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New Seminar for 2026 by Popular Demand
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Beyond Letting Go with Grace: An Advanced, Collegial 6-Session Seminar for Clinicians Navigating Retirement
By Popular Demand
Join us as we deepen the clinical conversation on retirement in a new three month, six-session, live & interactive seminar with 9 CEUs available. Led by Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC and Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
The Advanced Seminar
Following the resounding success of the "Letting Go" retirement webinars offered through Higher Thought Institute in 2025, participants consistently asked for more—deeper training, richer discussion, and sustained professional support. In response, we are pleased to offer this advanced professional training and supportive group. Meeting twice a month for three months for a total of six, 90-minute sessions—this program provides the structure, guidance, and collegial community therapists need to navigate retirement with clarity, confidence, and integrity.
Co-led by Lynn Grodzki and Margaret Wehrenberg, authors of Letting Go of the Work You Love, each session is facilitated with warmth and clinical depth. Using their Readiness for Retirement Model, the facilitators guide participants through the psychological, relational, and ethical dimensions of retirement using reflection, dialogue, and applied clinical learning. The six-session series is supported by their companion workbook, available separately in both softcover and eBook formats.
The Clinical Context
Most people approach retirement with a “Ready, Fire, Aim” mindset—leaping into a major life transition with little preparation and a great deal of unacknowledged anxiety.
Therapists stand at a particularly complex intersection. As they contemplate their own retirement decisions, they are simultaneously called upon to support clients navigating midlife and late-career transitions. When clinicians take the time to understand and process their own readiness to retire, they become far better equipped—both emotionally and clinically—to guide others with clarity, compassion, and skill.
About the 6-Session Seminar
If you’ve been wanting a place to speak openly with colleagues about this stage of life—but haven’t had the framework or the community—this group is designed for you.
These six, ninety-minute sessions, held twice a month for three months offers participants an invitation to:
- Explore the emotional, ethical, and identity-based tasks of retirement
- Clarify what kind of retirement aligns with their values, lifestyle, and sense of purpose
- Build the psychological, relational, and practical foundation for a successful transition
- Engage in small-group discussions that foster reflection, insight, and peer support