The Year of Reflection series is based on weekly readings. The focus for this month’s webinar, coinciding with this particular week’s reading: We explore both the costs and gifts of leaving old masks behind and making the choice to live authentically.

How would we live if we fully embraced the perennial wisdom teaching that tells us our life experiences are designed to be a curriculum for spiritual awakening? This is the journey of conscious aging we’ll be exploring in this webinar series.

It’s never too late to create more authentic relationships. This interactive presentation about shadow work explores how the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, addictions, and life transitions, such as retirement, illness, and loss. It explains why the shadow forms in childhood, how to detect it when it emerges, and how to use this practice to make a conscious relationship with it and choose different outcomes. We will explore three examples in depth, including times for self-reflection.

Contemplative photography focuses on learning how to slow down and really “see”. Instead of emphasizing technique, contemplative photography encourages an appreciation of our surroundings and finding beauty and meaning in everyday scenes. This course will focus on the basic elements of photography within a contemplative photography framework.

In a world drowning in disposable content and manufactured fear, Brian Lewis stands as a voice of profound clarity and transformative hope. As the author of the Repairers of Creation series of inspired poetry, Lewis doesn't just write—he excavates the buried truths of our time and polishes them into luminous gems [...]

The Year of Reflection is based on the weekly readings taken from Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life. The focus for this month's webinar coincides with this particular week's reading: "While the task ahead at times seems daunting, this week it is time for you to congratulate yourself for making [...]

The aging process encompasses a very wide range of joys and sorrows. How we relate to these often-unpredictablechanges determines what kind of older adult we become. In this gathering, there will be a talk on the webinar theme, an experiential exercise, and opportunities for sharing.

This series is designed to nourish your whole being — physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and socially — through the mindful movement practice of Chi Gong and the support of a connected learning community. We will begin by exploring the fundamentals of Chi Gong and gradually move beyond the basics to deepen [...]