Life Planning Pre-Conference - 2009
Life Planning Pre-Conference
December 6 - 7, 2009
at the National Conference on Positive Aging
at Eckerd College, December 7-9
The Clock is Ticking . .
Excitement is Building!
The November 15th deadline for early registration
savings is fast approaching!
Less than a month to go before our second Life Planning Pre-Conference (December 6-7) at the National Conference on Positive Aging (December 7-9), located at Eckerd College, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
We are really excited about the range and depth of the presentations and scope and talent of the speakers, many of whom are LPN members. The content of the Pre-Conference and the main Conference is outstanding and continues the ground-breaking development of the new field of holistic later-life planning.
See the schedule below or click here for more event and registration information.
Schedule
Sunday, December 6
10:30 Registration begins
12:00 Box lunch available
Life Planning Pre-Conference Begins
1:00 Welcome from LPN President and VP
Brief overview of the day. Why are we here?
Welcome with Song - Barbara McAfee
Who is in the Room? (Interactive exercise)
1:30 Retirement 2010 and Beyond
Presentation by Helen Dennis, M.A.
Specialist in aging, employment and retirement
The new retirement is here. Increased longevity, the economy, boomers and a change in expectations
have shaped a new agenda for professionals and whom they serve.
Trends, organizations and individual leaders and colleagues are significant parts of an emerging movement, attitude and way
of living in mid to later life.
With extraordinary opportunities, challenges remain.
Discussion follows.
2:10-2:40 Where and Whither LPN?
Presentation by Sharon Sokoloff, President, LPN and
Doug Dickson, V.P., LPN
2:40-3:15 Deepening the Connection - Small Group Conversations
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:45 Living Fully in the Face of Uncertainty:
the Future of Money in the Third Age
Presentation by Elizabeth Jetton, Certified Financial Planner,
Elizabeth Jetton & Associates; RTD Financial Advisors
While focusing on the financial aspects of life transition issues in the third age, we will consider the other resources that
we have in our lives to meet the opportunities and the challenges of transition and aging.
4:45-5:00 Transition to Hub and Open Space
Betsy Cole and Donna Singer
5:00-6:00 Hub Time
•Reflection, intention setting, integration - meditation space in chapel
•Communications Central, Open Space and other networking opportunities
•Opportunity to create group mural
•Interviews by Secure Path
•Place for brochures/books/business cards
•And more - Hub continues with more offerings in PAC
6:15-7:00 Wine and heavy hors d'oeurves reception
7:00-9:00 Reviving a Spirit of Community in Everyday Life
Music, Song and Community Building with Barbara McAfee
Experience an openhearted, vivacious, fun place
so you can carry it back home.
Create relationships based on joy and gifts. Talk, songs and group singing.
9:00 Adjourn - Buses (and Cars) back to hotel
Monday Morning, December 7
Pre-Conference Continues
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
Coffee, tea, water, juice, rolls and fruit available.
Possibility of yoga or Tai Chi
8:30-9:45 Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Organizational and Professional Development
See list below.
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-11:15 Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Organizational and Professional Development
See list below.
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 All Community Wrap-up
Integrating our conference experience,
bringing the conference back home and taking action
•What have we learned here, what are the our next steps and movement as an organization?
•Continuing activities during the rest of the conference - Hub, Open Space, etc.
•Closure with community singing leg by Barbara McAfee
12:30-1:15 Box Lunch
Monday Afternoon, December 7
National Conference on Positive Aging Begins
Life Transitions Cluster
1:30-2:45 The Call to Prime Time
Plenary speaker: Gregg Levoy
3:00-4:15 Concurrent Breakout Sessions
See list below.
4:15-5:15 Hub Time
Continuing the Conversations
5:15-6:15 Welcome Reception
Jim Deegan and Rick Moody
6:30 Keynote Address - Beyond the Gerosphere
Presented by Dr. William Thomas
Founder, The Eden Alternative and Green House Project
See Eckerd website for Conference Program Tuesday through Wednesday noon; Wellness: Tuesday morning, Creativity: Tuesday afternoon, Community: Wednesday morning.
Life Planning Pre-Conference
Monday Morning, December 7
8:30-9:45
Starting and Growing LPNs: Community, Creativity and Contribution
Susan Larson, MEd, NCC; Mary Radu, MS, MSW, CPCC; Kate Schaefers, PhD, LP; Candy Spitz, LCSW, ACC; and Roberta Taylor, RNCS
LPN groups are sprouting up around the nation, offering valuable opportunities for leadership and growth. This session highlights ways to grow LPN connections nationally and locally. We'll share stories of starting LPN communities, promote regional connections, and jump-start the process to help you bring LPN to your community.
