“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.” Carl Jung
What is the human purpose of the “third third” of your life? How might it hold meaning for you and for our world? What pressing questions are you holding as you journey into your 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s? What would it take to grow fully into the elderhood phase of your life with both deep humility and brave fierceness?
This program is an invitation into personal growth and an exploration of the unique contributions that eldering can offer to our communities and the broader society. Your hosts will offer opportunities for our group to explore eldering not as a title but as a practice; ways of being, thinking, and acting “like an elder” to better meet the world’s increasing complexity. Join with a group of your peers to discover insights, gain clarity, identify goals, and set intentions for your personal eldering role and path. Together, we’ll prepare to move forward in distinct, heart-centred ways that call us into deeper relationship across generations.
What You’ll Gain:
- Become clearer about your own current understandings of “eldering”, through self-reflection, listening to peers, as well as considering the natural world as a metaphor and teacher
- Identify patterns and insights from your life journey, to align any next steps towards meaningful eldering
- Explore concepts of elderhood across cultures while paying attention to power, history, and relationship in how wisdom is shared
- Through various artistic, somatic and land-based practices, explore how to access various internal resources to support your own meaning-making
- Become more conscious of your own mortality – gently expand your consciousness of death and grief as key to being more grounded and present
- Acknowledge and access your unique internal well of wisdom – and become more comfortable sharing in wise ways with others
- Consider and reinterpret a spectrum of complexity leadership skills that seem particularly relevant to eldering roles; set your own goals for further development post-program
Who This Program is For:
- Family leaders, community leaders and system leaders who hear a call to grow into roles as mentors, guides, advisors and sages
- Social change agents who want to explore how to most relevantly stay involved as they age
- Adults 50 – 90 years, curious about their own human development potential in life’s later years
- Adults under 50 years, interested in understanding eldering, expanding relationships with those they consider ‘elders’, and curious about growing into their own capacity for eldering in their future.
Material Fee
Additional supply costs ($25 CAD) for this program are included in the package pricing.
