The analyses offered in Awakening Spring in Autumn span the many decades of senior adulthood.

What does it mean to coaching on behalf of the greater good? How does one help clients be the best possible person FOR the world (rather than just IN the world)? Dr. William Bergquist conducts a 50 minute interview with Ruth Ann Harnisch, one of the legendary stewards of the professional coaching field.

This essay is about the nature and range of Generativity Three. It is also about the motivations that drive the push toward guardianship.

What is required for someone to be generative? What do we need to engage in deep caring?

We propose that each of the four roles tends to be center stage at a specific time in our life.

William Bergquist and Gary Quehl [Note: The complete book (Caring Deeply: Engaging the Four Roles of Life-Fulfilling Generativity) is available for purchase. Use the following link:  Caring Deeply.] We are ready to “set the stage” for our in-depth analysis of each deep caring role. We begin this analysis by turning to the word “stage” itself–a word that has several different …

Five themes define the benefits that emerging sage leaders receive from their civic involvements, and the leading one is personal satisfaction and fulfillment.

Four themes define the benefits that senior sages believe they receive from their civic involvements. Like emerging sage colleagues, they believe their most valued benefit is personal fulfillment.

Because the time that most senior sages have isn’t invested as much in work and family as emerging sages, many point to different reasons that more seniors with sage qualities aren’t civically involved in the community.

Why do some members of the community who possess sage leadership qualities choose not to become civically engaged? What, if anything, can or should be done about it?