June 12, 2019 8:45 am - 4:30 pm
Council Chambers - 2nd floor, Student Union Building
‘Planning Your Next Chapter’ is a one-day pre-retirement conference for faculty contemplating this important life stage. All sessions will be designed with the specific needs of faculty in mind. Preparing, planning and knowing what the options are, is key to a successful retirement from Dalhousie.
Coffee and Intro (8:45- 9:00 am)
Dalhousie Pension Plan (9:00 am – 10:15 am)
This session will provide an overview of the Dalhousie Pension Plan and help you to understand your retirement income and entitlements.
Coffee break (10:15 – 10:45 am)
Igniting Your Third Act: Creating Meaning and Purpose in Retirement (10:45 am – 11:45 am)
Carole MacInnis, former faculty at Acadia University and founder of Third Act will facilitate this session. Carole will explore how you can continue to live in a creative and entrepreneurial way in retirement. She observes that retirement is a time to embrace that part of yourself that has often been limited by the practical decisions necessary as you built your career.This process of redefining retirement as a time of transition to a new way of living, which embraces the unlimited potential available to those in their 60’s and beyond, can bring exciting results.
Lunch (11:45 am – 12:30 pm) – a light lunch will be served.
Participants will attend one of the following two simultaneous sessions. Note that these two sessions are repeated.
Session A: Strategies and Personal Tools For Your Third Act (12:30 – 2:00 pm)
Session limited to 25 people
In follow-up to her morning presentation, Carole MacInnis, founder of Third Act, will conduct small group seminars to help you begin to explore how to make the most out of the next stage of your life.
OR
Session B: Maintaining Connections (12:45 – 1:30 pm)
This session will provide an overview of your retiree benefits and help you to understand all the options for maintaining connections to your teaching and research following your retirement.
Coffee Break Session A group (2:00 – 2:30 pm) and Session B group (1:30 - 2:00 pm)
Note that the following two sessions are a repeat. Join the session previously not attended.
Session A: Strategies and Personal Tools for Your Third Act (2:00 -3:30 pm)
Session limited to 25 people
This session will be hosted by Carole MacInnis, founder of Third Act. In follow-up to her morning presentation, she will conduct small group seminars to help faculty begin to explore how to make the most out of the next stage of your life.
OR
Session B: Maintaining Connections (2:30 -3:15 pm)
This session will provide an overview of your retiree benefits and help you to understand all the options for maintaining connections to your teaching and research following your retirement.
Everything I Wish I’d Known About Retirement: Retiree Panel Q & A (3:30 – 4:30pm)
A panel of recent Dalhousie faculty retirees will provide insight into the retirement experience