HR!Day566 - Day 1: Ageism from the Inside Out and from the Outside In
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This Week: reimagining the nobility of the Elder archetype
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Ageism's Week |
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Retirement |
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Role to Soul |
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About This Week:
With our extended longevity comes the opportunity for extended emotional and spiritual development.
All the spiritual traditions teach that later life is about reconciliation, contemplation, distilling the lessons we’ve learned, and finding a spiritual practice to move beyond ego and connect with something greater than our individual needs and desires. If we do this inner work of age, we cross the threshold to become Elders.
But, in the post-modern West, there are no rites of passage to guide us to release the past and become Elders, to shift our identities from role, or what we do, to soul, or who we really are.
This week offers such a rite of passage: we will uncover the unconscious denial we carry about aging, which Connie calls “the inner ageist.” We will hear from leaders of conscious aging organizations who are Elder activists with invitations to join them in contributing to the common good. We will reframe retirement as a sacred call to expand our awareness from role -- what we do -- to soul -- who we are. With renowned Elders, we will reimagine the nobility of the Elder archetype in this cultural moment. And we will learn contemplative practices from well-known spiritual Elders of diverse traditions. During these five days together, we will create the missing rite of passage to transition from Senior to Elder and emerge renewed – with a mission to give the gift that only we can give.
The themes of this week are based on The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig.
Day 1: Ageism from the Inside Out and from the Outside In
If we identify with youth and deny age, if we strive to appear young and busy, while denying our inner world, then we are unaware of our ageism against ourselves and unknowingly support institutional ageism in our culture. Research now demonstrates the devastating consequences of internalized ageism for our self-acceptance, physical health, brain health, longevity, and capacity to find fulfillment in midlife and beyond.
In this event, Connie and Ashton will explore the inner and outer worlds of ageism — and why both inner work and social activism are needed now, when for the first time in history there are more people over 60 than under 18.
Presenters:
- Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold Nautilus award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.
- Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and the co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. An international expert on ageism, she speaks at venues that include the TED mainstage and the United Nations, has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? In 2022, she appeared on HelpAgeUSA’s “60 Over 60” list of Americans “who are making significant contributions to society” and received the prestigious Maggie Kuhn Award from Presbyterian Senior Services as a “visionary leader, author and advocate in combating ageism.”
Moderator:
- Harry (Rick) Moody is former V.P. of AARP, executive director of Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College, and Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). He is visiting faculty at Fielding Graduate University and editor of "Human Values in Aging" newsletter. He is co-author of the textbook Aging: Concepts and Controversies, author of The Five Stages of the Soul, and co-author the forthcoming book Climate Change in an Aging Society.
Recommended reading:
The Inner Work of Age by Connie Zweig
This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite
The Five Stages of the Soul by Harry R. Moody
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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