Programs

  • $78.00 – Program Price
  • $90.00 – Program & Lunch

Date & Time Details: Saturday October 24, 2026 10 AM - 4:00 PM

Program is fully booked

A Shape of a Life: Aging Gracefully

With Mary Pandiani, D.Min and Julian Cleary, OSB

October 24, 2026

Program is fully booked

Aging Gracefully

Join us for a day retreat of exploring what it means to age well. In the contemplative spirit of creativity and love, we want to discover joy in the aging process. Through the use of artwork and poetry, words and research, we will look at aging in its beauty and losses. We address wisdom and resiliency as some tools that shape the journey in getting older. It’s never too soon to prepare. While this retreat is geared towards those concerned with aging, it applies to any of us who are getting older.

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, 

and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri Amiel (1821-1881)

Facilitator

Mary Pandiani, D.Min
 Dr, Pandiani, D.Min. is the Executive Director of Selah, a contemplative community creating sacred spaces to pause, encounter the Spirit and grow together. Her current focus is a posture of contemplative living across the seasons of life.
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Julian Cleary, OSB
Sr Julian Cleary, OSB, has practiced disability law for about 25 years.  More recently she has engaged in immigration work.  To Sr. Julian the Reverend Howard Thurman has been a model and a mentor in absentia of inner transformation, peaceful advocacy, and  a purveyor of dignity and respect to all.
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