Age & Opportunity offers Changing Gears course

Age & Opportunity is the national organisation that aims to enable the best possible quality of life for us all as we age, where we are more active, more visible, more creative, more connected and more con dent.

Changing Gears is an Age & Opportunity initiative that focuses on dealing with life transitions or challenges in mid to later life. It supports people to take stock, make changes, and bounce forward in life.

e course works by allowing participants to develop skills and techniques to build resilience and con dence in managing life-changes or transitions. It enables them to reframe transitions in their lives as opportunities with positive options, thus challenging negative stereotypes about ageing.

Changing Gears, which is o ered in person and online, invites participants to re ect on challenges they have experienced in the past and life-lessons they have learned. In this way strategies for building resilience and managing change draw on personal experience to create a more positive and ful lling future.

Kathleen Jordan, from Dublin, who joined an online version of Changing Gears in February was very happy that she participated. “I found Changing Gears very useful. It was very useful to look back at what has served me well and to make a plan, as far as is possible, for the next part of my life.”

Kay Murphy, from Ennis, Co Clare, who took part in Changing Gears this month was delighted that she joined the course. “ e course content from beginning to end was very relevant. e di erent aspects of the course were so gently put. We came away totally satis ed