Aufbruch in den Ruhestand

Inga Bethke-Brenken / Günter Brenken

Heading for Retirement
Manual for Creativity and Enjoyment

(Aufbruch in den Ruhestand. Anleitung zum Gestalten und Genießen)

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to be published approx. May 2010
approx. 240 pp.
approx. € 16.90
(978-3-497-02150-5) pb

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Picking up steam for retirement

• Every-day guide
• 8 behaviour types, their problems and solutions
• Learning from other people’s experiences

People who are about to retire from their job often feel somewhat uncertain: What’s to come after the busy every-day job: boredom, loneliness and identity crisis? What to do with all this free time? Will the couple be a pain in each other’s neck? Does one belong to the scrap heap now, not needed any longer? This guide shows how retirement can be filled with meaning. Eight behaviour types serve as a role model in order to unmask possible drags and to fight the inner couch potato. Readers of this book will discover which areas of their lives are of particular importance for their personal well-being and how these areas can be shaped according to one’s own desires and goals.

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Target groups
(Soon to be) retirees, their relatives and all who are looking for a meaningful present on the occasion of entering retirement.

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The authors
Inga Bethke-Brenken, advisory teacher, Head of Teacher training department at the Hamburg Institute of Teacher Education, couple and family therapist. Together with her husband, Dr. Günter Brenken, industrial engineer, manager, couple and family therapist, supervisor, they run workshops in the field of adult education dealing with topics such as getting older, relationship counselling and conflict training in the area of Northern Germany.