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Gear Up For Living: Retirement Workshop for Professionals

Looking for a company workshop for your professional staff that provides information beyond financial planning? Our lifestyle planning workshop is geared for people with an asset and income base.

Are you a successful achiever?

  • Create for yourself and your family a successful retirement that mirrors your successful career
  • Explore where you want to live, what you want to do, and how you can make it happen
  • Investigate a variety of lifestyle options, such as extensive travel or living in another country for a few months a year

Leisure Pursuits and Travel Planning


  • Baby boomers have been delineated by demographers into distinct groups. This workshop is focused on subsets of individuals known to be successful achievers. Professional boomers have strong intellectual inclinations and active involvement in many areas of interest.
  • We discuss the first ten to fifteen years after retirement. We do not elaborate on moving to rest homes, estate planning, medical issues or dying. Our workshop is about living life to the fullest, free from the confines of work.
  • This work includes original research on what people are looking for in retirement.

It is an overview workshop that includes information and discussion on an active retirement with an emphasis on actually "living your dreams".

  1. Plan the first ten to fifteen years of active retirement, right after work
  2. Where to live: explore urban, suburban, rural areas, down-sizing, up-sizing, renting your home
  3. Travel Information: round-the-world trips, long-stays in various countries. How to organize your life and home for extensive travel or work in another country.
  4. Leisure pursuits: express your talents and abilities in meaningful ways, develop new interests, skills or artistic expressions, renew past hobbies
  5. Book recommendations and websites included.
  6. You will come away from this workshop with great ideas and a plan to make it happen

Your facilitator for the workshop will be Mahara Sinclaire, M. Ed.

Mahara is an entertaining and dynamic instructor who has been a faculty member at three British Columbia colleges for the past eleven years. Mahara has traveled to Europe, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa as well as many Canadian, American and Mexican destinations.