About Meg

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Meg Newhouse, Ph.D., author of Legacies of the Heart: Living a Life That Matters (2016) and Life Planning for the Third Age: A Design and Resource Guide and Toolkit (2005), is a nationally known pioneer in Third-Age LifeCrafting and a seasoned and gifted group facilitator, teacher, coach, and curriculum/program designer.

In both her professional and personal life, Meg Newhouse has sought to call out “passion and purpose” in her students, coaching clients, and even friends/colleagues. In 2003 she founded The Life Planning Network a national professional association serving an inspired group of professionals from diverse fields, who are committed to helping people navigate the second half of life with intention and a holistic perspective.  She co-led LPN for five years, led organizing of the first LPN national conference, served on the national LPN Board until 2017, chaired or co-chair committees, and helped plan six national Positive Aging Conferences.  Her professional interests have evolved to focus on the potential of “conscious elderhood” and the value of living and acting from a legacy perspective. Meg is a founding member of the Conscious Elders Network.

Selected Credentials

  • Author, Legacies of the Heart: Living a Life that Matters (2016)
  • Co-editor and Contributing Author:  Live Smart After 50: The Experts' Guide to Life Planning in Uncertain Times (Life Planning Network, 2013)
  • Author, Life Planning for the Third Age: A Design and Resource Guide and Toolkit  (with Judy Goggin), published by Civic Ventures, January 2005, electronically available from www.Encore.org.
  • Blogger on legacy, Boomer Living Plus, and author of numerous articles, e.g., LPN Q, CEN Turning Points, Second Journey, Aging Well 
  • Founding member of the Conscious Elders Network (2013), Founder, Life Planning Network (2002). Co-founder of the Holistic Career Counselors (1992). Member of Sage-ing International, ASA.
  • Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC from the Coaches Training Institute, 11/2001); completed CTI Leadership course, 2002; Certificate in Spiritual Psychology (2-year course) from the Concord Institute (1992).
  • Experienced Facilitator. Meg has designed and delivered hundreds of workshops on various topics at universities (e.g., Harvard, Tufts), community education and health organizations, and corporations (e.g., BMW).
  • Consultant on Third-Age Life Planning to Civic Ventures (now Encore.org) and Tufts University, Coming of Age (Philadelphia).
  • Harvard University Career Counselor. Ten years as Assistant Director, Harvard FAS Office of Career Services. Authored Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Seeking Alternative Careers, and Cracking the Academia Nut: A Guide to Preparing for Your Academic Career.
  • Over 30 years' work experience in academic institutions (Harvard, RAND, UCLA, Scripps College), as teacher/professor, administrator, and career counselor. First career-let: high school social studies teacher.
  • PERSONAL: well-earned life experience as a professional; wife of 50 years, mother, grandmother, friend; community volunteer (including mediation); engaged citizen, life-long learner, serious amateur flutist, nature-lover, yoga-practitioner, spiritual seeker.

Clients and Workshop/Presentation Projects Include:

  • Brandeis, Harvard, and Tufts universities
  • Coming of Age (Philadelphia), curriculum development and facilitator training
  • Cambridge Center for Adult Education; Newton and Concord-Carlisle Community Education programs; Discovering What’s Next (Newton MA Life Options Program)
  • LifeCare (a CT-based work/life company)
  • Civic Ventures/Encore.org (San Francisco-based non-profit)
  • Boomer Media Properties (developing public TV programming)