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PART 1: Identifying the Anxieties around Ageing. 

The Baby Boomer generation is the first generation to reach the age of sixty and feel confident that they still have plenty of good years ahead. However, the pandemic has been a strong reminder of the vulnerability of ageing, with older people much more likely to suffer severe symptoms. On top of this, there is a view that it has brought ageism out into the open, as older people are blamed for lockdowns and all that goes with them. It’s an interesting time to be getting older. As we age and retirement looms it’s all too easy to feel that our world is shrinking. We may feel trapped and anxious and experience overwhelming feelings of loss. However, with self-awareness we can choose a different way—we can embark on a journey of becoming who we really are. We can gather our knowledge and experience, and explore how we can use it to enrich our later years and be of service to others. By resolving our past and finding contentment in our present, we can learn to face each ageing milestone as an opportunity for deeper self-knowledge and personal growth.

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About this course

  • £9.99
  • 2 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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Maureen Cooper

Maureen is the founding director of Awareness in Action, an organization dedicated supporting people to make sustainable wellbeing part of their lives—through developing clarity, connection and openness. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a professional educator, senior manager in a non-profit organization, an entrepreneur and as an experienced practitioner of Buddhist meditation, she leads Awareness in Action workshops and training programs in the UK and Europe. Her new book, The Stress Workbook is a groundbreaking effort that brings together the best of modern science and the wisdom of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions into a practical manual for thriving in today’s fast-paced world. Although born in London, UK love took Maureen to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she lives with her husband.

Testimonials: Live Attendees

Kate Creedy

I found this a helpful conversation to have about the challenges of aging and how to look as clearly as possible about what the fears and worries different people might bring to the process. Looking at ideas of how to bring strategies for resilience into the experience of aging as an aspect of a journey towards authenticity and self discovery was really valuable and a reminder of how to keep supple in the face of the ever changing flow of life and death. I think naming and facing these issues in conversation with others was both valuable and affirming.

Cathy Warren

Thought provoking and engaging session on something we are all doing but dont talk about enough - ageing.

Jane Hanrahan

Very insightful and delivered with genuine authenticity and understanding.

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