Make Life’s Big Moments Matter: Reclaiming Meaning in a Disconnected World

Kari is a pioneer facilitator with expertise in the longevity industry and building communities online. She is a master host with a knack of creating deep connections both live and virtually, with nearly 30 years experience as a driven social entrepreneur in creative strategy, facilitating and training, and private consulting to bring out the best in thought leaders.

Kari has worked with hundreds of experts around the world and produced two global summits on the topics of innovation in aging and caregiving. Her online programs at MEA have served thousands of adults around the world.

Kari served as a weekly contributor to the Huffington Post and has appeared on local TV, Dateline NBC, PBS “This Emotional Life,” and contributed to the Amazon #1 bestselling anthology, “Embracing Your Authentic Self.” She is curious about everything and committed to lifelong learning.

Bruce Feiler has been one of the most influential thought leaders in MEA’s community since the Academy’s earliest days – and now, for the first time, he’s coming to Rising Circle Ranch to teach in person.

As the author of New York Times bestsellers such as Life Is in the Transitions and The Secrets of Happy Families, Bruce has spent decades doing the kind of original, firsthand research that most writers only dream about. He has interviewed thousands of people across all fifty states about their biggest life changes, and built the frameworks that have helped millions of people navigate transitions with greater clarity and purpose.

His research for his latest book, A Time to Gather, revealed something that sits at the heart of this workshop: at life’s most significant transitions – the joyful ones like weddings, baby showers, and coming-of-age milestones, and the harder ones like funerals, divorces, and retirements – we have a profound human need to gather together and mark them in meaningful ways.