Meaning and Purpose (MAP) Program for Adults 50+ Survey

 

The Mountain is preparing to launch MAP – an exciting new opportunity for adults 50 years and older to deeply engage in reflection, service and community for four weeks. Please read the following overview, and then complete the survey below. Your ideas and opinions are valuable to us.

A rare immersion experience, MAP offers extended time to study one’s passions and plan the next stage of life as an active adult who is committed to changing or deepening the capacity to live fully, with meaning and purpose.

MAP is designed to serve people who are retired or involuntarily unemployed and searching for a new direction; it’s also for folks who are some years away from leaving the job market and in need of a sabbatical. This residency is meant to challenge, inspire and provide opportunities for personal, intellectual and spiritual growth.

MAP provides adults space and time to reflect, research, and engage in a progressive learning community as they study future possibilities for the pursuit of their passions. Participants look at issues of aging – its wisdom and challenges – as they discern who they wish to be in the next great season of living. They clarify their own sense of meaning and purpose and investigate choices and actions that they will carry into their relationships, work, and community service. They assess how they wish to impact the common good, and chart a course that will make them feel most alive – now and in the future. They develop and/or increase existing skills and awareness and enhance their capacity to work with others to bring social change in large and small ways to the center of their communities.

If you are 50 or older, and inspired to embrace your later-middle and older years with intentionality, curiosity, a sense of adventure and gratitude, then MAP is for you!

Overview
• 3-5 adults age 50 and over (spouses, partners welcome to come together)
• Community service projects on and off-site
• Approximately 16 hours of Mountain service per week (based on ability)

Program Components
• Live in a learning community with a common purpose
• Community service
• Intentional time in nature
• Gardening
• Independent learning projects and research
• Group meetings to process experience
• Set and monitor individual goals
• Artistic expression
• Discussions and activities with Mountain resident interns, young adult and work study
• Workshops with experts in various fields
• Participation in some Mountain programs
• Share in work, play and spiritual reflection with the larger Mountain community