HR!Day567 - Day 2: What Can One Person Do? The Moral Voice of the Elder in Tumultuous Times

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This Week: reimagining the nobility of the Elder archetype

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Ageism's Week

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Voice

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Retirement

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Reimagining

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Many Elders hear the call to serve the common good. Sacred service and social activism offer profound benefits: a sense of purpose, an end to isolation, an opportunity to contribute and to leave a legacy.

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Millions of Elders are volunteering, mentoring, assisting organizations and non-profits with their skills, and joining with others to increase their impact on urgent social causes. This event highlights leaders of communities of Elders who have heeded the call: they are learning, teaching, and engaging their passions. And, in the process of giving, they are renewed.

Moderator:

Dr. Connie Zweig, author of The Inner Work of Age, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond.

Bio: 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.

Presenters:

Bill McKibben: Third Act

Bill McKibben is founder of Third Act, which organizes people 60+ for action on climate and justice. The current campaign urges older adults with resources to move their money out of banks that fund fossil fuels. He also co-founded 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign. He played a leading role in opposition

to big oil pipeline projects like Keystone XL and the fossil fuel divestment campaign, which led to endowments of more than $40 trillion stepping back from oil, gas and coal. His 1989 book The End of Nature woke up a general audience to climate change and was followed by 20 more books, including most recently The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon. He is a columnist for New Yorker and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has won the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award.

Ron Pevny: Center for Conscious Eldering

Ron Pevny has, for forty years, been dedicated to assisting people in negotiating life transitions as they create lives of purpose and passion. He is Founding Director of the Center for Conscious Eldering, based in Colorado, which for 20 years has

presented workshops and retreats across North America to support people in

bringing purpose, growth and commitment to service to their elder years. He is

author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging. Ron is also a Certified Sage-ing®

Leader.

Lynne Iser: Elder’s Action Network and Elders Climate Action

Lynne Iser is an Elder activist motivated by her love for her children and the

beauty of our world. She was founding Director of the Spiritual Eldering Institute,

where she learned about the opportunities of becoming an elder with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. She also trained with Joanna Macy. She serves as President of the Elders Action Network, building a movement of elders addressing the environmental, governance, and social issues of our time, and with Elders Climate Action and Yerusha Sage-ing® Legacy Program.

Bruce Frankel: Life Planning Network and Pass It On Network

Co-President of Life Planning Network based in Boston, he is editor of LPN-Q

quarterly and editorial director for BSLI Redstring. He is author of the prize-

winning What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life? and the bestselling World War

II: History’s Greatest Conflict. Bruce was formerly a national reporter for USA

Today and senior writer and editor for People Magazine.

Clint Wilkins: Encore Network’s Intergenerational Affinity Group

Clint Wilkins has a long and distinguished career in education in both independent

and charter schools and as a social entrepreneur. He was as a teacher, coach,

college counselor, dean of students, principal, and assistant headmaster at Sidwell

Friends School in Washington, DC. After serving as CEO of two independent

schools, he founded Sage Hill School, the first nondenominational, independent

high school in Orange County, California.

Currently Clint serves as the convener of Encore Network’s Intergenerational

Affinity Group. He was “Encore Fellow” in the Mayor’s Office in San Jose,

designing an intergenerational mentoring program for teens. He was a Visiting

Scholar at Stanford University School of Education, an Associate with Skoll

Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford, and on the boards of San Francisco

Friends School, Next Generation Scholars, and One Percent for Education.

Bill Thomas: Eden Alternative, Changing/Aging

Dr. Bill Thomas, author of The Good Life and Second Wind, is an entrepreneur,

musician, teacher, farmer and physician whose wide-ranging work explores the

terrain of human aging. Best known for his health care system innovations, he is

founder of The Eden Alternative, which improves care for older adults. He also

developed the Senior ER model of care and is now working to transform acute care

services provided to elders. He also travels the country starring in the

“ ChangingAging Tour ,” a nonfiction theater performance that has played in more

than 80 cities. “I show up with a guitar, a bass player, a theater set, costumes,

music, art, mythology, storytelling, biography, and neuroscience all mixed up. It’s

like a TED Talk on steroids.”

Recommended Reading:

The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig

https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Age-Shifting-::

Role/dp/1644113406/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=165766760

5&sr=8-1

The Flag, The Cross, The Station Wagon by Bill McKibben

https://www.amazon.com/Flag-Cross-Station-Wagon-American-::

ebook/dp/B09FHGBK7S/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3RGV5893O8AFD&keywords=bill+m

ckibben&qid=1657667299&sprefix=bill+mckibben%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-2

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

https://www.amazon.com/End-Nature-Bill-McKibben-::

ebook/dp/B00MKZBT2G/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3RGV5893O8AFD&keywords=bill+m

ckibben&qid=1657667330&sprefix=bill+mckibben%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-4

What Should I do with the Rest of My Life? by Bruce Frankel

https://www.amazon.com/What-Should-Do-Rest-::

Life/dp/1583334181/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BZNIKQYD4Q9T&keywords=What+shoul

d+i+do+with+the+rest+of+my+life&qid=1659396236&sprefix=what+should+i+d

o+with+the+rest+of+my+life%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1

The Good Life by Bill Thomas

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Life-Fearless-Greater-Well-::

being/dp/1716593697/ref=sr_1_3?crid=WPH0I04CVOR5&keywords=bill+thomas

&qid=1657667363&sprefix=bill+thomas%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-3

Second Wind by Bill Thomas

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Wind-Navigating-Passage-::

Connected/dp/1451667574/ref=sr_1_2?crid=WPH0I04CVOR5&keywords=bill+th

omas&qid=1657667413&sprefix=bill+thomas%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-2

Conscious Living, Conscious Aging by Ron Pevny

https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Living-Aging-Embrace-::

Chapter/dp/1582704384/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30RJTRGDAXZ8T&keywords=conscio

us+living%2C+conscious+aging&qid=1657816258&sprefix=conscious+living%2

C+conscious%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1

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