Healthy Aging for Baby Boomers
Presented by Erica Goodstone, PhD

Web Conference Description

In 2011, the first wave of Baby Boomers will turn 65 years old. Baby Boomers have reached an age of no return. We have passed the midlife crisis. We cannot go back and undo many of the choices and actions we have taken. Erik Erikson, renowned ego-psychologist and prolific author in the mid-twentieth century, defined later adulthood (60-75) as the years of “Wisdom,” a time when an individual maintains his or her “integrity,” develops a sense of fulfillment about life and a sense of unity with self and others or falls into a state of “despair” about what has not been accomplished. Some healthy baby boomers may even continue to fulfill Erik Erikson’s earlier stage, Generativity vs. Stagnation, thereby delaying the aging process.

Your body holds the secret to your own health and wellness. Your body doesn’t lie. If you listen to your body, pay attention to its subtle and sometimes not so subtle messages, you can maintain a state of health for many years to come. The gentle touch of somatic body psychotherapy plus your own mindful awareness, enables your body to let go of habitual tension patterns as you become aware of sensations and express emotions you may not have been aware of before. As your body lets down and lets go, your brain is able to shift the way it processes old memories and current events, so that you can develop a more comprehensive and uplifting perspective on your entire life.

This workshop will reveal how introspection, life review, mindful awareness and somatic body psychotherapy can facilitate and enhance the health and well being of the baby boomer population as they continue to come of age in this decade and beyond.

This Web Conference is introductory instructional level and designed to help clinicians: 

1) Identify and critique the most common myths about aging in American culture;
2) Facilitate introspection, life review, and mindful awareness in clients;
3) Utilize the benefits of mindfulness, touch, and sexuality for healthy aging;
4) Describe how somatic body psychotherapy is a catalyst and synergist for healing.

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