Individuals either approaching retirement age or currently retired are encouraged to enroll in this five-week course that starts Tuesday, March 22. Classes are held on Tuesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at UFM and the fee is $9. Instructors are former and present faculty from KSU, including Drs. Fred Newton, Dan Wilcox and Arthur Rathbun.

The course will introduce strategies to plan, adapt and maintain personal well-being during the autumn years of life. The following objectives will be explored: (1) Managing transitions. Finding ways to adapt, make changes, re-imagine, and re-define a changing life situation. (2) Reflection and recapitulation. Utilizing stories of importance in one’s life to define strengths, interests, and meaning that in turn identify attributes that can be used in the future. (3) Increasing and sustaining happiness. Engaging in activities that maintain physical, psychological, and social well-being. (4) Openness and Creativity. Learning to create and take advantage of serendipity and the chance opportunities that are available in every day experience. (5) Overcoming perceived barriers. The opposite of action in life is fear. Fear is most often a paralysis of the unknown; how to break those barriers. (6)  Maintaining social support. How we can maintain human connections with opportunities to converse and share thoughts and feelings with other people. (7) Creating a life of meaning. We all leave the planet, so what is the most important legacy that we would like to leave behind?

The activities to achieve these objectives will include readings and brief presentations, demonstration of activities to exemplify the concepts, and group discussions and interactions to personalize these ideas to our own lives.

Enroll through UFM Community Learning Center online here http://bit.ly/1RhYVuA or via phone by calling 539-8763. If you are interested in this event and would like transportation set up, please contact Monte Spiller at 323-3801.