MEA

That’s what I do for a living. MEA has a Method and, after 150 workshop cohorts experiencing it, we’ve found it’s damn consistent and effective.

The purpose of a “prep school” isn’t just to prepare a high schooler for college. It’s also to prepare an adolescent for modern adulthood. So, prep schools are meant to ease a normal life stage transition.

“To invent, you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.” - Jeff Bezos, Amazon Annual Report, 2015

Joined at the hip, head, and heart, my co-founders Christine, Jaff and I have been dreaming about this day for maybe a half-dozen years. We imagined we might grow beyond our Baja beachfront campus one day.

Chip’s Note: I love Thérèse and it’s been quite enlightening to see her evolution over the past three years.

A few times a month, I hear this innocent question.

Once a year, MEA offers an experience of unadulterated joy that suggests we’re the tip of the iceberg for a global movement.

When we shortened our Modern Elder Academy name to MEA, we didn't expect we'd have to do a "mea culpa" to Spanish and Portuguese-speaking people as "mea" is the third person for urinating. Not exactly a great word association.

Grace Lee Boggs said, "You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it." But, it’s hard to do that on the margins when you’re not part of the dominant demographic of a society. We are all mirrors for each other, but that mirror isn’t color blind.

Chip's Editorial Comment: I think you’ll enjoy this spirited post (in English and Spanish) from the MEA alum who gave us the incentive to create our first public Spanish-speaking MEA program that happens in Baja in a month.