The ageing process is a life-long project effecting all of us—and yet it seems as if it can somehow be manipulated into a means by which many of our unworked out prejudices are allowed to run rampant.
Take the experience of people over 50 who feel as if they are becoming invisible. Although this can affect men as well, the people who describe this happening to them are overwhelmingly women. As we all know, women in their fifties are heading towards menopause and the end of their reproductive cycle. At the same time as their bodies are undergoing major changes, their appearance changes too and they can no longer be seen as youthful! When many men are at the zenith of their professional lives and commanding respect and attention, women—whether professionals, or not—become increasingly exposed to ageism.
This workshop will focus on enabling participants to face their ageing process head on and to discover how they want to deal with it on their own terms. Invisibility is not inevitable. Each of us can choose how we respond to it—whether we come to accept it and use it to our own advantage, or whether we debate it and demonstrate a different way of ageing.
This two hour workshop consists of talks, video extracts, exercises, sharing and discussion. Participants will receive a PDF workbook with all the main quotes, charts and exercises.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- To come to see the ageing process as an opportunity for increased self-awareness and development.
- To uncover the underlying prejudices that society lays on the ageing process.
- To experiment with fresh approaches to ageing that encourage flourishing.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- This workshop is for is for counsellors and therapists who have some older clients who are struggling with the emotional impact of feeling invisible and are interested in the opportunity to address their own ageing process.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- The aim of this workshop is to provide fresh perspectives and strategies to navigate ageing.
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Presenter
Maureen is the founding director of Awareness in Action, an organization dedicated supporting people to make sustainable wellbeing part of their lives—through developing clarity, connection and openness.
Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a professional educator, senior manager in a non-profit organization, an entrepreneur and as an experienced practitioner of Buddhist meditation, she leads Awareness in Action workshops and training programs in the UK and Europe.
Her new book, The Stress Workbook is a groundbreaking effort that brings together the best of modern science and the wisdom of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions into a practical manual for thriving in today’s fast-paced world. Although born in London, UK love took Maureen to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she lives with her husband.
