The Consciously Curated Life with Barbara Waxman

in 

Baja

Campus
Baja, Mexico
Dates
Feb 12
 to 
Feb 17, 2024
Led By
Barbara Waxman
Janis Nakano Spivack

You are a masterpiece. This popular workshop with veteran master faculty Barbara Waxman and MEA facilitator Janis Nakano Spivack will help you expand your capacity to experience the benefits of increased longevity and sustained vitality to consciously curate decades of a meaningful life. We live in a culture that believes anyone in midlife is on a slippery slope towards their demise. The truth is, you are just getting going, writing a new chapter and continuing to become and grow whole.

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, our expert faculty will take you on an interactive and life-changing journey that will guide you to:

  • Identify the threads of your life, unearth the wisdom within and learn how that relates to your sense of purpose.    
  • Reframe your understanding of change and transitions and your relationship with them.  
  • Embrace authenticity by understanding what a deep sense of fulfillment means and identify the shifts required to live and lead in alignment with your values.  
  • Leave with your 2024 Impact Statement—a statement that aligns the wisdom and insights you've surfaced to guide you to say yes with conviction and no with clarity as you embrace the authorship of your next chapter.
  • Gain increased energy, joy, equanimity, and the clarity you need for your next chapter to live authentically and aligned with your core values.
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.

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.

Barbara Waxman
Barbara Waxman
Guest Faculty

Barbara Waxman is a masterful coach, life stage expert and gerontologist and empowers adults in midlife to thrive personally and professionally. She is an Advisory Council Member for the Stanford Center on Longevity and Stanford Lifestyle Medicine, an angel investor in the longevity space, and a three-time author.

Janis Nakano Spivack
Janis Nakano Spivack
Content Facilitator

The founder of Crush., Janis Nakano Spivack is a seasoned and curious creative who’s experienced old school and new as a passionate “mentern” working with Gen X and Millennial collaborators.

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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Private Room
Space all to yourself

$

6000

Shared Room
Meet a new pal

$

4500

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.

Gold

$

3000

Participants are responsible for $3,000 tuition (50% of full workshop tuition) and their travel costs. We will announce gold-level awards within 5 days of application submission. You will be placed on an upgrade waitlist for a private room – exceptions for specific medical or personal conditions may be considered.

Platinum

$

500

Participants are responsible for only $500 tuition (only 8% of full workshop tuition) and their travel costs. We will announce platinum-level awards no more than 5 weeks before the requested workshop start date. Applicants requesting financial aid will be in a shared room with another participant.

Given how much demand we have for this most generous form of financial aid, a small percentage of those who apply are able to be accepted.

Cancellation

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