New Roles in Retirement

Course Overview

The New Roles in Retirement Workshop is designed for people planning their retirement lifestyle, in particular those who wish to remain active, involved, or productive in activities that are meaningful to them. This may include creating more balance in life, exploring new directions, expanding options, or developing an identity apart from your present work role.

The workshop involves self-assessment exercises, short presentations, and small group discussions that will help to stimulate or confirm your ideas.

The objectives of the workshop are:

• Enhance awareness of your authentic personality/temperament, core needs, values, skills and interests
• Explore and expand options for an active and fulfilling lifestyle
• Develop ideas for activities for four main areas of life: work (paid or unpaid), leisure, learning, and relationships
• Know where to access further resources
  

Agenda

One Day Seminar   Introductions, Agenda and Objectives   The New Retire-Mentality   Personality/Temperament – your natural strengths/character traits, core needs, and values   Interests and Skills   Meaning, Purpose, and Passion – personal mission   The Transition to Retirement   Your Next Steps   Resources   Summary and Evaluation

Course Materials

There are no materials for this course.

Instructor Profile

Nell Smith B.A., P.R.P.

Nell Smith is a career consultant and adult educator who brings her knowledge of career/life development to the field of retirement lifestyle planning. Her interest in developing the New Roles in Retirement Workshop stems from observing people's anxiety about how they could fill the empty space that work currently occupies. Moving beyond mere time-filling activities, Nell emphasizes the importance of retirement planning based on each person's core needs, values, strengths, passions, and interests. Nell believes that there is plenty of opportunity to experience a meaningful and fulfilling third phase of life.

Marilyn is a career/life management consultant and adult workshop facilitator. When working with groups and individuals, Marilyn combines entrepreneurial experience and facilitation skills, formal training as a nurse, and frontline experience. She is passionate about assisting her clients in their pursuit of life long learning and the development of their potential. The New Roles in Retirement workshop emphasizes the importance of retirement planning based on each person’s core needs, values, strengths, passions, and interests. The workshop provides participants with the opportunity to begin the process in the development of creating a productive and purposeful “third phase” of life. Marilyn is a member of the Canadian Association of Pre-Retirement Planners.