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COMMUNITY DISCUSSION:
OLD FOOLS & INCOMPLETE MYTHS
How do incomplete myths of aging affect the transition into healthy elderhood?
How do dominant myths shape our personal and institutional responses ageism, inter-generational tensions?
What if our collective failure to tell stories of truly healthy eldering harms everyone in our communities, and not merely the aging?
How do we begin to examine and extricate ourselves from these incomplete myths?
A link to my recorded module from Pacifica’s Extension Course on Conscious Aging will be made available to those who register to view at their convenience. This presentation examines prevalent myths of age and eldering in the dominant culture and as they emerged in the 2024 election.
and then we will gather together on Saturday December 7th on Zoom for a 90 minute recorded discussion to examine some of those myths that shape and misshape our beliefs about ourselves and others as we navigate elderhood, grief, and loss as initiatory experiences and to consider what it might require of us to create “more complete myths”
Discounts codes are available so that anyone who is interested should be able to attend.
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This group is designed to support lay people and community members and clinicians in building healthy, boundaried, well-designed non-clinicial community groups.
I’ve added an additional session because I think this work is so important at this time.
Six hours over three Saturdays in January. By donation as always.
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Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community practice
10 hours. Dates to be determined by polling applicants.
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Sending peace and good wishes to all in this mad mad world.
~ Martha