The Silver Pearl: Our Generation’s Search for Meaning is a remarkable keynote, workshop and retreat that has been receiving rave reviews from participants. Led by Dr. Carol Orsborn, author of 15 books on the relationship between values, spirit and success, The Silver Pearl: Our Generation’s Search for Meaning delivers a message to women that is simple but transformational: unlike physical development, the older you become, the more possible it is for you to achieve your fullest spiritual and psychological potential. This material has application to all aspects of the participants’ lives, from personal to work issues—and everything in between. Based on her most recent book, authored with co-researcher Dr. Jimmy Laura Smull, the interactive program shares and recreates the process of personal development exemplified by the women in their groundbreaking study: women in their late forties, fifties, sixties and beyond who are defying stereotypes about their age to achieve life mastery in one or more areas of their lives, regardless of the circumstance with which they are faced.

Dr. Orsborn has presented her keynotes, workshop and retreats around the country, at such venues as Omega Institute, The Associated Press Managing Editor’s Convention, Apple Computers, Davis-Kidd Bookstores, Penuel Ridge Retreat Center, UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion and hundreds more. She is now booking engagements for summer and fall of 2005 and all of 2006. She has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show and appeared in the pages of People Magazine and The New York Times, among others. I will be contacting you soon to see if we can find a time for Dr. Orsborn on your organization’s calendar.

Dr. Smull has given keynotes at such venues as UCLA's Center for Religion, Chapman University, the Golden Door, Book Clubs and Penuel Ridge Retreat Center. She is also a co-facilitator with Dr. Orsborn.

The Silver Pearl is both an inspirational and rejuvenating one to eight hours for women seeking to tap into the communal wisdom of a new generation of women who are redefining what it means to be our age.

Participants have the opportunity to identify and address both mutual and individual issues, concerns and opportunities.

Typical of the issues that arise for participants are: revising and renewing ambitions and expectations, clarifying one's philosophy and strategy regarding beauty and health, parenting grown children, caretaking others in need and more. Based on the three-stage Silver Pearl model, participants will utilize experiential tools and techniques, including guided journaling and visualization, Socratic inquiry and both shared and personal reflection. By attending this program, participants will define a refreshing new perspective drawn from their own experience as well as from the wisdom of other women who are demonstrating daily their capacity to master the next passage on their journey through life.