Pathways to Purpose:
A Faculty Retirement Seminar
Co-sponsored by Faculty Development and the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Pathways to Purpose offers a year-long pilot seminar focused on faculty retirement.
A group of late-career and retired faculty participate in monthly conversations, facilitated by two retired colleagues, about the social, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the transition to retirement and life in retirement.
Meetings include a simple meal and structured discussions in response to readings, films, and reflective writing. Topics include the meanings of retirement; personal and professional identity in transition; vocation in and beyond academia; health and conscious aging; cultural ageism; awareness of mortality; the experience of time; community vs. isolation; and values, purpose, and mission. Each session includes a reflective or contemplative practice. Participants draft a personal mission statement, sketching out a plan for meaningful engagement beyond the academic career.
Eligibility: faculty considering retirement, faculty on phased retirement, and retirees.
Interested? Get in Contact!
Pathways to Purpose Facilitators:
Diane Jonte-Pace, Professor Emerita, Religious Studies, djontepace@scu.edu
Eileen Elrod, Professor Emerita, English, eelrod@scu.edu