ThirdLaunch

"The workshop encouraged me to dream and gave me tools to live the next phase of my life with purpose, my way."

E. Trewartha

Bold Living Beyond Work

Passion and Purpose Beyond Career

Overview

This program focuses on what’s essential at this stage of life: understanding the need for crafting an intentional new chapter, creating a post-work identity, learning how to learn about yourself and new arenas, and getting a proactive plan in place. It is a program for those who want to look at the chapters ahead and plan for a new way of being in the later years.

What's Next and What's New?

The term "retirement" seems to be ill-suited for today's new landscape of the 60's, 70's and beyond. Those of us approaching these years are unlikely to dream of the sort of retirement we watched our parents live out, yet few of us have maps for how we want to proceed through these years. What's new is that we are living longer with healthier lifestyles and more options than ever before.

Take a look at these shifts:

  • We are living longer than ever with mostly good health.
  • We have saved less than past generations at a time when it takes more money to sustain our preferred lifestyles and this means many of us will continue some form of work well beyond traditional retirement.
  • Those of us turning sixty today are, by nature, more optimistic and we expect more.
  • Workforce dynamics create some interesting convergences for us with shrinking numbers spelling new possibilities for all sorts of part-time work options that haven't existed in the past.
  • People entering their sixties are the largest group within the total U.S. population. 
  • Look around at the ads, the magazines, and you'll notice whole industries serving the "graying of America".
  • We are looking for renewed passion and purpose that includes making a difference in our later years.
  • Quite simply put, we are pioneering a new stage of life filled with ample challenges and opportunities for a rich new chapter.

Learning Process

The program integrates dynamic learning groups with topical presentations, exercises and tools to guide you into the chapter ahead. The approach, well grounded in the concepts of adult development and human systems theories, leads to deep and lasting change.

Who Will Benefit

  • Professionals who are reaching retirement age or wish to create a plan for when they leave their current company 
  • Individuals who have retired and whose focus is no longer on work, but rather on other important dimensions of their life chapter going forward

Program Highlights

  • A day of discovery with others  considering new paths ahead and creating some experiments worthy of the new chapter.
  • A personalized approach with a group limited in size to 24 participants
  • A pre-assessment package including the Personal Directions Inventory®
  • A detailed plan for the chapter ahead with action steps and goals for moving forward