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Conference wide exhibits
Jerry Snow, Visualizing Ideas through Photography: The Art of Titling
Gay Hanna, Beautiful Minds (tentative)
Master of Ceremonies: Dr. Harry R. Moody
Dr. Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a number of books including: Ethics in an Aging Society and Aging: Concepts and Controversies, a gerontology textbook now in its 3rd edition. His book, The Five Stages of the Soul, has been translated into seven languages worldwide. A graduate of Yale (1967) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University (1973), Dr. Moody taught philosophy at Columbia, Hunter College, New York University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 1999 to 2001 he served as National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Faith in Action and, from 1992 to 1999, was Executive Director of the Brookdale Center at Hunter College. Harry Moody is known nationally for his work in older adult education and recently stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical ethics and edits "The Soul of Bioethics" newsletter. Conference wide exhibits—Table presentations Table presentations are set up throughout the conference site and will be available throughout the duration of conference. Table presentations are designed for interactive engagement with the presenters and conference attendees. Presenters will post what times they will be available for all conversation.
The following table presentations will be available at the conference:
Debra Amandola Staying Employed as We Age
Dick Ambrosius Exploring Brain Fitness
Glenna Amos Mature Worker Toolbox Training
Julie Austin It’s Never Too Late to be Creative
Valerie Bentz Creative Longevity & Wisdom: Contributions of Jerry Snow the Fielding Fellows
Suzanne L. Cook Redirection During Retirement
Kate Cummings Coming to Grips With Loss: Normalizing the Grief Process
Kendall Dudley Locating Your ‘True Voice’ for Living and Ed Merck Working Well in the Coming Years
Dorian Mintzer
Alan O’Hare
Paula Enrietto Teach me How to Grow Old: Learning to Manage the Normal ChangesThat Come With Age
Jane Faily Flourishing Amidst Challenges of Aging: How to Draw on the Resources of your Body, Mind and Spirit in Coping with the Adventures
Of Aging
Renee Feiger Being an Older Parent: Raising a Teen in your Dorian Mintzer 50s and 60s! Dialogues of The Delights and Dilemmas
Sara Zeff Geber My Next Home: A Tool for Exploring the Look, Mary Radu Feel, and Location Of your Later-life Home
Jennifer Fry Contribute, Collaborate, Create: Using the 3C’s as a Model for Positive Aging Conversations
Gigi L. Johnson Connecting Through Technology: Enriching a Bigger Life for Older Adults
Karma Kitaj Discover your Personal Brand to Create a Cindy Key Legacy for Future Generations
Jeff Leinaweaver Re-Storying an Ecological Elderhood—An Introduction to Ecstatic Wisdom Postures
Jim Lenarz The #1 Positive Aging Study Group: A Model for Learning (with Free Samples!)
Maria Malayter Compassionate Healing: A Multidimensional Recovery Strategy From a Serious Medical Crisis
Laura Mitchell Cultural Mosaics: Our Changing and Blended Identities
Betsy Newman Mind the Gap! Generational Differences: Myth and Reality
Renee Lee Rosenberg Stressed by Aging? Job Search? Retirement? Keep Calm, Cool, and Connected with AgeTerrific®, a new Approach to Positive Energy
Diane Sanson Your Personal Climb, Wisdoms from Mt. Margie Borjon-Miller Whitney
Barbara Shovers Wisdom Seekers: A Path to Conscious Living Ellen Engel and Aging
David Steinhart Creating Community with the Ukulele
Robert Weber Developing Resilience through Spiritual Carol Orsborn Exercise in the Second Half of Life Ramsey Alwin Savvy Saving Seniors
December 6, 2011, Tuesday, Life Planning Network, Pre-Conference
Omni Hotel, 251 South Olive St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Come Join LPN for Our National Meeting at the Positive Aging Conference
For over eight years, members of the Life Planning Network have been transforming lives. As coaches, planners, educators, artists, authors, national and local speakers and TV personalities, LPN members share the goal of improving life after 50.
What better way to connect than to join us at LPN’s National Meeting taking place on Tuesday, December 6th at the beautiful Omni California Plaza in Los Angeles, CA.
We cannot think of a more appropriate way to commemorate the doubling of our membership in the last year, than to bring everyone together to celebrate our growth and expand the world of possibilities for life planning.
With a bold new approach for 2012, LPN has created this one, high-level, in-depth meeting where you, the emerging leaders in our field, will hear about strategic innovators who can help us to expand the world of possibilities for life planning.
Our National meeting will showcase concepts, programs and projects that you can champion and bring back to your clients and/organizations.
Our dynamic half-day event begins at 2 pm and ends with cocktails, appetizers and a three course gourmet meal. We will leave you refreshed and invigorated to attend the adjoining Fifth International Conference for Positive Aging beginning the next day.
