About this episode

Kathy Bresler discusses the importance of intergenerational connections among women and the transformative power of community.

Kathy Bresler, founder of ALTAR Community in Chicago, has created a welcoming space where women of all ages come together to be seen, heard, and supported. ALTAR is a third space for women centered around meaningful gatherings, conversation, creativity, reflection, and authentic connection. Through conversation, reflection, and shared experience, women discover what feels most true and meaningful in their lives and often experience profound personal transformation. Grounded in curiosity, creativity, and compassion, Kathy brings together her background in interfaith and interspiritual ministry with years of corporate leadership experience to nurture both the heart and the practical realities of building community. Kathy believes younger women are hungry for meaningful relationships with older women who embody a different way of aging — women who are alive, engaged, creative, evolving, and unwilling to disappear into society’s narrow expectations of later life. In turn, older women are renewed by being seen, valued, and welcomed into authentic intergenerational connection. At the center of Kathy’s work is an invitation to cultivate what she calls “Vitamin J” — the practice of…

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