The Life in Your Years

THE LIFE IN YOUR YEARS

An Exploration of the Joys and Challenges of Growing Older

February 6-March 20
Mondays 12:30 – 2:00 PM

Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center

In this free six-week workshop, participants will delve into the deeper dimensions of aging beyond the physical, including what it means to be an elder and what is involved in a well-lived life. Through weekly short readings and discussions, we will examine the personal, social, and cultural aspects of getting older and our evolving notions of success and failure; love and fear; strength and weakness; and life and death. Together, we will help each other redefine our conceptions of age and elderhood.

COURSE DETAILS

Sessions will be held each Monday from 12:30 – 2:00 PM from February 6 through March 20, 2023. (There will be no session on President’s Day, Feb. 20.) The course is limited to 10 participants.

If you are interested in participating, please submit an online registration application.

Due to the high number of interested participants, applications are no longer being accepted.

FACILITATORS

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD, is a Fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University. She is a psychologist, researcher, and author known internationally for her work in strength-based approaches to human development. Her research interests include positive aging, youth development, civic engagement, and wellbeing.

Jana Mohr Lone, PhD, is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. She is an author, teacher, and speaker who has facilitated philosophical dialogues with children and adults throughout the world. Her most recent research interest involves the relationship between the experiences of childhood and elderhood.