Lynne Iser
Creating Elder Communties
Telephone: 215 843 4924
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Lynne Iser is dedicated to creating elder communities designed to add value to our lives and world. Her many projects include development of a cohousing community in Philadelphia, creating an Elder Friendly Community in her neighborhood, and co-creating the “Women Living in Community Conferences”. She teaches Spiritual Eldering with the ALEPH Sage-ing Project and is collaborating on developing training materials for Jewish professionals. Lynne was the founding Director of the Spiritual Eldering Institute.
Creating and Using New Rituals for Elders
Ritual and Prayer
Rituals help to express what is important in our lives and provide a communal setting for our experience. Using a sampling of innovative rituals, and looking to our tradition, participants will explore the meaningful thresholds of their own years and consider how they might want to celebrate these moments individually, and within their families and communities. Collectively, we will consider the personal impact of new rituals that honor our years, and consider their impact on our spiritual communities.
How to Surf the Coming Age Wave
Identity and Responsibility
Challenge and immerse yourself in the waters of growing older and experience the exhilaration of riding the waves—the peaks and the valleys of elderhood. Although this ‘wave’ might appear frightening, it offers many blessings and opportunities. Using the resources of Spiritual Eldering and the teachings of our tradition, we will utilize various tools to review and complete our lives.
Building Sustainable Communities for Elders
Identity and Responsibility
Explore through guided conversation, based on text and on current innovative models, how we can “age in place” and continue to grow by staying connected, contributing,and engaged members of our communities. This class is meant
to be intergenerational, with a focus on the spiritual and communal well-being that contributes to human sustainability.
Spiritual Eldering
Video Lecture from Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Zalman Schachter Shalomi will share his most recent teachings on Spiritual Eldering – a spiritual and psychological guide to help make the last decades of life a period of unprecedented inner growth. He will focus on the new models that exemplify the important contributions that elders make for future generations. This video will also provide descriptions of the more advanced stages of Eldering – so that he will be teaching from his own current experience. Lynne Iser will facilitate the discussion of this video presentation, and provide answers to questions that might arise.
