630 Mass Avenue 

October 12, 26 and November 16 2011

7:00-9:00PM

These 2 hour programs will explore the wild ride that is the second half of life—a program that includes play, purpose, work, vision, love, pilgrimage and community—many matters practical and sublime.  Bring your box so we can help you climb out of it. Co-facilitated with Kit Harrington Hayes, a career and life design consultant in the Boston area for 20+years.

We took creative risks together–naming tentative ideas with more awareness and force than we knew we owned–we did things that pushed envelopes like writing our life story in 35 words and seeing what insights emerged from that impossible task.  We looked at the unfinished “work” before us that might bring light if not always delight because sometimes doing the necessary requires doing the hard thing as well. Some said they entered a new space inside, others felt reaffirmed, some liked having new ideas dangled before them, others were there for the sparkling water! 

See Life After Work on this site for specifics. 

The presentation was delivered in Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, at 3620 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

For more information, send mail to Kendall at lifeworksdesign@verizon.net.

Can you picture what you need most to do?

Welcome to Art of Retirement : Consider what shapes your life will take.

• For those people with fewer responsibilities and more time and resources available to enter into creative, life-enhancing projects, you may wonder how best to make use of this opportunity.
• For those still working or in search of good work, you may want to expand your thinking beyond its current scope to include work that matters more to you.   This search for meaningful “work” or occupation is a lifelong task for most, made more passionate by the awareness of time and for many, the perceived and real limitations of the current  economy.
• We are creatures of habit and our thinking follows familiar, habitual paths. But to live fully and in touch with our deepest needs, we have to jump from familiar thinking to the less familiar but fertile terrain of our yet-to-be. This involves opening the doors to new knowledge about ourselves, to rediscover forgotten interests and skills, to see paths not fully pursued. projects and ideas left at the wayside, along with the many life experiences that still have the capacity to inform and inspire us.

Living well means being alert to the new, the unexpected, and that which is yet-to-announce itself!  

Art of Retirement opens your memory and imagination to discover the  “works” you are yet to do in life.

Whatever the shape of those works, whether they involve essential travel, study, conversations, writing, forgiving, interviewing, healing or founding, AR provides frameworks for guiding you and others through a satisfying life design process.

AR offers seminars, presentations, retreats, online and private consultations, as well as assistance on special projects that may include:

•  Writing autobiography
•  Audio and visual recordings
•  Designing commemorative rituals
•  Organizing family retreats
•  Creating books and art pieces
•  Designing journeys of remembrance that may involve local, national and international itineraries

AR works with a team of specialists who have expertise in ethnography, legacy work, web design, film-making, editing, art installations, and special
events planning.

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