Sabbatical Sessions emerged during the pandemic as an alternative to our highly-curated workshops. “SabSesh” offers time to reflect and restore, work as a digital nomad, and tap into our “best of MEA” programming on your schedule. Come for a break, stay for the community.

Join MEA founder Chip Conley in this special week with MEA alumni Linda Grubbs, Diane Johnson, Linda Parker Pennington, Paula Pretlow and Wanda Whitaker as they infuse our curriculum with wisdom from a uniquely Black perspective. In this workshop you will manifest your spirit, strength and resilience as a person of African descent, cultivating deep inner wisdom and purpose.

MEA Online offers a unique kind of “digital intimacy” that accelerates your learning, growth and impact. This 8-week program focuses on becoming more purposeful in your everyday life, with engaging live events, weekly videos, community discussions and reflection tools.

Join MEA founder Chip Conley for a rare opportunity to spend a week with Dr. Shauna Shapiro as they dive into the practice of self-compassion ― the secret sauce for lasting transformation. This workshop has the power to change our individual and collective lives. Be prepared for unexpected beauty and delight.

Let's Talk About Death (Over Dinner) author Michael Hebb joins MEA founder Chip Conley for a journey into the two topics that define us most deeply as humans, love and death. Discover a profound territory of human connection, meaning and purpose through their compassionate exploration of our mortality, and our capacity to love.

Get some ink on the page, conjure important moments of your past and discover your most authentic voice as a writer under the direction of returning guest faculty Mollie McNeil and MEA’s Jeff Hamaoui. This inspired duo will call upon poetry, improv, cooking, and meditation to expand and enliven your writer’s mind and spirit.

The best life insurance is to take care of your body. Join our CXO and co-founder, Christine Sperber, and one of our favorite humans, renowned fitness master Tom McCook, to dig deep into MEA’s core curriculum while learning to tap into your body’s wisdom and attune to living in it with fresh eyes.

This is a workshop whose purpose is purpose. What makes you want to get out of bed in the morning? At midlife and beyond, the answer can become more challenging than ever to answer. Join “purpose pioneer,” Richard Leider and MEA founder Chip Conley, in doing a Purpose Checkup and experiencing how to unlock your purpose and answer the question.

The most-asked question about the climate crisis is what to do, where to start, and how to make a difference. Join MEA’s co-founder Jeff Hamaoui for a rare opportunity to connect in an intimate setting with an ecological and entrepreneurial icon of our time, multi-bestselling author and activist, Paul Hawken.

Join MEA co-founders Chip and Jeff and Yahoo Finance Senior Columnist, Workplace Futurist and Best-Selling Author of 14 books, including In Control at 50+, Never Too Old to Get Rich, Great Pajama Jobs and What’s Next?, Kerry Hannon to learn how to shift your mindset to embrace change, freedom, love, getting out of your comfort zone, creativity, and destiny. You will explore new ways to let go of those mental roadblocks and take back control of your life right now.

Did you know there's a science to the feeling of Awe? It's time to enliven your spirit and get reintroduced to what it means to experience it – internally and externally. Join MEA veteran Dacher Keltner, director of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and MEA founder Chip Conley for an inspired dive into science, ancient wisdom, art, and movement to explore Awe: body, mind, and spirit.

Join two visionary entrepreneurs, karmic capitalists and friends who believe that entrepreneurs have the capacity and an obligation to positively influence the world. Learn about their entrepreneurial roots and how they cultivated wisdom and are harvesting it today at their companies that are changing lives from the inside/out, Madefor and MEA.

Sabbatical Sessions emerged during the pandemic as an alternative to our highly-curated workshops. “SabSesh” offers time to reflect and restore, work as a digital nomad, and tap into our “best of MEA” programming on your schedule. Come for a break, stay for the community.

Join MEA co-founders Chip, Christine and Jeff for an annual special event, the only workshop that features all three of them in the same week. Chip says his 50s were his favorite decade and Christine and Jeff are still in their early 50s and are delighting in the discoveries of this magical decade.

