Conscious Aging: Aging with Passion and Purpose

Description:

What can aging with passion and purpose look like in your 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s?  



This workshop introduces you to conscious aging (and its counterpart, conscious eldering) and the inner work that is important on this path. Topics include:  


  • Conscious Aging and Conscious Eldering - what it is and what it involves

  • Elder years as potential a time of growth, fulfillment, passion, and service

  • Engaging your potential and purpose

  • Why connecting to community and the natural world are critical in elder years


 
Our goal is that you leave inspired, motivated and committed to entering or moving further along the path to your conscious elderhood.



Information: Northern Institute of Social Justice   867.456.8590.




Whitehorse Session:
Oct 11 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm and Oct 12-13 | 9:00am-4:00pm
CRN: 10494          $75 + GST          Location: Yukon College, Whitehorse




Your workshop leaders are Larry Gray and Susan Manning; both are members of the Colorado-based Centre for Conscious Eldering.  



 
Susan Manning is a Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver. Dr. Manning’s teaching and research interests included professional ethics, civic leadership and moral identity, and client empowerment in mental health systems. She has been inspired by the conscious aging movement since her retirement, and has participated actively in conscious elder retreats and Sage-ing conferences. She values a strengths approach to life stage development and believes in the power of our life stories to help us move forward.
Larry Gray is an environmental studies instructor at Yukon College. Larry sees our deep connection to the land and natural world as a source of wisdom that we can access throughout our lives, particularly in our elderhood. Larry facilitates an Elder Wisdom Circle in Whitehorse and is expanding this work throughout the Yukon. Watch his TEDx talk on conscious eldering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrBtTYJ0G4”.  He is a also Research Affiliate with the Institute for Aging & Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria.





Registration:          


Please call Admissions to register at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above.


Withdrawal Policy:  


Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund.  If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee.



Date/Time:
Location:
Yukon College
500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4, Canada (Whitehorse, YT) [ view map ]
Provider:
Yukon University - Northern Institute of Social Justice (NISJ)
Contact Info:
Northern Institute of Social Justice
867-456-8590 | nisj@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Fee:
Paid Training
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