Navigating Midlife Transitions
A 6-week online course to navigate midlife’s most common transitions with confidence and a fresh perspective.
This course is right for you if…
You’ve recently experienced a "Massive Shift" in your life.
We’ll help give you tools to create structure, identify direction and make space for internal processing time.
You're ready to reframe the infamous “Midlife Crisis.”
Relationships, career, health, and purpose can all shift at once and be overwhelming. We transform a "crisis" into a “calling."
You're inspired to explore and maximize your “Next Chapter.”
We’ll help you to reflect on your lifetime of experience to cultivate and harvest the wisdom you can share.
A groundbreaking online retreat...
Expert Guidance
Led by the 3 MEA co-founders and MEA’s SVP Digital Kari Cardinale, learn from leading transition experts on aging, career, health, and relationships.
New Life Coordinates
Reexamine the first half of your life and set new coordinates with clarity and purpose to navigate the road ahead.
Digital Intimacy
We have mastered a model of community building, unique immersion, and authentic engagement without having to travel.
Transitional Intelligence
Using our proprietary 6P’s of Midlife Transitions, explore the Anatomy of Midlife Transitions and expand your “TQ.”
Lifetime Access
We believe in long-life learning and so will you after experiencing MEA Online. This course is yours. Forever.
Blended Learning
Live events, 1:1 conversations, and weekly learning on your own creates a balance of community learning and self-discovery.
"These courses have been life-changing for me. I know that they've come to me at the right time in my life, but I've also embraced them wholeheartedly and they have definitely changed me in a way that nothing else has before."
What our students say about the course
"I signed up in 15 minutes!"
This course helped me think about different ways to stimulate our thinking in transitions that we’re going through. My greatest appreciation was the beginning, the middle, and the end.
"An online course unlike any that I’ve seen before. Very engaging!"
With where I am in my life, I really needed this course. It was all about transitions. This course really helped me narrow my focus, and think about what are next steps…and I got them!
"This was a beautiful journey that has come to an end, unfortunately."
The program was spectacular. It really surpassed my expectations. I was really surprised about how the course was curated. There was such a warm intensity and personal touch to it.
"Highly recommended for anyone wanting to live a richer life as they age!"
This course gave me the tools and the comfort that I wasn’t alone, as well as a greater confidence that I could get through these feelings of being stuck. The program was fantastic!
Online course overview
Managing the transitions in life such as relationships, work, financial, and health can often be challenging. Did you know there are more transitions in midlife than any other? There are no schools or tools to manage them more effectively — until now. MEA will help you identify where you are in all of your transitions and guide you through them faster, with greater clarity and ease.
MEA Online offers experiential learning, growth, and connection with insightful tools to shift your mindset and create more resilience and adaptability. Our unique blend of high-energy live events, weekly videos, community conversations, and reflection tools feels like an immersion retreat grounded in a highly effective framework and experiences that will leave you feeling more peaceful, connected, optimistic, and inspired. Join our global community.
Personal Transitions
Explore your current personal transitions—relationships, empty nesting, moving, etc. Learn how key mindset management tools can help you reframe and grow.
• May 26, 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET
Physical Transitions
Understand how changes in our body can have a profound effect on our self-image and root out our “inner agesist” that holds us back.
Psychological Transitions
Are you feeling stuck or more resistant to change? Explore how our attitudes and approaches to transitions evolve as we age.
• June 9, 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET
Parting/Passing Transitions
Explore the impact of facing mortality, the loss of loved ones, and the stages of transition that occur when people come and go from our life.
Professional Transitions
Whether you are leaving a career or starting a new one, learn to reframe professional transitions with a growth mindset.
Purpose Transitions
Create an actionable roadmap for a renewed sense of purpose and legacy, creating a life filled with meaning and joy.
• June 30, 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET
Weekly “Community Cafe” Discussion Groups
All-star guest faculty
Join a close-knit community of 3,000+
MEA Alumni
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Eternally grateful for everyone and everything MEA!!
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Just know how grateful I am for the joy fuel you all put in my rocket ship. When I want to feel loved or just need a good smile I can think of my time at MEA, which came at the perfect time to encourage me on my journey. Thank you!
