Exploring Life and Work Transitions
Create the Life You Want!
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Seminar Description:
When you leave your main career, if you’re in good health, you might have 20-30 years of active living ahead of you. This is a gift previous generations haven’t had. It can be a time for a reset, to explore this third age… and a time to find new purpose, life meaning, life balance and passion. Creating a well thought out retirement lifestyle portfolio is just as important today as creating a financial portfolio was years ago. Plan the life you want to live now… and in the future. Take the journey with a small group of like-minded class members in a highly interactive six-session online seminar, geared to employees close to retirement or those who’ve recently retired.
Explore your level of retirement readiness in 22 key life arenas. The Core areas addressed include work/service, relationships, leisure, personal growth, health/wellness, environment, and financial/legal matters. The seminar includes weekly handouts, a readiness assessment tool, mini-lectures, group exercises, and highly interactive discussions. The book Ready to Retire! by seminar leader and retirement expert Dee Cascio provides a solid companion piece (sold separately on Amazon). Between sessions participants have assignments that culminate in the creation of an Encore Life Action Plan.
The Seminar will empower you to:
- Find meaning and purpose during and after leaving your career.
- Decide if an encore (new) career is right for you
- Identify your personal values to guide your lifestyle decisions.
- Explore how to repurpose your skills and work experience in a different way.
- Find ways to strengthen family, friendships, and your marriage/relationship
- Build confidence in your ability to handle transition ups and downs.
- Explore your relationship to money, investments and how it impacts life planning.
- Create your own Life Action Plan from work to a new lifestyle.
SMALL GROUP — LEARN AND SHARE
CONNECT WITH OTHERS IN THE SAME LIFE STAGE
CREATE A LIFE ACTION PLAN
I feel much more confident and excited about this phase of life. I gained so much knowledge about important areas to include in a joyful, meaningful ‘retirement’. I appreciated the balance of learning between information given by Dee and Reed, reading materials/preparing between sessions, and discussions with seminar participants. Dee’s and Reed’s style of leading was engaging, easeful, supportive, and enjoyable. I am SO glad I attended!”
—Judy Huston
Exploring Life and Work Transitions is an excellent seminar for folks who are 5 years from retirement, just about to retire or who are retired. Retirement is a reframing of how I want my life to be when I turn 62 or 67 and not in my fulltime paid job. ‘Work’ could be paid part-time or volunteering in something I’m passionate about. I began to realize I wanted to make it happen now! I bought a big truck to pull a 5th wheel. I have decided on the kind and 5th wheel to get. I will be living in it full-time, traveling the country and working from it. Dee and Reed’s enthusiasm, knowledge, and great facilitation skills have inspired me to consider retirement coaching as a second career. I now enthusiastically and joyfully embrace the unknown as I transition to the next phase of my life.”
—T. I.
For individuals who are planning for or experiencing a major encore transition, this introductory workshop is a perfect place to share experiences, reflect on one’s own unique situation, work with experts who really understand the transition process, and interact with others going through similar experiences. Dee and Reed are knowledgeable, resourceful, and compassionate facilitators who welcome participants and create a safe space for taking this often confusing life step.
—Elizabeth Mahler
Assistant Teaching Professor
Graduate School of Education — College of Professional Studies
Northeastern University
Dee’s Bio
Dee Cascio, LPC, LMFT, BCC founded the Professional Counseling and Life/ Retirement Coaching Center in 1986. Her career path is based on the belief that life and careers take us through a series of important life transitions.
Dee is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, working with individuals and couples to achieve healthier and more satisfying lives. Dee is also a Board-Certified Coach, Certified Life Coach through Coach U and a Certified Retirement and Re-Career Coach through Retirement Options. As a coach, she enjoys supporting people who are working on creating the stimulating life they desire. Dee helps clients identify their individual strengths, interests, and values as she assists them in planning the exciting transition to a successful retirement lifestyle.
As a ReCareer Coach, Dee has “walked her talk” by adding coaching to her psychotherapy practice. She and her husband have pursued encore careers that provide them with the freedom to spend time monthly in their second home in Florida. Her post retirement career is evidence that any creative lifestyle is possible if you plan well and are receptive to change and adventure.
Dee writes a monthly newsletter on various topics related to retirement planning and life transitions. She is the author of Ready to Retire? and Where Will You Retire? Dee makes presentations to financial planners, private companies, professional groups, government agencies and civic associations about the importance of life planning and positive aging. She is a member of several professional organizations related to her private practice. Dee is past president and volunteers in her local Rotary International Club. She is also a member of the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce.
She and her husband enjoy spending time with both of their large families and friends. She also walks, does weight training, loves to read, volunteers, is a beginner piano student and is a life-long learner. Dee and Tom have been married for 33 years, lives in Northern Virginia and she is a parent to three adult step-children.
Reed’s Bio
Reed Dewey, CRC, CPRC and CPC is a transitions coach serving clients who want to explore and plan for the life they want — and dream of having — especially in later life and retirement. Reed holds numerous coach certifications through Retirement Options™ the Retirement Project LLC and the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (accredited through the International Coach Federation).
Reed is an active Rotarian, volunteers regularly and serves in a leadership and volunteer capacity with a number of nonprofits. Reed plays tennis and guitar (not together), leads sing-a-longs, loves dancing and is an avid cycler. Reed has been married over 20 years, and has one son in college. He and his wife participate in Couples Coaching Couples a national network of committed couples that coach each other for the best relationship possible. Reed has also been active in the men’s personal growth movement through the Mankind Project and has been in a men’s group for many years.
Prior to his encore career as a coach, Reed was a senior manager at numerous local and national nonprofits. He’s worked with AARP, the Points of Light Foundation, Learning Ally and ran the Montgomery County Volunteer Center where he supported thousands of volunteers and hundreds of nonprofit agencies. Reed received his BA in Psychology and Master’s Degree in Business Management.
Visit Reed Dewey’s What’s Next Coaching website.
The Dee and Reed transition platform created a forum for self-reflection, connection, and space to dig a little deeper about what I wanted for my retirement supporting my clarity and preparation toward negotiations.”
—DCM, Consultant-Integrator-Founder
As a person inclined to put these things on the back burner on a day-to-day basis, the Transitions Workshop was extremely valuable for me in making a weekly appointment to explore and discuss a range of personal, professional, and practical issues related to defining and pursuing priorities and goals, while anticipating or planning for career and life transitions. The discussions, reading assignments, and exercises helped improve my own self-awareness and to think in a more tangible way both about the road that took me to where I am now and the road I want to take toward my future. The discussions and feedback among the seminar participants were thought-provoking and provided useful insights because of their differing situations, priorities, and personal goals.”
—P. B
This seminar provides plenty of food for thought so you can explore, try new things, experiment, and discover your purpose and passion going into retirement. You’ll come away with tools you need to replace what work provides and to create a happy, healthy, balanced retirement lifestyle.”
—Debbie Lynn B.