Susan Brooks: "Trailblazing: Changing the Face of Aging"

A 5-Session Experiential Workshop with Susan BrooksAs the longest living generation in history, Boomers are the first to experience a longer and more robust lifespan. They are trailblazers, modern seniors disrupting stereotypes as they redefine their identity after retirement, stay active, and contribute to others using hard-won wisdom. This highly interactive and experiential five-session workshop, led by Cookies from Home founder Susan Brooks, is a gathering place for curious, creative, courageous seniors asking, “Now what?” Together, attendees will explore thought-provoking topics like:

• Who are you now?
• How do you reframe a lifetime of experience into a new identity?
• What are your priorities moving forward?
• How do you grow whole instead of simply growing old?

This five-week journey is a gathering place for seniors ready to build confidence, embrace uncertainty, and cultivate a beginner’s mind. Backed by research showing that a positive mindset about aging can add over seven joyful years to your life, this program will help you reconnect with your Authentic Self—and what’s possible next.WORKSHOP DETAILS

• Cost: $175 per person, for five (5) sessions.
• Register below.
• Please have paper and pen or an electronic device to take notes on.
• Refunds will not be issued within one day of the event.

FIVE WORKSHOPS

• 10:30am-12:30pm Thursdays, August 9, 23, and 30
• 10:30am-12:30pm Thursdays, November 6 and 13
• Session 1: Introduction and Overview
• Session 2: Embrace Curiosity with Beginner’s Mind
• Session 3: Must be scared to BE BRAVE (exercise)
• Session 4: Your Wisdom Teachers
• Session 5: A New You! (closet audit)/ Evaluations

Attendees Bring: Something to take notes on (Paper, notebook, pins, laptop, etc.)

Recommended Book List:

• Man’s Search for Meaning: Viktor Frankl
• Overcoming Perfectionism; ANN W. SMITH
• Advanced Style: Ari Seth Cohen
• Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: Marie Kondo
• The Mid-Life Manifesto: Chip Conley
• From AGE-ing to SAGE-ing: Zalman Schachter- Shalomomi and Ronald Miler
• Breaking the Age Code: Becca Levy

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORAbout Susan Brooks: After 30 years, Susan Brooks and her husband of 58 years, sold Cookies from Home in 2010. Susan thought she had retired, but soon realized she needed to redefine her identity and, more importantly, her purpose. It was an uncomfortable and challenging period. Retirement sounded like a long beach vacation, and she wanted much more than that. Who was she now, without the title, the to-do lists, and the whirlwind of entrepreneurship. In the spirit of reinvention and knowing she was a life-long learner, she discovered a plethora of thought-provoking content that continues to guide her life today. That’s when she realized she wasn’t done. She was simply shifting lanes.

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