RESILIENT AGING 4 SINGLES
Gathering for single people (separated, divorced, widowed, or never married) in their late 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's who face aging on their own and want to re-vision the next life chapter with meaningful activities, caring relationships, and strong social supports. Bounce back from aging-related challenges and fill your daily life with passion, meaning, joy, good company, creative expression, and well-being. Live a conscious third age filled with growing possibilities.
A one-day event, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, offered on two occasions:
Saturday, October 16 -- 2010Main topics include:
Sunday, October 24 -- 2010
Where? A bright and comfortable setting in Toronto, across from the Summerhill subway station, at Summerhill/Yonge. Parking is easy to find.
Investment: $75 or pay what you can. Bring a friend of the opposite sex and you pay half price.
- What is resilient aging and how to become more resilient?
- What are the challenges and benefits of aging?
- What aging-related issues are specific to single people?
- How to age successfully and positively
- Re-vision your future years
- Live with passion, meaning, purpose.
CIRCLE OF WISE ELDERS EMPOWERING EACH OTHER
Facilitated group discussion in a supportive environment, connecting members who wish to age with growing meaning, joy, and creativity. We will share aging-related victories, concerns and fears, attend to current living issues, expand the range of future possibilities, solve problems together. Members will learn strategies to age successfully from each other in a caring community of wise elders. To achieve these goals, seminar format or experiential exercises may be included when needed.
This is not a therapy group but rather an opportunity to work things through and find creative and constructive solutions to the challenges and opportunities that aging presents.
Sunday afternoons 4:00 - 6:00 pmEach meeting will be followed by informal socializing.
October 3, October 31, November 28 -- 2010
Where? A bright and comfortable setting in Toronto, across from the Summerhill subway station, at Summerhill/Yonge. Parking is easy to find.
Investment: $25 each meeting or pay what you can
This retreat is fully booked.
RESILIENT AGING RETREAT IN MUSKOKA
Wednesday to Friday, September 1, 2, 3 -- 2010
A three-day gathering of people who have participated in previous groups with Dr. Bar-David. Being off the grid and in the healing beauty of nature, you will have lots of opportunities to renew yourself and to develop heart-felt connections with your expanding network of friends. The retreat will include informal sharing and facilitated conversations as well as creative and fun exercises that will invite learning from nature and evolving one’s personal expression. You will have ample time to just “Be”, canoe, Kayak, walk in nature, find artistic expression, laze on the sunny dock or cuddle with a book under the shade of a tree.
This retreat is fully booked.
LOW COST VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN CUBA AND PERU, STUDY SPANISH, STAY IN COMFORTABLE AFFORDABLE OCEANFRONT ACCOMMODATIONS -- INFORMATION EVENING
Monday, October 25, 7:00 - 9:00 pm -- 2010
Where? A bright and comfortable setting in Toronto, across from the Summerhill subway station, at Summerhill/Yonge. Parking is easy to find.
Investment: $10
Join Dr. Bar-David, or follow in her footsteps, as she volunteers overseas while basking in magnificent sunsets and taking long walks along a firm-sand beach. Choose a time to suit you. Geila's program in Cuba will resume on January 2011.
CUBA -- This year Geila will continue to teach English to the “Abuelos de Futuro”, a circle of elders living in an agricultural community south of Cienfuegos. You can get there by purchasing a two-week all-inclusive trip to one of two seaside resort hotels, or you can book a longer stay duration. An intensive Spanish immersion course is also available with a minimum of 2-weeks’ duration. If you speak a bit of Spanish and would like to interact with a lively group of Cuban elders, this teaching opportunity may be for you.
PERU -- If you are interested in farther horizons and a larger spectrum of volunteer activities, Geila discovered the Otra Cosa volunteer network (http://www.otracosa.nl/) and volunteered on a sunset-facing shoreline in northern Peru. There she led the art program for children in a shanty town school staffed entirely by volunteers. The Corporation de Education Popular “C.E.P” school is a place that will open up your heart. Through Otra Cosa Network Geila got involved also with a shelter for abused women serving Trujillo and the mountain regions of Northern Peru. The Otra Cosa Network can connect you with 21 diverse projects of which at least one is bound to benefit by your life experience and love. You will feel very useful. If you like adventure and, in addition, happen to be an ocean surfer or would like to learn how to surf, this volunteer opportunity may be just for you.
Investment: Choose your travel and flight arrangements directly with your travel agent or with the Canadian travel agent who arranges long-term stays and Spanish classes in Cinefuegos Cuba. Air Canada has direct flights to Lima Peru. No fees charged by Dr. Bar David nor by Resilient Aging. Geila’s involvement is strictly to encourage you to fulfill yourself by volunteering overseas, and to invite you to join her program of supporting Cuban elders.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR TO REGISTER, CONTACT:
Dr. Geila Bar-David
416-961-3077
ResilientAging@bar-david.com
