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ElderSpirit Community Resource Center and Team contributes to the growing national movement in support of "Aging in Community" by encouraging the creation of communities of mutual support and late-life spirituality. Listed below are descriptions of the resource team members plus links to the organizations with which we work.
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Monica Appleby is a resource person for the formation of an ElderSpirit Community. She wrote the grant proposal to the Retirement Research Foundation and after the grant was awarded became the director of the ESC Extension Project. The approach of the ESC Extension Project emerged from the processes of the FOCIS Futures Strategic Planning Task Force of which Monica was member. She has a background in community enterprise, education and development, which has brought about the following results. • Design of the "ElderSpirit Community Extension Project. Education: M Ed. Harvard University; BA Social Sciences Goddard College Monica Appleby
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Jean Marie Luce is a resource person for groups who are visioning a community of Mutual Support and Late-life Spirituality. She was involved with the core group formed in 1995 to create the first ElderSpirit Community in Abingdon, Virginia. Through a 3-year grant from The Retirement Research Foundation (1999-2002), Luce worked part time with ESC Founder Dene Peterson to structure a cohousing community for older adults. In that role, she helped put together the following. • Mission Statement and Values Currently Luce lives in Asheville working with the ElderSpirit Community Extension Project. She is the resource person for groups forming elder rich intentional communities in North Carolina. She also facilitates a 6-week course on “Soul Work in the Second Half of Life” based on the ElderSpirit model of late life spirituality that flows out of the aging process. Themes include Inner Work, Caring for Oneself, Mutual Support, Community Service, Reverence for the Earth and Creative Life. The course is also given in a day and a half workshop/retreat format. Education: MA Community Program Planning, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont; Ed.D. Education Administration, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Retreat Leaders Training Program Certificate, Stillpoint Ministries, Asheville, NC Jean Marie Luce, Ed.D.
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Anne Leibig was a member of the ElderSpirit Community task force that developed the late life spirituality model and the "goodness of fit" form for the ESC self selection process. Through this work she has an interest in training that strengthens awareness of and develops skills in Mutual Support. As a Gestalt Therapist she has led workshops in the United States and Europe. She recently retired from a 25-year therapy practice in Abingdon VA. She is currently writing and training with the Appalachian Gestalt Training Institute. She lives with her husband Dick Austin on a farm overlooking the Clinch River in southwestern Virginia. Education: MSW, West Virginia University; B.A. Social Sciences Goddard College; Extensive Training in Gestalt Therapy
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Dene (Geraldine) Peterson is the founder and developer of ElderSpirit Community at Trailview in Abingdon, Virginia. "The main tasks of this role were fundraising and managing the development. I am not an expert in either of these realms but I am a really good problem solver. My idea about fundraising is that there is money to be given away, and why people make a good investment when they give it to me. My idea about development it that it is a complex task for which one is responsible but has very little control. What I offer those involved in the ElderSpirit Community Resource Center is inspiration to risk the first step, knowledge of resources for public money for affordable housing, how to find likely foundation money, the prerequisites for acquiring land and what it takes to get the buildings built." Dene has been the administrator of non-profit organizations throughout her professional career. Dene holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Loyola University, Chicago, and a Masters Degree in Higher Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has her certification as a Housing Development Finance Professional. Dene Peterson
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