In 2017 Nader  joined a collaborative team of teachers and trainers in the first of the Eldership Academy’s residential workshops being held in beautiful Farfa, Italy. 

This joint collaboration brought diverse cross-cultural and educational backgrounds to the programming. The team pulled from psychosynthesis, existential and process-oriented psychotherapy, yoga, mythology, storytelling, bodywork and creative arts to engage with like-minded souls who want to challenge stereo-types of aging and grow instead into eldership. 

The participants in the August residential workshop explored “who we are as individuals and how it is we live and cope in a rapidly changing world.” In the September residential the participants focused on concrete skills to address our “anti-aging’ and “fear of aging” attitudes that devalue eldership. This included creative play and explored how to continue to be  active participants and guides in our societies.