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Are you a baby boomer who’s pondering “what’s next?
Would you love to have a Roadmap that guides you through a successful and fulfilling 3rd age of life?
Ever wished you’d escaped the Texas summer heat, if only for a few days?
Are you looking for an opportunity to have a relaxing vacation and learning experience that will influence the next stage of your life?
Design Your Best Retirement is your best answer to these questions.
Design Your Best Retirement is going to Asheville, NC, and I’m inviting you to join us for a 3-day retreat in the beautiful Smokey Mountains of Western North Carolina.
Come for the fresh air, beautiful mountain vistas in every direction, and mingle with happy, welcoming people.
Leave with a relaxed body and mind, a renewed spirit, and a clear Roadmap for your next stage of life.
Once considered a brief period when people left their jobs and faded into the twilight, retirement today has emerged as an opportunity-filled crossroads in which active people can spend two or more decades enjoying the fruits of their labor. With life expectancy on the rise, retirement is actually your door into the 3rd Age of Life, and it’s important to have direction as you navigate it. Design Your Best Retirement™ helps you develop a customized plan – your Retirement Roadmap – which defines how you will make the very most of this exciting new chapter.
Design Your Best Retirement empowers you to achieve your dreams and goals as you engage in activities and accomplishments that you’ve likely considered for years. Sentences that historically began with, “Someday, I will…” now become, “Today, I will...” Yet, your fulfillment in retirement won’t evolve on its own.
Design Your Best Retirement is far more than a ‘one size fits all’ book about retirement planning or a step-by-step process to tackle at your leisure. The program guides you to define and take charge of your retirement years in three core areas:
| Identity & Purpose | Relationships | Health & Well being |
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Benjamin Franklin once said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Those words rang true as you journeyed through your career, and they hold the same significance in your 3rd Age of Life. You won’t just wake up one morning with bright ideas about what you’ll accomplish in the short-term, let alone for the balance of your life. Design your Best Retirement supports you as you discover a new sense of identity and purpose outside of your work life and to begin your journey along pathways that are ideal for you.
Design Your Best Retirement (DYBR) is a multimedia program for people entering the 3rd age of life and who are considering retirement (or not).
Before and during the workshop you will complete several assessments and exercises to determine where you stand on important factors related to a successful and fulfilling 3rd age. A series of short instructional video presentations will provide you with rich information throughout the workshop about determining who you as a 3rd age person, growing and enhancing your relationships in 3rd age, and how to live a healthy and vital life throughout 3rd age, whether your 3rd age vision includes retirement or not. Combine these with lively facilitated discussions, coaching sessions, Q & A sessions, and you have a workshop that will ???
And finally, two-three weeks after the workshop, you will receive your individualized Design Your Best Retirement Roadmap that will be your unique guide for ??? and planning your 3rd age of life along with a complimentary “reading your roadmap” coaching session by phone with Dr. Gayles. Your DYBR Roadmap is your unique guide for planning a successful and fulfilling 3rd age of life.
Schedule of the DYBR Workshop:
| Thursday, August 13 | Arrival Day & Free Time |
| Friday, August 14 | |
| Until 5 pm | Free Time |
| 5:30-6:15 | Introduction to DYBR with Q & A |
| 7 pm | Group Dinner |
| Saturday, August 15 | |
| 10 am-noon | Segment 1: Overview of 3rd Age & Retirement » Assessments and Coaching Session |
| 12-1 pm | Lunch |
| 1-3:30 pm | Segment 2: Your Identity and Purpose in 3rd age » Assessments and Exercises » A New Perspective on Life Purpose » What’s YOUR Best Retirement Focus? » Finding your Pathway(s) to 3rd Age & Retirement » Coaching Session |
| 3:30-4 pm | Q&A, Wrap Up |
| 4 pm until | Free Time |
| Sunday, August 16 | |
| 10-11:30 am | Segment 3: Growing and Enhancing Your Relationships in 3rd Age |
| 11:30 am-noon | Lunch |
| Noon- 1 pm | Segment 4: Living a Healthy and Vital Life in 3rd Age » Assessments and Exercises |
| 1-2 pm | Coaching Session Q&A Wrap Up |
The Brookstone Lodge
Our workshop space and lodging are at the Brookstone Lodge in Asheville (link to Brookstone here), just 4 minutes from the Biltmore Estate, 10 minutes from downtown Asheville and Western NC’s best dining, shopping, and entertainment. Your inclusive fee includes 3 nights accommodation at the Brookstone. Additional nights at the Brookstone (pre or post workshop) are available at the workshop discount price of $109 (plus taxes) per night. Please indicate on your registration form if you will be arriving early or staying late.
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Inclusive Costs
Your investment shown below is inclusive (workshop fee of $495, 3 nights lodging at the Brookstone Lodge, breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday).
| EARLY | REGULAR | LATE | |
| Individual | $895 – $40 savings | $935 | $975 |
| *Couple *Couple is defined as two people, i.e., spouses, friends, colleagues, or family members | $1399 – $50 savings | $1449 | $1489 |
Non-Inclusive Costs Workshop Fee & Saturday-Sunday Lunch
| Individual — $525 | *Couple — $1050 |
Who is Joyce Gayles and why did she create Design Your Best Retirement?
Joyce Gayles, PhD is a clinical psychologist and success coach based in Houston, Texas.
For over 30 years, it has been my practice and my passion to guide people as they overcome personal and professional obstacles to achieve successful life transitions and reach their full potential.
Recognizing my own and clients’ needs to develop and apply transformative strategies as we transition into 3rd age and retirement, I earned Certification as a Retirement Success Coach with Retirement Options. In 2013, I developed Design Your Best Retirement™, a comprehensive coaching program that empowers new and emerging retirees to transform their 20+ “encore years” into a powerful 3rd age of life marked by purpose and fulfillment.
For more about Joyce and Design Your Best Retirement, go to www.transformationworks.com/about.html
“This program offers pathways through the many unknowns of retirement. It’s a must for Baby Boomers.”
— Linda Edwards, Retired Recreation Administrator for the U.S. Air Force
“Dr. Gayles has put together a masterful and comprehensive set of activities which helps people as they approach and work their way through retirement…I wish I’d had such a program when I approached retirement.”
— Steven Bailey, PhD, Retired Psychologist/Former Research Assistant, Columbia Career Patterns Study
“The term "not working" was an oxymoron to me. I approached the time with cautious optimism, but it morphed into full enthusiasm as (and after) I engaged in the DYBR - program. The combined impact of the reference-based information, resources, and personal coaching did the trick."
— Julie Ellis, Retiring Business
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