Welcome Stephen Garrett

Welcome, Reverend Stephen Garrett

The mission of The Contemporary Elder Institute is to develop a pathway for late-aged professionals to become elders who will go out into the world and provide higher wisdom in substantive interactions and relationships. 

We mean substantive as defined:

1: having substance: involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned

2:  real rather than apparent: FIRM; PERMANENT, ENDURING

    a: belonging to the substance of a thing: ESSENTIAL

    b: expressing existence

3. being a totally independent entity

To that end, we are developing a faculty that is crucial for this passage from older to elder. 

The relationship one has with their death is paramount to becoming an elder. The Reverend Stephen Garrett, a premiere and tenured teacher, author, mentor, coach, and leader in grief, death and dying, has accepted our offer to be on our faculty. 

Welcome, Stephen.