Engaging in Life Series"I was 10 yesterday and tomorrow I will be 50, who knew that getting caught up in life would cost me 40 years of living?"
For many of us, life seems to go by just that fast! We suddenly find ourselves dealing with a new stage of life in a very ambiguous context. The meaningfulness of family, home, belongings, travel, community, and ties to the land, all emerge. In negotiating these issues, people also have to deal with a number of conflicting American values, including the tensions between freedom and responsibility, autonomy and rootedness, and adventure and security. Our culture lacks a clear model of what retirement and later life are supposed to be about, how older people should think of themselves, and how they are to be thought of by others.
How do older individuals confront decisions about how to live, where to live, who to live with, and what to live for? We are a generation of men and women who want to define retirement rather than letting retirement define us. The eight-week seminar will examine, discuss and play with the various patterns that emerge in the phases of retirement, relationships between person and place, housing, finances, health and purpose-full-living during this time of transition.
March 5 – Roadmaps to the Future: Life is a journey; it’s better to have a map!
March 12 – Don’t Retire – Re-create! You can reinvent the wheel.
March 19 – Traveling Down De-Nile: Making healthy choices for a healthy future.
March 26 – Creative Living Spaces: Cut the clutter and rediscover your space.
April 2 – Practical Financial and Living Solutions: Affordable options that make sense.
April 9 – How to Talk to Your Senior Parent: The tough stuff: downsizing, medical concerns, etc.
April 16 – Care for the Caregiver: Helping the selfless maintain a sense of self.
April 23 – Living on Purpose: Finding a new path; living with intention.
Sessions meet in the Imaginary Studio at the Creative Center
900 Sixteenth Street, Greensboro, NC 27405
Monday evenings, at 7PM.
$10. per person
Space Limited
Register now at EngagingInLife@aol.com or call Irene at (615)962-0096
