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COMPLETION OF THE APRIL 19TH OPEN SANGHA CALL

Author • Apr 21, 2023
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COMPLETION OF THE APRIL 19TH OPEN SANGHA CALL

Most of you will get old – if you’re lucky.


All of you will die. No luck is involved here.


How you age and how you die can be a choice, not a default future.


Thank you to those that joined the Sangha call. We appreciate your time and your interest. The Sangha wants these calls to make a difference in your life as lived.

The purpose of our Sangha is to create a space, a structure, and a community of relationships that generate conscious, self-determined, self-realized late aging.


The inquiry of this April Sangha call was, “If you are the author of your life story, why did you write it this way, and how will you write it in the future?”


Here is the replay of the call https://youtu.be/4xR5ckIofBY


The next Sangha open to guests is May 24th, beginning at 4:00 pm PDT. If you are a new guest, please register https://form.jotform.com/230334570253044


Sangha members and past visitors will be automatically be included in the Zoom invite.


Registration for the Contemporary Elder retreat, September 17-24, 2023, will remain open until noon PDT on April 28th. If the needed number of registrations is not reached, the retreat will be canceled and moved to a date in the Spring. Reviewers are welcome. https://www.requestingwisdom.com/retreat


NOTE - A critical element of being a contemporary elder is the reorientation and relationship with our death. Frank Ostaseski, pioneering hospice founder and end-of-life educator, was a spark in our initial development of the Contemporary Elder Institute. This video with Frank allows us to reexamine our relationship with death and begin to accept it and transform our relationship with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8rOXdVVI4

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