Shaping a Life of Significance for Retirement

by R. Jack Hansen, Jerry P. Haas

Overview

This retirement book focuses on the personal dimensions of the move from full-time work to partial or full retirement. Drawing upon conversations with retired professionals from around the country, it identifies some of the key transitions in the first years of retirement, the unique opportunities for personal growth in this phase of life, and the real challenges we must face. Retired engineer Jack Hansen and spiritual formation leader Jerry Haas explore the transitions, opportunities, and challenges of facing retirement through a series of interviews with persons facing and in retirement. It is about the more personal dimensions of the transition from working full time to retirement, including relationships, feelings of self-worth and purpose, and spiritual and intellectual growth.

Taken as a whole, the conversations and interactions with retirees suggest an exciting and challenging picture of retirement. This time of life can be one of significant personal growth. It can also be an opportunity for further contribution to one's professional field or the investment of one's talents and experience in volunteer capacities. It is also clear that moving from full-time work to retirement involves important and sometimes painful adjustments in key relationships and in sources of self worth. With some attention and effort, however, these are usually worked through successfully in early retirement years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780835812870
Publisher:	Upper Room Books
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	132 KB

About the Author

Jack Hansen is mostly retired from a career in research and research leadership. He still works part-time for the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Congnition and consults fir tge NASA Ames Research Center. He became particularly interested in the personal dimensiond of transition from full-time work as he was making his own tranisistion. He and his wife, Pat, reside in Greenville, South Carolina.
Jerry P. Haas pastored churches in California and Arizona for 25 years and then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to work in retreat and spiritual formation ministries with The Upper Room/General Board of Discipleship. He served as director of the Academy for Spiritual Formation from 1999 to 2010 and spiritual director of The Upper Room from 2010 to 2012. Jerry is the coauthor of *Shaping a Life of Significance for Retirement,** project coordinator for *Upper Room Worshipbook: Music and Liturgies for Spiritual Formation,** and coeditor of *Rhythm&Fire: Experiencing the Holy in Community and Solitude.** He and his wife, Donna, now reside in the Tucscon, Arizona area.