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The Retirement Detox Course

The course that's designed to help disillusioned retirees to get their retirement back on track…

Do any of these sound like you?

  • You retired recently
  • You took some much-needed time off to relax but find that you're getting bored now   
  • You had ambitious plans for your retirement that haven't come to fruition and your lack of progress is getting you down   
  • You've already achieved all the goals you set for your retirement and are left feeling 'what next?'   
  • You've been over-run by everyday, mundane activities that leave precious little time for what you really want to do   
  • Something came along that just blew your retirement plans right out of the water - a divorce or serious health problem, for example
  • It’s starting to feel like your purpose in life retired when you did and that you're floundering around in your retirement
  • Golf (or gardening, or tennis or bridge...) and time spent with the family isn't enough for you and you want and need to do more
  • When you envisage the remainder of your retirement years, you see only more of the same... and you want something different. Something better.
  • You still have things that you'd like to accomplish. You still want to travel. Explore. Experience.
  • Your relationship has suffered since you retired and you’re not sure how to get it back on track
  • Your partner’s idea of their ideal retirement and your own idea of your ideal retirement differ and you can’t seem to find a compromise
  • You’d love to be able to start your retirement over again

More and more people are hiring a retirement coach or booking onto a pre-retirement course to help them plan the non-financial side of their retirement BEFORE they retire…

But what happens when you’re already retired and things haven’t turned out in the way that you hoped they would?

After all, a pre-retirement planning course is hardly appropriate now because you’re already retired, and anyway, you wouldn’t want to sit alongside all those bright, shiny, new pre-retirees who haven’t had time yet to experience the potential challenges and pitfalls that retirement can bring…

Which is exactly why I designed the Retirement Detox Course for all those people who are maybe feeling a little disillusioned with retirement and are wondering ‘Is this all there is, then?’.

If you're feeling disappointed or disillusioned by your retirement, don't simply accept that this is the way things have to be – instead, take control and make positive steps and progress NOW towards having the retirement you always wanted to have by joining us on this one-day course in either Manchester or York.

The Retirement Detox Course, will show you to how to take life-changing, good-habit-forming actions that will help you to:

  • take stock of your current situation by determining which areas of your life are working well for you and which aren’t   
  • determine what your definition of happiness is at this stage of your life and show you how to build more opportunities for happiness into your everyday life   
  • envisage, design and plan how you want your ideal retirement to look and feel   
  • determine whether your vision of your ideal retirement and your definition of happiness at this stage of your life match those of your partner   
  • develop a shared vision of retirement with your spouse or partner (or, if you don’t have a spouse or partner, take the steps that will alleviate your worries about feeling lonely and isolated in retirement)   
  • explore how you feel about your other relationships (for example, those with your friends, children, grandchildren and elderly parents) and the expectations those people hold about your retirement   
  • replace the feelings of satisfaction, importance, usefulness, companionship and productivity that you obtained from your work   
  • gain a sense of perspective about your retirement   
  • take back control of your retirement and 
  • go on to have a retirement life that you really, truly love

No matter how dissatisfied or disillusioned with retirement you currently are, this unique course will give you the resources to be able to get your retirement back on track.

Course fees are £197 per individual and £347 per couple.  All courses are held in city centre Manchester, UK.

Course dates for 2009 are as follows:

22 January
26 February
26 March
23 April
28 May
25 June
29 July
17 September
15 October
26 November
17 December

Click here to get a booking form