Current Program Schedule
Fall 2008
- What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?
- Reconstructing Life Stories as Outreach Programs for Older Adults
- Embodying Peace – An introduction to Continuum Movement with Robin Becker
- Living Lightly: a gathering to inspire and celebrate delighted 'enoughness'
For More Information
Saturday September 27 / 10am-5pm
What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?
A Retreat on Conscious Aging with Jeanne Mackey
Registration: $50-$75 as able; pre-registration required
This day-long retreat for women and men in their 40s and 50s offers an exploration of the challenges and gifts of aging through journaling, group sharing, solo time in nature, and ceremony. Discover ways of facing aging that expand rather than constrict your soul. Identify old ways of thinking that you want to release. Explore strengths, known and unknown, that can sustain you in the process of becoming an elder. [VIEW FLYER - download PDF file]
Reconstructing Life Stories as Outreach Programs for Older Adults with Sally Lawler
Cost: $100.00 including lunch, snacks and handouts; pre-registration required.
This program has been created for library and museum staff interested in expanding outreach programs to seniors as well as professional and family caregivers working with elders. The course will include an overview of narrative therapy, life review, reminiscence, and guided autobiographical writing groups; leadership training in guiding others to tell their story; a reflective understanding of our own journey; and use of photographs and life stories in memory books.
Friday November 14 / 6:30-9:30 pm
Embodying Peace – An introduction to Continuum Movement with Robin Becker
Registration: $35
This workshop will introduce Continuum Movement as a way to fulfill and nourish peace within ourselves. Explorations of gentle movement; uncovering the healing potential in our body’s wisdom; and celebrating the peace we all carry within; will enrich and inform both physical and spiritual practices. This workshop is appropriate for everyone at all mobility levels and is a safe, gentle way to connect and be joyful within our body.
Saturday November 22 / 9am-4pm
Living Lightly: a gathering to inspire and celebrate delighted “enoughness”
Cost: $35 to register before November 15; $50 at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Dean Emeritus Jim Crowfoot of U of M’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment will speak on Changing Joyously to Achieve Sustainability: Using Spirit, Experience and Science Based Information. Small focus groups will take up various sustainability issues and identify resources to meet the challenges. The day will also include time for personal and group reflection, a simple delicious lunch featuring local produce, and light, lively music