Conscious Aging & Eldership for Women
Honouring Wisdom • Embracing Our Truth • Shaping a Legacy of Love
Conscious Aging is an emerging paradigm that reframes aging not as a process of decline, but as a developmental journey into greater wholeness, wisdom, and authentic selfhood.
Eldership is not automatic with age. It is cultivated through reflection, courage, compassion and the willingness to live from soul rather than from fear.
A Different Way to Grow Older
Many women in their 50s, 60s and beyond quietly carry the weight of transition: changing bodies, shifting relationships, retirement, empty nesting, grief, financial concerns, loneliness, ageism, caregiving, and the painful sense of becoming unseen.
Yet beneath these challenges there is also a deeper call to:
- Embody presence, integrity and service.
- Learn to self soothe anxiety and trust in life.
- Listen inwardly and trust your inner authority.
- Reclaim the parts of yourself that were set aside.
- Transform life experience into wisdom.
The Invitation
Conscious Ageing & Eldership for Women is a guided online circle for women who want to explore aging as a rite of passage rather than a problem to be solved. Together, we will reflect, share, journal, meditate and gently explore the movement from role to soul — from external expectations to inner authority.
This is a space for depth, truth, tenderness, wisdom and renewal.
Week 1: Crossing the Threshold - From Oldership to Conscious Aging
Central Question: What if growing older is inviting me into a completely different way of living?
Week 2: The Dangerous Old Woman - Claiming Your Voice and Spiritual Authority
Central Question: What would change if I trusted the deepest wisdom within me?
Week 3: From Role to Soul - Letting Go and Becoming More Fully Yourself
Central Question: Who am I when the roles I have carried begin to fall away?
Week 4 - Becoming an Elder - Ripening into Wisdom, Purpose and Community
Central Question: What wisdom has my life prepared me to offer? Rite of Passage Ceremony
My service is to help women navigate one of our deepest identity transitions into eldership. It is a metamorphosis that doesn't get talked about. This has also been a deep part of my own soul journey that I look forward to sharing with you.
**Conscious Aging and Eldership for Women runs weekly ONLINE on a Wednesday evening at 6.30pm for 4 weeks.**
Commencing: Wednesday 19 August 2026 6:30 - 8.00PM (UTC+10) and
Concluding Wednesday 9 September 2026 6.30-8:00 PM (UTC+10)
About Shushann Movsessian (MAppSci, DiplProcess Oriented Psychology, Clinical Member of PACFA)
Shushann is an experienced and mature counsellor, psychotherapist and leader of women’s programs for over 30 years. Her own journey of elderhood has been the recognition that as we age, our losses and failures become our greatest teachers. Elderhood is seen as a hard-won spiritual position earned directly through surviving the stormy trials of life, which can lead to a deeper, more grounded state of being.
Shushann is the author of best-selling book, Puberty Girl (2004 Allen and Unwin), author of ebook, Recovering from Betrayal (2018) and co-author of The Soulful Woman Guidance Cards (2016 Blue Angel Publishing).
She has run many online programs for women on the Soulful Woman’s Journey as well the audio program, The Gold Tent on women’s post menopausal journey and the Time of The Moonflower on the dark night of the soul.