NEXT Steps Cohort - Fall 2025

Schedule

Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

475 E Lockwood Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63119 | Webster Groves, MO

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Meetings Dates: Begins August 26, 2025 with 9 all group sessions approximately every other week for 16 weeks.
Description:
NEXT Steps introduces participants to theological, philosophical, and psychological concepts of vocation and aging. It is a gathering for adults contemplating or entering retirement, and for those who are recently retired. All program activities are designed to stimulate your individual self-discovery as you develop a personal plan for your new and meaningful chapter of life. NEXT Steps participants follow a 16-week process of self-discovery through readings, presentations, small group discussions, and discernment. All classes will meet via ZOOM. By the end of the program, participants will have developed a vision and a plan for their next phase of life; their elderhood. On non-class weeks there will be a one-hour small group discussion, time and date to be determined by each small group on the first day of class.
Cohort leaders:
Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of The Center for Abundant Aging at United Church Homes
Steve Lawler, Director, NEXT Steps
Jill Schantz, Coordinator, NEXT Steps
Cohort Dates:
August 26- Welcome, Introductions and Orientation
September 2- How We Engage with Age
September 16- Death and the Meaning of Life
September 30- Call, Vocation and Identity
October 14- Creativity, Curiosity and Seeing Possibilities
October 28- Generativity: The Dance of Giving and Receiving
November 11- A Spirituality to Sustain and Connect
November 25- Making Hope Happen
December 9- Celebration of your Next Steps
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475 E Lockwood Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63119, 475 E Lockwood Ave, St Louis, MO 63119-3124, United States, Webster Groves

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