Gain a clear understanding of your personal interests and strengths.
Develop insights into how these might be utilised in ‘life-after-work.
This is the starting point, you embark on a journey of self-discovery. By identifying your ideas, values, interests, passions, and strengths, you’ll be able to start to map out a meaningful and fulfilling future beyond your current role and identity.
Purpose Discovery
Answers to the questions ‘Where am I going?’ and ‘Why do I want to go there?’ – which, again, may not be what you might think!
Identify a renewed purpose for the next phase of your life.
The 'Purpose Discovery' module involves deep, perhaps lengthy, reflection exercises and visualisation techniques to help you discover and validate your new purpose beyond your work identity. You will leave this module feeling empowered and confident about your next phase of life.
Process Development
Understand what needs to be done.
Understand the differences between ‘Dreams’ or ‘Visions’, Goals and Plans and the different ‘domains’ of life you’ll need to consider.
In this ‘foundation’ module, you’ll start to build a clear roadmap for your journey into the future. Through a clear understanding of goal-setting and action planning, you’ll gain the tools and techniques you need to navigate this significant transition. You may well find this quite different from any change you’ve managed before.
Support Development
Understand the options, opportunities, finance matters and other essential non-financial requirements to support your new way of life.
Gain confidence in discussing your plans with your potential supporters.
This module will guide you in how to prepare yourself for the way forward. You’ll learn to ‘let go’ of the ‘past’ and the need for forgiveness and gratitude to facilitate this. We’ll discover who and what to avoid and how to identify ‘partners in believing’ who’ll support you in what may be a complex period of setting yourself free.
Cultivating a Healthy Mindset
Shift your perspective toward a healthier body and food image.
Form a positive relationship with food and nutrition.
Traverse the path from a guilt-laden food mindset to forming a nourishing relationship with your meals. Foster a healthier perspective toward body and food image, stepping out of the shadows of negativity.
Support Development
Building on the previous module, you'll learn stress management techniques, how to deal with anxiety, and resilience-building strategies. You’ll learn to have faith and belief in yourself and transmit this to others. We’ll revisit the work you did in Modules 2 and 3 and fill out any additional detail or clarity. This module prepares you emotionally to manage the way forward seamlessly.
Professionals in corporate industry or the uniformed services nearing retirement.
Those concerned about maintaining their identity and significance post-retirement.
Individuals seeking guidance on independence and post-retirement plans.
Those not close to retirement or without retirement concerns.
People already completely confident in their post-retirement identity and independence.
Those not seeking guidance or support for retirement transition.
The founder of Freedom Academy brings a diverse and rich career trajectory extending from concert promotion to systems analysis and from information management consulting to network marketing. After a series of transformative personal experiences, including retirement and divorce, a new venture was taken in life coaching, fostering a profound understanding of the challenges of significant life transitions.
Committed to empowering those stepping into the third stage of their life, the mission is to help them redefine personal significance and freedom. The Freedom Academy, founded in 2016, serves an audience entering retirement, aiming to transform their view of this period from a time of decline to a stage filled with potential for new adventures and experiences.
The approach is rooted in personal insight, empathetic understanding, and a deep drive to ensure no one just fades into the background in their later years.