“This was a group that kept on giving. Charlotte created a space for us to show up as our true selves.”
Practice Conscious Aging
A deep dive into conscious aging and living with Charlotte Nuessle, BSc
Online via Zoom, Fall 2026
Glean the learnings of your full life experience through a growth perspective that supports you in living more clearly, compassionately, and fully through your aging years.
To be present is no small act. After all, you need to be present to win ….
Being present is needed to receive the fullness of life’s beauty and learn from difficulties along the way. In my experience, sharing this process in a small group with others can be rewarding, insightful, and encouraging. It can strengthen courage and support you in naming what is authentic and true.
This group is offered to give you a space to explore both the wisdom of your lifetime and the places that can benefit from light shining on them for greater understanding.
We’ll draw on Mark Nepo’s work, The Fifth Season. He’s a widely respected poet and spiritual voice. In this book, he draws on a voluminous inquiry through decades of pondering what it is to be human.
Each group will include a centering time, a time to check in, to read from The Fifth Season, to write, and to gift each other with insights, questions, sharings from the heart. This is not a standard book club. This is an opportunity to consider areas of your life that might have been on the periphery and bring them to the center, to honor and embrace.
My aim as a facilitator is to honor and bring forth experiences that help you engage with learning and growth and respect the voice and wisdom of the group.
We’ll meet twice monthly, starting in late October. Each session will be 1.5 hours. We’ll all make a 6-month commitment to each other. The dates will be chosen collectively.
I’ll meet with everyone interested in registering by phone or Zoom to get acquainted with your interests.
This offering is generously given. The fee to attend is by donation. Please be generous and realistic.
I’ve been facilitating online and in-person groups for over almost a dozen years and retired from a 25-year career in adapting body-based practices for seniors and elders. This group is an extraordinary opportunity to create a community of learning.
The group size will be between 6 and 8 participants.
If you have questions or concerns, contact me: info@charlottenuessle.com
I hope you’ll consider joining me.
Charlotte
October 12-16
Grief as a Sacred Invitation: A Poetry Experience
Kripalu, Massachusetts
Come explore what the soul knows—how grief is an invitation to open; how heartbreak can foster courage, compassion, and communion; and how our greatest and smallest losses can nourish love, beauty, and inner spaciousness. “Grief isn’t an illness or mistake,” says Mirabai Starr. “It is a natural and sacred response to life’s inevitable losses. It is also a crucible for transformation.” Join poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for a spacious retreat of silence, reading, conversing, writing, and optional sharing. It’s a chance to say yes to your whole heart and to live fully, a chance to co-create a circle of healing.
For more information, visit here
Living After Loss: Poetry for Holiday Time
Thursdays, November 5, 12, and December 3
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
at Berkshire Community College
In-person only
Holidays and anniversaries ask much of a grieving heart. In this series draw on poetry as a stepping stone, a language, giving a place to land in honoring grief as you gently open to life is being lived in new ways after loss. Each session includes a time of centering, a check in, reading poetry, reflecting and writing and sharing your insights, learnings, vulnerabilities. Everything offered is optional.
Cost: $35 for OLLI at BCC members
$45 for non-members
Register online or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.) to register by phone with a credit card.