In-Person: Soulcentric Mid-Life – A Five-Month Course

In-Person: Soulcentric Mid-Life – A Five-Month Course
 
with Lin Wang Gordon
 
Five Saturdays: November 2nd, December 14th, 2024, January 11th, February 8th, March 8th, 2025 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm ET
 
Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
 
Are you in your 40s and 50s and thinking about the second half of your life?

Every life stage brings its own gifts. Each life stage has its own purpose in our development as a whole being. In every season of our life, there are changes and growth, letting go and rebirth. Midlife could bring us menopause, greying hair, childcare, eldercare, an empty nest, loss of loved ones, second careers, and relationship changes, but we also have more life experiences and skills than we had in our younger years. Perhaps we also have more time and resources to find joy and explore our passions. While our culture likes to associate this time in our life with turmoil and crisis, it could also be a great time for inner growth, clarity, and purpose.

In this 5-month course, we will use inquiries, experiential exercises, and meditation practice to explore our underlying emotions around midlife issues. What are our fears, doubts, agitation, hopes, and dreams? How do we make peace with the life we have led so far? How do we live a fulfilling life with the time we have left? As we have learned from our life experiences so far, have we started to live in accordance with our inner values and deepest desires? How do we let go of our former selves and keep evolving?

This class is for exploring questions rather than having answers. It is based on Buddhist philosophy to help us transform our mind in approaching these inquiries. It is highly interactive and experiential in nature – we will spend much time in group work and less time in formal sitting practice. Central to this course is building a community among people in the midlife stage.

We will meditate, journal, form buddy groups, and build community through sharing, dialogues, and group work.

This course will meet once Saturday a month for five months. We will meditate, journal, form buddy groups, and build community through sharing and dialogue.

The class creates a sacred and supportive container to connect with others at the same life stage. Lin is a gifted teacher and guided us through a journey of facing mid-life with gratitude, honesty, and introspection. I came out of the class with a more expansive and empowered perspective on this unique stage of life.

– A participant from Soulcentric Midlife, 2023

Registration:

Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)

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Volunteering

All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.