The Art of Growing Older

A guided journey in India exploring a sense of purpose as we age.
27 March to 09 April 2025

Our lives are not lessened as we get older, they are deepened

Jenni and Lincoln warmly invite you to India to explore ideas about how we can make the most of the rest of our lives. The 14-day journey pairs four unique locations with facilitated group sessions exploring four central themes around ageing. Along the way we’ll enjoy gentle, guided activities that bring to life the finer details of India, replete with complexity and beauty.

Take time to understand the next important steps of your life

Each of us has a lifetime of experiences and the wisdom of many life lessons to draw on. We have become stronger and yet more tender in the right places. Individually and collectively, we have gained deep insight, whether of a psychological, philosophical, spiritual or practical nature.

Let’s gather and reflect on that Wisdom in order to make choices about the possibility of flourishing as we age.

When we begin to realise our time on earth is limited and precious, we can also feel that our vitality, creativity and opportunities to participate actively in the world are changing. 

Can we enquire into this change through the lens of possibility and flourishing, as an antidote to feeling invisible and even powerless or diminished?

The sessions will offer a safe space to reflect, reset and reconnect with our shared insights.

The emphasis will be on our individual and collective lived experience, rather than theories. Consequently we will be utilising conversation and journaling, verse and poetry to reflect on what matters now. We will enquire into exploring this not- always–revered rite of passage, and begin to create what flourishing as we age can mean to each of us.

This series is for you if –

  • you are hoping to make the most of the rest of your life.
  • if you are becoming more aware of ageing, and possibly more vulnerable to some of the feared aspects of growing old and dying. 

We might want to get curious about –

• What is important now?

• How might I reinvent myself and begin to become liberated from past conditioning?

• Who and how do I want to be now… a chance to BE who we are, rather than who, or what, we thought we should be or do.

• Can this now be a time of personal fulfilment, purpose and integration?

• Can we find some understanding of some of the more difficult aspects of ageing. 

Jenni and Lincoln each have over 25 years experience in their respective fields: Lincoln as an avid India traveller and tour leader and Jenni as an art therapist and workshop facilitator. As mother and son, we are thrilled to be offering an experience which combines our professional endeavours in a way that will offer an opportunity to not only explore the theme of aging, but to do so against the timeless backdrop of India – in other words to travel in a meaningful way.

I’m convinced that travel is still a bona fida spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe that travel is a powerful metaphor for any journey with a purpose of finding something that deeply matters to the traveller.
Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage

Proceeds from the trip go to The Dignity Project, supporting health, recreation and education for disadvantaged youth in India.

To request an itinerary or for more information about the trip, please contact Jenni jh_art@yahoo.com.au or Lincoln lincoln@indiaunbound.com.au or call 1300 889 513.