Change AGEnt Summit
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Join us at the 2024 Change AGEnt Summit!
Riding the Wave of Change: Empowering Societal Transformation in Maine
This year’s Change AGEnt Summit will be an inspiring day of learning, engaged conversation, and action planning that will help us all build the skills and connect to the tools we will need to take action to create an Age-Positive culture in Maine. Maine’s future can be bright if we all work together to change the narrative about the value of older people in our communities, culture, and economy. Social norms are created and perpetuated by us – which means we have the power to change them, even in our institutions and systems. You’ll come away from the Summit with the information, ideas, AND tools needed to become a Change AGEnt within your spheres of influence and a plan to take action!
Announcing our 2024 Change AGEnt Keynote
Jennifer Sciubba, Ph.D.
Jennifer Sciubba, Ph.D., President & CEO of the Population Reference Bureau, will be the Keynote speaker at MCOA’s 2024 Change AGEnt Summit! Jennifer is one of the world’s leading experts on demographic trends and their implications for politics, economics, and social relationships, an advocate for policy-relevant research, and author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World (W.W. Norton 2022). Her work argues that a deeper understanding of fertility, mortality, and migration trends points us toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow. We are thrilled to have her join us at this year’s Summit to launch the day to help motivate us all to take action and transform our societal views on aging!
We’re also excited to welcome Lauren Stevens, Citizen of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, who will open the Summit singing the Welcoming of the Day, and artist Marsha Dunn, who will capture the learnings and actionable outcomes from the day in her beautiful graphic illustrations.
We are thrilled to feature their voices and creativity to this inspiring day of learning, conversation, and action planning!
Jennifer Sciubba, Ph.D., 2024 Change AGEnt Keynote Speaker
Lauren Stevens, Citizen of the Passamaquoddy Tribe
Marsha Dunn, Graphic Artist & Facilitator
Thank you to our Exclusive Keynote Presentation Sponsor,
Andwell Health Partners!
A Quick Look at the Day
Setting the Stage for Transformational Change
After we welcome the day and honor this place called Maine and its indigenous people, we will learn together how Maine fits into worldwide demographic trends and why we need to shift our thinking about the importance of older people to Maine’s future. This session will motivate us all to take serious action to transform our societal norms and build an Age-Positive culture that fully includes older people in all aspects of life, rejects the view that disability has to be limiting, and creates pathways to economic justice for older people who experienced a lifetime of disparities and injustices.
Making a Plan
The day will then shift to action planning – where your voices and ideas will fill the room. We’ll host a series of collaborative discussions through a World Café Conversation model where attendees will travel the room engaging in inspiring conversations and action planning through a set of questions focused on pathways to change on various issues. Each table conversation will build on the next, culminating in a plenary report out shared discoveries, insights and actions. The conversations will lead to collective knowledge, growth, and action plans that will be visually captured by a graphic illustrator.
Ripples Make Waves – Building Your Toolbox
The afternoon session we’ll feature a “ripple” panel to help participants see how easy it can be to take action and simple actions can have a big impact, inspiring us to see what’s possible and planting seeds for more change. The day will culminate with an interactive activity to help us each build our Change AGEnt toolbox, with self-identified actions we can take and tools we can use.
Let’s Take Action!
Attendees will leave with a clear plan they can implement to be Change AGEnts within their own spheres of influence. Even seasoned and active Change AGEnts will leave with new tools and plans for action. As we launch our fourth year of working to end ageism in Maine, this Summit will help participants see the waves we are already making and understand that every new ripple they make turns into a new wave for societal transformation.
Join us at the 2024 Change AGEnt Summit
Let’s ride the opportunities of this Age-Positive wave together!
Are you interested in being a Summit sponsor or exhibitor?
It’s not too late to sponsor this event before we launch registration! There are exhibitor spaces available and many different sponsorship opportunities to gain visibility for your organization while supporting MCOA! For more information please contact Becca Howes.
Join us at the 2024 Change AGEnt Summit
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Past Summit Information
Highlights from the 2023 Change AGEnt Summit
The Change AGEnt Summit
Creatively building purpose, belonging, and inclusion into our new longevity
September 27, 2023 | 8:00am – 4:30pm
Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, ME
From building longevity-ready communities to aligning health spans with life spans, the 2023 Change AGEnt Summit sparked creative and innovative thinking on what it will take to build systems that support healthy, engaged living into our 80s, 90s, and beyond!
We were joined by over 300 Change AGEnts on September 27th to help us build an age-positive Maine – thank you for joining us!
We’re living longer than ever before but our thinking about aging and older people hasn’t changed, and our communities, institutions, and systems haven’t caught up to support our new old age. While change is hard, it’s time to embrace a new map of life and build flexibility into how we learn, work, and live across a lifetime. This informative, interactive, and inspiring Summit explored what’s holding us back from embracing aging as a lifetime journey of learning, growth, and health and how a shift in perspective can propel us to positive action that can transform our workplaces, communities and economy.
Below you’ll find the graphic illustrations that captured the innovations and inspirations of the day – plus meet the amazing speakers, full program, and more!
