ADULTING++ Workshop

Group Type: Skill-Building Workshop

Goals of the Group:

• To help adults navigate key life areas such as career, relationships, spirituality, and personal growth.
• To provide actionable strategies for a more intentional and fulfilling life.

Who Is The Group For?

• The ADULTING++ Workshop is ideal for anyone feeling the need to recalibrate their life.
• It is designed for adults who are at a crossroads and ready to take meaningful steps toward a more intentional and balanced life.
• This group is for those who are:
  • Wanting to find direction in their career, personal growth, or relationships.
  • Seeking deeper meaning through spirituality or reflecting on their legacy, life purpose, and long-term impact.
  • Feeling ready to pursue change, addressing regrets, unfulfilled aspirations, or embracing lifelong learning to grow and evolve.

Discussion Topics:

• Career and Life Purpose
• Family Connections
• Personal Growth and Spirituality
• Lifelong Learning and Reflection

What Will We Talk About?

• Motivations for work: wealth, survival, fulfillment, societal change.
• Personal career choices and future direction.
• Current relationships with parents and ways to improve bonds.
• Romantic or intimate relationships and how to rekindle or start new ones.
• Spiritual beliefs and existential thoughts about life and legacy.
• Lifelong learning mindset and practical tips for personal development.
• Past decisions, regrets, and unfulfilled goals, and how to cope with them.

Glimpse of the Session:

• Cluster 1: Career and Life Purpose
  • Session 1: Career and Life Purpose
    • Explore motivations for work.
    • Reflect on personal career choices and future direction.
    • Exercises: Writing a personal “work manifesto.”
    • Group Discussion: Sharing personal career journeys and struggles.
• Cluster 2: Family Connections
  • Session 2: Connection with Parents
    • Reflect on current relationships with parents.
    • Discuss the reality of limited time and how to improve bonds.
    • Explore cultural influences on parent-child relationships in adulthood.
    • Exercises: Create a “parental bonding plan” with specific, achievable goals.
    • Group Discussion: Sharing experiences and challenges in connecting with parents.
  • Session 3: Romantic Relationships
    • Reflect on the current status of romantic or intimate relationships.
    • Explore ways to rekindle existing relationships or start new ones.
    • Discuss the role of romantic relationships in adulthood, particularly in mid-life.
    • Exercises: Developing a relationship vision and goals.
    • Group Discussion: Sharing relationship experiences and aspirations.
• Cluster 3: Personal Growth and Spirituality
  • Session 4: Spirituality and Existential Questions
    • Reflect on spiritual beliefs and existential thoughts about life and legacy.
    • Discuss how spirituality can bring peace or perspective.
    • Explore life’s impact, legacy, and long-term contributions.
    • Exercises: Journaling on “What legacy do I want to leave?”
    • Group Discussion: Sharing spiritual journeys and thoughts on life purpose.
• Cluster 4: Lifelong Learning and Reflection
  • Session 5: Lifelong Learning
    • Discuss the importance of a lifelong learning mindset.
    • Practical tips and tools to cultivate curiosity and ongoing personal development.
    • Exercises: Create a personal lifelong learning plan with skills and subjects to pursue.
    • Group Discussion: Sharing learning experiences and aspirations.
  • Session 6: Regrets and Unfulfilled Aspirations
    • Reflect on past decisions, regrets, and unfulfilled goals.
    • Explore how to cope with or resolve lingering feelings of regret.
    • Exercises: Write a letter to your “past self” and a plan for pursuing current aspirations.
    • Group Discussion: Sharing regrets, aspirations, and plans for the future.

Please note that the session topics, order, and other details may be subject to change based on the needs and preferences of the group members and facilitators.