Redefining Purpose in Retirement
In this highly interactive workshop, we will delve more deeply into the meaning of purpose and how it changes over the lifespan.
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Estrangement: Fractured Families and Reconciliation
Family estrangements affect more than 65 million Americans, often with devastating consequences. What makes family estrangement so painful? Why do these rifts arise in the first place, and how can we overcome them? Karl Pillemer’s talk will explore how family rifts occur and how to resolve them
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Sage-ing the Second Half of Life Book Club (Aug. 2026 – Feb. 2027)
In February 2025, Karen West, CSL began facilitating the ongoing “Sage-ing the Second Half of Life - Book Discussion Group.” The current members of the group have been discussing an amazing book called The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older by Kathleen Dowling Singh. Karen hopes that for the next series beginning in August, more readers will join the group.
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Online Awakening the Sage Within
Sage-ing is a model for engaging more deliberately, more joyfully, and more compassionately as we grow older. This four-part series will address various aspects of Sage-ing from the book "From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older."
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World Wisdom Series – Perspectives and Cultural Traditions on Age-ing and Spirituality
Beginning this August, in our sixth year of this series, Sage-ing International is pleased to offer a space where you can explore, experience, and learn from diverse viewpoints to enrich your life and perhaps enhance your role in making this earth a safer, more wholesome, and wiser place to live.
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Successful Age-ing As a Contemporary Obsession – And it’s Alternatives: A Global Perspective (World Wisdom Series Session 1)
What might become possible if we moved beyond the contemporary obsession with “successful aging”? What alternative ways of valuing later life, dependence, vulnerability, and mortality might emerge?
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Conscious Conduct: The Blessings of Ethical Living (Age-wise Session 3) with David Chernikoff
In this webinar, we’ll explore the key role that ethical living plays in the process of spiritual awakening. In addition to a talk by the teacher, this meeting will include an experiential exercise, heartfelt discussion with other participants, and time for personal reflection.
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Makings of a Modern Mystic: 7 Keys to Presence, Inner Freedom, and Elder Wisdom with Mary Francis Drake
Drawing from wisdom traditions across cultures - while staying grounded and accessible - we will explore simple practices and perspectives that can help us cultivate inner calm, presence, compassion, and spiritual aliveness in daily living.
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Cultivating Awe in a Fractured World
In this interactive presentation, Kirk Schneider explores the psychology and spirituality of awe as a pathway toward greater meaning, vitality, humility, and human connection, particularly in our Sage-ing years.
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Toward Wisdom and Self-Transcendence (World Wisdom Series #2)
Together, we will consider what the research tells us about the connections among wisdom, spirituality, and religion, and how these qualities contribute to greater psychological well-being and a more meaningful life.
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Your 100 Year Life
If you want your next life's chapter to be written with bold, grounded optimism, this session, which redefines aging as a time of possibility, growth and contribution, is for you!
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Leaving a Legacy of Stories: Passing Wisdom Across Generations
In this workshop, Professor Duke will review the research that demonstrates that not only is knowledge of one’s family history interesting and enlightening, but it is also among the most important things that older generations can pass on. This is because we now know that knowledge of family history is associated with increased levels of resilience, higher levels of self-esteem, better psychological adjustment, and the development of a moral compass that helps people in their journey throughout life.