Human Connections for Life
A Virtual Masterclass
Find Your People.
Defy Loneliness.
Live a Longer, Happier Life.
June 17-18, 2025
with Jeff Hamaoui & Friends
You missed out!
How to Cultivate Meaningful Human Connections that Add Years of Health and Happiness to Your Life
Loneliness kills.
Sounds dramatic but it’s true: studies show that the impact of loneliness on our mortality is similar to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day and leads to:
This is a problem – especially when a 2023 study found that half of US adults reported experiencing measurable levels of loneliness.
It’s a growing public health crisis that disproportionately impacts people in the second half of life.
The good news is, there’s a simple remedy for loneliness.
All you have to do is put the time and effort into growing your friends network and cultivating more meaningful relationships with people.
(We said the remedy was simple… that doesn’t mean it’s easy.)
The problem is, investing in your friendships gets harder as you grow older.
Our relationships shift as we leave jobs, end careers or relationships, become empty nesters, and move to different places.
The friendships we form through work, partners, or kids often weaken and fade away – and suddenly the people we used to hang out with are no longer part of our lives.
When you’re busy with work, caregiving, and other obligations, making and maintaining friendships
is even more challenging.
At MEA, we know how hard it can be to carve out that time – AND we know how critical it is for your present and future wellbeing.
Investing in your relationships is the single most important action you can take to live a long and happy life – especially when you’re in midlife or beyond.
That’s why we created our new 2-day masterclass, which we’ll be offering for the first time ever on June 17-18. We would love for you to join us for it!
Introducing
Human Connections for Life A Virtual Masterclass
Human Connections for Life is a 2-day virtual masterclass designed to help you move beyond superficial friendships into something richer: a life anchored in meaningful relationships, sustained connection, and a deep sense of belonging.
Whether you're feeling isolated and longing for genuine connection, or wanting to grow your ability to cultivate life-enriching relationships, this masterclass offers the tools and insight to help you form bonds that don’t just feel good – they give your life meaning and support your health and longevity.
In just two days, you’ll:
If you’ve been craving better connection and a clear path forward to friendships that feel real and reciprocal, you’re in the right place.
This masterclass is for you if…
You deserve friendships that support your wellbeing, your growth, and your life – and this is your chance to start building them.
Meet Your Facilitator
Jeff Hamaoui MEA Co-Founder
Jeff Hamaoui is a master facilitator, community builder, and one of the founding forces behind MEA. Before co-founding MEA, Jeff spent decades at the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and global change – working with startups, governments, and Fortune 500 companies to seed ideas that might make the world a better place.
As the creator of MEA’s curriculum and a beloved guide across both in-person and virtual programs, Jeff played a central role in shaping MEA’s philosophy, curriculum, and community experience. He’s led workshops with dozens of thought leaders and hundreds of participants navigating midlife transitions, and he’s become a leading voice on how we connect and form meaningful relationships in the second half of life.
Whether he’s teaching in boardrooms or beachside classrooms, Jeff brings the same warmth, humor, and deep belief:
The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.
What Our Two Days Together Will Look Like
Day One June 17, 2025
Session 1: Why We Friend
8:00–9:30 am Pacific | 11:00 am-12:30 pm Eastern
Learn the latest research into loneliness and the impact it has on your health – and how friendship is the antidote to loneliness and the pathway to an epic life.
Session 2: Who and How We Friend
3:00–4:30 pm Pacific | 6:00 pm-7:30 pm Eastern
Clarify the kind of people you want in your life and discover the proven research-backed elements of an effective friendship practice – and how to make it happen in your life.
Day Two June 18, 2025
Session 3: Build Your Friending Practice
8:00–9:30 am Pacific | 11:00 am-12:30 pm Eastern
Design your own friendship blueprint and commit to taking concrete steps toward implementing your own relationship cultivation practice based on your friending style and values.
What people are saying
Jeff recently hosted a private gathering in which he shared the same information, tools, and practices you’ll be discovering during the masterclass – and here’s what they had to say.
