Mindful Aging - Reflections and Conversations

Please come and join us to explore how we can enhance our understanding of aging and develop strategies for fostering resilience.

We plan to meet on Zoom as a small group for four consecutive Wednesdays during January 2021 (1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27) from 4:00-5:00pm.  Each week the participants will focus on a few brief readings and discuss their thoughts together.  Every meeting will be based on a core theme to guide the reflections shared among all individuals at the gathering.

The discussions will be led by CHV member, Anthony Miserandino, PhD who teaches at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and guides CHV’s Men’s Discussion Group I and TED Talks and Thoughts.  We will limit the group to a total of 12 CHV members so that every one can express their thoughts freely over Zoom.  We ask that those interested in joining the group commit to participating in all four sessions.  Further information on topics and readings may be found below.

If you would like to take part in these Zoom discussions, please sign up in advance by clicking on the green REGISTER button at the bottom of this page.

We will email you the link for the four sessions on the day of each event.  We look forward to having you join us.

 

Henry Conley, Maria Cox, Roberta Krakoff, Anthony Miserando, Alden Prouty

Event Hosts 

(If you have trouble registering online, please send us an email at [email protected])

 

TOPICS AND READINGS FOR MINDFUL AGING SESSIONS

Week 1: Resilience and Transitions in Aging

-- meaning of resilience in the aging process

-- revising retirement plans, again, and again - “What does retirement look like with a pandemic”, NYTimes, October 7, 2020 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/business/retirement/pandemic-life-seniors.html?referringSource=articleShare)

-- “Four Types of Aging”, Boston Globe, Eric Reed, (http://sponsored.bostonglobe.com/harvard-pilgrim/the-four-types-of-aging/)

-- “Stop telling older women to step aside”, book review, NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/books/review/in-our-prime-susan-j-douglas.html?searchResultPosition=1)

 

Week 2: Specific Developmental Tasks in Aging

-- Intimacy, isolation, and friendship - “The Widespread Suspicion of Opposite Sex Relationships”, The Atlantic,  Ashley Fetters, August 21 2019 (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/08/mistrust-opposite-sex-friendships/596437/)

-- Erik Erikson and Generativity: How to care for the next generation and re-defining oneself after career -- Integrity, worth and self-actualization

-- Women and Men age Differently - Wall Street Journal, Ansberry, Clare. Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]15 July 2020: A.13. https://www-proquest-com.avoserv2.library.fordham.edu/docview/2423713781?accountid=10932

 

Week 3: New Habits of the Heart: Spirituality, Wisdom, Self-reflection

-- “How to manage a mid-life change of faith”, Arthur Brooks, The Atlantic, August 13, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/guide-exploring-religious-faith-adult/615220/

-- Where do we go to find consolation and affirmation today? Institutions, Guru’s, and/or ?

 

Week 4: Death and Dying

-- “I’m going to die. I may as well be cheerful about it.”, Mary Pipher, NYTimes, March 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/mortality-death.html?referringSource=articleShare

-- Psychological Functioning in Later Adulthood, Donna Kramer, (Independent research)

http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/developmental-psychology/social-development/later-adulthood/

-- Dream BIG at any age -- developing self-compassion as we grow older

 

When
January 6th, 2021 4:00 PM through January 7th, 2021 5:00 PM

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