Facilitators: Linda Merrill & J. G. Quarto
Location: New Roads School, Santa Monica
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday, Oct. 10th
Cost: $125 (meals not included)
Elderhood signals a major life passage bringing us to a new period of growth in our lives. Yet unlike traditional cultures throughout the world, conscious aging in our Western culture is still in the developing stages. This workshop offers the opportunity to look at new possibilities and begin to create models that serve us as we enter this passage and journey through our elder years.
As the cycles of the natural world and our own deeper nature inform us of how to move from one stage of life to the next, attention to these t
ransitions and the way in which we greet them is part of the process of conscious aging. The dissolution of an old form is often followed by a period of gestation, and it is in the alchemy of these changes that new meaning and purpose for our lives is awakened.
Weaving together our interior knowing with our outer experience, we will seek to expand and deepen our personal vision and clarify the role of elderhood in society, drawing on the rich teaching found within our own stories and the writings of poets and mystics. These resources and the synergy of our collective wisdom will augment our journey as we forge new pathways into conscious aging, ultimately leading us back to an integral participation in the world community.
Register on-line with a credit card using our Secure Registration Form, by calling 805.646.8343 ext.101, or by emailing registration@ojaifoundation.org to check on availability.
Linda Merrill, Ph.D. Psycholoy, M.A. Education,
is trained in transpersonal psychology and in movement and
body-oriented therapies. She was co-director of The Institute of
Transpersonal Psychology in Ojai, CA, a degree program for marriage and
family therapists with an emphasis on holistic psychology.
She also co-directed Bridgewalk, a family therapy practice, and has taught elder classes in passages at the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at the University of Hawaii. Linda has worked experientially with groups in many different settings, using
metaphors and symbols to access the rich resources within each of us.
J. G. Quarto, M.S.W, has
a broad background in traditional psychotherapeutic practices as well
as in the teaching of transpersonal modalities. He is a published
author on the topic of aging and elder studies and has been mentored by
indigenous elders in North America, the Amazonian rainforest and the
African Sahara. Infusing all of Geramy’s endeavors is a keen intuitive
awareness and a genuine enthusiasm for personal transformation and
indigenous wisdom traditions
