!!!!POSTPONED!!!! Living within your new call: Discovering Vocational Joy In Retirement
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"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…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?”
“I’m at retirement age, but financially need to keep earning income…In this important time of my life, I’m wondering how I might change how I earn…How can I discern a new path to fulfill my growing desire to serve with personal meaning and purpose.”
BHFH is piloting a Vocational Discernment Peer Retreat Workshop offered specifically for “Seeking Seniors” who are exploring how they are now called in this distinctive time of life.
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.”
As older adults, we each need space to discern how we are now personally called to “be” in our world. With changing priorities, how can we each now best use our gifts, talents and abilities to find new fulfillment? How can we continue to enrich society from our availability, experience and wisdom? What new paths, new purposes, new joys might yet be discovered?
The BHFH Vocational Discernment Program uses Quaker practice and reflection to help people explore exactly these things: How to remain useful in the world by best using one’s seasoned skills, gifts, and leadings. How to discern your right next step!
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman, minister and theologian
With all you have individually become, which parts of yourself do you most want to hold now — the parts you want to keep most alive and active?
If your life journey has already spanned more than a half a century 😀, and you want to explore these questions of a New Call — this peer retreat/workshop adventure is for you!
Event Schedule:
(We work to be flexible to the participants' needs, and therefore this schedule is subject to change).
Friday, April 12
7 PM - Welcome and Keynote
7:30 PM - Group introductions + Assigning Small Groups for Saturday
8:45 PM - Setting the stage for tomorrow
9 PM - End time
Saturday, April 13
9 AM - Morning welcome
9:15 AM - Teaching and reflection activities
10:30 AM - Break
11 AM - Teaching and reflection activities
12 PM - Lunch Break
1 PM - Teaching and afternoon small groups
2:30 PM - Break
2:45 PM - Afternoon small groups continued
3:30 PM - Whole Group: Sharing and Ending
4:00 PM - Virtual Gathering Ends
The Details:
Where? This is a Virtual (ZOOM) Peer Retreat
Is there a cost? No! This event is free thanks to Friends Foundation for the Aging.
About Beacon Hill Friends House: Beacon Hill Friends House is a Quaker Center and intentional community based in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Learn more about us on our website: https://bhfh.org/
(The illustrations for the workshop were done by Quaker artist Joey Hartman-Dow of Us & We Art).