Retirement: prepare yourself mentally and emotionally

Retirement provides you with an excellent opportunity to create a meaningful life. How does one manage this transition? Suzette Serfontein unpacks the Mind Moves® Institute’s neuroscience-based Rewire to Retire programme - helping you optimise your mindset, understand your personal brain dominance profile, prime your brain through targeted movement, and successfully adapt to this new life phase. Sponsored content.

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In ep. 113 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear and Helpful, Rewire to Retire programme director Suzette Serfontein discusses

  • how her circumstances as an independent facilitator and consultant literally changed overnight during the Covid-19  pandemic

  • why planning for the emotional and mental impact of retirement is just as important as financial planning

  • the neuroscience-based foundation of the Rewire to Retire programme

  • the effect an individual’s retirement may have on their partner and family (if applicable)

  • what biomimicry and brain plasticity entail

  • the objectives and content of the 4 modules of the Rewire to Retire programme:
    1 Retirement: disaster or reinvention?

    2 Brain wiring: Understanding behaviour

    3 Knowing yourself and your partner

    4 Taking action

  • a technique assisting participants to work on their mindset and reduce overwhelm

  • whether your brain “wears out”

  • how participants’ personal brain dominance profiles, included in the programme, help them understand their own and their partners’ innate programming

  • how Mind Moves ensure clear thinking, optimise performance, lower stress levels and promote mental health

  • the difference between spontaneous movements and strenuous exercise

  • why it’s essential to rediscover your purpose and turn it into action through a goal-setting process.

In this podcast episode Suzette mentions Dr. Hannetjie van Zyl-Edeling, Dr. Riley Moynes, the Old Coots, and Dr. Melodie de Jager from the Mind Moves® Institute.

Link to the Mind Move called Rise and Shine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4387qvw_e-4

In this Up Close & Personal article Suzette writes about getting things done, African highlights, and children living abroad.  

The Rewire to Retire programme

This programme from the stable of the Mind Moves® Institute is an interactive, online or face-to-face programme offered to organisations as well as private individuals. The next programme takes place in May 2023.

Website: http://www.rewiretoretire.co.za/

Hoe gee ons sin aan ouer word? Dr. Johan Myburg praat oor hoe om jouself en jou werklikheid oop-oog te benader, “aanhou beweeg en geraas maak” en identiteit.

Here’s Prof. Jaco Hoffman’s take on retirement, ageism and intergenerational programming.

Contact details

Suzette Serfontein is the programme director of Rewire to Retire. She is  a licensed Mind Dynamix Instrument Accredited Practitioner (MDPiAP) certified by the Mind Moves® Institute (MMI) and endorsed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as well as the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is also a licensed facilitator for the Senior Mind Moves wellness programme for the elderly, certified by the Mind Moves® Institute (SA). Suzette is based in Johannesburg.

Website: http://www.rewiretoretire.co.za/

Email address: suzette@rewiretoretire.co.za

If you’re intrigued by the idea of the Mind Dynamix “operating manual” for your one-of-a-kind brain, you’ll find Dr. Melodie de Jager’s explanation here.

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Music by Mart-Marie Snyman

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Photograph of Suzette Serfontein: supplied

 

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