"And what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
—Mary Oliver, A Summer Day

About Meg Newhouse

Meg Newhouse, author of Life Planning for the Third Age: A Design and Resource Guide and Toolkit, is a nationally known pioneer in Third-Age LifeCrafting and a seasoned and gifted group facilitator, teacher, coach, and curriculum/program designer.

Selected Credentials

Author, Life Planning for the Third Age: A Design and Resource Guide and Toolkit (with Judy Goggin), published by Civic Ventures, January 2004, available from www.civicventures.org.

Founder and Co-President, The Life Planning Network (www.lifeplanningnetwork.org) of New England, serving “an inspired group of professionals from diverse fields committed to promoting life planning for the Third Age (the post-midlife “bonus years”). Curently past Presdient of LPN and lead organizer of the Life Planning Preconference and Track of the Positive Aging Conference, Dec 5-8, 2007, St. Petersburg, FL. Co-founder of the Holistic Career Counselors (1992).

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC from the Coaches Training Institute, 11/2001); completed CTI Leadership course, 2002; Certificate in Spiritual Psychology (2 year course) from the Concord Institute (1992). Member, International Coaches Federation, International Association of Career Professionals.

Experienced Facilitator. Meg has designed and delivered hundreds of workshops on various topics at universities (e.g., Harvard, Tufts), community education and health organizations, and corporations (e.g., BMW).

Consultant on Third-Age Life Planning to Civic Ventures, Tufts University.

Harvard University Career Counselor. Over 30 years’ work experience in academic institutions (Harvard, RAND, UCLA, Scripps College), as teacher/professor, administrator, and career counselor.

10 years as Assistant Director, Harvard FAS Office of Career Services)
Author, Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics seeking Alternative Careers and Cracking the Academia Nut: A Guide to Preparing for Your Academic Career

Passionate Practitioner with well-earned life experience as a professional; wife, mother, grandmother, friend; community volunteer (including mediation); learner, serious amateur flutist, nature-lover, yoga-practitioner; seeker of growth and fulfillment.

Clients and Workshop/Presentation Projects include

Brandeis, Harvard, and Tufts Universities
Cambridge Center for Adult Education; Newton and Concord-Carlisle Community Education programs; Discovering What’s Next (Newton MA Life Options Program)
LifeCare (a CT-based work/life company)
Civic Ventures (San Francisco-based non-profit)
North Shore Council on Aging/Winchester Hospital
Boomer Media Properties (developing public TV programming)

Meg’s Approach

In partnership with the client - to clarify and manifest the client’s desires

Tailored to individual, group and/or organizational needs

Balanced between insight/learning and action/results-oriented work; between “big thinking” and practical counsel; between encouragement/ support and “tough love”

Holistic – taking account of the whole person and life context; left and right brain; body, mind, and spirit

Collaborative – working with colleagues and associates when it serves the client’s interests