The Last Chapter Together
Navigating Aging, Love, and Letting Go
November 12 - 14, 2026 | Golden, CO
Aging isn't the end of your story.
It may be the beginning of its most meaningful chapter.
There comes a moment when life begins asking different questions.
Who am I becoming now?
What truly matters?
How do I let go with peace instead of fear?
How do I honor the life I've lived while remaining fully alive for the years ahead?
The Last Chapter Together is a deeply experiential 2½-day workshop designed to help you explore aging with intention, wisdom, connection, and heart.
Whether you're entering elderhood yourself, caring for aging parents, supporting older adults professionally, or simply recognizing that every year offers an invitation to grow, this workshop offers a compassionate space to navigate one of life's most profound transitions.
What You'll Explore
Over two and a half immersive days, you'll engage in meaningful conversations, experiential exercises, reflection, and authentic connection as you explore:
Navigate the Journey
Discover how to meet the changes, choices, and challenges of aging with greater awareness, resilience, and intention.
Celebrate Loving
Honor the relationships that have shaped your life—including partners, family, friendships, and the relationship you have with yourself.
Embrace Letting Go
Learn how releasing what no longer serves creates space for greater presence, gratitude, and freedom.
Connect. Share. Grow.
Experience the healing power of community in a supportive environment where listening, laughter, vulnerability, and wisdom are welcomed.
A Different Kind of Workshop
This is not a lecture.
It is not simply information.
It is an experience.
Led by four elder Gestalt therapists with more than 200 years of combined experience, this workshop blends:
Experiential learning
Group dialogue
Personal reflection
Clinical insight
Relational practice
Community connection
In true Gestalt tradition, the facilitators don't simply teach these principles—they live them.
They model what it means to practice aging consciously by bringing awareness to the body, relationships, meaning, purpose, grief, mortality, and the unfolding process of becoming.
Together, you'll explore how the "last chapter" is not something waiting in the future—it is being written every day.
This Workshop Is For You If...
You're entering the later chapters of life and want to embrace them with purpose rather than fear.
You're wondering what comes next after retirement, career changes, or major life transitions.
You're supporting aging parents or loved ones and seeking deeper understanding.
You're a therapist, coach, caregiver, or helping professional working with older adults.
You want to cultivate greater peace with change, loss, and mortality.
You long for meaningful conversations that rarely happen in everyday life.
You believe the later years can hold extraordinary growth, wisdom, and joy.
Because the truth is...
We are all aging.
The question isn't if.
The question is how.
Workshop Details
November 12, 2026 — 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
November 13-14, 2026 — 9:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Located at Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, CO
Your Investment
One Time Payment: $485
Register by November 1, 2026
Registration is non-refundable.
Payment may be made online or by check.
Meet Your Facilitators
Carla Clements
Psychotherapist, educator, mentor, author, singer-songwriter, and lifelong explorer of human consciousness, Dr. Carla Clements has spent decades guiding individuals through trauma, transformation, relationships, and personal growth. Her work integrates Gestalt therapy, Reichian therapy, spirituality, and consciousness studies while remaining grounded in compassion and curiosity.
Duane Mullner
Farmer. Theologian. Psychotherapist. Mentor.
Duane's remarkable journey spans more than four decades as a marriage and family therapist, educator, consultant, and Gestalt practitioner. His work has focused on trauma, grief, child welfare, ethics, and relationships. Today he describes this season not as retirement—but revitalment—a wholehearted commitment to living each day with gratitude, purpose, and joy.
Victoria Story
Gestaltist. Yogi. Elder.
Victoria brings decades of wisdom, warmth, and presence, reminding us that humor, compassion, and curiosity remain essential companions throughout every stage of life.
Duey Freeman
Teacher, licensed therapist, equine professional, and internationally respected trainer, Duey Freeman has accumulated nearly 80,000 direct client hours while mentoring therapists and students around the world. His work combines attachment theory, Gestalt practice, relational horsemanship, and authentic human connection.