Focus Group on Aging

In preparation for writing my second book, which will be on aging, I’m hoping to get feedback from people 50+ about their experiences of growing older. What are they thinking and feeling as they move through mid-life into their 60s, 70s, and beyond?

To that end, I’m offering a free program at the Center for Life & Learning at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm.

Here’s the official description from the Center’s website:

In addition to writing, Carol LaChapelle has conducted writing and journal writing workshops for the past thirty years. Her newest offering, The Purpose of Aging: Aging with Purpose, encourages people to continue creating their lives as they age.

Inspired by the positive response to the workshop, Carol is focusing her second book on the topic of aging with purpose. She envisions it as both resource and guide to this most challenging and rewarding life transition.

In preparation for writing the book, Carol is offering this free program at the Center for Life and Learning. It is an invitation to people fifty and beyond to share their experiences, thoughts, and feelings about aging. The conversation will explore what elements of mind, body, spirit, and story might help us move beyond midlife with more intention and purpose.

Carol LaChapelle is a Chicago-based writer, teacher, and the author of Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Stories. Her essays have appeared in America magazine, The Writing Group Book, and on www.nextavenue.org. She blogs about this “new” old age at forboomersandbeyonders.blogspot.com.

If you—or anyone you know—might want to attend, please click on the link, then select Free Lectures from the list. Once there, you can register.

http://www.fourthchurch.org/cll/programs.html

Also, if you know of other venues that might want to offer this program, please do contact me at madmoon55@hotmail.com or 773.981.2282.

Finally, I wish all my readers a meaningful and stress-free holiday, and all the best for 2019.