Healthy Aging for Baby Boomers

In 2011, the first wave of Baby Boomers will turn 65 years old. Baby Boomers have reached an age of no return. We have passed the midlife crisis. We cannot go back and undo many of the choices and actions we have taken. Erik Erikson, renowned ego-psychologist and prolific author in the mid-twentieth century, defined later adulthood (60-75) as the years of wisdom, a time when an individual maintains his or her “integrity,” develops a sense of fulfillment about life and a sense of unity with self and others, or falls into a state of “despair” about what has not been accomplished. Some healthy baby boomers may even continue to fulfill Erik Erikson’s earlier stage, generativity vs. stagnation, thereby delaying the aging process.

Your body holds the secret to your own health and wellness. Your body doesn’t lie. If you listen to your body, paying attention to its subtle and sometimes not so subtle messages, you can maintain a state of health for many years to come. The gentle touch of somatic body psychotherapy, plus your own mindful awareness, enables your body to let go of habitual tension patterns as you become aware of sensations and express emotions you may not have been aware of before. As your body lets down and lets go, your brain is able to shift the way it processes old memories and current events, so that you can develop a more comprehensive and uplifting perspective on your entire life.

This workshop will reveal how introspection, life review, mindful awareness, and somatic body psychotherapy can facilitate and enhance the health and well-being of the baby boomer population as they continue to come of age in this decade and beyond.

This web conference is introductory instructional level and designed to help clinicians:

1. Identify and critique the most common myths about aging in American culture;
2. Facilitate introspection, life review, and mindful awareness in clients;
3. Utilize the benefits of mindfulness, touch, and sexuality for healthy aging;
4. Describe how somatic body psychotherapy is a catalyst and synergist for healing.

If you have any questions about this web conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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