Remaking our lives after 55

When

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific
Tuesday, August 26, 2009 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific
Tuesday, September 9, 2009 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific
Tuesday, September 23 2009 4:00pm – 5:00pm Pacific

Where

Telephone conference call

What

Remaking our lives after 55

Price

$175

There are more and more and more of us every day, those formerly invisible over 55ers. Soon, there will be too many to ignore. Yet, for many of us who have had exciting, demanding, sometimes all-consuming careers and interests, the next phase of life looks pretty scary. In another age we were expected to “retire” gracefully from our work—passionate though it may have been—and spend our time on the golfcourse, at the bridge game or grandparenting the children of our professionally driven children.  For many, this prospect is anything but appealing.  What will we do with our time?  How will we renew our primary relationship (to a spouse or intimate friend) when we’ve spent so much time apart for so long?  How will we recreate the excitement of work, the difference we made, or the satisfaction of raising healthy children while pursuing paid or unpaid passions of our own?  For some what lies ahead looks like loneliness and loss, not renewal and creativity!

So, what’s next for us? How do we renew our passion for work, find or enhance our most important relationships, or change ourselves to be healthier, more peaceful, and more engaged with life every day?
This webinar* will combine the latest research about aging with our own experience and discoveries about what we want from the last third of our lives, and what we can create with each other.

In my own research I’ve found seven themes people cite as reasons for changes they want to make in their lives now. These themes are:

• Time
• Money
• Health
• Faith/spirituality/religion
• Passion/goals
• Relationships
• Not sweating the small stuff/Letting go of control OR Being more cautious and careful

Join me to create new life, new excitement, new anticipation of the future rather than the dread that may loom for you now.  Create the dreams you’ve harbored for your life and the concrete actions you want to take to achieve those dreams.  Live a little (rather than dying a little)!

The class is limited to 10.  I will provide the slides ahead of classes for those who may not have access to the internet.

* A webinar is a combination of conference call and slide show viewable on the internet.

As lead author of Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change, I am often asked where coaches and managers can learn more about and practice this developmental and strengths-focused way of enabling change and growth. Therefore, I’m offering this teleclass. Initially, there will be five sessions of 45 minutes each, spaced two weeks apart.  I will assign and distribute workbook practice assignments in between each session.  I’d like to limit the classes to 8 minimum and 10 maximum.  When the first session fills, I’ll post a second session, so that registration is unlimited, and courses will begin every three weeks.
 
The sessions will cover:

• Intro to Appreciative Coaching- how it enhances what you are already doing
• Principles of Appreciative Coaching and how they play out in sessions
• Stages: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny- what is critical in each stage, non-linear, circular process
• Focus on Dream and Destiny with coaching role plays
• Questions and discussion of course, further workshop or course suggestions for more advanced work – Questions and discussion of course, further workshop or course suggestions for more advanced work

 
As this is a pilot program, your investment is $250 with the book Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change (which I will ship to you at no charge) and $210 without the book.  (Fielding Graduate University is currently offering a similar course for $1250). After the first two sessions I will be increasing the price to $300.
 
I’ll start Tuesday night March 17 at 4 PM Pacific (5 Mountain, 6 Central, and 7 Eastern) and go every other Tuesday night for 5 (five) 45-minute sessions through May 12.  I’ll plan to record the sessions so if you have to miss one, you can get the audio file. I will forward the connection information as each session fills.
  
I have applied to the International Coach Federation for continuing education units. 
 

When

This class is full
Tuesday, March 17 2009 4:00pm – 4:45pm Pacific
Tuesday, March 31 2009 4:00pm – 4:45pm Pacific
Tuesday, April 14 2009 4:00pm – 4:45pm Pacific
Tuesday, April 28 2009 4:00pm – 4:45pm Pacific
Tuesday, May 12 2009 4:00pm – 4:45pm Pacific

Where

Telephone conference call

What

Using Appreciative Coaching Effectively

Price

$250 – Book Included

 

$210 – Book NOT Included

 

NOTE: In addition to an introductory course to Appreciative Coaching I will offer an advanced practicum for coaches and managers who wanted to go more deeply into the philosophy and use of positive methods in their coaching. Registrants must have participated actively in the Introductory Course, or in another intensive Appreciative Coaching experience.

The Practicum will begin at the end of May 2009. If you are interested, please register your interest here. This teleclass will require a consistent coaching partner for the class (someone else in the class), and role plays within each of four sessions. This will be priced at $300. 

Change may be the theme of our lives, those of us who are older than 55 at least. We have only to watch Mad Men on television to remind ourselves of how much has changed since 1960, a year in which we reached the age of 7 or more. We’ve adapted to change, and we have spearheaded change in the world—for equal opportunities for minorities and women, for more access to education, for a better world in so many ways. And we’ve been busy creating and maintaining careers, getting married and remarried, and raising families. It may now be time for us to change ourselves—to please ourselves.

This survey is foundational for a book project I’m working on. It is about change that people over 55 initiate and experience. My hypothesis is that older people (not OLD people) have more psychic space to think about the way they really want their lives to be, and to create those lives. The space has been created by losses and changes. For most, 55, 60, or 65 is a time to think about changing our professional lives to less demanding (but perhaps more satisfying) lives. It is also a time when children are mostly grown and if they are living at home, they are at least semi-independent. Relationships may also have changed. Perhaps there has been a divorce, death, or remarriage. All of these things contribute to the space that may exist for you now.

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