The Centre for Emerging Elders

Seeding the future

The Centre for Emerging Elders is an affiliation of organisations and individuals committed to reawakening eldership at home, work and in communities.

It does this through its passion to create a movement of a conversation about eldering, through writing, speaking, podcasts, retreats and creativity.

“If you work on your heart and character all of your life, you will become a certain kind of character; have a quality, a gravitas, a substance, an authority, that will naturally have something to offer … and we call those people elders

Interviewee on Elders Project

Some questions to ask yourself

  • What does the word ‘elder’ mean to you?

  • Do you see elders as having a relevance to todays society?

  • Why do you think some people get older, but don’t become elders?

  • How could we help youth to aspire to become elders as they mature?

“My grandfather was a true elder for me….he saw me…..he saved my life”

from the Elders Project

Learn more about the investments we can make in becoming elders

“That which came to me as seed, goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit” Dawna Markova