Designing your Best Decade for Couples

A great partnership isn’t discovered. It’s designed.

When was the last time you and your spouse or partner sat down and got really clear on what you want your lives and your relationship to look like, not only for right now but for the next 10 years?

The way you create your desired reality is by visualizing it and planning for it – which is why taking the time as a couple to consciously design your life together is the key to a deep, enduring, and fulfilling relationship.

By sharing your thoughts, dreams, and fears with each other, you’re able to create a common language and a solid foundation of understanding that allows you to design the life you both dream of while navigating life’s unpredictable transitions as a loving and deeply committed couple.

And when you work together from a shared story of the future you both want to create – as opposed to looking backwards to a story of the past – you expand your understanding of what’s possible and are able to start planting the seeds for that future with greater intentionality and make your shared vision a reality. 

What You’ll Gain

Through a combination of our MEA Owning Wisdom curriculum and Carolyn and Robert’s proven process of fun and experiential game-based activities, you will:

By the end of your five days with Carolyn and Robert and the MEA faculty, you will have a new appreciation of each other as individuals and of yourselves as a couple and be excited to experience your next 10 years together. 

You’ll have a shared set of values that are important to both of you, agreed-upon principles you can use to transform conflict into collaboration, and a language that will move conversations forward to a point of shared understanding.

Carolyn Buck-Luce

Creator of The Decade Game®

Organizational Strategist | Leadership Coach | Speaker | Thought Leader | Author

Carolyn is a gifted organizational strategist and leadership coach who has spent her career building highly effective businesses and teams. Throughout her multifaceted career, she has worn the hats of Diplomat, Wall Street Banker, Management Consultant, Healthcare Futurist, Talent Innovator, Professor, Author, Philanthropist, Executive Coach, Wife, Mother, Mother-in-law, and Grandmother.

Carolyn is also one of America’s most respected and accomplished voices on Women’s Leadership and their relationship with power. She uses her proprietary Decade Game® – which she created when she was eight years old (!) – to coach some of the world’s leading women to live their purpose and discover their destiny.

In addition to her book, Epic!: The Women’s Power Play Book, Carolyn has written for respected national outlets, including INC. and Huffington Post, and has co-authored numerous articles in the Harvard Business Review. In 2007, she was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as a Commissioner of the New York City Commission on Women’s Issues. Carolyn is regarded as a thought leader and sought-after speaker in the area of women’s empowerment, inclusive cultures and both individual and institutional transformation.

Imaginal Labs, the company she founded with her life partner, Robert, helps courageous leaders find and trust their magic, and mobilize others to make a world that works.

Robert Evans

Design Thinker and Author of The Collaboration Code™ Series

DesignShop® Expert | Founder of Ernst & Young’s Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) | Adjunct Faculty Member at Auburn Theological Seminary | Chair of the Stewardship Circle Council for The Pachamama Alliance

Rob is one of the world’s leading experts at designing and delivering the innovative DesignShop® Process and other collaborative workshops. He has facilitated hundreds of highly successful sessions with many of the world’s leading organizations, including 38 of the 2019 Fortune 100 companies.

He has also worked with not-for-profit organizations such as the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Auburn Seminary, the Centers for Disease Control, and other federal and state agencies.

Rob is the author of the Collaboration Code™ series, a practical guide to successfully designing and leading collaborative work with groups small, large, and huge. He and Carolyn conduct workshops around the world teaching the Collaboration Code approach.

Rob is an adjunct faculty member at Auburn Theological Seminary and holds graduate degrees from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard University. He has held faculty positions at Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, and the Lesley College Graduate School of Management. He is chair of the Stewardship Circle Council for The Pachamama Alliance.

Robert and Carolyn are committed to their families and to living a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. Whether facilitating in the Boardroom, climbing to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, or working with indigenous leaders in the jungles of the Amazon, they are life-long learners who will continue to bring their experiences to their work with courageous individuals, leaders, and couples.