Many of you joined BFJ last November and December for a book study and presentation on Connie Zweig's "The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul." Below is information about Connie Zweig continuing that work in an online symposium by Pacifica.

Join Pacifica online on Dec. 2-4, for The Inner Work of Age Continues: Becoming a Good Ancestor with Connie Zweig, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Ken Wilber, Bill McKibben, Dennis Slattery, and many more.

https://retreat.pacifica.edu/inner-work-of-age-continued/

Online Symposium Timeline

Day 1: Friday, Dec. 2, 11:30-5:00 

The Vision: From Midlife Hero/Heroine to Wise Elder

11:30 AM          Welcome and Introduction

11:40-12:00     Connie Zweig: Becoming an Elder

12:05-12:45     Dennis Slattery: Aging as a Hero’s Journey

12:45-1:25       Jean Shinoda Bolen: On Becoming a Wise and Juicy Crone

1:25-1:55         Joint Q&A (25 mins)

2:17-2:45         Fanny Brewster: Aging While Black

2:50–3:20       Rob Hopcke: Aging while LGBTQ

3:20-3:45        Joint Q&A (25 mins)

4:00 – 4:30      Will Linn: Mythopoesis of Age: Personal, Cultural, Celestial Seasons of Life

4:30-4:55         Connie in Conversation w/ Roger Walsh, MD: What is Elder Wisdom?

4:55-5:00         Connie Zweig: Closing: Elder W/1000 Faces

Day 2: Saturday, Dec. 3, 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

The Journey: The Inner Work of Age and the Promise of a Late Renaissance

10:00-10:20       Connie Zweig: Breaking through Denial and Meeting the Inner Ageist

10:30-11:10         Ken Wilber: A Call to Grow Up, Clean up, Wake up, Show up

11:10-11:30           Q&A

11:40-12:10          Harry Rick Moody: Dreams of Life Review in Film and Literature

12:15-12:45          Barbara Aston: Healing Past Memories to Live More Fully Now

12:45-1:05:          Joint Q&A

1:45-2:15              David Chernikoff: No Regrets: A Buddhist Perspective

2:20-2:50     Helen Lavretsky, MD: Mind-Body Practices to Enhance Memory, Health, Mood: A Yoga Perspective

2:55-3:25         Rob Hopcke: Synchronicity and Death

3:30-3:50        Joint Q&A for all three

3:50-4:00       Connie Zweig: Day 2 CLOSING: Inner Work to Outer Work: Elder Service as Spiritual Practice

Day 3: Sunday, Dec. 4, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

The Legacy: Aging, Climate, and Becoming a Good Ancestor

9-9:15 am       Connie Zweig – introduction

9:15-9:40        Rick Moody: The Climate Crisis in an Aging Society

9:45- 10:10     Thomas Doherty: Discovering your Environmental Identity and Sustainable Self

10:15 – 10:40  Jeanine Canty: From I to We: Collective Narcissism and Climate Justice

10:55 – 11:20    Janet Lewis: Climate Anxiety in the Therapy Room

11:25 – 11:45    Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg: Good Grief: From Climate Anxiety to Action

11:50 – 12:20    Bill McKibben: Third Act: Calling All Elder Activists

12:25 – 12:55   Connie Zweig Closing: From Elder to Ancestor