Decenter Everything: The Unconventional Approach to Eldering in an Age of Immaturity

We have not been here before. We are now living decades longer than our ancestors. In the West, we have an abundance of older people, but very few authentic elders.

Decenter Everything challenges our modern post-parenting dreams by proposing a radical alternative: authentic eldering through intentional decentering.

Through poetry, prose, research, and reflection I propose five domains requiring decentering: God, being heard, knowledge, death, and consumption.

For anyone sensing the hollowness of our elderless culture, here lies a provocative path to reimagining a soulful and sustainable future.

About the Author

Australian author David Tensen brings form and beauty to our deepest yearnings. Drawing from decades of experience in pastoral care and spiritual development, his four poetry collections have found their way into hearts of every age across the globe. But David's ability to weave words have moved beyond poetry, In 2018, he was commissioned to write a book on fathering for families in China, 'Big Hearted Fathers'. And in 2024 David released his first kid's book, 'The Kid Without A Costume', a book that allows kids to go to book week as themselves, shame free. Decenter Everything was released in 2025 in a brave attempt to address the hollowing out of true elders in Western society.