MEA believes that the success skills for 21st-century leadership include wisdom, clarity, authenticity and compassion. But, how often do you invest in developing these character qualities? Join two leaders and expert facilitators, Soren and Chip, who’ve collaborated with and mentored many well-known leaders who’ve gone on to greatness.

Can reconnecting to essence liberate us to experience a more meaningful future? Join wisdom sage and mystic Vanessa Inn, with MEA co-founder Jeff Hamaoui, and discover how to lead and thrive (unapologetically) from your true essence. Vanessa has a gift for deep connection and is one of our most popular workshop leaders.

You are a unique embodied being shaped by the culture of your geography, class, family, race, gender, education, religion, responsibilities, and so forth. How can you find your true identity, your true story, while situated within these forces? In this workshop, you will use art, biography, and reflection to create a life-sized Body Map that represents your authentic self.

Each of us has a language of truth in our heart that only living our life can give voice to. And being a spirit in the world centers on how we meet the life of experience that no one can escape. In this, life is the master and we remain the student. This workshop will help you to inhabit a personal form of expression, by which you can strengthen your connections and find your way, while deepening your conversation with life.

Join rebel souls Shelley Paxton and Christine Sperber for a life-changing exploration of what it means to rewrite the script of success and live life on your terms. Inspired by Shelley’s pioneering path from CMO to CSO (Chief Soul Officer), this workshop offers a rebel roadmap to status quo no more.

Want to learn the secrets to living a long, happy life? Join two of the world’s leading experts on aging and longevity who’ve studied the qualities of what makes a deep and meaningful life. Discover a science-backed blueprint to extend your life another 12 quality years.

Women do so much for so many - yet wonder why they don’t feel fulfilled. Time to play a different game and create a life by design, not default. Join Carolyn to uncover your purpose, recover your power and discover your destiny.

What if you had the time and space to sit at the feet of your life to unearth its wisdom? How could you use the insights gleaned to chart your path towards your next best steps? This popular Mastery Week will help you align the wisdom and insights you'll surface to guide you to say yes with conviction and no with clarity as you embrace the authorship of your next chapter. Join veteran master faculty Barbara Waxman and MEA co-founder Jeff Hamaoui on the journey of a lifetime!

Eros – the experience of aliveness, vitality, generativity – is a seductive, enthralling and compelling companion in life. But cultivating eros is a challenge that few master. Join Chip Conley and iconic couples therapist Esther Perel for an exploration of the interplay of stability and adventure in designing our best lives – at home, at work and beyond.

Join Encore.org leader Marci Alboher for an immersion on custom-crafting an encore career of purpose, passion and a paycheck. You will be inspired and equipped to work effectively across generational differences. And you will leave with self-awareness and strategies that will sustain you as you navigate through many transitions.

Often, our big dreams get pushed to the recesses of our lives for something more "practical" or "realistic." They may be dormant and covered in complacency, uncertainty, or fear, but still there...waiting for you. Join Justin for a powerful week of uncovering and saying YES! to your dreams.

It’s easy to become “encultured” in habits and routines that result in self-limiting behaviors. Learn why these exist and how to break free to live a more intentional and authentic life. Join Bill to discover how to revolutionize your thinking by activating your brain differently.

Too often our quest for happiness involves a chase for the external trappings of life - career, financial, relationships, etc. True happiness comes from the inside out. It comes from a place of aligning our actions with our values. From recognizing the gifts of growth in every situation.

This week will feature a brief review of the basics of the IFS model by Dr. Schwartz, followed by an interactive group workshop focusing on helping you release your personal burdens and deal with the transitions in your life with a renewed clarity and sense of personal empowerment.

Appreciating your body for what it can do rather than how it looks is where we begin. Making peace with your physical reality so you can fully enjoy your body and appreciate the beauty of what “is” ..that is the essence of healthy aging no matter what your age.

As we move into retirement and the later chapters of our lives, it is a wonderful opportunity to discover aspects of ourselves that we never had a chance to explore before. The Enneagram is an incredible tool for seeing many of our assumptions about ourselves, but more importantly, for opening up new vistas about our possibilities.