What's been interesting and kind of eye-opening about this experience is it makes you take pause and step back and say, what does friendship mean to me? What type of friend am I? What type of people am I looking for? At this point in my life where I cherish my time so much, it's super valuable to ask myself some questions about what's important about friendship so I can nurture the relationships I really want to have.
This week, the thing that I have enjoyed most is just the conversations in between the conversations where we go deep and we talk about interesting things. And I'm almost always surprised where it goes and what I learn from that and the connection that is made and the spark that is made by, yes, the similarities that we start with, but then the differences that come in as everybody adds their own flavor to my potpourri. The experience has been fantastic from start to finish.
My whole life, I've been really blessed with a lot of friends and with really, really good friends. And I never thought about how to make friends until it became really hard. And right now I'm in a really hard transition in my life, you know, where I've moved and am making friends again, trying to build my community. And it's hard. It's harder than it's ever been. So it's been really important for me to think about, what am I looking for in friends? How do I go about building friendships? And not just the lots and lots of friendships, but the important friendships.
I do have friends, and I have relationships with a lot of people. But what I'm learning this week is that they could be so much more and so much more fulfilling just by bringing more attention and more consciousness and more love into the relationship. I'm building a skill in a setting that makes it easy, but then I go back to my own life, and that's where I'm going to build the muscle, just by doing everything we learned here on repeat.
I realized that friendship is not only a noun, but it's a verb… It's a daily practice that can save not only my life, but the lives of people that are around me. Attending to this workshop has been helping me to learn about structures, science, but most importantly, to really feel and embody the concept of friendship and what it means to nudge up from one friend to another one, and just reaffirm the whole idea of how or why friendship should be a value that I will stand for for the rest of my days.
People talk about relationships, but not friendship. And this week, we had a chance to not only learn about friendship, but to live it. We got to experience it, to embody it, to face the challenges of friendship, to uncover more together. And it was truly transformational, and I'm walking away with so many notes and insights, and most importantly, with new friends.
Ready to invest in the
most important part of
your health and happiness?
Join us for Human Connections for Life: A Virtual Masterclass – and get the tools you need to find your people, defy loneliness, and live a longer, happier life.
June 17–18, 2025 | Hosted live via Zoom
Led by Jeff Hamaoui & Friends
Select Your
All-Access Pass
Attend All Live Sessions
Best if you plan to join us live and soak in the experience in real time.
$97
Attend Live + Recordings
Best if you plan to join us live and soak in the experience in real time.
$147
Frequently Asked Questions
This masterclass is designed for anyone in midlife or beyond who’s craving more meaningful friendships and ready to invest in their relational wellbeing. Whether you're feeling isolated, navigating a life change, or just looking to reconnect with others in a more authentic way, this experience is for you.
We highly encourage attending live to get the full experience of guided practices, community reflection, and real-time insight with Jeff and the MEA team. That said, if you can’t make both days, we offer a Recordings Pass so you can revisit everything at your own pace.
Depending on the pass you choose, you’ll receive:
Access to all three live teaching sessions
A downloadable workbook for guided reflection
Community connection in a private, supportive environment
Lifetime access to session recordings (with the All-Access + Recordings Pass)
No problem. When you choose the All-Access + Recordings Pass, you’ll have lifetime access to all session replays so you can catch up or rewatch anytime.
Not exactly. This masterclass is about building a friendship practice – one that helps you strengthen existing connections, make space for new ones, and feel more confident, intentional, and aligned in how you show up in your relationships.
You’ll attend three 90-minute sessions – two on June 17 and one on June 18. Beyond that, the amount of time you spend on the guided exercises and reflection is up to you. Even small shifts can lead to lasting change.
No. While this experience may be deeply reflective and even therapeutic in nature, it is not a form of clinical therapy or counseling. It’s an educational and community-building experience grounded in research, storytelling, and real-life practice.
Yes! Part of what makes this masterclass powerful is the chance to engage with others who are on the same journey. There will be optional partner discussions and community sharing woven into the sessions.
People who “friend well” elevate each other.
The connection you’ve been craving is closer than you think. Join us June 17–18 and take the first step toward enriching your life with deeper, more meaningful friendships.