Elders Circle

The SPEC Elders Circle is dedicated to empowering Elders by providing a supportive space where they can forge meaningful roles within society and share their legacies. The processes offered promote deep reflection, personal connection, and intimate discussion, enabling Elders to cultivate and disseminate their wisdom. Through targeted programming, Elders are encouraged to leverage their unique insights and skills to make substantial contributions to their communities, particularly in climate-related initiatives.  

VISION & MISSION

We envision a future in which:

• Older adults step into eldership, drawing on their lived experience, their cultivation of wisdom, and dedication to the well-being of younger generations, to guide communities toward a more just, inclusive, and ecologically grounded world.
• Communities uphold elders as leaders, nurturing mutual respect, care, and shared responsibility across generations and among a diversity of peoples.
• Our collective efforts strengthen humanity’s place in nature, fostering connection and collaborative action rooted in wisdom and belonging.

Our mission is to:

• Help older adults mature into eldership with initiatives that cultivate wisdom, relational leadership, and environmental activism and advocacy.
• Engage communities in reimagining aging by fostering intergenerational and cross-cultural learning and mutual care.
• Foster ecological and social wellbeing through programs which connect people to each other and to the land in service of a thriving, interconnected world.

If you’d like to learn more about the Elders Circle, please read this note from the EC leadership team.