The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker’s Guider for Growing Older

Presentation by Robert L. Weber, PhD

As we enter the years beyond midlife, our quest for an approach to aging takes on added urgency and becomes even more relevant in our daily lives. Empowering a new generation of seekers to view aging as a spiritual path, this presentation reveals that it is by engaging with the difficult questions about loss, meaning, and mortality—questions we can no longer put off or ignore—that we continue to grow.  In fact, the realization of our full spiritual potential comes about not by avoiding the challenges aging brings our way but by working through them.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss society’s attitudes toward and biases about aging.

• Develop an appreciation for the spiritual opportunities that are inherent in the aging process.

• Conceptualize spirituality in such a way that it is useful in addressing the psycho-spiritual needs of the aging population.

• Describe the necessity of integrating both the light and the dark sides of the aging experience in order to become whole and live life to the full.

Thursday, December 3, 2015 | 4:00 – 6:00 pm

SA20 | 2 CE Credits | $25*

*Open to the professional community and the public for FREE | No CE Credits | Pre-registration required.

Robert L. Weber, PhD, is assistant professor of Psychology, part time, at Harvard Medical School and a former Jesuit. He also serves as a faculty member of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry. He is the recipient of the American Society on Aging’s 2014 Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Award.