"So, now what are you
going to do with the rest of your life?"
Seniors and their adult
children, retirees and those thinking of retiring, family, friends and
neighbors who are active in programs for older adults at faith communities
and community "seniors" programs love this positive view of
growing older. It helps people regain the honored role of Elder in
our society.
Our interactive workshops
help people deal with their own issues around growing older. For
many of us, we'll spend as much time in "retirement" as we did
in our careers, raising a family and our adult life.
How can we spend the last
third of our lives becoming more wise and wonderful; and continue to make
a meaning to our families, community and the world?
Here are just some of the topics we
explore in our workshops:
Creating Elder Vision
Planning for the future -
social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual issues
The positive side of growing
older
Passing on legacies and being
a mentor to future generations
Time for reflecting,
contemplating and meditating
Life repair - helping to heal
the family
Life review - the family
historian and taking a look at your successes
Retiring from one career or
role and doing your "heart" work
Spirituality in our lives
What will I do with the time I
have left?
Being a grandparent - for your
family or another family that could use one
We offer half-day, full day and
two-day workshops, retreats and multi-day series and can customize a program to
fit the needs of your group.
We have worked with organizations
that serve seniors, senior and inter-generational housing, faith communities,
health care facilities, assisted living residences and Elder learning groups.
Our goals are to encourage people
to make the most of their remaining years - for themselves and others. We
help them realize that "old age," "retirement" or the
"twilight years" don't have to be a painful process, a road of loss,
futility and diminished physical and mental abilities. Instead, as Rabbi
Zalman Schacter-Shalomi says about growing older, "It is a conscious
transformation of the downward arc of aging, into the upward arc of expanded
consciousness."
