To build a community of inspired and empowered midlifers.
Our 40s, 50s and 60s are rich with potential. We’ve grown enough wisdom to know what’s important and begun to get comfy in our own skin — just as it starts to sag. Yes, our sense of humor, humility, and emotional intelligence grows with age, too. MEA is here to turn your midlife crisis into a calling.
Helping midlifers to live a life as deep as it is long.

"MEA’s wisdom, kindness, sense of community, and purpose will stay with you for years."
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, the host of the podcast The Science of Happiness, and an MEA faculty member.

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a calling.
Chip Conley is on a mission. He lost five friends to suicide between 2008-2010, all men in midlife, at exactly the time he was going through his own dark night of the soul. Soon, he was asked by the young founders of Airbnb to help guide their fast-growing start-up into the world’s most valuable hospitality brand. At 52, he was twice the age of the average employee and he’d never worked in a tech company before. It was during this time that he earned the title “modern elder,” someone who is as curious as he is wise. The intergenerational mentoring that defined this time became the inspiration for Chip’s book, Wisdom@Work, which became the inspiration for the world’s first midlife wisdom school.
Chip founded MEA as a social enterprise dedicated to offering people a place and the tools to navigate midlife and emerge refreshed, inspired, and better-equipped to flourish in their next chapter. Chip also read the Yale study that showed how shifting one's mindset about aging can add 7.4 happy years to a person’s life, but there didn't seem to be a school that specialized in this kind of midlife transformation. The Academy was born in 2018, and has been growing steadily ever since. The associated non-profit AGE (Association for Growth and Education) helps MEA serve a socio-economically diverse community with more than 50% of its Baja workshop students receiving some form of scholarship.




Our Programs in Numbers
Satisfied Alumni
Our alums love us. So much so that 95% surveyed give us a 9 or a 10 (on a scale of 1-10) and say they’d recommend us to family and friends.
Mindful Graduates
After experiencing an MEA program, our incredible alums agree (97%), saying that they’ve become more mindful and present in their lives.
Purposeful Pathway
Our alums report that the #1 skill they’ve deepened at MEA is “Exploring Your Purpose,” with over 80% surveyed feeling the same.
Connected Community
98% again...this time, when asked about connection, our surveyed alumni stay connected to each other online and in real life.
Transformational Travel
Our Baja alums love visiting the campus so much that many alumni come to our Baja campus twice a year and have bought homes nearby.
So Many Choices!
More than 3,000 alums have experienced MEA in multiple ways: workshops, SabSesh, and Online and some will be living in our Regenerative Communities.

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With more than one program offering, we know you may have questions and invite you to schedule a call to explore your options with our admissions team.



What Our Students Love
We can tell you about us, but no one can better express the MEA experience than our alumni.
