The Year of Reflection is based on the weekly readings taken from "Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life." The focus for this final webinar: We pause to review and honor ourselves for being willing to take the hero’s walk through aging.

The aging process encompasses a very wide range of joys and sorrows. How we relate to these often-unpredictable changes determines what kind of older adult we become.

In Praise of Listening is offered as a series of three linked workshops, combining stories and anecdotes with a brief meditation and a couple of hands-on assignments. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

This session brings Black History Month to life through engaging stories of Black and global majority leaders who can enrich how we understand aging and the importance of social justice engagement as we age.

An experiential journey into the sacred symbols of Indian tradition — from temple architecture to the chakra system — offering insight into the deeper patterns that shape inner and outer life. Includes guided meditation and the drawing of a sacred geometric form.

This series will explore the levels of healing and balance needed to transcend the divisiveness of the opposites. Once we come into an inner state of transcendent balance, we draw towards us relationships that reflect that balance which then allows for the pattern of balance to be expressed in the mind [...]

In the last 10-15 years, many amazing books have been written about living in this brand-new life stage we call elderhood. In February 2025, Karen West began facilitating the ongoing “Sage-ing the Second Half of Life - Book Discussion Group” with the purpose of reading some of these books in community. Now Karen hopes to add new members....hopefully you will be one of them!

In this interactive four-week workshop, we’ll compassionately reflect on our relationships with our physical selves. To deepen our exploration, sessions will include poetry, meditation, journaling, breakout room sharing and larger group discussion. Each session builds upon the one before.

As we navigate the transitions in life— losses, surprises, slowing down and opening up—how do we continue to maintain a sense of meaning, purpose, and spiritual vitality? This workshop explores how the practice of living gratefully can be essential to aging.

So much around us seems to be shifting as our world feels uncertain, divided, and aching for healing. The challenges we face are the very conditions that call our hearts, minds, and spirits forth to respond with our best selves. This is our opportunity to bring clarity where there is confusion, courage where there is fear, and hope where there is despair.

This three-session course, builds upon the work of Joanna Macy, as we acknowledge that we are facing the Great Unraveling, that we can meet as we focus on resilience and an expansive sense of community to navigate these difficult times. Using reflection, interactive practices, and discussions we’ll discover new allies, explore the gifts of uncertainty, and other practices that can move us from despair and overwhelm into a path of sustainable action for the healing of our world.

Forgiveness is often seen as a transaction between two people; a generous act of mercy by the offended toward the offender. But forgiveness is just as much about our own unburdening as we work to uncouple ourselves from the hurts and perceived injustices of the past.