Ageing with attitude: Cork workshop helps people to age with positivity

Margaret Jennings talks to the facilitator of a programme aimed at helping older people to create a positive outlook.

A POSSIBLE opportunity for people to age with positivity and to move away from the limited perceptions we can have of growing old, is being offered in an eight-week series of workshops being held in Cork city.

Called ‘Conscious Ageing’, the programme is being run by 58-year-old Kerry-based blacksmith and artist, Mary Jane Verniere, who participated in the course and then trained as a facilitator, after she herself felt the need to take stock of her own ageing process.