News Release

Moody Workshops Explore the "Soul of Aging"

August 26, 2002

The Institute on Aging is pleased to partner with Second Journey, and other organizations, to bring the work of Harry R. Moody to North Carolina. Moody will be here for three days of workshops in Raleigh, Wilmington and Chapel Hill, October 11th -14th. Two of these workshops will be of particular interest to professionals in gerontology, health care, social work and human services, and ministry. "Ethical Dilemmas in Work with Older People" will be held in Raleigh, Friday afternoon, October 11th ; "The Soul of Bioethics" is scheduled for Monday afternoon in Chapel Hill.

Other workshops of interest to professionals and lay audiences include: "The Five Stages of the Soul" (scheduled for Friday morning in Raleigh); "Life Review: Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be" and "Rumi: Journey Through the Life Course" (scheduled for Saturday in Wilmington); and "The Search for Meaning in Later Life" (scheduled for Monday morning in Chapel Hill). Workshop fees range from $35-$65 per session.

Harry R. Moody has spent his professional life charting the spiritual life-passages of countless individuals across the country and exploring their confrontation in later life with perennial questions of meaning: "Is this all there is to my life?" He has done this through his popular book, "The Five Stages of the Soul." He has done it through his long tenure at the Institute for Human Values in Aging, through his decades-long association with Elderhostel (whose board he currently chairs), and through his textbook, "Aging: Concepts and Controversies" (now in its third edition). And he has done it with a rich and exciting fare of workshops and seminars that have stimulated and delighted professional and lay audiences across the country.

The workshops are sponsored by Second Journey, a non-profit organization formed "to create educational experiences that explore and celebrate what it means to give one's gifts in the second half of life -- experiences that promote mindfulness, service and community." The workshops are offered in partnership with the Shepherd Center in Raleigh, the Gerontology Program at UNC-Wilmington, and the University of North Carolina Institute on Aging.

To learn more about Second Journey, visit www.secondjourney.org.