Retirement Ready Workshops

Retirement Ready offers two workshops.  They are specifically designed for class participation in a group setting. These workshops include:

1.  Transitions to Retirement

2.  The Life Options Workshop

Transitions to Retirement

This is a one-day face-to-face workshop on Transitions to Retirement.  The workshop will provide you with information on what you need to know in order to set yourself up for a smooth retirement transition and create the successes you want. There is a wealth of information and practical exercises to support you in a successful retirement transition. The format is a mix of presentations, discussion and exercises. To get the most out of the workshop, I invite you to have an open mind and to engage in the opportunities presented. This workshop has been offered at Community Colleges, Churches, Corporations and various Organizations and has also proven to be an excellent one-day course to assist clients of Financial Planners.

You will also receive a copy of Strategies for Transitions to Retirement written by Mary Gallinger.

To schedule your Transitions to Retirement Group Workshop, please contact mary@retirementready.net

Life Options Group Workshop

The Corporate/Organizational Group Program

The Life Options Group Workshop is an educational experience that offers participants a clear, concise, succinct, yet comprehensive overview of their current ideas about, and planning for, their ultimate retirement lifestyle. It does not assume any particular type of retirement lifestyle, instead it serves participants by helping them identify and plan for new ways of living what can only be termed their “dream,” whatever that may be. The group workshop provides a personal, practical, and relevant self-portrait of the overall lifestyle needs of persons who are contemplating a transition from their current full time work into some other lifestyle that they themselves can be fully invested in designing.  This is the "corporate/organizational group program" because it brings vivid color to retirement lifestyle issues that are easily presented and discussed in groups or in classroom settings. It is factual and tangible, it is life structure oriented and non-academic, it offers a smorgasbord of sharply defined and easily understood concepts.  The workshop is designed to assist participants by giving them the most accurate personal data possible so participants can make the best decisions and formulate the most life-giving plans and has four components:

1. The Assessment: The LifeOptions Profile.
2. The Companion Book: What Color is Your Retirement?
3. Lifestyle Insight & Involvement Exercises
4. Powerful questions for specific goal setting and “next steps”

1) The LifeOptions Profile is a 99 question on-line assessment instrument that covers 20 separate lifestyle and attitudinal factors that are arranged into six sub-sections, or “life arenas.” The Profile is taken over the internet and generates a 10 page personal document that gives short descriptions of each of the 20 factors that are applicable to that particular participant.

The purpose of the LifeOptions Profile is to give the participant a clear, well-ordered, and scaled overview of how he/she compares to others in a similar life circumstance regarding their personal growth toward the life transition we call retirement.

2) What Color is Your Retirement: the LifeOptions guidebook to discover, plan and live your retirement dream. This 170-page, proprietary book is written by Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D., and used exclusively as an adjunct, supportive document for the LifeOptions Profile. What Color is Your Retirement is divided into the same 20 factors organized into the same six sections, or life arenas, and in the same order as is the LifeOptions Profile. The book is intended to involve the participant deeper into the content of the LifeOptions Profile in order to maximize their educational and motivational goals.

3) Lifestyle Insight & Involvement Exercises Each of the 20 factors have two “Insight & Involvement Exercises” that serve to further personalize and deepen the participant’s understanding and attitudinal penetration of the content of that factor.

4) Powerful questions for specific goal setting and
“next steps.” An integral part of the LifeOptions Group Workshop is the list of four “powerful questions” included for each of the 20 factors covered in the program. These powerful questions assist you in discovering your own truth. Powerful questions can help you become very focused on you "next action steps."

To schedule your Life Options Group Workshop, please contact mary@retirementready.net