Meeting Your Shadow:

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The Inner Ageist

Presented by
Connie Zweig, PhD

Sunday,  October 20, 2019, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

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(this program was not recorded)

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We are all aging in an anti-aging society. We have internalized attitudes and concerns about aging, which mostly remain unconscious, that is, in the personal shadow. Research has found that our internal fears, denial, and inner ageism affect our health, memory, and quality of life as we age. The intention of this workshop is to uncover an aspect of each participant's shadow that carries these fears so that, by making them conscious, we have more choice about how to design a fulfilling late life.   

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Course objectives:
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• Understand how to make unconscious fears and attitudes about aging more conscious

• Learn how to personify fears about aging into a shadow character, a figure with a voice, feelings, and bodily sensations

• Explore possible consequences of such a shadow character

• Describe how individuals can "romance" their shadows or create conscious relationships with them

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Connie Zweig, PhD, is a recently retired Jungian-oriented therapist. She is author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and A Moth to the Flame: The Story of the Great Sufi Poet Rumi, a novel.  She is co-author of Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature and Romancing the Shadow.  She is currently writing The Reinvention of Age:  How to Cross the Threshold from Role to Soul, which extends her work on shadow into late life for baby boomers.  She recently completed a year-long training to become an Elder with Sage-ing International.