Aging with Intention

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Date: Thursdays January 15 through February 19, 2026

Time: 4 - 5:30PM

Fee: FREE / registration required / donations gratefully accepted

Location: 482 Chesapeake Drive, White Stone, VA 22578

Join us for a six-week series of Thursday gatherings exploring the many dimensions of the late-life journey — and how we can move from age-ing to sage-ing. This is deeply personal work, yet too profound to do alone. Together, we’ll begin the inner work of age — the quest toward wholeness and conscious eldering — as we create a safe, supportive space and cultivate the true community needed for aging with intention.

Themes we’ll explore include:

  • How our culture and experiences shape the way we view aging

  • Spiritual development and the inner life as vital parts of the later years

  • Recognizing our own aging and what it means to us

  • Facing our mortality and how it reframes our sense of time

  • The stages of aging: from awareness to acceptance

  • Life review and the healing work of repair

  • Practices for navigating the transition to elderhood

  • Becoming and being an elder in service to others through inner wholeness

  • Preparing for and accepting our own ultimate death

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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Claire J. Salkowski, M.S. is the Principal Consultant for C. J. Consulting and Services, an ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) practitioner and a Montessori educator having worked as a school founder, teacher, administrator, accreditation specialist, teacher trainer, professional mediator and retreat facilitator both nationally and internationally for over 40 years.

She was also the Director of the Montessori Education Program at Delaware State University and Mediation and Educational Programs at the North Baltimore Center of Mosaic Community Services and continues serving with several Montessori and other organizations. She is a facilitator for retreats and Circles of Trust with the Center for Renewal and Wholeness and has led retreats and peacemaking circles for over ten years.

Claire’s passion for peace education, conflict resolution and lifelong learning has informed her work and writing throughout her career and her belief in the importance of personal growth and spiritual development leads her to work with others in this next stage in life.