"Many people face a late-life identity crisis with the transitions to retirement, illness, loss, care giving, or simply advancing age. They may ask again, Who am I? as the ego’s lifelong identity of Doer disappears, and heroic values of success and image lose their grip. This can feel disorienting and frightening and result in a loss of meaning. But there is a deeper call if we tune in and listen: the call of the soul. If we deny this call to make an inner shift, we won’t cross the threshold from role to soul and discover the spiritual gifts of age.
This presentation will explore the psychological and spiritual potential of this passage, as we learn to use shadow-work to shift our identities from ego to Self, from what we do to who we are -- from role to soul. With this inner shift, we find renewed meaning and vitality and a sense of freedom to become who we truly are."

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, writer, Climate Reality Leader, and Citizens Climate Lobbyist. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice.  Her newest book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, explores shadow-work in the religious and spiritual arena. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.