Introduction to Sage-ing International – Our Community Invites You!
Please come to our Introduction to Sage-ing International (SI) Webinar (it’s free) to find out what we are up to and the many ways you can participate.
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Emotions and Wisdom: Cultivating a Good Heart (Age-Wise Session 2) with David Chernikoff
In this uplifting webinar, we’ll explore a variety of skillful ways to refine our emotional intelligence as we learn to celebrate the joys in our lives and to open our hearts to the sorrows that become gateways to compassion when we understand their profound role in the journey of awakening. There will be short talks by the teacher, guided meditations, interactive practices and heartfelt discussion.
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Wisdom Beneath Words: Accessing Your Unconscious Knowing
What wisdom might be waiting beneath the surface of your everyday thoughts - quietly shaped by a lifetime of experience, relationships, losses, adaptations, and reflection? Join this three part series to begin the exploration.
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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.