Our Wisdom Years, Charles Garfield, PhD
Our Wisdom Years, Charles Garfield, PhD
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Our Wisdom Years
Growing Older with Joy, Fulfillment, Resilience, and No Regrets

Author: Charles Garfield, PhD

Narrator: William Sarris

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020


Synopsis

Some of the most profound growth of our lives can happen in the home stretch, the years after age sixty or so. It's a time when we can finally crystallize the meaning of what we've been and done so far and fully expand into the self we've always intended to be, guided by the voice of the soul. But, says psychologist Charles Garfield, that can only happen if we first loosen the grip of the life we've led so far, the one that's been focused outwardly—on activity, achievement, and the idea of success—and let our souls lead the way.

In Our Wisdom Years, he skillfully and practically guides listeners through nine tasks that can transform the struggles of aging, bringing fulfillment, joy, and serenity. Drawing on the understandings that come from both his work as acclaimed "success guru" in the 1980s and the truths distilled from long-term work with those at the end of life, Garfield offers a fresh, uplifting vision of the wholeness that awaits us in our wisdom years.

About Charles Garfield, PhD

Charles Garfield, PhD, is the founder of Shanti, an internationally honored volunteer organization dedicated to the care of the dying, the elderly, and those living with cancer and AIDS; the Shanti National Training Institute, which has taken Shanti's model to organizations around the country and world; and Shanti's newest program that serves older LGBTQ individuals. He has been teaching the skills of serving vulnerable people for more than forty years and is a pioneer in developing service-oriented volunteer organizations in which peers, not professionals, become "the difference between zero and one" for people at the end of life and, more recently, seniors in the LGBTQ community. For his work with Shanti and for originating the Shanti model of peer support, Garfield was named National Activist of the Year-one of America's highest awards to individuals making voluntary contributions in public service. He has also received recognition from cities and organizations large and small, including a Mayor's Day in his honor in San Francisco and many other awards. For more than four decades, as a clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco (UCSF), Dr. Garfield continued his work in the care of dying patients and their families, many of whom were elderly. A fellow of the American Psychological Association, he is currently a research scholar at the Starr King School of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He teaches courses on aging and end of life care at the Metta Institute in San Francisco, where he is a founding faculty member and at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. While on the faculty of the Cancer Research Institute at UCSF, he was one of the early contributors to the burgeoning field of psychosocial oncology. Garfield began his career in computer science after receiving two graduate degrees in mathematics from Adelphi University as well as induction into Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Mathematics Honorary Society, and later, the Adelphi University Alumni Academy of Distinction. He earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He writes for and serves on the editorial board of Greater Good, a national e-magazine from the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Science and the Greater Good.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig

This book represents the most wholistic approach to aging and retirement that I've read thus far. Garfield touches on just about every aspect of the senior years I can imagine, from finances, relationships, and travel to health, death, and speculations about the hereafter. He uses an abundance of st......more

Goodreads review by Anne

This book has powerful wisdom and messages about ageing with grace and gratitude to name a few. I’m taking my time with the chapters and the exercises and inner work and it’s have a deep and profound effect on me.......more

Goodreads review by Lori

This book is geared for those 'Growing Older with Joy, Fulfillment, Resilience and No Regrets'. This inspirational book starts off with us growing beyond who we've been. I flagged the page that talks about the importance of joy being born of nurturing our connection to what has meaning for us. I expe......more