2pm -4pm
Brian Mulroney Hall Room 202
St. Thomas University

For many people, young and old alike, aging is implicitly viewed in tragic terms, as a narrative of decline, as a downward slide to disease, decrepitude, and death. This way of “storying” later life can set us up for (among other things) narrative foreclosure, which can feed the mild-to-moderate depression that many people can succumb to in the face of aging’s many challenges. It’s like our life itself continues, but the story of our life is effectively over. No new chapters are apt to open. To the degree that our experience of aging is inseparable from our story of aging, this Third Age Centre event, by Dr. Bill Randall, Professor Emeritus of Gerontology at St. Thomas University, will propose an alternative narrative of later life. 

Drawing on concepts from narrative gerontology, narrative psychology, and narrative therapy, Dr. Bill will outline how later life may be re-storied in our hearts and minds from an unmitigated tragedy to an intriguing adventure, in at least four intertwining directions: Outward, Inward, Backward, and Forward. He will discuss with us how aging in general can be seen, and experienced, as a matter not just of passively getting old but of actively, intentionally growing old. For more information on Dr. Bill, feel free to visit his website: www.williamlrandall.com

Light refreshments will be served. $5 for Third Age Centre members, $10 for non-members. Free for STU students. Wheelchair accessible. 

Please register by calling 452-0526 or emailing 3rdage@stu.ca.