Our world has become more and more challenging over the years. On the macro level, we find ourselves surrounded by constant violence, terrorism, war, pandemics, the worsening effects of climate change, economic upheaval, and unequal resource distribution. The political dialogue and environment have become increasingly acrimonious. On the personal level, as people in the latter part of life, we have experienced many of life’s challenges; and have witnessed, struggled with, and overcome many of life’s hurdles. For all this we have utilized the “power of hope”, something we need all the more of in today’s world.

The Hope Accelerator is a unique workshop that seeks to empower individuals to cultivate their awareness, skill, and ability to cultivate a profound sense of personal hope to strengthen their capacity to face and grow through adversity in life with resilience and creative power.

This four-part series introduces “four gates to the cultivation of hope,” with

an emphasis on reflection, practice, sharing, and practical application in our lives.

The following will be presented and given as exercises and tools in the workshop:

• The search for meaning and its linkage to hope, in the spirit of Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning.”
• The power of gratefulness and how it is a driver for hope in our lives.
• Growth through crisis, utilizing the research findings in the area of post-traumatic growth.
• The cognitive, and “active hope” of Hope Science deals with meaningful goals, pathways, and personal agency.

Please join us for this unique series about cultivating a fundamental part of our inner lives – the power to hope!

“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.” Eli Wiesel