Mother’s Day Without the Script: Learning to Mother Myself

Mother’s Day 2023 didn’t look the way I imagined.Unusual circumstances left me alone not with my mom, not with my

Susan Hensley

May 11, 2025

Mother’s Day Without the Script: Learning to Mother Myself

My Best Years…Right Now

My story is not unique. Like many people who find their way to the Modern Elder Academy, I too had

Heather McLeod Grant

May 10, 2025

My Best Years…Right Now

Lost in Transition? Why the Right Retreat Can Change Everything

In our fast-paced, always-on lives, it’s easy to lose touch with that quiet inner knowing—the part of us that nudges

Carlos Saba

May 4, 2025

Lost in Transition? Why the Right Retreat Can Change Everything

LinkedIn Mourning: Embracing the End of One Chapter to Begin the Next

Transitioning from a decades-long career to whatever comes next can be both disorienting and exciting. As MEA teaches, a productive

Paul Kadin

May 3, 2025

LinkedIn Mourning: Embracing the End of One Chapter to Begin the Next

Becoming Un:Stuck

Why I Wrote “Un:Stuck: Helping Teens and Young People Flourish in an Age of Anxiety”‘What makes you feel most alive?’

Kate O’Brien O’Brien

April 27, 2025

Becoming Un:Stuck

The Liberation of Creative Potential: Exploring the New Frontier of the Bonus Round

Our cultural assumptions about creativity tend to lionize youth—think of Mozart composing at the age of five or how we

Pam McLean, Ph.D

April 26, 2025

The Liberation of Creative Potential: Exploring the New Frontier of the Bonus Round

Are You Having a Near-Life Experience?

I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their

Karen Salmansohn

April 20, 2025

Are You Having a Near-Life Experience?

What Does It Mean to Truly Listen? It Means Listening With Our Eyes.

There’s an old story of a child who comes home and says, “mom, mom mom…” (for those of us with

Daniel Gropper

April 19, 2025

What Does It Mean to Truly Listen? It Means Listening With Our Eyes.

Curiosity As a Pathway to Wisdom

18th Century Philosopher Edmond Burke noted that “The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.” 

Barbara Kreisman

April 13, 2025

Curiosity As a Pathway to Wisdom

A Call to Action: Memory and Resistance

I admire Jerry’s courage in publishing this Call to Action and look forward to co-leading a workshop with him in

Jerry Colonna

April 12, 2025

A Call to Action: Memory and Resistance

Still Upright (Mostly): Dispatch from Midlife – My Reckoning in Austin

Sometimes life offers up a perfectly timed—if painful—reminder that midlife is less about crisis and more about resilience, reinvention, and

Annette Mason

April 6, 2025

Still Upright (Mostly): Dispatch from Midlife – My Reckoning in Austin

No Confidence in Confidence

I’m not a big believer in confidence. You might say I have very little confidence in confidence itself.Probably like many

Stacy Peralta

April 5, 2025

No Confidence in Confidence