What’s important is taking the first step in moving from aging to sage-ing. Whether you do your eldering work alone or in socialized settings at workshops and meditation retreats, or through solo meditation and journal writing, remember that the work of integrating body, mind, and soul requires time and commitment…you can begin shaping your life into a noble masterpiece.”
– Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
To support you on what Reb Zalman refers to as “this pioneering journey into your unmapped potential,” whether you are young or old, Sage-ing® International offers 3 categories of educational programs, each with its own unique flavor.
The Signature Programs
serve as an excellent introduction to sage-ing’s core topics (Images of Aging, Life Review, Forgiveness, Facing Mortality, Legacy, and Service). They provide the tools and resources needed to explore the aging years in order to navigate the second half of life with greater understanding and purpose.
The World Wisdom Programs
allow participants to explore cultural traditions and perspectives across the globe on aging and spirituality to deepen their understanding of their own aging years and to enhance their “Sage-ing tool-box.”
The Enrichment Programs
supplement and broaden SI’s range of educational opportunities by inviting guest presenters who are accomplished authors, innovators, Sage-ing® Leaders and other creative professionals, to facilitate workshops and webinars that reflect their areas of study and mastery of topics related to aging more consciously.
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Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
February 13
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3:00 pm
Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
Raines Cohen, one of Sage-ing International’s Certified Sage-ing Leaders (CSL) will interview Chip Conley, best-selling author, with a focus on navigating transitions, cultivating purpose, owning one’s wisdom, and reframing our relationship with aging by being “age-fluid.” | |
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About the Interview:
A midlife crisis is often wrought with emotional turmoil as a person who is growing older struggles with their identity and self-confidence. New York Times bestselling author, Chip Conley’s 7th book Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often-misunderstood life stage.
Chip believes the world needs a “pro-aging” message which based upon Yale’s Becca Levy’s research showing that when a person shifts their mindset about aging from negative to positive, they gain 7.5 years of additional life. So no matter where you are in your journey through the second half of life, Chip’s message is designed to show you how our elder years can be some of our best by motivating us to rediscover and redefine purpose and success and find joy.
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About Chip Conley:
Chip Conley is on his midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, and then as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018 in Baja California, Mexico.
Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a ‘modern elder’ at Airbnb, where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary transformation to one of the world’s most valuable hospitality brands, MEA is the world’s first ‘midlife wisdom school’ and has a campus opening on a 2,600-acre regenerative horse ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico in early 2024. Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, MEA will support its students to enable them to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
Learn more about Chip and his new book “Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age” HERE.
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Raines Cohen, CSL, is an Aging-in-Community community-organizer, based in Berkeley, California. He works to connect people around Aging Well Together, co-creating cohousing neighborhoods, weaving connections for neighbor-support Villages, and finding greater meaning and purpose in later life.
Raines wrote the Aging-in-Community chapter in the book Audacious Aging. A Certified Sage-ing Leader, he serves on the SI Coordinating Committee, and several SI working groups. He is a founding member of the Elders’ Guild and Elders Action Network, and in 2021 was an Activist-in-Residence at the Modern Elder Academy.
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