Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World
In a practical and useful way, Marjory Zoet Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. She offers creative ways for you to share your gifts and experience, particularly when retirement leaves you questioning who you are when you are no longer defined by your career.\ Drawing on stories of people who have reinvented their lives in their older years, Bankson explores the issues you need to address as you move into this generative period of life:\ Release: Letting go of...
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In a practical and useful way, Marjory Zoet Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. She offers creative ways for you to share your gifts and experience, particularly when retirement leaves you questioning who you are when you are no longer defined by your career.Drawing on stories of people who have reinvented their lives in their older years, Bankson explores the issues you need to address as you move into this generative period of life:Release: Letting go of the vocational identity associated with your career or primary workResistance: Feeling stuck, stagnant, resisting changeReclaiming: Drawing energy from the past, discovering unused giftsRevelation: Forming a new vision of the futureCrossing Point: Moving from stagnation to generativityRisk: Stepping out into the world with new hopeRelating: Finding or creating new structures for a new kind of work Library Journal Workshop leader and president of Faith@Work, Bankson explores the inner work of making one's later years creative and meaningful. She has interviewed hundreds of people and discovered that there are seven phases of transition in aging: Release, Resistance, Reclaiming, Revelation, Crossing Point, Risk, and Relating. She explores these in depth and points out that the key concerns of the retirement-aged person are self-identity and the need to give back and be useful. She takes the realities of failing health and finances into account but provides the wider perspective on finding new meaning. Real-life stories and probing questions help readers gain insights into the last decades of life.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Making the Extra Years Count 11 What Now?: Rethinking Aging 72 Release: The Inner Work of Leaving 233 Resistance: Moving Beyond Security 414 Reclaiming: Riches from the Past 555 Revelation: Where Does Newness Come From? 716 Crossing Point: Joining Inner and Outer Worlds 877 Risk: Beginning Again with More Focus 1018 Relating: Finding the Right Form for Now 117Epilogue: Living Wholeheartedly 133Suggestions for Further Reading 137
\ Library JournalWorkshop leader and president of Faith@Work, Bankson explores the inner work of making one's later years creative and meaningful. She has interviewed hundreds of people and discovered that there are seven phases of transition in aging: Release, Resistance, Reclaiming, Revelation, Crossing Point, Risk, and Relating. She explores these in depth and points out that the key concerns of the retirement-aged person are self-identity and the need to give back and be useful. She takes the realities of failing health and finances into account but provides the wider perspective on finding new meaning. Real-life stories and probing questions help readers gain insights into the last decades of life.\ \
