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Shaping a Life of Significance for Retirement

by Jerry P. Haas, R. Jack Hansen

Retired engineer Jack Hansen and spiritual formation leader Jerry Haas explore the transitions, opportunities, and challenges of facing retirement through a series of interviews with persons facing retirement and already in retirement. Shaping A Life of Significance for Retirement is about the more personal dimensions of the transition from working full-time to retirement, including relationships, feelings of self-worth and purpose, and spiritual and intellectual growth.

2010

Recommendations

Many people want to add years to their life without regard to adding life to their years. Yet, retirement provides individuals with new challenges and opportunities. By providing clear insight and creative suggestions, Hansen and Haas help retirees (and those preparing for retirement) reflect on their current patterns of living in an effort to make their later years their most fulfilling ones.
Richard H. Gentzler, Jr., Director, Center on Aging and Older Adult Ministries, General Board of Discipleship, the United Methodist Church

About the Authors

Jerry P. Haas

Jerry P. Haas pastored churches in California and Arizona for 25 years and then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to work in retreat and spiritual formation ministries with The Upper Room/General Board of Discipleship. He served as director of the Academy for Spiritual Formation from 1999 to 2010 and spiritual director of The Upper Room from 2010 to 2012. Jerry is the coauthor of Shaping a Life of Significance for Retirement, project coordinator for Upper Room Worshipbook: Music and Liturgies for Spiritual Formation, and coeditor of Rhythm & Fire: Experiencing the Holy in Community and Solitude. He and his wife, Donna, now reside in the Tucscon, Arizona area.

R. Jack Hansen

Robert Jack Hansen is mostly retired from a career in research and research leadership. He still works part-time for the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and consults for the NASA Ames Research Center. He became particularly interested in the personal dimension of transition from full-time work as he was making his own transition. He and his wife, Pat, reside in Greenville, South Carolina.