Language: English
Level of audience: All

We two friends & colleagues have spent many a moment in the last decade reflecting gracefully and disgracefully on many aspects of being older-& the impact on, and our desires for, our professional, organisational, community and private worlds.

As a result we have many practical things to share with gusto, and many contemplative considerations to invite you to reflect upon- including:

*legacy- literal, moral, philosophical, educational…..

*how transferences and counter-transferences shift as we age

*the place of memories in the here and now, and the importance of creating new ones

*the nature of aesthetics and beauty, & finding pleasures

*age stages & work – & meaning-making through “putting back”

*Physis – and our ever curious minds

*the inevitability of death -& our facing into the existential issues in the world

We will draw on the wisdom of many transactional analysts -such as Eric Berne, Jean Illsey Clarke, Bernd Schmidt, Jim Allen, and of course Fanita English who chose to die at 105 years old. And we will weave in psychologists, pro-activists, philosophers, painters and poets from beyond TA.