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A year of nomading and grieving. A year of honoring and not fixing. A year of active and empathic listening. A year of loving, not just others, but myself. A year of powerful badassery. A year exploring and navigating being Just to The Left of Death three times.

As we approach year-end, it’s natural to start looking—with hope—at 2022, especially given the emotional complexities of the past two years. While we’re happy to announce that MEA’s first four workshops of the new season are now full, we still have a plentiful slate of exciting workshops available. Of course, we encourage you to review your options below and take action sooner than later.

Wow! It’s been 20 months since we had to close the MEA Baja campus and cancel our remaining 2020 and early 2021 workshops. Fortunately, Sabbatical Sessions and MEA Online were created to serve our community during the darkest days of the pandemic...and both continue to thrive.

“My name is Shawn and if you really really knew me, you would know that I am both ecstatic and terrified to be working with this organization that is rethinking what it means to be an elder.

As a for-profit entrepreneur, I spent the first half of my life focused on Return on Investment (ROI). Now, I’m spending the second half of my life focused on a different form of ROI: Ripples of Impact. I love this phrase coined by our MEA faculty member Justin Michael Williams and mindfulness teacher and author Shelly Tygielski.

This is the first sign we saw on Thursday when we arrived at our rustic Rocky Mountain retreat.

We believe that personal growth retreat centers need to make a courageous investment in socio-economic diversity. Personal growth shouldn’t be accessible only to those with greater financial means.

Traditional Definition: “a person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others.” But in the MEA world, we define it as “a person who inspires confidence in you.”

If the question above has you stumped, you might try this: if someone made a movie about you, what would the name of it be? Or better yet, if you wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?

This Saturday, Sept. 18th from 9-10:30 am PT, MEA is offering a free online event that seems perfectly-suited to the times we’re living in. Are you feeling a little weary and perhaps a little less resilient with so much change coming without respite? How do we continue to regenerate our mindset towards positivity, growth and wisdom?