Conversations on the Journey -- A New Tool for the Trade
Dick Goldberg, Director: Coming of Age
Mady Prowler, Assistant Director: Coming of Age
What is a fulfilled life? That's just one of many questions in Conversations on the Journey, an 8-session program from Coming of Age, using video of experts to stimulate discussion. Learn to facilitate this program by sampling its "Living a Fulfilled Life" session featuring Paul Nussbaum, Suzanne Braun Levine, and others.
Development After Age 50: pioneering the skills and agility we'll need later in life
George Schofield, PhD; CEO: The Clarity Group LLC
Although earlier skills and identities served us well, they could work against us as we move from 50 towards elderly. In this interactive, thoughtful workshop Dr. Schofield shares his interest in and research seizing the developmental period after 50 to pioneer the skills and agility we'll need later in life. Come prepared to participate.
Establishing a Life Coaching Referral Network: Model Overview & Discussion
Mark Foster, VP Marketing Communications & Client Development: Secure Path by Transamerica
Wendy Wiesman, Director Consumer Marketing: Secure Path by Transamerica
Designed in partnership with coaching professionals across the U.S., this session invites attendees to learn more about the model, how it was created and plans for future launch efforts.
Creating Excellence in Practice
LPN - Kit Hayes, MEd; Sharon Sokoloff, PhD, MSG
The emerging field of integrative life planning is at a formative stage. While we have no standards of practice or evidence to demonstrate best practices, we have been talking, thinking and writing about these matters. We are eager to share our work with you and involve you in our process.
Career Fitness in Your Lifework
Elizabeth Craig, MBA, MCDP; Founder and President: ELC Global LLC, a career and lifework consultancy firm
Career Fitness capitalizes on the latest research in adult learning, behavior change and employment. It is a powerful approach to career self-management for the transformed 21st century workplace. Appropriate for everyone at every phase, this proven system capitalizes on the physical fitness metaphor for an easy- to-implement, empowering regimen.
Aging-in-WHAT-Place? A Guide to Age-Friendly Homes
Christine Kennedy, Executive Director: The Leading Age Institute, Inc.
Learn about traditional & innovative housing options, from staying in the family home to shared housing, co-housing & retirement communities, and the expenses, services, values and possibilities associated with each option. Work through an exercise professionals can use to help clients in their process of deciding the right place to live
Authentic Renewal™: Cultivating Wholeness in the Second Half of Life
Jean Tollefson, MS, NCC; Co-principal: Authentic Renewal™; owner: VisionQuest Life Planning
Kate Schaefers, PhD, LP; Co-principal: Authentic Renewal™; owner: Encore Life Planning
The second half of life is a great time to reconnect with who we really are. We'll explore strategies to bring wholeness to daily living, and promote clarity, passion, and purpose. Participants will be introduced to practical and experiential exercises grounded in a framework that integrates mind, body, soul, and heart.
National Conference on Positive Aging
Monday Afternoon, December 7
3:00-4:15
The New Older Man
Ron Browne, former Director: Cleveland Foundation; funded lifelong learning project: "What's Next!"
This workshop will help to raise the awareness that, in our work, we need to consider the challenges of men differently. It will also present a model for men's group workshops that the presenter has used for a number of years in assisting older men with core issues as they make life transitions.
Wake Up, Show Up, Lighten Up, Wake Up
Trish Herbert, PhD; Founder: Journeywell; retired licensed psychologist
These 3 Ups will help you discover what your life has been teaching you about who you want to be in order to like yourself the most during your remaining years. We will work with exercises from my new book, Journeywell: A Guide to Quality Aging which is a communication catalyst full of exercises, questions, information, cartoons, and stories to help you get clarification for yourself and ideas for use professionally.
Strategies for Positive Aging
Robert D. Hill, PhD; Professor: University of Utah
Changing Expectations for Work and Retirement in the U.S. and Europe
Workshop Leader and Presenter:
Jan Hively, PhD; Co-founder/Coach: SHiFT Network, Vital Aging Network, MN
Creative Arts and Aging Network Presenters from Europe:
Jurgen Deller, Prof. Dr.: Institute for Strategic HR Management Research and Development (SMARD), University of Leuphana, Luneborg, Germany
Sylvie Baer Magnier, Coach and CEO: Talenthemes, Paris, France
Gulnara Minnigaleeva, PhD; CEO: "Wisdom Ripening" Senior Resource Center; Assistant Prof. of Public Policy, State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
The "Age Wave's" pressure on pension funds and the economic downturn are stimulating tough personal and policy choices about extending work life in both the U.S. and Europe. Presenters from the U.S., Germany, France, and Russia will show how assuring flexible, meaningful work generates both healthy aging and supplementary income.
