To date, more than 125,000 people – including all kinds of celebrities and CEOs – have experienced a program from the Hoffman Institute. Hoffman graduates around 2,000 people annually through their programs in the U.S, but has affiliated programs in ten countries. We’re honored that Hoffman has partnered with MEA to do online fireside chats with alums from both programs as well as a private retreat at MEA’s Santa Fe campus. Just like MEA had its roots in San Francisco based upon my work with Airbnb, Bob Hoffman started his programs in Oakland where he was a therapist. I wish I’d gotten to meet Bob, but he passed away in 1997.
Like Hoffman, MEA has a core process (called the “MEA Method”) that’s offered in every one of the 100+ workshops annually that focuses on improving one’s TQ (Transitional Quotient), cultivating purpose, owning wisdom, reframing our mindset on aging, and feeling a deeper sense of community. We have hundreds of MEA alums who’ve also done Hoffman and the most common thing I hear from them (as I’ve still not done Hoffman yet) is “Hoffman mines the past to improve the present while MEA tweaks the present toward a brighter future.” Hoffman goes back to the original pain of childhood and to help people get in touch with their soul, while MEA helps mid-lifers do an archeological dig in the midst of their busy lives to open up the channel between mind, heart, and soul while feeling better about getting older.
As TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie says (who’ll be teaching at MEA in Baja this October), “Ideally, you do Hoffman first to create clarity about the past while then going to MEA to create hope and a roadmap for the future.”
-Chip
*Hoffman Process