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His undergraduate degree is from the University of Notre Dame; his three graduate degrees include an Ed.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is interested in the relationship of public discourse to community change and the restoration of civil society. He is also passionate about the emergence of a new paradigm of aging in America that will energize the generation approaching retirement and create new models for service and community in later life. Bolton lives in Chapel Hill, NC,
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Four sessions ~ $800 |
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The Heart's Desire: This 4-part film-discussion series explores the Heart's Desire in later life to rediscover and reinvent itself and live a more simple, yet larger and more meaningful, life — a life that opens it to the joys and sufferings of the family of Earth.
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Half-day ~ $400 / Full-day $600 |
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New Models of Community for Later Life Though luxury-edition “Sun City” retirement communities continue to pop up like mushrooms across the Sunbelt states, scattered among them are the seedlings of more meaningful experiments: elder cohousing communities, like ElderSpirit in Abingdon, VA, and shared housing arrangements a la the "Golden Girls"; resident-initiated concierge services, like Beacon Hill Village, and intentional community experiments, like Ecovillage at Ithaca. This
half-day workshop will showcase exciting experiments from around the country. Progressive rounds of a World Café conversation will then allow participants to explore what excites them and connect with others who share their passions.
The World Café is an innovative yet simple conversational process “for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims.” |
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Second Journey's founder Bolton Anthony's varied career includes teaching English and creative writing to undergraduates and working as a public librarian and a university administrator. As social change activist, he was privileged to lead a year-long community effort to commemorate the Wilmington (NC) coup and racial violence of 1898 — an event which involved a coup d’etat, the “deportation” of the business and professional leadership of Wilmington’s black community, and the death of as many as 300 black citizens.
He founded Second Journey in 1999.
Film/Discussion Series
The Visitor
The Straight Story
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Antonia’s Line
Workshop