The Life Planning Network (LPN) is a community of professionals from diverse fields who share a commitment to providing a broad spectrum of Life Planning services and resources for the Third Age. The Third Age is a life stage created by extended life expectancy into the eighties and beyond – a time that offers new possibilities for living in fulfillment and on purpose, including Encore careers.
Life Planning consultants and other professionals provide structure, guidance and resources to their clients to rebalance or redirect their commitments and create fulfilling, productive and healthy lives. The Life Planning Network offers professional development, support and opportunities to create and shape the burgeoning field of Third Age Life Planning.
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Encore Career Workshop at the Community College of Denver
Posted 05/26/2011 - 07:21:13am by Stephen Anfield
Considering retraining? Wondering where and how to begin? A Community College of Denver Encore Career Initiative workshop can help you set your course on a new and fulfilling career path.
Start: 06/20/2011 - 9 a.m.
End: 06/20/2011 - 4:30 p.m.
Discovering What's Next Career Counseling With Career Moves at JVS
Posted 05/10/2011 - 11:33:44am by Stephen Anfield
Take advantage of Discovering What's Next's one-on-one free consultation service provided by Career Moves at JVS.
Start: 06/16/2011 - 9:30 a.m.
End: 06/16/2011 - 11 a.m.
Discovering What's Next Career Counseling With Career Moves at JVS
Posted 05/10/2011 - 08:16:41am by Stephen Anfield
Take advantage of Discovering What's Next's one-on-one free consultation service provided by Career Moves at JVS.
Start: 05/19/2011 - 9:30 a.m.
End: 05/19/2011 - 11 a.m.
Bronwyn Fryer in the Harvard Business Review has a vivid account of the psychic (and practical) obstacles to making an encore career transition in More to follow.
NEW YORK TIMES: Your true calling could suit a nonprofit
04/07/2008 - 11:46:18am
Q. You’ve spent your career in a profit-making business but want your work to be more in line with your personal values... Is this the right reason to make a switch?
Eilene Zimmerman tackles this and other questions about encore transitions to the nonprofit sector in her “Career Couch” column in the New York Times.
In her answer, she quotes Steven Pascal-Joiner, midcareer transitions coordinator for Idealist.org. "It’s not enough to say, 'I want to work for a nonprofit,'" he said. "You need to know what kind of organization you want to work for, the role you want to play and why."
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
ELDER CARE ANGUISH: Trying Experience Turns Into Second Career
02/25/2008 - 03:01:32pm
Julie Groshens is launching an Elder Care Expo in St. Paul, Minn., to make it easier to explore options for aging relatives.
Frustration with patching together care for her aging mother prompted one baby boomer to start a second job bringing together elder-care resources in one venue.
- by: Terry Nagel | More >
MARC FREEDMAN in the WASHINGTON POST: "What work will boomers do?"
01/27/2008 - 01:00:17pm
Velma Simpson. Photo by Alex Harris.
Marc Freedman, in a column in today's Washington Post, takes issue with an Allstate ad exhorting Americans to save for 30 years of retirement.
"Millions of boomers are headed not for endless vacation but for a new stage of work, driven both by the desire to remain productive and the need to make ends meet over longer life spans," Freedman, author of Encore, writes in the piece, "One More Time, With Meaning."
That makes the central question, both for individuals and society at large, "What work will boomers do?"
- by: David Bank | More >
