2016 Workshops and Presentations

Over the past five years I have developed a number of workshops and presentations for those who are approaching or living in retirement.

Please contact me at bcavers210@gmail.com or 403-553-2973 for information about upcoming events or speaking engagements.

Retire to the Life You Design 

Are you curious about what you will do with your time when you retire?
Are you feeling a little nervous about the transition but also excited about what is possible with your new freedom? 

Are you looking for new fulfilment and meaning in your life?

Would you like to know how to design a life unique to you?

Through our process and tools, you begin to create a plan to retire to the life that you design yourself, a retirement unique to you. In a three-hour workshop you will discover:

• Your core needs for personal fulfillment
• The Six Circles of Life for achieving balance in your mind, body, and spirit.
• Numerous and diverse leisure and volunteer activities that match your interests and skills

This workshop will help you to connect you connect who you are with possibilities for your future. It will equip you with tools, models, information and resources to help you continue your exploration and discovery after the workshop ends.

Facilitator: Barbara Cavers, B.A. M. Ed.
Workshop length: 3 -5 hours



Achieving Balance 
in the Second Half of Life

Learn how you can:

• Achieve balance in your mind, body, and spirit.
• Focus on the future, on possibilities and potential.
• Design a personally meaningful and fulfilling future.

Facilitator: Barbara Cavers, B.A. M. Ed.
Workshop length: 60-120 minutes

Designing Your Legacy: How do you want to be remembered?

How do you want to be remembered? 

What difference do you want to make in the world?

This workshop includes:

• over a dozen ways to create a legacy: wide ranging opportunities from legacy gifts of money, property or family treasures, to legacies of leadership or memories
• the importance of sharing your legacy values, goals, and intentions with your family and supportive friends.
• seven key strategies in legacy planning.

Facilitator: Barbara Cavers, B.A. M. Ed.
Workshop length: 60-90 minutes



Downsizing Your Home
What kind of home do you envision 

for the next phase of your life?

• Explore the many options for housing that will meet your current and future needs.
• Find the right balance between independence and community, challenge and risk.
• Learn how to reduce stress and conflict in working with your children – or your parents.
• Get some tips on how to deal with sentimental objects.

Facilitator: Barbara Cavers, B.A. M. Ed.
Workshop length: 60-90 minutes



Downsizing:
What makes it hard
and how to get through it.

All those memories . . .

All those things . . .

Someone could use this . . .

Eliminating clutter can lower your stress level, save time and help you to appreciate what you have. It’s a gift to yourself, and to your family, relieving them of the burden of handling all of the possessions that you have acquired through your lifetime.

• Learn how to get started, and how to keep going.
• Explore strategies for sorting, gifting, selling and donating your ‘treasures’.
• Learn the benefits of decluttering and organizing your home.

Facilitator: Barbara Cavers, B.A. M. Ed.
Workshop length: 60 minutes