How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences

With so much driving us apart, music offers opportunities for solace and bridge-building. Intergenerational duets are having a moment. Paul Simon, 83, and Sabrina Carpenter, 58 years younger, cold-opened Saturday Night ...

How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences

The Secret of an EPIC Partnership

I invented the Decade Game when I was eight years old to imagine who I would become when I was 18 and liberated from childhood. Ever since, I’ve had a ...

The Secret of an EPIC Partnership

The Weight of the Unseen: Unpacking Invisible Labor and How to Reclaim Your Time

Every now and again, you discover a term that, by its mere appearance, changes everything. One of those terms is invisible labor. It describes the quiet mental, emotional, and interpersonal work ...

The Weight of the Unseen: Unpacking Invisible Labor and How to Reclaim Your Time

Attuning to Midlife: An Enneagram Journey for Inner Harmony

If you’ve been pondering the mysteries of midlife, you’re certainly not alone. As I consider the whole topic of midlife, one of the first things that arises is the question ...

Attuning to Midlife: An Enneagram Journey for Inner Harmony

Riding the Waves of Change – Learning to Surf at 60

The only thing I was certain of before arriving at the beachfront campus of Modern Elder Academy in Baja, Mexico, was that I wouldn’t be surfing. I was more than ...

Riding the Waves of Change – Learning to Surf at 60

The Rich Social Fabric of a Silent Retreat

Why I’ve found that there’s richer social connection in a silent retreat than other retreats where people can talk Shared Presence Without Pretense When talking is off the table, the ...

The Rich Social Fabric of a Silent Retreat

10 Secret Rules of Friending

Search the internet and you’ll find a hundred hacks on how to make friends.  So much of the practice of being a friend is apparent from the moment you start ...

10 Secret Rules of Friending

A Safe Haven of Connection: The LGBTQ+ Affinity Group | Camp Baja 

The LGBTQ+ Affinity Group at MEA is more than just a community – it’s a sanctuary where people can come together to share their stories, support each other, and grow.  Under ...

A Safe Haven of Connection: The LGBTQ+ Affinity Group | Camp Baja 

5 Tips for Communicating Across Divides

I’ve worked with people all over the world and spent years witnessing the seemingly impossible: fractured communities finding mutual understanding, discovering common ground, and building bridges where walls once stood. ...

5 Tips for Communicating Across Divides

You’ve Spent Your Life Giving Others What They Need. Now It’s Your Turn.

Your greatest story is yet to be written. Here’s how to make sure that this time, you’re the main character. For far too long I had navigated life in the ...

You’ve Spent Your Life Giving Others What They Need. Now It’s Your Turn.