Audacious Aging:
Eldership as a Revolutionary Endeavor:
Harnessing Generative Wisdom, Leading a New Humanity

An Invitation to Celebration, to Contribution and to Community-making:

As we evolve together in this passage of eldership, we invite you to contribute your voices and talents, your fierce and gentle compassion. You have the seeds of a deep intuitive knowing that is crucial to our times. You are the graceful and eloquent transformative agents our communities and our planet are now seeking. While we hold new transformative visions for being of service to humanity and nature, we can access our deep inner knowing and bring it forward with grace and humility. As we become fully engaged to serve in integrity and compassion, we will create hope and healing in all that we touch. Now, we invite you to join us in transforming the next decade, to rise to the call of cocreating an inspired, audacious and sustainable future. As time moves us, boomers, from midlife into eldership, we must realize that in our hands lies the resurgence of profound collective engagement at the current crossroads of crises and opportunities on Earth. Together, we will harness generational responsibility, purposeful compassion and the fires of age to work in convergence with other generations and develop practical plans of action for the restoration of our global community.?? As we help to reinvent and engage eldership, the revolution we are instigating serves to:

• Replace the obsolete paradigm of eldership with models of blessing, generative, wise elders as powerful forces of nature.
• Create a new vision of eldership that is inspired by the role of elders in indigenous cultures and taps the wealth of resources and experience of elders as talented and essential beings.
• Bless the Boomers to realize their/our full potential. This is the generation that deeply fulfills it's destiny in their/our elder years.
• Honor eldership for its capacity to bring forth the spirit of poise and offer a mindful counterpoint to those who are not yet able to see and hear the necessity for change away from our speed-driven, dollar worshipping, and reactive culture.
• Encourage elders to bring forth their creativity, wisdom, fire and timely perspectives to re-enchant our world with the spirit of amazement that nurtures our love of humanity and the natural world.
• Instigate a multigeneration convergence of committed creative artists, leaders and people of action to align our efforts and celebrate our interdependence as we conspire and inspire urgently needed social changes.
• Foster a renewal of engagement for elders to raise their voice as they take a stance for enduring values and meaningful causes to fuel the cocreation of a socially and environmentally sustainable world.