Becoming Ourselves: Meaning, Change, and Growing Older

Growing older is complicated.

It can bring freedom and loss, clarity and uncertainty, possibility and limitation... sometimes all at once. Yet there aren't many places where we can talk honestly about what it is like to grow older without being told how we should feel about it.

Becoming Ourselves is a five-week discussion and reflection group offering space for honest conversation about aging and the ways we continue to change and become throughout our lives.

Together, we'll explore what we're noticing about this season of life: what is changing and what remains, what surprises us, what we're discovering about ourselves, what we're grieving or letting go, and what may still be unfolding.

This isn't a group about learning to “age well” or finding the bright side of every change. There will be room for what we appreciate about growing older and what we don't, for what we're discovering and what we're questioning... and for the things we haven't quite figured out.

Each gathering will include a short reading or poem, time for personal reflection, and facilitated conversation. No particular religious or spiritual perspective is assumed or required. You are welcome to bring your own beliefs, questions, experiences, and ways of making meaning.

Our Conversations

The Age We're In

What is it actually like to be the age we are?

Living in a Changing Body

How is our relationship with our bodies changing as we grow older?

What Changes, What Remains

What are we losing, gaining, releasing, and carrying with us?

Who Are We Becoming?

How do our identities, values, priorities, and sense of meaning continue to evolve?

The Life Still Ahead

How do mortality, uncertainty, and possibility shape the way we want to live now?

Details

Mondays, November 16 – December 14, 2026

2:00–3:00 pm (ET)

Five weekly gatherings on Zoom

Limited to 8 participants

Community Supported Pricing: $50 / $90 / $130

Choose the rate that best fits your circumstances. Those who are able to pay at the higher level help make the lower rate available to others.

10% of all registration fees will be donated to Reimagine.

Registration closes Wednesday, November 11.

Please contact Kristabeth Atwood at ritesofpassagevt@gmail.com with any questions.

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About the Facilitator

Kristabeth Atwood, M.Div., is a spiritual director, facilitator, grief companion, and founder of Rites of Passage. She has more than 25 years of experience accompanying people through questions of meaning, change, loss, identity, and transition. Her work is inclusive and welcoming of people across religious, spiritual, and secular perspectives. She lives and works in Burlington, Vermont.