The Call of Prime Time: A Hands-On Workshop
Gregg Levoy, Author, Speaker
A continuation of the Keynote presentation, this experiential workshop is a clarifying process. It takes the form of a call-and-response inquiry into what your own life is calling for from you in the second half, whether in the arenas of work, creativity, community, relationship, service or lifestyle.
The Telling: Midlife Transitions
Facilitator:
Fred Mandell, PhD, Ed M; Principal: Life Change Arts; Former Sr. Executive: Am-Express; Artist, Author
Panelists:
Joan Ditzion, MSW, LICSW; Social commentator and geriatric social worker; Author
Donna Singer, MS; Consultant, Coach specializing in work with physicians and health care professionals
Cyndi Jones, LICSW; Psychotherapist, Coach; founding CEO: Wildflower Foundation
Are you interested in new ways to engage individuals and groups in the midlife transition journey? The Telling has been a remarkable collaboration of 12 individuals in transition at midlife through a multi-media format on a large canvas, 7 by 10 feet and offers a chronicle of transition in real time. The insights have been surprising, poignant, and, above all, unvarnished and authentic. This session will be interactive and include a brief context setting, panel discussion and an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and leave their personal mark on the work.
Saving Your Downsized Soul: Thriving in Times of Change and Challenges
Carol Orsborn, PhD; Senior Strategist: VibrantNation.com
These are challenging times for Boomers, many facing a widening gap between expectations and reality. As many re-evaluate their coping skills, what can we learn from those who are transiting the unknown with spirits intact? Dr. Orsborn draws upon resilience studies, original research and personal experience to point the way towards increased levels of clarity, resourcefulness and empowerment.
Embracing the Spiritual in Life's Transitions
Marty Richards, MSW, NLICSW; University of Washington
Stephen Sapp, MDiv, PhD; University of Maryland
In making life transitions, spiritual questions are often raised: ways to find meaning, how to leave a legacy, and review of what one believes. Exploration of these can lead to a positive view of aging. Practical and creative ways to probe such themes will be offered through discussions and hands on experiences.
Collaborating on Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives for Boomers
Karen Shimada, MPH; Executive Director: Life by Design NW
From Memory to Memoir: The Physical, Spiritual, & Social Benefits of Creative Life Review
Paula Stahel, Owner: Breath & Shadow Productions; President: Association of Personal Historians
Life review is a naturally occurring stage that, when channeled creatively, fosters a variety of positive outcomes. Participants will learn the benefits of life-writing and experience a powerful demonstration of how easily memories are triggered and talent emerges from people with no experience in either creative writing or life review.
Working with Couples in Retirement Transition
Roberta Taylor, RNC; Licensed psychotherapist & career/life transition coach
Dorian Mintzer, PhD; Licensed psychologist, career/life transition coach; founder: the Boomers and Beyond SIG.
Transitioning to the second half of life is a challenge for individuals and can be even more complex when there are two. Using a stage oriented framework and 10 Must-Have Conversations, learn how to help couples get to "yes" together and create a joint vision for the second half of life.
What's Your Change Personality? How Attitudes Toward Change, Uncertainty, Risk and Expectations Influence People in Transition
Will Prest, CMO: SecurePath by Transamerica
How individuals manage change is one of the core focal points of this presentation. "Venturers" relish change, while "Adapters" appreciate consistency. Attend and learn more about these and other change personalities, identified through the SecurePath by Transamerica C.U.R.E. Study, while considering their application to your business.
Hope you plan to come! Here's what to do next:
1. Register at www.eckerd.edu/positiveaging (LPN members receive a 20% member discount on the Pre-Conference fee). Early-bird registration until November 15th.
2. Reserve your hotel room. The Sirata Beach Resort & Conference Center is our suggested choice.
Make sure to get the special conference rate. Find Hotel Information at www.eckerd.edu/positiveaging/Hotel%20Information.php.
3. Make airline reservations to either Tampa International Airport (TPA) or St.Petersburg -
Clearwater International Airport (PIE). They are both about the same distance to the Sirata
Beach Resort. Travel time might be increased coming from TPA during rush hour (8-9:30
a.m. or 4-7 p.m.).
4. Make local travel arrangements. Travel to the hotel can be with a car rental, taxi cab or with Super Shuttle.
Reservations must be made in advance for Super Shuttle at Supershuttle.com.
Shuttle transportation will be provided between the hotels and Eckerd at the beginning and end of each day's program, including the pre-conference.
5. Recruit colleagues/friends to join us at the Conference.
6. Questions: contact Betsy Cole, betsycole@comcast.net.
Join us in Florida and be part of the excitement.
See you at the Pre-Conference and the Conference!