Elder Odyssey Online Workshops
This series is designed to lead us deeper into the possibilities that open for us as we age. Participation in previous courses is not required and all are welcome.
Many of us, having grown up in a society that focuses on productivity and the material world are at a loss when entering a stage of life where the skills and knowledge we acquired don’t seem to apply anymore. Who are we when we are no longer a job title, a parent, a provider? How do we navigate this new, virtually unknown terrain of no longer working nine to five, no longer being defined by what we do?
These workshops are designed to offer a compass and companionship for the journey. It is challenging but there are some tools and roadmaps available to us. We will gather in community to explore this together and learn not only from the insights of those who have gone before but from each other as well.
The Facilitators:
Lester Strong is the founder and former executive director of the Peaceful Guardians Project which facilitated communication and collaboration between government and community in the City of Kingston, NY.. He also served as CEO of AARP Foundation’s Experience Corps, which tutors/mentors 30,000 elementary students who struggle with reading in 23 cities across the United States annually. He was also a television journalist and producer in New York City, Boston, Atlanta and Charlotte. Lester has been a student of Eastern philosophies and meditation for over forty years. He is a graduate of Davidson College and Columbia University Business School’s Institute for Nonprofit Management.
Ev Mann is a musician/educator with wide experience in the non-profit sector as the founder and executive director of the Center for Creative Education and MaMA, Marbletown Multi-Arts. Ev has masters degrees in Religious Studies and Music Composition and currently co-leads the Encore Transition Program at Union Theological Seminary in NYC.
