A hands-on, engaging experience to help you flourish in retirement by exploring new possibilities, aligning with your interests and values, and designing your next chapter. Reframing Retirement for Women is a transformative workshop experience where you'll learn and apply the Life Design methodology to intentionally shape what's next.
Working can provide us with an identity, a routine, a social network, and a purpose. How do we want to flourish when we retire?
This innovative workshop series gives you the opportunity to learn and practice ideas and tools contained in the New York Times bestselling book Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. You will do this with a community of women who have come together to collaborate on the design of their next chapter in life and potential “retirement”.
What will we do together?
Explore our social narrative, especially around retirement, and identify the forces that have shaped our lives.
Discover and reframe our own dysfunctional beliefs, especially about retirement.
Dig into why we work(ed) and the purpose of our lives, identifying our drivers and motivators for the future.
Assess your flourishing and energy levels and design improvements using the design thinking process and tools.
Frame and reframe areas where you have been stuck and engage in radical collaboration and ideation for new solutions.
Design three possible future paths – Odyssey Journeys – for your life.
Learn how to prototype (or do small experiments to learn more) the parts of these lives that are most compelling to you.
Hone your decision-making process, tuning into the wisdom of multiple ways of knowing.
Create the life design community you need to support you on your life’s journey.
Use design tools to action plan for real change.
What will you get?
Four highly interactive Zoom sessions (9/25, 26 ,10/2 & 3) where you will learn and practice using the design thinking process, mindsets and tools.
A life design community ready to listen generatively, offer ideas, collaboration and support (details below).
Digital workbook of information and design tools unique to this program only.
Catherine Dalipe
Certified DYL Facilitator & Coach
Catherine Dalipe is a certified Designing Your Life coach, facilitator, and founder of Indigo & Magenta Consulting, where she helps individuals navigate career transitions and life pivots with clarity and intention. Drawing from more than 30 years of global leadership experience in international education, she brings a thoughtful, action-oriented approach to helping people reimagine what’s next. Catherine also serves as Partner Engagement & Community Relations Manager for Designing Your Life Consulting, supporting a worldwide network of facilitators and coaches. Outside of work, Catherine finds joy and renewal in her favorite “flow” activities — swimming in the Pacific Ocean, playing pickleball, sketching, cooking with her husband, playing piano, and spending time in nature.
Joan Cheverie
Certified DYL Facilitator & Coach
For more than 30 years, Joan Cheverie has helped people navigate change and discover new possibilities—through leadership roles in higher education and as a Certified Designing Your Life facilitator and coach. She partners with individuals and organizations to help them approach life's transitions with curiosity, intention, and optimism, blending the Designing Your Life framework with emotional intelligence and strengths-based coaching. Joan believes there isn't one "right" path forward, only possibilities to explore—and she loves helping people reconnect with what energizes them and take meaningful next steps. Away from work, she can often be found doing pottery, a practice that reminds her that growth comes through patience, experimentation, and the courage to begin again.
What Participants Have Said About Our Reframing Retirement Workshops
“ Designing your life provided a lot of clarity on how to use the methodology to craft a life you love. Doing this in a group format gives a lot of outsights/insights from others. The facilitators were top notch. Totally recommend you invest in yourself and take this workshop.”
“The Reframing Retirement Workshop brought not only some surprises about myself to light but also clarity of intention and realization of my agency in how I define retirement. I left the workshop with a process to design my way forward by being biased toward action. Of equal importance, the collaboration with others in a similar life-stage was priceless”.
“Being in a diverse group of women provided an enriching experience. We were able to get personal feedback from others as well as provide feedback. The workshop was a wonderful opportunity to begin planning my next chapter”