Speaker and E-mail

BIOs of Speakers

Basic Themes of Workshops

Carlson, Gary, Ph.D. cannmgary@aol.com

Gary is a retired research scientist and technical manager whose work is now focused on issues related to conscious aging.  He served on the National Board of the Spiritual Eldering Institute (SEI) of Boulder, CO, is co-leader of the Sage-ing Guild, a national professional organization of conscious aging teachers, and is a SEI-Certified Sage-ing Seminar Leader.  He is co-director of The Sage-ing Group of New Mexico and is a leader of the Conscious Aging Network of New Mexico; both are groups that focus on a positive vision of our elder years as an exciting and productive time of life.

Passions, Death and Dying and other Conscious Aging Topics Highly interactive programs to help participants explore the possibilities for satisfying and productive elder years; Growing whole, not old; developing a new paradigm of aging.

Diamond, Carl retirementalist@comcast.net

A respected elder and leader in the conscious aging arena.  Presides over workshops on death and dying, and your relationship with money; also a facilitator of The Men’s Circle Radio Show and workshops on Life Transition issues. A member of the National of Directors of the Spiritual Eldering Institute (SEI).

The Life Transition Formerly Known as Retirement

Addresses: retirement as a process, financial concerns, self-worth and ego identification, fear of freedom, grief and loss, the effects of aging, the impact on relationships and new life challenges and opportunities.

Etigson, Elizabeth, LPCC eldernatasha@yahoo.com

An experienced Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who enjoys working individually and with couples and inter-generational problem solving with families and elders.  Also, work with Spiritual Eldering groups on the Gains and Losses of Change, Re-visioning Retirement and helping seniors record their life stories. 

Spiritual Eldering Workshops:  Re-visioning Retirement: Challenges of Change & Letting Go; Teachers, Mentors, Legacy; Celebrations & Rituals; Forgiveness A Gift to Ourselves; Dreams and How to Realize Them; Facing Our Mortality with Focus on Tasks of Aging: Do it Now, Letting Go and Legacy.

Fogarty, Mary, M.S.

m5799@cronesunlimited.com

Managing Editor of Crones Unlimited, a press that honors extra-ordinary elders who live fully and powerfully at www.CronesUnlimited.com; 5 years on the UNM-Valencia Cultural Enrichment Committee coordinating conferences on Aging; Member of AARP’s Women’s Leadership Circles for past year; and Member for NM Dept. of Aging planning the State Conf. on Aging; speaker for Older Adult Services International Society (OASIS). 

Ms. Fogarty has a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts and a Master of Science Degree in Education, but confesses that in order to write from the heart she had to live first.

A full day conference with senior theatre, musicians, comedians, panel discussions, poetry readings, narrations, question and answer periods.

The Great Intergenerational Divide

How to wed the passions & dreams of youth with the wisdom and experience of long-lifers.

Elder Grace & Nobility of Intimacy With Aging

Every living being has the potential to awaken, to come alive, to be curious, to enjoy this thing called life.

Making History Instead of Becoming History

To evolve, we must become involved. Nature tends to support individual organisms with favorable traits like adaptability and sociability as more likely to survive.

Girard, Phoebe, MHP sundialsf@earthlink.net

Phoebe has worked in providing services to elders in a variety of settings during her professional career including retirement centers, senior centers and hospice.  Holding a Master of Public Health degree, she has also received training in pastoral care.

Creating a space for midlife and older women, she offers an opportunity to reflect on the ups and downs of the later years.  Day long and weekend events preferred.  Group size limited to 20.

Kirkpatrick, Ann annek922@hotmail.com

An experienced Career counselor who has worked in several post-secondary educational institutions. She is a licensed counselor in the state of New Mexico, a certified Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF), a registered GCDF Instructor, a trained Retirement Coach, and a NM licensed school counselor (K-12). She is a seasoned presenter, having presented at conferences on various themes, and has served in the role of trainer and instructor on many occasions.

15 Factors that Affect the Quality of Retirement

Defining your Retirement

Identify Activities that Match Interest & Values

Second Careers/Working in Retirement

Norem, Ardyth, Ph.D.

ardythnorem@yahoo.com

A licensed psychologist in private practice in New Mexico.  She has 25 years experience in both group and individual settings as a psychotherapist and in design and training in personal development programs.  Her training and experience have prepared her to enter into professional settings from a broad spectrum of perspective, skills and strategies.  In addition to the standard training in psychology, her activities span arenas of education, medical knowledge, energy psychology, aging, developmentally challenged, sexual abuse, substance abuse, rehabilitation, self discovery and spiritual access.

Be Set Free Fast

Better Than Ever

Focus on Health

Living From the Inside Out