Learning to Love Midlife
Reframe Your Thinking About Your 40's, 50's and 60's
Pre-registration is now available.
Discover new possibilities for midlife April 25-27 at "Learning to Love Midlife" - a weekend workshop with midlife expert Chip Conley. Learn how to embrace this stage as a time for growth, fulfillment, and personal transformation.
Are you feeling bored, stuck, bewildered, or overwhelmed? You're not alone, especially in your 40s, 50s, or 60s. Welcome to midlife, a time when many of us feel restless and disenchanted. But, new research shows that after a temporary bottoming-out of life satisfaction, we often start feeling more content and alive in the core and latter part of midlife. And, Becca Levy from Yale has shown that when we shift our mindset on aging from a negative to a positive we add seven and a half years to our lives.
Chip Conley is the world's leading midlife activist having spoken on the TED stage about the "midlife chrysalis" and written a 2023 bestselling book called "Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age." As the founder of the world's midlife wisdom school, MEA (Modern Elder Academy), Chip is helping to demystify and elevate midlife as a life stage of profound personal transformation.
Your Journey Starts Here
Discover a transformative experience designed to guide you toward living with purpose. Download the sample schedule for a glimpse into the journey ahead, including engaging workshops, enriching classes, and nourishing meals crafted with your well-being in mind. Every aspect of the program is thoughtfully created to support your path to personal growth and fulfillment.
Sample itinerary is tentative and subject to change. The final schedule will be provided upon check-in.
Meet Chip Conley
Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second-largest operator of boutique hotels in the U.S., and then as Airbnb's Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, leading a worldwide revolution in travel, Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018 in Baja California, Mexico.
Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a ‘modern elder' at Airbnb, where his guidance was instrumental to the company's extraordinary transformation from fast-growing start-up to the world's most valuable hospitality brand, MEA is the world's first ‘midlife wisdom school' and has a 2,600-acre regenerative horse ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico which opened in May 2024. Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, MEA supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility. A New York Times bestselling author, Conley's 7th book "Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age" is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often-misunderstood life stage and he was asked to give a 2023 TED talk on the "midlife chrysalis.
During this Experience You Will...
- Learn about the upside of midlife and what gets better with age
- Understand how to navigate midlife transitions and grow your TQ (Transitional Intelligence)
- Review your mindset when it comes to your physical, mental, emotional, social, and family health
- Cultivate a new sense of purpose in both your personal and professional life
- Be given tools and practices to cultivate, harvest and share your wisdom
- Develop an action plan for how to consciously curate the second half of your adult life
Who Attends 'Learning To Love Midlife'
This workshop is perfect for those who have followed Chip's journey as a boutique hotelier and "modern elder" to Airbnb's founders, you might know about MEA but haven't had the chance to visit the campus or explore its online courses. Now's your opportunity to experience an immersive workshop inspired by MEA's curriculum, set among the Santa Cruz Mountain redwoods. Ideal for those in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, this workshop serves as a powerful catalyst for life transformation.