Eldering
putting our aging to work
“To be an Elder is not a default of aging’.”
Stephen Jenkinson
As I step into my own aging, I rejoice in the opportunity I have been given to experience being alive in a vulnerable body – unthinkable for many of my forbears. I find myself feeling into the spaces where we can learn together what this means, not only for us but for the wider earth community.
How to ‘Elder’ feels like an interesting enquiry, and one to share. What might it look like? How might it feel? How do we know we are one?! Being in community helps us answer these questions.
To honor and own this life stage takes courage in this age defying, death denying culture. Yet the next generation needs initiated adults as never before, they need to feel our breath on the back of their necks as they forge their way into an uncertain future.
My prayer is that the longing to explore a creative and useful old age is the call that draws us into the firelight of an Elders Council. I believe they rejoice when we hear that call.
Eldering Councils
An Eldering Council is an opportunity to co-create a simple and beautiful space to explore our ageing in the company of others. To ponder the potential of aging beyond our cultural norms and thus invite our later years to be ones of possibility and of service to the wider earth community.
By following the guidelines of the Way of Council we participate in a welcoming environment where we can share from the heart and are listened to without judgement or the need to fix each other.
Within such a loving container we can be in seen in our wholeness, including our vulnerability, shame, grief and pain – all are welcome - and cultivate the capacity to witness that in others. A powerful and often healing practice.
Our primary intention is the propagation of regeneration and peace.
As a new offering, Dita Vizoso and myself are initially offering three, monthly sessions.
8th July 2026. 12th August 2026. 8th September 2026
Between 18.00 -19.30 (UK time)
You can come to as many as you want as long as there is space – as soon as the spaces are filled, there will be a waiting list. We want these first three exploratory sessions to be free – we offer them in the spirit of Dana, the Gift Economy. For us to continue this offering we might ask for a donation in future series. But free places will be available!