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Flourishing and Purpose in Retirement

Two-Course Retirement Experience

This two-course experience is designed to help participants reflect on retirement as a meaningful season of growth, wisdom, service, and renewed purpose.

COURSE 1: Flourishing in the Third Third of Life

COURSE 2: The RePurpose Promise: How to Find Purpose and Joy in Retirement

Important: A $15 parking pass is required.

About the Program

Together, these two courses create a thoughtful experience for adults who want to reflect more deeply on retirement. The first course explores what it means to flourish in later life, while the second helps participants identify purpose, calling, and practical next steps for the years ahead.

Course 1: explores flourishing, gratitude, belonging, health, and spiritual growth in retirement.

Course 2: builds on that foundation and helps participants think about purpose, legacy, gifts, and service.

Older adults learning together in a welcoming classroom setting — A program designed to encourage conversation, reflection, and lifelong learning.

Parking Pass

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$15 Parking Pass

Participants in this program will need to purchase a parking pass for $15.

Please remember: The parking pass is separate from course registration and is required.

Flourishing in the Third Third of Life

$25 for UDOLLI Members | $30 for Non-Members

6 Tuesdays, September 1 – October 6 • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location: Daniel J. Curran Place

This course invites participants to reflect on retirement and later adulthood through a biblical lens of hope, fruitfulness, and renewal. Together, the group will consider what it means to flourish in the “third third” of life and how aging can be understood as a season marked by rootedness, wisdom, gratitude, and ongoing spiritual growth.

Relationships and belonging
Stewarding health and the body
Remembering, gratitude, and renewal
Purpose, calling, and new narratives of aging

Included with the course: a book and resources to support reflection and discussion

The RePurpose Promise: How to Find Purpose and Joy in Retirement

$25 for UDOLLI Members | $30 for Non-Members

6 Tuesdays, October 13 – November 17 • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location: Daniel J. Curran Place

Building on the first course, this second experience helps participants consider how they may be called to live with renewed purpose in retirement. Through reflection, discussion, and planning, participants will identify their gifts, clarify their impact, and begin shaping a personal plan for faithful service and legacy.

Spiritual gifts, talents, and experience
Forgiveness, stewardship, and true wealth
Legacy, habits, and spiritual disciplines
A practical plan for refirement and accountability

Included with the course: a book and resources to support planning, reflection, and discussion

What Participants Can Expect

A thoughtful learning experience rooted in reflection, conversation, and practical application

Older adults enjoying conversation and community together — Meaningful learning often begins with thoughtful conversation and shared reflection.

A Program Designed for Reflection and Growth

These courses are intended to be more than informational sessions. They are designed to help participants think deeply about this stage of life, connect course ideas to personal experience, and leave with a clearer sense of what flourishing and purpose can look like in retirement.

Supportive discussion encourages shared learning and thoughtful conversation.

Biblical reflection provides a faith-based framework for the retirement journey.

Practical application helps participants connect course ideas to their own lives.

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