On the Same pAGE: Facilitating Intergenerational Conversations About Ageism
Date & Time:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1–2:15 PM Eastern | 10 AM–11:15 PM Pacific
Format:
Live Workshop
Available On Demand Jan. 17–May 15, 2025
Price:
Free to ASA Members!
Non-member Rate: $75*
Certificates & Credits:
Continuing Education credits are not available for this course. We will offer a Certificate of Attendance.
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*This offering is non-refundable.
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Description:
Research tells us that intergenerational education and connection are important antidotes to ageism, and can bring communities together. Yet intergenerational connection and relationships are rare, a situation reinforced by the age segregation that’s embedded in many of our communities and institutions.
What can we do about it? We can start by deliberately bringing younger and older people together in situations where they have equal status and facilitating conversations.
In this interactive workshop, you will learn:
- How to bring people together, and under what conditions
- How to facilitate intergenerational conversations—in this case about ageism
- Key mistakes to avoid
- How to apply the principles of facilitating intergenerational conversations about ageism to other conversations
- How to maintain the momentum and connections formed beyond the initial conversation
- Recognize your own ageist beliefs and learn how to demonstrate non-ageist communications and behaviors with older adult patients
The workshop will include some breakout room practice. Participants will leave with a toolkit for hosting their own conversations, as well as some sample activities for dispelling stereotypes and finding common ground.
On Aging Institute Faculty:
Janine Vanderburg, JD, is CEO of Encore Roadmap, and speaks, writes, and consults with businesses, media and brands on how they can end ageism, become more age-inclusive, and leverage the benefits of intergenerational collaboration. Her ageism activism is informed not only by research, but also by 3½ decades running a social sector consulting firm. In 2018, Janine co-founded Changing the Narrative, a leading U.S. campaign to end ageism, through which she has trained 30,000 people in 50 states and 49 countries in ageism, reframing aging, and creating more age-inclusive workplaces, marketing and communications. In 2019, Janine launched Changing the Narrative’s on the same pAGE campaign, hosting 60 intergenerational conversations about ageism throughout the U.S. and beyond in 10 days.
Who should attend this session:
This session is for anyone who:
- Would like to improve relationships between and better manage multigenerational workforces
- Runs gerontological or other higher education programs and would like their students to experience intergenerational conversations
- Works in an age-friendly university that deliberately tries to connect older and younger students
- Designs and operates intergenerational mentoring programs
- Operates programs that serve older adults (e.g., senior centers, area agencies on aging, senior living facilities)
- Advocates for older adult issues and wants to host intergenerational conversations to better understand of how younger people experience specific issues
- Believes in finding common ground among older and younger people, and in dispelling us vs. them stereotypes
- Wants to DO SOMETHING meaningful about ageism