Sample Seminars, Workshops, and Guest Lectures
- What Is Your Internal Age? An Introduction to Social Gerontology (1-2 hours)
- Looking Back on Our Lives: Personality Development and the Life Review Process (2-3 hours)
- The Life Review Process and the Role of Reminiscence (1 hour)
- Secrets of the Life-Span: Key Concepts from Developmental Psychology (3-4 hours)
- Adults As Learners: Characteristics and Course Design Considerations to Enhance Learning (3 hours)
- Navigating the Paths of Mid-Life and Advanced Age (3-8 hours)
- Parent-Child Relationships Across the Life-Span (3-5 hours)
- Clinical Counselor Staff Training Program: Highlights from the Literature of Life-Span Psychology and Applications to Clinical Settings (four-part seminar series; 10-16 hours)
- Navigating the Grief Process: A Survey of the Literature on Grief and Loss (life-span developmental perspective; 2-5 hours)
- The Experience of Survivors: Exploring Grief, Loss, and Creative Coping Strategies (reviews key variables impacting a loss, clinical counseling approaches, highlights from the field of Thanatology, and the role of culture in shaping our attitudes and expectations surrounding grief; 4-8 hours)
- Life-Span Stages and Transitions: Insights from the Humanities (2-5 hours)
- The Psycho-Social Aspects of Retirement: New Paths in the Retirement Years (3-4 hours)
- The Psychology of Retirement: Meeting the Emotional and Social Needs (4-12 hour program, depending on audience interests)
- You Can Make A Difference: Humanizing the US Healthcare Environment (2-4 hours; designed for students of medicine, nursing, and allied health fields)
- Reflections on Reunions: All the Ages We’ve Ever Been (programs vary in length)
- The Psychology of the High School Experience (2-6 hour workshops)
- Of Music and Memory: Alive Inside and Neuro-Sentiment That Spans All Ages (2-4 hours) [This topic is also addressed in a 2015 radio interview focusing on innovations and new resources in social gerontology.]
- Grandparents and Grandchildren: The Intersection of Love, Learning, and Legacy (3-4 hours)
- “The Village Movement” in the United States (1-2 hours; includes some content on Aging in Place)
- The Values Americans Live By: An Overview of the Theories of L.R. Kohl (designed for International and ESL audiences, in particular; 3-4 hours)
- The Cultural Context of Grief and Pathways to Coping (2-4 hours)
- Academic and graduate-level seminars are also available on research writing, presentations skills, audience analysis, and student retention topics. Sample themes include Research Writing; Functional Outlines; Clarity, Cohesion, and Color in Composition; and Public Speaking Tips and Techniques (programs are available for both US and cross-cultural audiences).
Fees range from $250 – $400 per hour of program time; discounts are available for non-profit and community agencies. Reduced fees for programs of four hours and longer. Travel is not included.
For further information about arranging a seminar or guest lecture, please contact: eisen@umich.edu.
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