Inner Elder (EHI)
Existential-Humanistic Institute
EHI Call for Inner Elder Proposals | Poetics of Aging 2011 Conference
This conference focuses on the exploration of the beauty and depth of life at any stage and age. The conference mission is to counter the mainstream understanding of aging as a decline and/or disease with a more expansive, humanistic, and creative–that is poetic–vision and approach. Together we shall create a climate where people exchange ideas, feelings, and information and partake in creative expressions, while providing room for self-study and discovery. Inner elderhood is a tribute to inner growth and wisdom that accumulates throughout life and can be tapped into regardless of actual age. It is revealed in all we have learned and continue to learn about navigating our unfolding lives that call on us to meet challenges and opportunities. Inner elderhood is an ongoing process and this conference will provide presentations highlighting how our inner world can continue to meet the outer world in a fruitful way.
STEP ONE – Download Proposal Guidelines (MS Word doc)
STEP TWO – Email Submissions: Attach completed Proposal in MS Word doc, please include your resume or cv, addressed to orahkrug@sbcglobal.net and sonjas@thevistagroup.net.
Notification of acceptance of this proposal will be sent by email. If you have any change in your email address, please be sure to contact orahkrug@sbcglobal.net and sonjas@thevistagroup.net.
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2011, 5 pm Pacific.
STEP THREE – EHI/Inner Elder presenters must register for the Conference by September 15, 2011. Presenters who are unable to register and present will not be listed in the Conference Program Guide.
PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
Title of Proposal: Maximum 125 characters, including spaces and punctuation
Rationale for the Proposal: (For Research Poster Session, include a statement about the theory or research base of your proposal.) Educational content is limited to 2500 total characters, including spaces and punctuation. Preference will be given to creative/poetic workshops, presentations, and poster sessions that emphasize audience participation, engagement, and self-discovery.
Theme: (choose one)
- Poetics of Aging Politics
- Poetics of Evolving Abilities
- Poetics of Caring
- Poetics of Life/Work
Description of Session: (check all that apply)
- 60-75 Minute-Workshop
- 30-Minute Roundtable (2 sessions, one directly after the other)
- 60-Minute Project/Research Poster Session (continuous)
- Would you be willing to do an alternate type of session? (Yes/No)
Target audience and area of application: (e.g., care setting, private practice, mental health agencies, family and community, personal transition). Maximum 1000 total characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Learning Objectives: Maximum 1000 total characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Presentation structure: How you will structure the presentation in order to involve the audience (e.g., case examples, discussion, role play, exercises, imagery). Maximum 1000 total characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Materials: The kinds of materials each attendee will be given. Maximum 1000 total characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Diversity: Relevance of proposal content to multicultural/diversity information, e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, disability/ability, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, marital status, religious preference, culture, geographic location, and/or age. Maximum 1000 total characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Expertise: Collective expertise of the presenters relevant to topic. Maximum 1000 total characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Conference Program Guide Description Summary: Describe your presentation. Include only the key points and benefits to attendees. Maximum 750 total characters, including spaces and punctuation. The Program Guide Summary wording is very important. The Conference Program Guide will only list the session title and summary for attendees to select from.
Notification of acceptance of this proposal will be sent by email. Please be sure to contact info@poeticsofaging.org if you have any change in your email address.
IMPORTANT! Before you attempt to begin a new submission, collect all the required information as described below.
You may wish to make a printout of this form to refer to.
- A proposal may be submitted once (e.g. a proposal submitted as a workshop OR submitted as a roundtable)
- The primary presenter is the contact person and is responsible for notifying all co-presenters of acceptance, rejection, scheduling, and any other information provided by the Poetics of Aging. The primary presenter’s email address is the primary form of communication.
- Presenters are responsible for all travel expenses including, but not limited to, lodging, transportation, and meals.
- Presenters may give participants products or provide services during the Conference. Authors’ books will be sold only at the biblio-cafe.
- Presenters must register for the Conference by September 15, 2011. Presenters who are unable to register and present will not be listed in the Conference Program Guide.
- Presenters are responsible for preparing all materials to be distributed to attendees.
- Presenters will be responsible for the duplication and distribution of the materials at the time of the Session at the presenter’s expense:
- 75 handout copies for a 60 or 75-minute workshop
- 50 handout copies for two 30-minute roundtable sessions
- 75 handout copies for 60-minute poster session
- Presenters attest to the fact that the information provided (including literature reviews and statement about data collected by proposal presenters) is true and accurate.
