Deep Listening: A Practical Guide

Deep Listening: A Practical Guide Deep Listening: A Practical Guide According to Sage-ing® International’s Qualities of Sages in Service, “Deep listening is our ability to be present to another’s story without fixing the problem or judging.” Deep listening connects people, builds empathy, and is an avenue for [...]

Are We All Sages in Training? On a warm summer day, six-year-old Ethan sat picking black currants with his great grandmother, whom he called “Oma.” Upon collecting enough berries to fill a large cooking pot we proceed inside to clean and prepare the berries to [...]

What Is Sage-ing “Sagacity—The quality of being wise or having good judgment gained through experience that is reflected upon.” Sage-ing, or Conscious eldering is both a way of living ones life both on the practical and philosophical levels. It is a way of life in [...]

The Importance of Community Engagement as We Age The Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, recently declared that we are in a “loneliness epidemic,” not just in the U.S. but internationally.  (”Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on [...]

The Joy and the Challenges of (my) Aging Can you experience the joy and wisdom associated with conscious aging and still experience fear, sadness and even loneliness? Can these all exist at the same time? I say yes. Can we have these challenges associated with [...]

Wisdom Circles: A Community of Elders How many of us have stopped to think in our elder years about what community means to us now? Are we looking for something different than at a younger age?  If yes, do we know what that is? For [...]

My Sage-ing Journey My Sage-ing Journey began one day in 1994 with a call from a good friend and fellow law librarian enthusiastically relating to me about a weekend in Denver at which a rabbi, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, spoke about his reaching 60. He spoke [...]