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Clockwise from top center:
Bolton Anthony with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (left) at the
2004 Denver Visioning Council, John Sullivan, Mac
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New Board of Directors
elected;
National Advisory Council created |
At
its August 1st annual meeting, the leadership of
Second Journey passed from a 6-member interim
Board to a permanent 5-member Board based in North Carolina. The interim
Board had been charged with directing the
organization's transition to a new organizational structure, and the new
Board immediately acted to ratify a recommended advisory structure with national
representation. The new Advisory Council, which
will be co-chaired by former Board members Ken Pyburn and John Cronin,
will help set direction for Second Journey's activities and new
initiatives.
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Board of Directors
Morgan Adams
is on a
quest. Her path has taken her through the study of philosophy and
developmental psychology, and has most recently immersed her in
creativity, which she has pursued through corporate consulting,
experiential learning with educators, economic development planning, and
organizational change. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from
Tufts University. After years of informal service to Second Journey as
consigliera (or chief advisor), she has consented to serve in an
official capacity.
Bolton Anthony, who founded Second Journey
in 1999, has worked as a teacher of English and creative writing to
undergraduates, a public librarian, a university administrator, and a
social change activist. In the 1998, he was privileged to lead a
year-long community effort to solemnly commemorate the Wilmington (NC)
coup and racial violence of 1898. He is interested in public discourse
and the restoration of civil society and is passionate about the
emergence of a new paradigm of aging that will energize the generation
approaching retirement.
Lisa Anthony,
who has a
Master’s degree in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, maintained a
private psychotherapy practice for nearly 25 years and, during the same
period, served as the psychiatric nursing educator at University of
North Carolina Hospitals. In June of 2005, she married Bolton Anthony,
beginning a new chapter in her own “second half of life.” She has
facilitated groups and workshops in various settings for most of her
professional career and, in May 2007, co-facilitated Second Journey’s
first Women’s Circle on “Women in the Second Half of Life: Spirituality
and Community.” She currently counsels homeless men weekly on a
volunteer basis.
Mac Legerton is an
ordained minister in the Southern Conference of the United Church of
Christ. He
co-founded
the Center For
Community Action; a
multicultural, community-based, nonprofit organization, CCA specializes
in promoting grassroots empowerment and multi-sector collaboration as the
foundations of social change.
He is a member of the
national Guild for Spiritual Guidance and is a frequent speaker and
retreat leader on issues of spiritual practice and social justice. He
was recently
selected
as the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Service to Rural Life Award
of the Rural Sociological Society for his “outstanding contribution to
the enhancement of rural life and rural people.”
See article by reporter Kristin Collins in the August 27, 2007. issue of the Raleigh News and Observer
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John G.
Sullivan, a much-loved
philosophy teacher at Elon University in North Carolina, was named Elon's first
Distinguished University Professor in 2002, a culminating honor of his
36 years at Elon. For over 20 years, he has also been associated with
the Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland, and he co-founded and teaches
in the Institute’s program for adult learners that applies the
philosophy underlying Chinese medicine to everyday life. His abiding
interest is “that place where philosophy, psychology and spirituality —
East and West— intersect and mutually enhance one another.” John
is the author of Living Large:
Transformative Work at the Intersection of Ethics and
Spirituality (2004).
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Advisory Council
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 John
Cronin (Co-chair) served in
a variety of leadership positions in community hospitals and academic
medical centers until his recent retirement from the position of CEO at
Northern Berkshire Healthcare (MA). He has extensive experience in
facilitating community and leadership groups through the use of
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and is a facilitator affiliated with
the Center for Courage and Renewal. He and his wife Jonelle recently moved to
Creekside Commons Cohousing Community on Vancouver Island in British
Columbia.
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 Ken Pyburn
(Co-chair) worked at IBM for 29 years in a variety of management
capacities before moving to the nonprofit sector and work with Habitat
for Humanity. Active with the Wilderness Guides Council, Ken has
extensive experience with vision quests. He stewarded Second Journey's
strategic planning process, served as co-facilitator at the July 2006
Northwestern Visioning Council, and chaired the Board of Directors during
the 2006-2007 term. Ken lives in Boise, ID.
