Workshops and presentations for professionals and caregivers.

How can we as professionals help older adults make the most of their elder years? We offer avenues for increased emotional, physical, social, intellectual and spiritual bonds among clients, staff, family and community.

We offer presentations and workshops that provide knowledge, skills and techniques for family members, friends, community members who wish to work with and assist older adults, or just want information for their personal use, such as 

•  Caregivers
•  Hospice workers
•  People considering retirement or for pre-retirement planning
•  Para-professionals 

We offer continuing and professional education presentations, workshops, retreats and pre-retirement talks for:

Professional staff, supervisors and administrators in the areas

•  Medicine and health care
•  Social work and social services
•  Human resources
•  Law
•  Clergy
•  Education
•  Retirement community employees
•  Senior services
  

The workshops are lively, reflective, energizing and prepare you with information, skills and ideas to bring back to the workplace and put into use immediately. We'll help you develop an on-going program for your organization. 

Presentations, workshops and retreats continually engage participants by intertwining theoretical material with interactive exercises, meditations, writing, movement, discussions and group sharing.

Some of the topics we explore:

• Moving beyond cultural views of aging 
•  Developmental tasks of our elder years - redefining our roles as elders
•  How to deal with life completion - mortality
•  Nourishing ourselves mentally, socially, physically, emotionally and spiritually
•  Dealing with life completion - facing our mortality
•  Life review and life harvest - harvesting the wisdom of a lifetime
•  Healing the past - Forgiveness - forgiving others and yourself
•  Your S.R.A. - Spiritual Retirement Account
•  Gratitude for the gifts we receive and those we have to give
•  Synthesizing wisdom from long life experiences 
•  Embracing the role of the Elder in our families 
•  Leaving a legacy for future generations
•  Creating your Elder Vision - a personal plan for the last third of your life
•  Serving as an Elder to others: Wisdomkeeper, oral histories and mentor
•  Community building - a way of serving others 
•  Creating a Sage-ing Circle(ä-trademark) for your community