This five-week seminar addresses important issues that arise increasingly in the prime of life and beyond. Ripening while aging provides many opportunities for growth, healing, forgiving, loving, and letting go. Advancing years also bring a different set of challenges--disappointments in relationships and the workplace, more aches and pains, and the call to face one's own death. Where does the road lead? Where lies meaning in this journey? Basing respectful discussions on common readings, together we will seek to grow older by creating authentic, courageous pathways for engaging with God, our selves and others.
When:
Monday Evenings
October 8, 15, 22, 29, & November 5
6:00 - 8:00pm
Course Text: The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker’s Guide to Growing Older, by Robert L. Weber, PhD and Carol Orsborn, PhD
Cost: $145 (includes meals and course text, The Spirituality of Age)
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Instructor: Andrew Achenbaum, PhD, taught history and gerentology for forty years before his retirement from University of Houston in 2017. He has published six books, edited 12 collections, and authored more than 200 articles and reviews, including "Spirituality and Aging,” a green paper published by ISH. He offered a course by this name for the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work for many years. He now serves as a scholar in residence at ISH and is excited to explore dimensions of the spirituality of age in this intimate setting.