The 63-year-old would know – after all, she was in the same boat when she dreamt up PEASE, which stands for Preparing to Ease your Life Transition.
The community-led coaching programme runs quarterly workshops and sharing sessions tailored for people between the ages of 40 to 60.
With an average of 30 to 40 participants per programme, PEASE has come a long way since it was just an idea bouncing around the healthcare veteran’s head.
It was back in 2022 when Weng Mooi first found herself pondering life after work. Even then, she’d already witnessed many of her career-driven peers heading down the same road of confusion and unease at the bookend of a long and fruitful career.
The silver reached out to her contacts and began putting together an intergenerational action team from multiple disciplines.
To complement her healthcare background, she roped in 56-year-old Dr Ng Wai Chong, who similarly comes from a long career in healthcare and now runs NWC Longevity Practice, offering aged care consulting. Two younger women with marketing and programme development chops rounded out the crew.
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PEASE: Not job coaching, but life coaching
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The PEASE team conducted a series of surveys and focus group discussions within their networks to tease out what people prioritised most as they aged.
"And coming from my line of work, we know that health is a result of many things. It is fundamentally psychosocial, with many separate aspects coming together to make up what you call health."
That’s probably why when it comes to ageing priorities, the runner-up for most people is meaningful engagement, followed by spending time with family.
Both Wai Chong and Weng Mooi noted that the results differed slightly depending on the demographic profile of the people they asked.
Young silvers on the cusp of retirement talked more about the financial worries behind retirement, while those who had recently retired were more concerned with loneliness.
These findings laid the groundwork for the eventual PEASE programme, which consists of a full-day workshop and two follow-up half-day sessions. Participants are placed into small groups to keep things intimate and open.
What they don’t do is talk about jobs, insofar as it goes to helping people find employment.
According to Weng Mooi, an alumnus from an earlier workshop went on to find a retirement gig as a nature guide in Pulai Ubin, while a former caregiver rejoined the workforce as a staff member in an active ageing centre.
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The workshops culminate in regular PEASE Cafes, which are informal sessions for workshop participants to share their success stories. The team also invites experts and other notable voices in the ageing field (SilverStreak included!) to give their two cents.
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A growing need in super-aged Singapore
Demand for PEASE programmes has been steady, though its founders expect it to grow as Singapore ages.
By the end of the decade, one in four Singapore residents will be over the age of 65. Retirement, too, will only get later with the upcoming shifts of the retirement and reemployment ages.
Financially, while the programme is currently buoyed by the OSCAR Fund from non-profit Temasek Foundation, the founders hope that it will be able to reach critical mass soon.
To facilitate this, the team is looking to “train the trainers” and expand the number of programmes they have available. They are also looking to diversify into lunch talks for better outreach and awareness.
For now though, Weng Mooi and Wai Chong are happy just to see other people at the same stage of life getting the guidance they need.
Head to their website to find out more about PEASE.
