What do you know about the Spanish flu pandemic that occurred a century ago during an age of silence? We know so little about the plight of the people who passed from the flu, the survivors, and those who lost their loved ones. What happened to those people during that time? There is not a lot of information that was passed forward about lessons learned that could have helped us in 2020, a century later, when Covid spread worldwide.

We are no longer steeped in silence, for we live in an age of speech, documenting anything and everything, important and inane, using the modern media we are privileged to enjoy. But media’s limits provide us with information and statistics only.

How can we fulfill our responsibility to the generations that follow us if we don’t preserve the facts, the feelings, and the lessons of our generation’s pandemic?

Join us for a legacy writing workshop to document your personal and family experiences during this pandemic as well as the larger context and how you see our world changed, for the worse and the better.

Rachael Freed, Founder of Life-Legacies in 2000, is a social worker and family therapist, an experienced speaker, facilitator and trainer, and published author, who continues to contribute to the evolving definition and depth of legacy and the spiritual practice of legacy writing. 

She is a senior fellow at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing, at the University of Minnesota, the author of Your Legacy Matters; Women’s Lives, Women’s Legacies: Passing Your Beliefs & Blessings to Future Generations, and The Legacy Workbook for the Busy Woman. Her free monthly Legacy Tips & Tools can be subscribed to at

www.Life-Legacies.com

In the 1980s and 90s, she founded Heartmates, Inc. and worked with groups of cardiac families for their emotional and spiritual recovery. She wrote Heartmates: A Guide for the Partner and Family of the Heart Patient, and The Heartmates Journal. She recently presented at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and the Los Angeles Jewish Philanthropy Foundation.

Rachael can be contacted at [email protected]

Registration

Date: Thursday, September 22nd

Time:

3:00-5:30pm ET | 2:00-4:30pm CT | 1:00-3:30pm MT | 12:00-2:30pm PT

Closed captioning is available

Fees:

$95 Supporter | $80 Basic

There are a limited number of scholarships available.

Questions? Please contact Rosemary Cox, [email protected]

Certified Sage-ing Leaders who attend will be able to use the material later to facilitate these "Beyond-the-Basics" workshops (as local, face-to-face events) in their communities; contact Rosemary Cox for details: [email protected].