December 7, 2011, Wednesday
7:30 AM-5:00 PM Open Registration
7:30-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00-10:15 AM Opening Session of Positive Aging Conference Location: Yosemite
Music: Rhythms of Collaboration
John Fitzgerald is the Manager of Recreational Music Activities for Remo Inc., and is also a freelance percussionist in Los Angeles. Creating valuable partnerships with individuals and organizations who share the common vision of music as a tool for wellness, education, and a better life is central to the Remo mission and a primary aspect of John's work.
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist who divides her time between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She has written and co-authored many books and articles, and lectures across the country and abroad and has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, Amherst College, Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines and in Iran. Since the Fall of 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and is a special consultant to the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Libraries for the Future, with an emphasis on conceptualization, testing and implementation of her Active Wisdom model for community dialogues as a signature program of the Initiative.
At the conference, Mary Catherine Bateson will explore continuing work in Active Wisdom through her recent book titled Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, on the contributions and improvisations of engaged older adults, written to raise consciousness of the changing life cycle and to encourage older adults to claim a voice for the future. This project continues to lead to further exploration of intergenerational communication and changing ways of experiencing time.
This session will be conducted as a dialogue.
10:15-10:30 AM Conference Break
10:30-12:00 PM Sessions & Workshops
Wellness Some Determinants of Life Satisfaction related to Older Adults
Debra Bendell Location: Big Sur
Life Transitions Aging in Community: Cohousing, Villages and Guilds
Raines Cohen Location: Catalina
Community Making Meaning as we Age: International Perspectives
Anna DiStefano Location: Yosemite
Elham El-Ateeq
Ani Kalayjian
Joyce Oneko
Sue Reamer
Gloria Willingham
Andrea Zielke-Nadkarni
Life Transitions Giving Older Workers a Fair Shot
Doug Dickson Location: Sierra
Community The Elder Wisdom Circle
Laurie Schur Location: Cabrillo
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Sessions & Workshops
Creativity Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence
Barbara McAfee Location: Big Sur
Life Transitions Crafting Retreats for Renewal and Barbara Babkirk Transformation: Tools for Crossing
Susan Larson into the Second Half of Life
Candy Spitz Location: Yosemite
Community Dialogue to Guide Development of an International Positive Aging Network Jan Hively
Patricia Munro Location: Mohave
Creativity Intentional Travel: Personal Pilgrimage and the Path towards Completion
Kendall Dudley Location: Sierra
Life Transitions Old Inmates Die Hard or Die Gently: Prison Hospice
as a Transformative Vehicle
G. Jay Westbrook Location: Catalina
2:30-3:00 PM Coffee break
3:00-4:30 PM Sessions & Workshops
Creativity Still Kicking: Aging Performing Artists in the Los Angeles and New York Metro Areas
Joan Jeffri
Laura Trejo Location: Big Sur
Wellness Aging Well takes a Village: The Global Age-Friendly Cities Project
Christine Kennedy Location: Mohave
Life Transitions Alzheimer’s—What’s new and what’s getting really old
Peter Whitehouse Location: Yosemite
Community Mid and Later Life Ecological Consciousness and Action: A World Cafe
Karen Bogart Location: Catalina
Catharine Macdonald
Life Transitions Life Ahead! How one Ebook can Positively Change our Future
Andrea Gallagher Location: Cabrillo
4:30 PM Conversation hour, cocktails, light dinner food
5:00 PM Presentation of the inaugural Fielding Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Change and Positive Aging
6:00 PM Closing
Thursday, December 8, 2011
8:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration
7:30-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:15-10:15AM Community Plenary Session, The Gifts of Connie Goldman Caregiving
Opening announcement about the new ENCORE network, an idea that was conceived at last year’s conference and implemented under the shared aegis of Life Planning Network and Civic Ventures. There are currently about 15 organizations representing more than 50 sites around the country. The various collaborations with the network are innovative and together they represent a significant part of the positive aging movement.
Doug Dickson and Andrea Gallagher, Life Planning Network
Music: John Fitzgerald and community members, Location: Yosemite
Connie Goldman was formerly on the staff of National Public Radio in Washington DC, where she had the experience of hosting both the daily and weekend broadcasts of NPR's news program All Things Considered. Over twenty-five years ago, at the age of 50, she felt called to explore the positive aspects of aging in a culture that seemed obsessed with "staying young." Her explorations led to conversation with many famous public figures on a variety of issues related to aging, as well as collecting interviews with hundreds of individuals of what she has labeled, "extra-ordinary older persons."
Plenary topic: A Positive Experience of Personal Learning
We don’t usually hear a family caregiver say things like: “Without my dad’s dependence on me and my participation in his care, I might never have experienced or understood all I have come to learn.”
“My caregiving experience has given me a more meaningful connection with myself as well as others.”
“That gift of being able to really see things differently and slow down has stayed with me”.
”By assuming the care of my dying mother I’ve learned a great deal about life as well as facing death”.
