Crescent Dragonwagon's "'I Know Why the Aged Bird Sings': Strategies, Strength, and Story for Late Life Visionaries" : a 14-Session Exploratory Journey

Join award-winning author and teacher Crescent Dragonwagon for “I Know Why the Aged Bird Sings”: Strategies, Strength, and Story for Late-Life Visionaries, a 14-session Zoom course for women over 60 who are ready to navigate this stage of life with more creativity, courage, connection, and meaning.

This is a small-group course for curious thinkers, writers, storytellers, artists, would-be creative people, and women who still have work, wisdom, and vision asking to be expressed.

Aged Bird offers an empowering new way to meet change at a time when time, physicality, energy, identity, family roles, professional roles, and daily life may all be shifting. Realistic, optimistic, and interactive, this course explores strategies for aging sagely and with satisfaction.

Over 14 weekly sessions, participants will gather in a small-group Zoom setting led by Crescent. Together, we’ll explore the physical, situational, emotional, social, and psychological changes inherent in aging.

Loss, fear, lived experience, creative courage, memory, reinvention, community, and the vibrant invitation of late-life meaningful work are all part of Aged Bird. This is work that has our name on it and is still waiting to be done by us.

What’s included:

• 14 weekly live Zoom sessions led by Crescent Dragonwagon
• Small-group discussion and exploration
• Empowering, creative, practical support
• Working in life’s three basic modes: what we think, what we feel, and how we act
• Habitual happiness: developing strengthening daily practices that serve us
• Growing community, both within and beyond the group
• Stories: noticing and rewriting what we tell ourselves and what society tells us
• How to disrupt what does not serve us now
• Talking, writing, reflection, staying visible, and staying connected
• Building unique, powerful, steadiness-and-happiness-giving “Golden Bookends”
• The hidden gifts in loss, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty
• Guidance for developing psychologically and creatively in later life
• A gentle, steady structure for accountability and support over three months

Who this is for:

This small-group course is for women over 60 who are interested in creatively navigating the changing terrain of life’s Third Age.

Maybe your life has been centered around a now-changed family, or a powerful professional role from which you are retired or contemplating retirement. Perhaps you are a writer, artist, storyteller, or would-be creative person who wants to find, reconnect with, or reinvent her elderhood voice in this new phase of life.

If you take your inner and outer work seriously, want to make meaning in this stage of life, and are ready to be defiantly happy in the face of loss, change, and perhaps disability, this supportive group setting is for you.

Course schedule:

Aged Bird is offered in two identical cohorts. Both cohorts include 14 live weekly sessions, meet on Zoom, and are led by Crescent Dragonwagon.

Tuesdays, July 7 to October 6: Cohort A
Dates: July 7, 14, 21, 28; August 4, 11, 18, 25; September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; October 6

Wednesdays, July 1 to September 30: Cohort B
Dates: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; August 5, 12, 19, 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Each cohort is limited to 12 women. Please select the Tuesday or Wednesday cohort before adding the course to your cart.

Course details:

Length: held over a 3-month period
Sessions: 14 weekly meetings, 1 1/2 to 2 hours each
Format: Zoom / online
Instructor: Crescent Dragonwagon
Tuition: $1,900, with installment options available at checkout

After purchase, you’ll receive an email confirmation and course details at the email address used at checkout. You can also choose at checkout whether you’d like to receive future workshop and course updates.