When: Spring/Summer 2021
4:00 to 6:00 PM ET
- Thursday, May 20th
- Tuesday, June 29th
- Tuesday, August 10th
This is a live online event.
For global start times, contact the event coordinator, below.
The Legacy Writing Workshop Series
Three online workshops with Rachael Freed 
Legacy writing, one pathway to your spiritual self, and to a deep connection with loved ones and future generations still to come, may be best practiced in community, with a group of like-minded and unique others. In this Sage-ing International "Beyond the Basics" online event, we hope to bring together a global circle of elders who have that goal.
Please join us...!
Our Times Together
Session 1 - Thursday, May 20th
Legacy Letters for Special Occasions
Writing legacy letters or blessings to punctuate and commemorate the special occasions in ourloved ones’ lives is a way to celebrate life. It can be as simple as writing a personal blessing for a nephew, great-aunt, friend, or colleague to recognize special occasions in their lives. Or you may write a legacy letter of reminiscence to honor someone’s special birthday or graduation from high school or college.
“There are two ways to live your life – one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Lao-Tzu
Session 2 - Tuesday, June 29th
Legacy Letters about Transitions and Transformations
Transitions are difficult; we know what the old habit, the old relationship, the old house, feels like and we know how to navigate within it. Letting go of the old puts us into the unknown, into uncertainty, without a map or a compass. With the loss, transition offers us creativity, courage, and learning. Most of the time we come through the transition transformed. Writing legacy letters to share our learning is a gift of wisdom from us elders to younger, less experienced loved ones.
“Sometimes, God brings times of transition to create transformation.” – Lynn Cowell
“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life.” – William Bridges
Session 3 - Tuesday, August 10th
Legacy Letters of Amends/Apologies
Legacy writing is expansive enough to hold regret, vulnerability, apologies, amends, and forgiveness. In a legacy letter we can acknowledge and take responsibility for wrongs we’ve done and ask for forgiveness. This is an opportunity to use the present moment to forgive the past and express love for the future. This is one of the ways that elders take care of unfinished business and put our lives in order.
“While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it’s just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.” - Donna Lynn Hope
“To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin, but it is a loss that liberates the victim.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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