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These past 8 weeks with you were incredible!
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My high expectations were far exceeded and I am so grateful the content remains available to reference again and again. Big admiration and gratitude for all this and for making me believe that digital intimacy is possible.
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Thank you and all at MEA for the amazing program you have put together.
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I am a "sem-rewired" facilitator, adjunct professor at a German university, and this is the first online course that is 'done right'. You have taken this to a new level that I love!! Kudos and many, many thanks!
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MEA is for anyone who wants to live with greater purpose and gratitude.
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I experienced MEA as a newly diagnosed multiple myeloma cancer patient and as a result of the things I’ve learned - I’ve banished the anxiety of being a cancer victim, am in remission and living with a new found energy and purpose.
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This was a beautiful journey that has come to an end, unfortunately.
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The program was spectacular. It really surpassed my expectations. I was really surprised about how the course was curated. There was such a warm intensity and personal touch to it.
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The experience will forever mean a lot to me.
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Thank you so much for the impactful training design in the 8-week MEA program on transitions! The experience will forever mean a lot to me.
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I have much more peace and acceptance of who I am.
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For the first time in my life I feel that I am good- just as I am! There is always space for improvement but I have much more peace and acceptance of who I am.
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This was the best thing that came out of 2020!
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This was the best thing that came out of 2020! All of the team and my fellow compadres at MEA have really opened up a new path for so many of us. Thank you!
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My biggest takeaway was the confidence and permission to move forward.
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My biggest takeaway was the confidence and permission to move forward without any pressure of timeline or having figured it all out well.
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MEA Online exceeded my expectations. Your structure just works. And Lifetime access is a big deal!
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MEA Online exceeded my expectations. Your structure just works. And Lifetime access is a big deal!
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Without these new tools, I would have been in trouble. This training on transition is so necessary.
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Without these new tools, I would have been in trouble, possibly turned my natural sadness into depression as a new empty nester. This training on transition is so necessary.
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Highly recommended for anyone wanting to live a richer life as they age!
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I would highly recommend this program for anyone who wants a road map and a community they can call upon, to navigate through their own transitions, and live a richer life as they age.
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This course has literally transformed my life!
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This course has literally transformed my life! It helped me decide to take the steps to learn how to be an entrepreneur and how to build my confidence to take these next steps.
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I hope each of you have the opportunity to experience the online course.
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I hope each of you have the opportunity to experience the online course. It’s content and information for midlifers was truly a remarkable experience to go through.
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As close as you can come to a live retreat.
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It just works and is as close as you can come to a live retreat. You all really care!
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The human connection, warmth and love you were able to build into an online program is amazing.
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The human connection, warmth and love you were able to build into an online program is amazing.
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We got so close that we feel like we’ve known each other for years.
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Started out as a slow crescendo that ended in an explosion of fabulousness! We got so close that we feel like we’ve known each other for years.
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I didn’t realize how much I needed this course! Thank you!
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I didn’t realize how much I needed this course! Thank you!
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The biggest gift I received was that of community. I now have a strong support system!
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Loved the flow and structure of each week. The biggest gift I received was that of community. I now have a strong support system and friendships to help me navigate my journey to truly becoming a Modern Elder.
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Loved the content and the capacity to fit it in around my schedule in my own time.
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Loved the content and the capacity to fit it in around my schedule in my own time.
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An online course unlike any that I’ve seen before. Very engaging!
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An online course unlike any that I’ve seen before. This course really helped me narrow my focus, and think about what are next steps…and I got them.
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Thank you for putting this together! I have already learned a lot and have enjoyed the process!
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Thank you for putting this together! I have already learned a lot and have enjoyed the process!
Let’s do this together.
Enroll today to reserve your spot for our next course, beginning May 26, 2023.
A Semester of MEA May 26 - Nov 10, 2023
Enjoy MEA online for a reduced price of 15% while spots last.
Enjoy MEA online for a reduced price of 15% while spots last.
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Reframing Transitions
Gain immediate and practical tools to manage transitions.
- The MEA Team
