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Mastery Week: Power of Purpose

Mastery Week: Power of Purpose

in 

Baja

Campus
Baja, Mexico
Dates
Nov 6
 to 
Nov 11, 2023
Led By
Chip Conley
Jeff Hamaoui
Richard Leider
Thérèse O'Neill
Caitlin Allen
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Aging is not a luxury; it's fundamental to health, healing, happiness, and, ultimately, longevity. When we were young, adults asked us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Now that we’re grown we ask ourselves, “Who do you want to be when you grow old?” That shift from “what” to “who” is key. Aging almost certainly won’t go exactly as we hope, but we can still age purposefully on our own terms. This workshop is about how to grow old, with an emphasis on “grow”— growing whole, not old.

What you’ll do

The MEA core curriculum forms the foundation of each workshop we offer and is focused on equipping you with the skills to navigate transitions, break through life obstacles, and tap into your deeper life purpose.

Additionally, in this particular workshop, join MEA co-founders Chip Conley and Jeff Hamaoui as they explore these questions. Richard Leider, who over the last four decades has pioneered a “purpose revolution” — informing the shift from outgrowing adulthood to growing into elderhood, will be joining via video a couple hours throughout the week.

  • What’s my purpose — my reason for getting up each day?
  • How can I experience a mid- or later-life crisis on purpose?
  • How can I shift my mindset from getting old to growing whole?
  • How can I act my age?
  • How can I follow my fascinations?
  • How can I work on purpose?
These workshops offer the compass and tools to help you discover what ignites your heart, stirs your soul, and infuses your life with purpose, meaning, and joy, enabling you to share your unique gifts with the world.
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We’ve carefully and intentionally designed your days on campus to facilitate the best possible experience and maximize your investment into you.

Join us if you feel you want to find more meaning in life and explore your purpose with a community of like-hearted individuals.

MEA was the container within which I could recreate who I wanted to be and step into that with confidence.

JD Schramm
California, USA

MEA's team is composed of growth-minded individuals who are passionately dedicated to providing the mindset and tools to support our collective mission to discover purpose, grow wiser, and gracefully transition through the many stages of midlife. We are rooted in our commitment to community and guided by the belief that wisdom is shared, not taught.

Chip Conley
Chip Conley
Founder

‍Chip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, and the co-founder and CEO of MEA. His two most recent books, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder and Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age, are the foundation for MEA’s curriculum.

Jeff Hamaoui
Jeff Hamaoui
Co-Founder

MEA co-founder and poetic Chief Education Officer Jeff Hamaoui is a gentle and empathic facilitator, business innovation veteran, and community builder who’s taught sustainability courses at Wharton, Berkeley, and Stanford.

Richard Leider
Richard Leider
Guest Faculty

* Richard Leider will be joining for only a couple of hours of the workshop by video call.

Richard Leider is the founder of Inventure – The Purpose Company – and the author of ten books, featuring three bestsellers including The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags.

Thérèse O'Neill
Thérèse O'Neill
Content Facilitator

Thérèse O'Neill is a longtime educator and advocate for equal access to early childhood best practices. Her desire to serve migrants and under-resourced communities has led her to board positions with PILAglobal, Ann Martin Center, and Reading Partners Bay Area. She is a Baja resident.

Caitlin Allen
Caitlin Allen
Experience Facilitator

Caitlin Allen, based in Baja California Sur, works in wellness, environment, and community sectors as Social Impact Manager for MEA Baja. She co-founded Alianza Cero Basura, championing waste management improvement. Passionate about regenerative living, she also curates transformative experiences as an MEA Experience Facilitator.

Join us if you feel you want to find more meaning in life and explore your purpose with a community of like-hearted individuals.

All of MEA’s workshops are designed to support you to consciously curate the second half of your adult life. Our curriculum offers three paths through MEA content:

Navigating
Transitions
  • Manage midlife change effectively. Understand the stages of transitions and the necessary TQ (transitions quotient) intelligence to move through them more easily.
Cultivating
Purpose
  • Find meaning and curiosity when exploring big decisions, or evolving into your next chapter of life. Understand purpose as a regenerative tool.
Owning
Wisdom
  • Identify and lean in to the wisdom you have developed to date. Look at a generative second adulthood, engaging in new purposes, new communities, time spent on something greater than yourself.

All workshops provide a comprehensive set of tools to use right away, a deep connection with a new community and a 5-star hospitality experience to allow to you recharge and ready for what’s next. You will learn:

  • Hacks: practical tools that you can practice while you’re here
  • Habits: longer term practices that will impact your daily life
  • Practices: a point of inflection and reflection to support your ongoing journey.

Shift your mindset as we provide you with:

  • The space to ask great questions
  • The inspiration to think differently
  • The time to reflect
  • The resources to support your path

Themed in-person workshops are grounded in research based upon collaboration with academics and prestigious institutions like Stanford, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale. Guest faculty weeks feature a chance to experience a deeper dive into their unique content paired with our MEA experiences.

Learning at all stages of life is the glue that drives us to purpose, community, and our evolving wellbeing. Make a commitment to staying healthier, continuing to grow, having an open mindset, and giving back to the world. Instead of “lifelong learning”, we believe “long life learning,” creates a life that is as deep and meaningful as it is long.

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Our expansive beachfront campus encompasses inviting rooms and picturesque grounds, offering a diverse range of amenities. Among these are three pools, including a 25-yard lap pool, along with two hot tubs, two steam rooms, massage rooms, an oceanfront yoga platform, a movement studio, a library, an organic garden, a bocce ball court, and lots of comfortable seating nooks for relaxing, reflecting, and chatting. We’re pleased to share that the number one comment we hear from visitors is that there’s always something new and beautiful to discover. The campus was meticulously designed under the guidance of Oren Bronstein, a longstanding design collaborator of Chip Conley's.

So do boutique accommodations and learning belong together? Think of it this way: When you’ve had a moment to exhale, and your shoulders begin to relax, you’ll understand what a beautiful setting can do for your state of mind.

To help you plan your trip please arrive at the Los Cabos International Airport (SJD) by 4 PM on the start date of your workshop and depart anytime on the last date. Our amazing Hospitality Team will coordinate your ground transportation on your behalf.

Food & Beverage

This area attracts chefs from all over the world to explore “la costa del sabor” (the coast of flavor). The culinary tradition in the Todos Santos/El Pescadero area is well-known as there are few places in the world that have more celebrated restaurants per capita than our location. Most people who move to the area say that the culinary scene is part of the reason they chose to make this home.

Chef Tony Peralta sources local ingredients, including fresh produce from our organic garden, to bring the best flavors of Mexico and beyond to our plates each day. Our cuisine leans toward healthy, but that certainly doesn’t preclude a few delicious indulgences. (Plus the occasional margarita if you choose to imbibe.) All meals, beverages and alcohol are included in the cost of the workshop.
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Join us if you feel you want to find more meaning in life and explore your purpose with a community of like-hearted individuals.
Private Room
Space all to yourself

$

5500

Shared Room
Meet a new pal

$

4000

All prices in USD. A 7% tax and $100 service fee will be added to your final invoice.
Included In Your Tuition
  • Transport to and from SJD airport
  • Curriculum and workbook
  • Three meals per day plus beverages and alcohol
  • Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options
  • Yoga and meditation
  • Off-campus explorations
  • Festive gatherings to celebrate newfound connections

Financial Aid

We know that our entire society is made stronger when everyone has the opportunity to learn, participate, and grow, regardless of economic status. To support diverse learning we are committed to having a portion of our workshop participants receive an award. We offer two levels of financial aid on a need-aware basis.

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