Speaker Series continues in 2025! Get the answers to your most pressing questions at monthly seminars and panels.

Are you finding yourself continually looking for facts to get answers to your most pressing questions? The Empowered Seniors Speakers Series is a free community service offered to seniors and their families.

Every month, you can attend a seminar or a panel where you’ll gain valuable and honest information regarding topics that are important to senior living and retired people. You’ll leave each event with the ability to make informed decisions, and you’ll meet experts who can provide reliable and current information.

The seminars and expert panels are a community service offered AT NO COST to seniors and their families. 

Space is limited, so reservations are strongly encouraged. Click on the registration link or call 905-330-5201 to save your seat for any of the sessions. 

Location:

Burlington Art Gallery
(Rotary and Shoreline Rooms)

1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington ON

Dates and Times:

All sessions run from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
(doors open at 1:00 PM).

All sessions are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.

Parking
There is a $3 fee for parking at the Art Gallery on the afternoons of each of our sessions. When you park in the parking lot on the north side of the building, there's no need to purchase parking tickets at the machine. Instead, simply head inside where you'll be asked to pay your $3 at the reception desk by the north doors of the Art Gallery. There will be no need to return to your car to place a parking pass on your windshield and your car will not be ticketed.

Upcoming Events

October 8, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
(doors open at 1:00 PM)

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Getting to Know Grief: Bereavement Education and Support Strategies for Coping With Loss

Because we all experience losses in our life, we all experience grief. Despite this universal truth, however, we are neither very knowledgeable about grief, nor very skilled at supporting one another through it. Most people, when confronted with someone else's grief, either try to "fix" it or simply can't handle those raw emotions and pull away. When we ourselves are grieving, we don't know what's normal or how to ask for help. How can this problem be solved? Through education, open communication, and compassion.

Kelly Stern of Compassionate Care Collaborators has been working in the deathcare field since 2012. As an end-of-life doula, she supports individuals and families through the dying process and provides grief support before and after a death.

During this seminar, you'll learn:

  • What can cause grief and the different kinds of grief
  • What happens in the brain when we are bereaved
  • How grief can affect us and what it can look like
  • How you can support someone who is grieving
  • Strategies for coping with your own grief

Join us on October 8, 2025 for this informative and important seminar. Reserve your free seat at the link below.

Free event, reserve your seat

Burlington Art Gallery - 1333 Lakeshore Rd. Burlington ON

November 12, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
(doors open at 1:00 PM)

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Simple Steps for Peace of Mind: Planning Your Digital Legacy

So much of the things we manage daily now happen online. From booking appointments, to chatting with friends, to paying bills through online banking…we are living digital lives. And even though digital living makes things easier for us, we often never consider what happens to our online assets when we pass away. Having a plan means less stress for your family and peace of mind for you.

This month, trust, estate and planning expert Christine Brundsen returns for a fresh session about planning for your digital assets. You will leave with a free tool to help organize your digital information.

During this presentation you’ll learn:

  • What are digital assets
  • How to protect your digital life
  • Simple steps to building a plan
  • How to organize your digital information
  • Roadblocks to accessing them

Join us on November 12, 2025 for this informative and relevant seminar. Reserve your free seat at the link below.

Free event, reserve your seat

Burlington Art Gallery - 1333 Lakeshore Rd. Burlington ON

December 10, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
(doors open at 1:00 PM)

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Caring For Others - and Yourself - Over The Holidays

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Join us on December 10, 2025 for this informative and relevant seminar. Reserve your free seat at the link below.

Free event, reserve your seat

Burlington Art Gallery - 1333 Lakeshore Rd. Burlington ON

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