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Passport to Retirement: Charting Your Own Course

Passport to Retirement: Charting Your Own Course on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at Maumee Senior Center

 

Short description: The journey through retirement is different for everyone but there are some common elements to consider steering you towards success and satisfaction.

Presented by: Patrice Powers-Barker, CFLE, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, OSU Extension, Lucas County, email powers-barker.1@osu.edu

Resources from presentation:

Wellness Wheel Worksheet Self Assessment & Action Plan

  • Name the present, look forward to the future – Rose, Thorn, and Bud
  • Use your data and your dreams
  • Connect with others and utilize resources

Handout:  Charting Course_Handout_2025

Additional articles:

OSU Extension, Lucas County:

References:

  • Gonzalez, A. (2018, May 24). A mindful way to reflect: Rose, thorn, and bud. Mindful Schools. https://www.mindfulschools.org/
  • Kumar, A., Killingsworth, M., and Gilovich, T. (2014, August 21). Waiting for merlot: Anticipatory consumption of experiential and material purchases. Psychological Science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614546556
  • Lieberman, M., Eisenberger, N., Crockett, M., Tom, S., Pfeifer, S., and Way, B. (2007). Putting feelings into words: Affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli. Psychological Science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17576282
  • Mirgain, S. (2020, April 7). The surprising benefit of going through difficult times. UW School of Medicine and Public Health. https://www.uwhealth.org/news/surprising-benefit-going-through-difficult-times
  • NCFR Report: Non Normative Transitions, Winter, 2019, National Council on Family Relations, https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2019
  • Neff, K., Rude, S., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2007). An examination of self-compassion in relation to positive psychological functioning and personality traits. Journal of Research in Personality. Volume 41: 908-916.
  • Polk, M.G., Smith, E.L., Zhang, L.-R., & Neupert, S.D. (2020). Thinking ahead and staying in the present: Implications for reactivity to daily stressors. Personality and Individual Differences.
  • Praharso, N., Tear, M., Cruwys, T. (2017). Stressful life transitions and wellbeing: A comparison of the stress buffering hypothesis and the social identity model of identity change. Psychiatry Research. Volume 247: 265-275
  • Manage Stress: Strengthen Your Support Network. (2024). American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/topics/stress/manage-social-support
  • Wellness Wheel Worksheet, Work Week, NYC, https://www.nyc.gov/assets/olr/downloads/pdf/wellness/wellnesswheelworksheet.pdf
  • Your Wellness Wheel, J. Flowers Health Institute, https://jflowershealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/jflowershealth.com_wellness_wheel_worksheet.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mindfulness: Being Present is the Gift

In a season where there’s usually more than enough to do, we find ourselves living history with challenges all around us.  We are grateful for colleagues who joined us for 30 minutes of mindfulness during our Annual Extension Conference, online 2020. This page will share some links related to the short mindfulness practices we experienced during the session.

The premise of the winter session was “if I only have …. a short amount of time” to practice mindfulness, what can I do? We encourage individuals to create a routine and habit to practice mindfulness on a daily basis and it can also fit in throughout the day.

If I only have 30 seconds …

Just Breathe, OSU Your Plan 4 Health 

If I only have three minutes … 

Set a Daily Intention, by University of Delaware

If I only have five minutes …

Experience Five Senses by Jennifer Williamson

If I only have ten minutes …

Today’s guided imagery practice of the snow globe was scripted by Patrice Powers-Barker. If you are interested in listening to other Guided Imagery Practices, please visit the Wexner Medical Center. 

December 8, 2020, session was lead by Patrice Powers-Barker (powers-barker.1@osu.edu), Melinda Hill (hill.14@osu.edu), and Shannon Carter (carter.413@osu.edu) on behalf of the OSU Extension Mindful Wellness team.

Ohio Council on Family Relations 2017 Webinars

The Ohio Council of Family Relations (OHCFR) is the state affiliate of the National Council of Family Relations.  It is an organization for practitioners, academicians, and students serving Ohio’s youth, individuals, couples, and families over the lifespan through research, education, and practice.

In 2017 the OHCFR board decided to host professional development webinars as a way to reach and connect with members across the entire state. The following information is about a two-part webinar hosted in the fall of 2017. For more information about OHCFR please visit the website or follow on Facebook @OHCFR

The Effect of the Opiate Epidemic on Ohio Families (Part 1 of 2)

Presenter: Dr. Philip Atkins, Executive Director, Mental Health and Recovery Board of Union County

Objectives:
  1. Understand the scope and scale of the opiate epidemic in Ohio.
  2. Apply aspects of self-care in the context of their own experience of compassion fatigue when working with families affected by opiate abuse.
  3. Identify the stages of change in the Transtheoretical Model of Change and learn to recognize these stages in their families
  4. Differentiate between varying intensities of intervention and current treatment and recovery support practices in order to assist families in recovery.

Wednesday Sept. 20, 2017, 12-1pm EST

PowerPoint OHCFR Opiate Training 9.20.2017

Webinar Recording

Link to Evaluation for Part 1 of 2:  http://go.osu.edu/opiate1evaluation

 

Part 2 of 2, The Effect of the Opiate Epidemic on Ohio Families. Thursday, November 30, 2017, 12-1pm EST by Dr. Atkins

Webinar part 2 Recording

Ohio Council on Family Relations Celebrates 2017 #FamilyLifeEd Month With Webinar

The Ohio Council of Family Relations (OHCFR) is the state affiliate of the National Council of Family Relations.  It is an organization for practitioners, academicians, and students serving Ohio’s youth, individuals, couples, and families over the lifespan through research, education, and practice.

 

On February 23, 2017, Ohio State University Extension Educators, Katie LaPlant and Patrice Powers-Barker presented a webinar titled Using FLE Infographics to Develop Family Programming from Beginning to End. One reason to share this webinar in February was to celebrate Family Life Education Month #FamilyLifeEd. See below for links to PowerPoint, Infographics and recorded webinar.

 

We welcome questions and discussion about Family Life Education. Please contact us through email. Patrice powers-barker.1@osu.edu or Katie laplant.8@osu.edu. We would also like to thank our colleagues Carmen Irving and Jackie Kirby-Wilkins for all their work on this topic. Thanks also to OHCFR board members Rachel Archo and Courtney Walsh for help with this webinar.