A Scenic Overlook:
Taking Stock and Celebrating Your Life at Midlife & Beyond
We often mark major life passages with a ritual to celebrate the new beginning and ease the stress of the transition. But without a formal ritual for launching what Gail Sheehy calls our “Second Adulthood”, we often turn to informal markers like parties, new cars, new careers or volunteering, trips or extreme adventures, new relationships, mid-life crises. The good news is that many of these steps inspire new energy and growth. The bad news is that some of them do just the opposite as people struggle to find new meaning in life.
This unique program highlights Vicki Field’s expertise and experience as a midlife transition coach and totally engaging group leader. She invites participants in midlife to come together to reflect and recall their life stories, gain insight and inspiration from each other, celebrate this vital passage point together, and direct new energy towards creating the future they want.
Vicki Field serves as your personal “Field Guide” to help you reflect, connect, and celebrate with others in a meaningful, fun, and productive way.
Part 1: Reflection
Recall and create a visual overview of your life story—a “lifeline”— that notes the peaks, the roads taken and not taken, the people, significant events, challenges, strengths, and changes that have transformed your life so far.
Part 2: Connection
Exchange collective wisdom and inspiration with others as you explore the road to “Second Adulthood”.
Part 3: Celebration and Creation
Celebrate accomplishments, recognize what you have learned and passed on. Gain fresh perspective, ask yourself where and how your best self will emerge during the next chapters of your life, create and clarify visions, and gather up the courage and support to live fully as life unfolds.
The program format can be customized as a workshop or keynote presentation. A “Field Guide” on the topic is included with the program.
