The Last Chapter Together – Navigating Aging, Love and Letting Go. at 14350 W 32nd Ave – Golden, CO
The Last Chapter Together – Navigating Aging, Love and Letting Go. at 14350 W 32nd Ave – Golden, CO
Please join us for this two and a half day immersive workshop!
November 12: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
November 13 – 14: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
NAVIGATE THE JOURNEY
Explore the changes, choices, and challenges of aging with grace and intention.
CELEBRATE LOVING
Honoring the love we’ve known—partner, family, friends, and self.
EMBRACE LETTING GO
Find peace in release, make space for what matters most, and live fully now.
CONNECT. SHARE. GROW.
A safe space to listen, learn, laugh, and support one another on this sacred journey.
THE HEART OF THE WORKSHOP
The Last Chapter Together: Navigating Aging, Love and Letting Go is a 2.5-day workshop that explores aging not as a decline or “enemy” to be managed, but as a distinct and unique developmental life process where human potential continues throughout elderhood. Moving beyond the old paradigm of 65 as the beginning of the end of human potential, we will examine how our motivations and the ways we fulfill our potential evolve as we age. We invite participants to live these added years with intention rather than unconsciously, mindfully preparing for and experiencing elderhood as a period of personal reawakening, new beginnings, vibrant renewal, focused purpose, deep peace, and lasting joy.
Led by four elder Gestalt therapists, the workshop is experiential, didactic, dialogic, and relational. In true Gestalt fashion, the presenters themselves are the curriculum; they do not just teach this process, they are the process, striving to live “aging as a practice.” This practice is a conscious, ongoing engagement with our bodies, minds, spirits, relationships, the relational field, meaning-making, and mortality, knowing that the Last Chapter is being written in present time. By bringing Gestalt’s core tenets of presence, contact, and phenomenological awareness to this crossover of “what is,” we view aging as a life to be fully lived until the final chapter is written.
The workshop addresses aging head-on by encouraging participants to name and face ageism and the fears of growing old, while inviting them to get in touch with their purpose, passion, and wisdom. It explores the crucial elements in the developmental shift from adulthood to wisdom-filled elderhood and addresses the core questions evoked by this stage of life. Ultimately, the experience expands beyond individual aging to become a relational ecosystem across generations. It is designed to be both clinically useful for therapists and deeply personal for each participant, inspiring attendees to create and embrace a new, vibrant next chapter that delivers aging’s gifts of elder wisdom and ongoing personal growth.
Who is this workshop for?
The Last Chapter is for everyone—because we all keep getting older every day!
Whether you are personally in the sunset of your life, looking ahead to your own future, working professionally with elders, or are the child of ‘olders’ currently navigating life’s transitions, this workshop provides the community, tools, and heart to support everyone on the journey
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
The Last Chapter is led by four Elder Gestalt Therapists who have been in each other’s lives for nearly 50 years and who cumulatively bring over 200 years of shared experience!
CARLA CLEMENTS:
Dr. Carla Clements is a psychotherapist, educator, mentor, singer/songwriter, mother, and explorer of human consciousness. In her decades long career, she has taught countless counseling and psychology students, trained two generations of therapists, guided people through life’s vicissitudes, and intensively studied trauma and transformation. Her many recognitions include her published material on consciousness expansion, spirituality, and alternative mind states; her training in both Gestalt and Reichian therapies; and her extensive experience with issues in personal growth and relationships. Dr. Clements has lived a lifetime studying the ongoing mysteries of being human and remains a forever humble student.
DUANE MULLNER:
My life in four (4) Chapters
Farmer . . . born and raised on a farm in N. Dak. hard work, self-sustaining, simple, promises kept via handshake and nods.
Theologian . . . as the oldest in a Catholic Family, I was groomed to be a priest. Eight (8) years in St. Thomas Seminary in Denver. One month before ordination, I was told I would not be ordained based on my views on celibacy. I was graduated with a Masters in Theology.
Psychotherapist . . . sole proprietor of a multi-faceted clinical practice. Graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Denver 1976. Forty-Five plus years as a marriage, family, and individual psychotherapist; including, adjunct faculty at Naropa University, co-director of the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies, specializing in trauma, grief and loss, child abuse, foster and adoptive care. As a consultant and mentor, I honored the ethics of relationships, pioneering in the mental health field, values driven and honoring the sacredness of emotional and spiritual wellness anchored in the Principles of Gestalt.
Revitalment (retirement) . . . in preparation for my next birth, I seek joy and gratitude daily. Join me in living a fully inhabited life!
DUEY FREEMAN:
Duey Freeman is a sought-after teacher, trainer, licensed therapist, and equine professional who has taught worldwide and trained thousands of students in attachment theory and human development. With nearly 80,000 direct client hours, he co-founded the Gestalt Equine Institute and the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies. Duey supervises therapists and graduate students, consults on equine therapy programs, and mentors people from around the world. Known for his unique blend of strength, authenticity, and compassion, he is a respected elder in the fields of Gestalt practice, Relational Horsemanship, and men’s growth work.
VICTORIA STORY:
Victoria has her Masters of Science and is a Gestaltist, Yogi and Elder who brings a delightful perspective of finding humor in most moments.
MORE DETAILS
LOCATION:
Jefferson Unitarian Church
14350 W 32nd Ave, Golden, CO 80401
*DATES/TIMES:
This is a two and half day workshop, we strongly encourage you to attend all days/sessions.
November 12: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
November 13 – 14: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
COST AND PAYMENT:
$485.00 (Reisgister by November 1,2026)
You can pay online here by clicking the orange “Reserve a Spot” button. It’s fast and easy!
If you wish to pay by check, first reserve your spot here and choose the “pay by check” option. Please make check payable to Carla Clements and mail before November 1 to:
Last Chapter
C/O Duane Mullner
6383 Secrest Street
Arvada, CO 80403
Registration is non-refundable.
FOOD:
Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be provided throughout the workshop. Bagels and fresh fruit will be provided on the mornings of Nov. 13 – 14. There will be a lunch break each day, please plan to bring your lunch or we can help you locate a nearby cafe or restaurant.
LODGING:
Coming from out of town? Below is a list of hotels all within ten minutes of the venue:
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver West/Golden
CONTACT US:
For questions about the workshop (what it is, how it will flow, more about the facilitators, etc.), contact Duane Mullner:
email: dfmullner2005@msn.com — ph: 303-985-3534
For questions about payment and registration reach out to Lori Ventimiglia:
email: lorijventi@gmail.com — ph: 970-456-7196
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