DJ DiDonna

What makes the Sabbatical Sessions so supportive for sabbatical-takers? As I wrote in my recent previous post, it comes down to four ingredients—structure, space, community, and distance. Before I get to SabSesh’s secret sauce, let me take a step back and tell you how I got here to Baja:

After a week on the MEA campus here in Baja, I can say, without a doubt, that Sabbatical Sessions is one of the best ways to start, end or spend one’s sabbatical.

Things were going pretty badly for Kiera. Life at what she had thought of as her “dream job” had taken a turn for the worse when her relationship with her boss had become toxic. She was just about at the end of her rope, but was too afraid to quit—the only thing that seemed worse than staying was leaving without a plan.