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Event Recording: What if College Wasn’t Just for 18-to-22-Year-Olds? Meet the Life Course University
https://youtu.be/Ukh_wa9eXJI What if higher education worked for all ages and stages of life? From career preparation and mid-career retraining to post-career learning and renewal, the “Life Course University” offers a new framework for rethinking higher education to...
Event Recording: Generations Across Borders
https://youtu.be/V1-_uDN4E9M What can we learn about ourselves and each other when we take the time to listen to stories across generations, cultures, and borders? For author Ebony Walden, an eight-month journey through 15 countries became an opportunity to explore...
8 Questions to Start a Conversation Across Age Divides
Intergenerational collaboration starts with our ability to be in genuine dialogue with one another. Use these questions to have a meaningful conversation with someone you’re just getting to know or someone you’d like to know better. Listen well and be vulnerable.The...
7 Insights from an Age-Diverse Duo Running an Age-Diverse Fellowship
When we first began planning the CoGen Voices Fellowship, we knew we'd face a few challenges. The group of 21 community changemakers was intentionally diverse — by age (15 to 81!), race, location, work, experience, and more. We'd have to meet many different needs and...
Explore These 10 Simple Ways to Cogenerate
At CoGenerate, we believe in the power of cogeneration: a strategy to bring older and younger people together to forge bonds across differences, combat polarization and ageism, and help solve today’s toughest problems. If you’re involved or interested in cogeneration,...
Event Recording: A CoGen Conversation About Grandfamilies
https://youtu.be/OedAsZVTm9U?si=q20TIH8zuwPEhE0a Today in the US, more than 2.4 million children whose parents are unable to care for them live in grandfamilies, where they are raised by grandparents or other loved ones. Until recently, their experiences have been all...
A Conversation Across 67 Years
Ernie, 80 and Cedar, 13, show off the rocks they decorated with symbols based on their conversation.Last month, I traveled to Chautauqua, a 150-year-old institute in western New York that brings thousands of people together for summer programs focused on lifelong...
Overheard on Text: The Diversity Nobody Wants to Measure
As colleagues from different generations (X and millennial), Marci Alboher and Duncan Magidson have been leading talks and workshops sharing their insights about working across generations. As they plan, they often text furiously, sharing ideas and reflections. In...
CoGen Voices Fellows Share Their Tips for Intergenerational Collaboration
The 21 civic leaders taking part in CoGenerate’s Voices fellowship are a diverse group. They range in age from 15 to 81, and each focuses on a different aspect of civic work. But they’re all well-versed in the ins and outs of effective intergenerational collaboration....