Living into your Call: Vocational Discernment Retreat for older adults (60+) (HYBRID)
"Recently retired at a relatively young age, I’d like to discern my next steps to leading a meaningful life of service to others."
"I am hoping to get a sense of how to discern … how I can serve in the senior years of my life. I will be 75 in November and keep feeling drawn to do something, serve in some way, but realistically what might that path be?"
Older adults need spaces to discern how they are called to act in the world as they enter new seasons of their lives.
BHFH is piloting a Vocational Discernment workshop geared specifically toward folks ages 60+ who are discerning how they are called.
In an article on the National Career Development Association’s website, Nick Gowen writes: “Finding meaning in life can often hinge in part on the benefits that work provides, such as feeling useful and exercising one’s skills and talents. Retired older adults, then, must find new ways to conceptualize and achieve these benefits of work in retirement.” The BHFH vocational discernment program aims to help people with exactly these things: How to feel useful in the world through using one’s skills, gifts, and leadings.
If you are over 60 years old and interested in exploring these questions of call, this retreat is for you!
Where? This is a hybrid mini-retreat. There are options on your registration to attend in-person at Beacon Hill Friends House or on Zoom. Participants can switch from in-person registration to Zoom registration at any point.
Food? We will be supplying a light lunch, as well as a veggie tray, cookies, tea and water (in-person attendees only). You will feel well-nourished and well-held so you can focus on discernment and listening to your own inner teacher.
Is there a cost? No! This event is totally free.
Covid policies: All participants attending in-person at BHFH need to be up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccinations and wear a mask while inside. We ask that you stay at home if you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms (or other related illnesses) on the day of the event.
About Beacon Hill Friends House: Beacon Hill Friends House is a Quaker Center and intentional Community based in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Our address is: 8 Chestnut St., Boston, MA 02108.
The primary entrance is up a flight of stairs and we have a sidewalk level entrance to our basement level that can accommodate small and standard size wheelchairs (the turning radius is too small for large motorized chairs).
The location is within walking distance of all Boston transit lines.
Should you choose to drive, BHFH has parking passes to the Boston Common garage available for $9. We will sell these on-site. Simply park in the garage and bring your ticket with you.
(The illustrations for the workshop were done by Quaker artist Joey Hartman-Dow of Us & We Art).
