A Guide to Take the Weirdness Out of Retirement
What you'll learn
- Develop a greater understanding of how to prepare for the social/psychological side of retirement-a topic that is not easily addressed by a financial equation.
- Gain understanding of retirement through real-life exercises that personalize your retirement lifestyle.
- Make a more informed decision about when is the "right" time to retire.
- Take the "weirdness" out of retirement by knowing how to bring the "best of work" to the "best of retirement."
- Discover how to keep consistency in your life by maintaining lifestyle patterns, routines, structure and work-related values into your retirement.
Requirements
- Students do not need any prior experience or special skills before starting this course. The only requirement is a desire to create a meaningful and rewarding retirement, and to show up with an "explorer" mindset.
Description
Just as you plan for your financial well being in retirement, it's equally as important to prepare for your social and psychological well being. That's what this course is all about: Creating your identity beyond the work role, designing a lifestyle that fits with who you are and who you are becoming, and finding purpose in meaningful activities.
This course explores what you will need in retirement that will create a sense of meaning and purpose at a time when you're no longer defined by your work title. So much of the "weirdness" of retirement comes from losing our sense of direction. We'll explore how to create a new life structure by embracing new roles, being involved in work that is greater than ourselves, and recreating conditions that contributed to our happiness at work.
If you're not interested in every day feeling like Saturday and Sunday, then you are going to love learning about new organizing concepts that are much bigger than a life of leisure. If you're not ready to give up work completely, you will be glad to learn how to regain the psychological benefits of work. And if you're worried that you don't have something that you are passionate about doing in retirement, in this course you only need to be curious and have an explorer mindset.
If you are worried about the decision to retire, you will find support that will help you feel prepared to step into retirement. This is especially important if you are in a work environment where it is not "safe" to talk about retirement. This major life decision and transition is too complex to go it alone. In this course you will find the support you need without having to "show your cards" at work.
Who this course is for:
- Target audience is anyone who is thinking about retirement or has already retired, and wants each year of retirement to be more than a 365-day vacation. This primarily includes Baby Boomers between the ages of 50-75.
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 58 Reviews
- 145 Students
- 1 Course
Patrice Jenkins, Ph.D. is a consultant and frequent speaker on topics related to career and retirement transitions. Patrice holds a masters degree in counseling and a doctorate degree in industrial and organizational psychology. She is the author of “What Will I Do All Day? Wisdom to get you Over Retirement and on with Living!” and "It's Still Good: Dreams Don't Have Expiration Dates!"
Dr. Jenkins' expertise is in the social-psychological side of retirement—a subject that can’t easily be addressed with a financial strategy or equation. As an organizational psychologist, Jenkins applies her research on thriving at work, retirement research, and happiness studies to help individuals prepare for retirement and design rewarding retirement lifestyles.
Dr. Jenkins offers organizational consulting to design programs that support employees into their retirement years.