We learn about ourselves from hearing the stories of others. The reality of our world is that some already are serving family members as their primary caregiver, many have been a family caregiver in the past, others will unexpectedly become caregivers, and most of us will at some time need to be cared for. As former first lady Rosalynn Carter observed, “That pretty much covers all of us.” Many caregivers have shared a personal and poignant tale that offers an unexpected source of personal insight and inspiration. While juggling fear, frustration, indecision and guilt, it is possible to gain personal insight and inspiration, experience forgiveness, acceptance, compassion and empathy. Facts illustrate but stories illuminate.
10:30-12:00 PM Sessions & Workshops
Creativity Sacred Circle Dance as a Path to Holistic/Conscious and Positive Aging
Evi Torton Beck Location: Cabrillo
Wellness Total Engagement: An Arts-Based Guide to Meaningful Activity
Pamela Atwood Location: Mohave Thomas Atwood
Life Transitions Mythology of Money: Explore our Personal Stories about Money
Suzanne Cloutier Location: Catalina
Community Creating Empowered Community Culture
Richard Ambrosius Location: Big Sur
Kay Van Norman
Community Knowing and ….sharing your Story
Dick Goldberg Location: Sierra
Life Transitions Advocacy Leadership for Positive Aging: Life Planning in the Twenty-First Century
Ramsey Alwin
Connie Corley Location: Yosemite
Judith-Kate Friedman
Jan Hively
Mary Radu
Peter Whitehouse
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Sessions & Workshops
Creativity Soul-Life, Persistent Creativity, and Aging in Style: A Conversation
about the Handmade Life and Staying Fully Alive Judith-Kate Friedman
Cath Mich Location: Cabrillo
Wellness Lifelong Learning: How to Teach an Old Fogy New Tricks
Joshua Berrett Location: Big Sur
Lynne Berrett
Life Transitions What Should I do with the Rest of my Life? and What Your Brain’s Got to Do With It
Bruce Frankel Location: Yosemite
Community Challenges to Positive Aging for the Pre-Stonewall Generations of LGBT
Nancy Baker Elders
Nancy Knauer Location: Catalina
Life Transitions The Telling: Second Generation
Fred Mandell Location: Mohave
2:30-3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 PM Wellness Plenary, Dr. Walter Bortz, Yosemite
In this plenary session, Dr. Bortz explores our deepening understanding of wellness as it relates to robust aging. Walter M. Bortz II, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Recognized as one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity, Dr. Walter Bortz's research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz has published over 130 medical articles and authored numerous books, including We Live Too Short and Die Too Long, Dare to Be 100, and Living Longer for Dummies, and Diabetes Danger. Dr. Bortz is past co-chairman of the American Medical Association’s Task Force on Aging, former President of The American Geriatric Society and is currently Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board for the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, as well as a Senior Advisor to Healthy Silicon Valley, a community collaborative effort which addresses the soaring incidence of obesity and diabetes.
4:30-5:00 PM Closing conversation and music, Yosemite
5:00 PM Evening on your own
Friday, December 9
8:30AM -12:00 PM Open Registration
7:30-8:30 AM, Breakfast
8:15-10:15 AM Community World Café: Composing a Further Life
Location: Yosemite
This session explores how creativity, community, life transitions, and wellness inter-relate in shaping the conditions of how individuals age well in a changing society. Concluding with an invitation to action, this session is designed to connect the diverse and rich content of the conference presentations and strengthen our collective understanding and learning about positive aging.
10:15-10:30 AM Break
10:30-12:00PM, Sessions & Workshops
Creativity Memoirs of the Soul: A Writing Workshop
Nan Merrick Phifer Location: Sierra
Wellness Conscious Aging: Principles and Practices
Valerie Bentz Location: Yosemite
Connie Corley
Harry “Rick” Moody
Life Transitions Staying Positive through the shifting shapes of Aging: An experiential session to acknowledge set- backs and find our way forward
Suzanne Baer Gloria Cordova Location: Big Sur
Community Land of Forgetfulness; When Aging includes Dementia Care Giving
Wayne Ewing Location: Mohave
Life Transitions Empowering Caregivers Making Life and Health Decisions for Those Without
Viki Kind Location: Catalina
Community On being an Aging Woman: A Conversation
Connie Goldman Location: Cabrillo
Joan Ditzion Helen Dennis Eleanor Brown
12:00-1:00 PM, Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM, Sessions & Workshops
Creativity Improv on a dime: Creative Flexibility
Tim Carpenter Location: Big Sur
Maria Genne
Stuart Kandell
Community Innovative Approaches to Supporting Low-Income Seniors
in Subsidized Housing
Mary McCall Location: Cabrillo
Creativity The Wisdom Quest: Creating an Online 3D Experience
towards Intergenerational Creativity, Community, & Understanding
Peter Whitehouse Location: Catalina
Life Transitions The Gifts of Caregiving: Seeking insights and inspiration through the
Cargiving Experience Connie Goldman
Barbara Meltzer Location: Yosemite
2:30-2:45 PM, Break, Refreshments
2:45-4:00 PM Community Wide Dialogue, World Café with Mary Catherine Bateson
Next Steps for Positive Aging, Reflection and Action
Closing Drum Circle
Location: Yosemite
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