February 26 until April 9
Facilitated by Constance Washburn and Mary Oak
Join us in supporting one another in stepping into the role of Elder as sage, peacemaker, and activist. This interactive course builds community and nurtures conscious awareness in service to transforming our humanity, our Earth, and our future.
Embracing Elderhood on Behalf of Life is a Seven-Session Journey of Exploration and Connection
You’ll be introduced to the Spiral of The Work that Reconnects through the lens of eldering, and delve into resources from many Elder Wisdom Keepers. We dedicate this time to emerging from individual self to global self, moving from inaction to action and from disempowered senior to empowered elder.
The Embracing Elderhood course provides:
- a deeply connected learning community of awesome Elders;
- seven weekly live interactive webinars;
- resources, readings, videos, poetry and books to educate and inspire;
- guidance to discover our roles as elders and how we can take action for positive change on personal, community and global levels;
- experiences that allow us to move from our individual self to a sense of self that is one with the whole living Earth;
- practice in the use of the transformational tools of the Work That Reconnects, mindfulness, deep listening, journaling, nature connection and dialogue.
Registration: Limited places, first come, first serve – deadline February 25th
Course Fees:
Course Investment is on a sliding scale: $175- $630 to be made via PayPal here.
No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Date and Time:
The course meets on Thursdays from February 26th until April 9th. 10AM – Noon Pacific (PST/PDT) – you can find a timezone converter here. (please note that daylight saving dates differ in different countries – all webinars will begin at 10am Pacific (US & Canada)
“you are not too old
and it is never too late
to dive into your increasing depths…
where life calmly gives out
its own
secret”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours
Class Themes
Week 1 – Becoming and Being an Elder
Week 2 – Growing in Consciousness as an Elder
Week 3 – Facing the Polycrisis- Honoring our Pain for the World
Week 4 – Envisioning Regenerative Ways Forward
Week 5 – Empowering Elder Sacred Activism on behalf of all Life
Week 6 – Going Forth Together in Service to the World
Week 7 – Completion – Celebration – Evaluation
Constance Washburn MA (she/her) – community organizer, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects. Constance studied with Joanna Macy starting in 1994. She is the co-director of the Spiral Journey- a Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects and on the core Weavers Team of the Work That Reconnects Network. She is a founding member of the Elders Action Network where she developed and facilitated this course based on the Work That Reconnects and a wealth of Elder Wisdom from around the world.
She has a MA in Education and Theater and taught and directed multi – cultural theater companies as her first career. She trained teachers in the uses of theatre and arts in the classroom, she has certificates in the Ecology of Leadership, Permaculture Design and Transforming Business, Society, and Self from U.Lab MITx and completed a Community Resilience Model training in working with trauma. She is a mindfulness/ meditation instructor in the Vajrayana Tradition, a long time yoga practitioner and best of all a grandma. To find out more about her work see
Mary Oak, MFA, studied with Joanna Macy in the early 1990s and is an alumna of the Spiral Journey International Facilitator Development Program. She is a senior lecturer at Antioch University, where she teaches courses such as Nature Writing in the Anthropocene; Ecospirituality; Sacred Botany; and Sacred Activism. Mary is a writing guide, working one-on-one with individuals and conducting writing councils from her home. She is author of Heart’s Oratorio: One Woman’s Journey through Love, Death and Modern Medicine. She has a degree in Mythopoetics and Sacred Ecology and is savoring having recently become a grandmother for the first time. To find out more about her work see www.maryoak.com/about