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Exploring Creative Longevity: A Symposium for Boomers & 50 Plus Crowd (LA)

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Are you part of the 50 and over crowd and finding yourself at a challenging stage of your career?

Would you like to learn how to navigate uncertainty at play in order to reach your goals?

How can you expand your mindset in embracing available educational opportunities?

  • Learn how older adults are contributing to cultural, educational and social services organizations to meaningfully engage in the next phase of life. 
  • You will hear from three presenters who have expertise working with the boomer – 50 and over generation. 
  • The conversation focuses on innovation, sustaining work later in life, creativity, lifelong learning, community building, and more.

Join us for our 2018 Exploring Creative Longevity: A Symposium for Boomers & 50 Plus Crowd.

Doug Collins joined The Sherry Lansing Foundation as Director in 2008.  Among his duties is the management of PrimeTime LAUSD, which recruits and places retirees as volunteers in K-12 Los Angeles public school classrooms. In addition, Doug is a key advisor to the EnCorps STEM Teachers Program and serves as the liaison between Ms. Lansing and the Chief of Staff of the University of California Board of Regents. He also supervises the foundation’s work with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, the Broad Center, the Carter Center, Encore.org, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, Friends of Cancer Research, the Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee (ICOC) of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and Stand Up To Cancer. Prior to launching his career in the nonprofit sector, Doug served as Director of Development in the Paramount Motion Picture Group and headed two independent production companies under the aegis of Paramount Network Television.
He earned a B.A. in Communications from the University of South Florida and a Graduate Certificate from the Applied Gerontology Institute at California State University, Los Angeles.
Doug is passionately committed to the continued social, educational and professional engagement of Baby Boomers and post-Boomers.

Carol A. Vecchio, recipient of the 2010 National Career Development Association Outstanding Career Practitioner Award, has helped guide people to find their passion and purpose for over 30 years. She is the founder of Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal, a nonprofit that offers lifelong tools to navigate uncertainty, build meaningful careers, and design courageous lives. A pioneer practitioner in the field of Life Design, Carol is an inspirational speaker and author of numerous articles. She is thrilled that this book will make Centerpoint’s life-changing work accessible to a much wider audience. Carol lives in Seattle—a place she truly believes is heaven on earth—where she loves to spend time with her husband, sing a cappella harmony, hang out with her cats, design and create jewelry, delight in the outdoors, and take on “urban homesteading” projects.

Antoine Cook is an Associate State Director, Community focused on Volunteer Engagement and Management. He has been working with AARP since July 2006, and prior to this he worked for the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Head Start-State Preschool Division as a Program Assistant. He loves interacting with people on various levels and getting involved with not only the people he works with, but the actual work that he does. Prior to working for LACOE, he worked for Human Resources Development Institute (HRDI) in Chicago, Illinois as a Substance Abuse Counselor. He studied Computer Science/Mathematics at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) and Chicago State University (Chicago, IL). He also has a great amount of experience in working with the community at various levels. At LACOE he was a steward for SEIU Local 660, and prior to working for HRDI, he was a Volunteer Deputy Registrar for Cook County, IL. He also led the volunteer management efforts for events with as few as 1 to as many as 3,000+ volunteers. He is a natural connector, a skilled facilitator and experienced trainer in organizing, volunteer management, relationship development and more.

Julia Grace Vishnepolsky, MA, LPCC, R-DMT is devoted to embodiment and creativity in helping human beings thrive. As a licensed psychotherapist specializing in expressive arts and dance/movement therapy, Julia Grace specializes in supporting clients through anxiety, depression, trauma, and chronic illness through the use of mind/body techniques such as embodiment, enactment, mindfulness and creative externalization. Julia Grace is an advocate for expressive arts therapy, regularly speaking on the intersection of healthcare and the healing arts,  and is the founder and executive director of PlantPals, a non profit program dedicated to enriching lives through creative arts programming and intergenerational connection. Currently, PlantPals is piloting a program that engages at risk youth in addiction recovery with seniors living in long term care. To date, this program has touched the lives of 150 elders in three communities, 50 at risk youth, 30 volunteers, and 20 care staff and has shown to positively impact the social emotional wellbeing of all participants. Julia Grace holds a Masters in Clinical Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy, is a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist, and a licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with her private practice, Grace Arts and Healing, in Los Angeles, CA.
To learn more about her visit www.counselinwitharts.com and  www.plantpals.org"

 

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Location: 

5757 Wilshire Boulevard 
Cagney Room 
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Contact Email: 

careercenterwest@actorsfund.org