The Inner Work of Age: A Book Study (In-Person)

Explore the riches of psychotherapist Connie Zweig’s contemplations on aging, relating them to your own experience in conversation with fellow aspiring Elders. Drawing on her own experiences as well as the wisdom of prominent contemporaries, Zweig focuses on the possibilities for personal and spiritual growth afforded by life’s later stages. She finds opportunity in the accompanying challenges, examining how we might confront ageism, retirement, illness, and loss, while opening new depths through life review, repairing relationships, expressing creativity, defining legacy, transmitting wisdom, and providing service. Aging, Zweig argues, can be a spiritual path, a transition from “role to soul” in which we can “reimagine the nobility and sacred power of age.”

Learning Objectives for The Inner Work of Age: A Book Study

• Understand specific challenges of later life.
• Discover new opportunities for personal growth.
• Aid in finding one's own mature spiritual path.

Mark Ryan holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, where for 21 years he was on the faculty in American Studies and a dean of students. Subsequently, he was Professor, Dean of the Colleges, and a Director of Graduate Studies at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla in Mexico. His writings include A Different Dimension: Reflections on the History of Transpersonal Thought and articles in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.

Ginger Clarkson is chaplain at Omega House Hospice in Houston. In addition to her hospice work, she is a music therapist and meditation instructor, an international Trainer of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), and Community Dharma Leader Emerita of Insight Meditation Houston. Her writings include Spiritual Dimensions of Guided Imagery and Music and A Silent Cure: Transforming Preverbal Trauma Through Meditation.

This program is being offered IN-PERSON only, and will NOT be recorded.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.