NEIGHBORS : Joyful Job Hunt : Volunteers will present a free, inspirational series to help the unemployed find work.

Fun and inspirational.

Those are not necessarily adjectives you’d expect to hear in a description of an intense six-week course on job-seeking. But that’s the way organizers are describing the Adult Challenges Program, sponsored by the Conejo Coalition to Prevent Homelessness.

The classes, which will be held at the Center for Joyful Living in Thousand Oaks beginning Tuesday, are aimed at helping unemployed and underemployed people get work.

“What we are going to do is try to help people, through a sort of self-understanding process, find out what is the best career or job for them,” said Leslie Godwin, a Calabasas psychotherapist who will be co-leading the program. “And we will also give some concrete ways to approach a job.”

Godwin will be working with Westlake Village counselor Ellie Howe and other volunteers from the community, all of whom have certain areas of job-finding and job-landing expertise.

And where’s the fun part? “It’s not a lecture,” said Godwin. “Basically, it’s inspirational, people get to participate, have different projects they get to work on. The atmosphere is, ‘Let’s enjoy this.’ It’s not, ‘Make sure everybody’s paying attention,’ and things like that.”

The free series of workshops will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m. for the next six weeks. The center for Joyful Living is located at 780 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd.

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While we’re on the subject of worthy causes: The Fashion Alliance, a Ventura production company that specializes in charitable events, will present a fashion show Wednesday at Heritage Square in Oxnard, to benefit the Easter Seal Society of Ventura County. The models will be showing off mostly locally designed silks, hats, handbags, jewelry and the like. And the models will have their work cut out for them: The show runs from 1 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12.50. Call 647-1141.

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A couple of weeks ago we told you about courses being offered on the subjects of barbecuing and karaoke singing. Well, here’s another one that caught our eye.

Tomorrow evening the Ventura Jaycees are offering a seminar on flirting skills, to be led by a Southern California relationship specialist. Flirter wanna-bes will be meeting at the Buena Lanes bowling alley.

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The Ventura Department of Parks and Recreation just came out with its catalogue of fall programs. It looks full and exciting. One of the more prominently displayed activities is the three-day Yosemite excursion planned for November.

We were all excited about the possibilities until we saw the heading above the brief description of the expedition:

“Fall in Yosemite.”

And what’s next? “Trip in the Grand Canyon?”

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Remember the mural that Turning Point Foundation clients have been painting on the outside walls of the Livery building in Ventura?

Well, tomorrow is the scheduled unveiling of the 1,800-square-foot work of art, titled “The Arts Are in Reach of All.” The party will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Turning Point Foundation serves people with mental disabilities.