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 Jan Hively
was named a Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures in 2006 for her work
as a social entrepreneur. In 2001, while a Senior Fellow at the
University of Minnesota, she founded the Vital Aging Network (VAN), a
statewide network that promotes self-determination, community
participation, and personal enrichment for and with older adults through
education and advocacy. Jan came to her current focus on lifework from
past careers in community outreach, planning, and administration for a
half-dozen public and non-profit organizations. Jan lives in
Minneapolis, MN.
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 Claudia
Horwitz, the author of The
Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, is the
founding director of stone circles, a nonprofit organization that helps
individuals and organizations integrate spiritual and reflective
practice into the work of social justice. Based in Durham, North
Carolina, stone circles has worked with thousands of people across the
country through training, organizational development, and interfaith
gatherings.
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 Septuagenarian Fred
Lanphear —
co-founder of Songaia Cohousing Community in Bothell, WA, where he has
lived for over a decade
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is actively involved in the intentional communities movement both
locally (co-founding the Northwest Intentional Communities Assn.) and
nationally (as a board member of the Fellowship for Intentional
Communities). A passionate advocate for Earth, Fred is a self-described
“social activist involved in networking and promoting intentional
communities, ecological concerns, integral health and consciousness.”
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 Jim Leach
is a professional engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the
design, construction, and development of energy-efficient housing, both
for custom-designed homes and planned neighborhoods. His Boulder-based
company, Wonderland Hill Development is the nation’s largest cohousing
developer with 15 communities in Arizona, California, Colorado and
Washington, He has won numerous awards for energy-efficient construction
and innovation in community design, and he is developing Colorado’s
first elder cohousing neighborhood, Silver Sage Village.
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 Martin Lehfeldt
is the President of the Southeastern Council of Foundations. His career
has included service as a newspaper reporter, foundation program
officer, college development officer and president of his own consulting
firm. He is a board member of the Georgia Humanities Council and
co-author of The Sacred Call, a biography of Donald L. Hollowell,
one of the South's premier civil rights attorneys of the 1950s and 60s.
Martin lives in Atlanta.
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 Harry R. Moody
is currently Director of Academic Affairs for AARP. He is the author of
over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a number of
books. His most recent book, The Five Stages of the Soul
(published in 1997 by Doubleday Anchor Books), has been translated into
seven languages worldwide. He is known nationally for his work
in older adult education and recently stepped down as Chairman of the
Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical
ethics and holds an appointment as an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings
Center. Rick lives outside Washington, DC.
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 Geraldine (Dene)
Peterson is
the moving spirit behind ElderSpirit, a mixed-income elder cohousing
community designed to foster mutual support and later-life spirituality
located in Abingdon, VA. Her tenacious efforts in creating this
country's first elder cohousing community were recognized with a Purpose
Prize in 2006. Dene has been the administrator of non-profit
organizations throughout her professional career and is a former member
of the Glenmary Sisters.
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 Rabbi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is an
internationally recognized loving teacher who draws from many
disciplines and cultures. He has been at the forefront of ecumenical
discussions, enjoying a close friendship with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop
Emeritus Desmond Tutu and many other leading sages of our time and is
the founder of Jewish Renewal which lays out the foundations for 21st
Century Judaism. He has been instrumental in inspiring the convergence
of ecology, spirituality and religion and recently has put special
emphasis on Spiritual Eldering, or “Sage-ing” as he calls it in his
seminal book From Age-ing to Sage-ing.
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 William
H. Thomas,
MD,
is an
international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare and a
professor of aging studies at the Erickson School at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. Thomas also serves as president of The
Center for Growing and Becoming, Inc., a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to promoting and developing constructive, holistic approaches
to aging and the care of our elders. He is the founder of The Eden
Alternative, a global non-profit organization that is committed to
improving the care received by people who live in institutions
everywhere, and the author of What Are Old People For?
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