipice of eternity as Wordsworth was at Tintern Abbey, yet at the same time you are basically stuck at an airport. There is the same combination of impatience and impotence; the same constant proximity to strangers; the same unavoidable dependence…