OUR NAME — GENARIAN
The word genarian has been around forever, only its use is typically as a suffix added to numerical prefixes used to describe the decades associated with aging. You’ve heard them, right? Quinquagenarians (50+), Sexagenarians (60+), Septuagenarians (70+), Octogenarians (80+), Nonagenarians (90+), Centenarians (100+), and Supercentenarians (110+).
At Genarian, we see the word genarian–by itself, no prefix needed–as an elegant substitute for those bureaucratic, faceless, wonkish, cold, infantilizing, demeaning, often well-intended but insulting identifiers which are focused exclusively on the processes of aging or the stages of aging and less on the people doing the aging.
Genarians are the people we love; they are our family. Genarians are our grandparents, our parents, our in-laws, our aunts and uncles, our great grandparents, our cousins. They are our neighbors and friends and co-workers. Genarians are, or will be, us!
Give it a try. Say the word. “Genarian.” It has a nice sound to it, doesn’t it? Familiar, yet new, fresh. All encompassing, yet meaningful to an individual. Soft and important. Person-centered and action oriented.
Genarian is all about genarians!
OUR EXPERTISE
Genarian is an innovative coaching company that provides a new kind of expertise in aging. We focus on two primary areas of impact:
Changing lives: All our work is designed to improve the lives of genarians and the people who care for them, and
Systems change: Genarian works to transform systems that serve genarians.
Genarian works to empower genarians to find effective and sustainable solutions for themselves and we engage individuals and groups to imagine and design ways to serve genarians better—to be genarian-centered.
CAPABILITIES
- Genarian serves individuals and groups—families, organizations, teams—who have something to say about aging
- We understand your challenges, and we can help you tackle them
- We work together by challenging assumptions, identifying new strategies, and finding innovative solutions needed to make life better for genarians
- We are experts at coaching individuals and groups
HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
- is a powerful partnership for your personal development
- helps you to find a greater sense of positive well-being that will affect your life
- clarifies your vision, establishes a course of action, and sustains momentum toward goals
- provides a structure for progress, reflection, and evaluation, producing results that align with your personal and collective values and priorities
CO-ACTIVE INDIVIDUAL COACHING
- Creates the opportunities for your self-discovery so you can find your own answers and design your own solutions
- Focuses entirely on your fulfillment, balance, and life process
- Ensures you are always steering toward your goals, your action, and your completion
CO-ACTIVE RELATIONSHIP COACHING
- Addresses the whole relationship system rather than aspects or single events in the relationship
- The client is the relationship system
- Everyone in the relationship is naturally creative, resourceful, and whole…as is the relationship system itself
- Creates a designed partnership alliance with the system, for the sake of creating conscious, intentional relationship.
HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
- is a powerful partnership for your personal development
- helps you to find a greater sense of positive well-being that will affect your life
- clarifies your vision, establishes a course of action, and sustains momentum toward goals
- provides a structure for progress, reflection, and evaluation, producing results that align with your personal and collective values and priorities
CO-ACTIVE INDIVIDUAL COACHING
- Creates the opportunities for your self-discovery so you can find your own answers and design your own solutions
- Focuses entirely on your fulfillment, balance, and life process
- Ensures you are always steering toward your goals, your action, and your completion
CO-ACTIVE RELATIONSHIP COACHING
- Addresses the whole relationship system rather than aspects or single events in the relationship
- The client is the relationship system
- Everyone in the relationship is naturally creative, resourceful, and whole…as is the relationship system itself
- Creates a designed partnership alliance with the system, for the sake of creating conscious, intentional relationship.
OUR CLIENTS’ EXPERIENCE
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Gary makes things fun, light and engaging. While you are actively engaged in tackling your problem, the fears and the barriers diminish or evaporate.
Individual Client
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Relationship Client
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There is always a feeling of comfort and trust when we work with Gary, a trust that we are going to accomplish our task and be inspired about doing so in the process.
Relationship Client
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It’s not only that his insight and experience are invaluable, but Gary also has the gift of being one of life’s great listeners.
Individual Client
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Gary possesses two of the most important qualities a great coach can have. One is being an incredible listener. There has not been one coaching session in the past three years where I felt like I was not fully heard. I am awestruck at Gary’s attention to detail. The second is his keen awareness to keep me moving forward.
Individual Client
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Gary approaches your issues from a positive place, giving the time to vent and express your concerns without judgment. He doesn’t give the answers, but he guides you through a discussion to where you end up having the answers.
Individual Client
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Gary was very clear in his vision of what our work together could be and wouldn’t be. Setting clear parameters was the key to helping me channel my mixed bag of issues into a more strategic opportunity to be the change I wanted to have in my own life as well as the world (nod to Gandhi…).
MEET GARY GROTH
Gary Groth is a certified professional coach, a gerontologist, and the founder of Genarian. Gary is an entrepreneur, solution finder, and impact creator. He responds to the myriad of requests, observations, and complaints about aging made by genarians in his life by getting curious about the topics, the barriers that exist to addressing them, and exploring the solutions that are available. The work of Genarian is personal, real, and quite universal.
MEET GARY GROTH
FOLLOW THE GENARIAN JOURNEY
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WHEEL OF LIFE WORKSHEET
- Think of the content from an individual or a group perspective
- You will receive a simple and elegant glimpse into your current state of awareness (or satisfaction) about each topic
- When viewed through a lens of aging, what do you notice?
BOOK YOUR SAMPLE SESSION WITH GARY
Gary M. Groth, MS, PCC, CPCC
