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Life leap workshops
Your gap year at mid-life
for reflection, discovery, and change,
away from home, routines, and distractions
launched in a 10 day summer camp with fellow interpreneurs
Our Life Leap Workshops provide the structure and support to get you organized, thinking creatively, and piloting your own future toward a grand (dare we say audacious!) ambition, … your version of the truly engaged life.
Imagine an intrepid sailboat being prepped for an epic voyage.
A trinity of strengths will enable this journey with purpose and bearing: a well delineated map (a clear destination and plan to get there), a sturdy ship (physical resilience), and a steady wind (passion and zeal).
The camp and workshop will help you develop these 3 strengths through numerous sessions and experiments with maps & models, outings and introspections, games and creativity, and a lot of collaboration and support. Remember summer camp? Wasn't that fun? Yeah, we're kind of like that but delivering more momentous outcomes.
key Elements of our camp structure
Day Play:
We dive deep into interpreneurial concepts: charting life maps and adopting best practices for building emotional and physical prowess. North Stars are set, product-passion fits aligned, grand ambitions launched, the roles of art and creativity in their many forms explored, journals kept, commitments made. We provoke and support and get ourselves beyond comfort zones. It's your moment to reimagine possibilities and aspire without limits.
Lunches ensemble:
We indulge in a Mediterranean diet, prepped together and led by local chefs who expand our kitchen confidence with recipes and tips and tricks.
Apéro hour:
Apéro recap of the day, supporting and confiding over pétanque and other fun group activities.
Evening enlightenment:
On certain evenings we'll enjoy lectures by invited professors from local universities. Art, philosophy, creativity, literature, history, technology … as a group we’ll decide what would interesting.
Field trips:
Day trips to inspirational destinations in the Provence and California regions, providing additional time to share on what’s being learned and answer lingering questions while exploring the some of the most beautiful spots on the planet.
The Mediterranean diet for the whole you
Provence - where Bill has called home for 15+ years - is envied for its very high quality of life, and we bring a bit of that magic to wherever our workshops are offered.
Nourished by a healthy Mediterranean diet.
Slowed by a harmonious work-life balance.
Enriched by an emphasis on deep sensual savoring - of the sites, smells, sounds, tastes abundant here - and less on frivolous consumerism.
We borrow heavily from this richness in creating a balanced program that provides a long-term, balanced structure to your encore ambitions.
What we are not
This Life Leap Camp is a lot of amazing things, but not:
A retreat. We are an incubator for audacious dreams and the best practices for pursuing them; an accelerator to (and not retreat from) your next exciting ambition. We structure a gap year for challenging assumptions and thinking outside the lines. Navel gazing and downtime? Yes, calm is essential, but recharged for actionable goals as follow-up.
A spa. While we do conduct sessions in yoga, mindfulness, and other practices whose benefits for better health are empirically proven, you will not be pampered. We can help arrange spa sessions of infinite varieties at local providers if interested.
A spiritualism center. Shamanism, crystal energy, astrology, and all other spiritual practices new-age and old are not part of our program. You won’t be watching the sunrise on peyote or forming prayer circles. Participants are certainly welcome to hold, share, and practice their own beliefs, but they play no role in our program.
post workshop
This Life Leap Program is just the essential big Step 1 in the launch of Where Now? in your life.
Post the commencement ceremony we'll help organize regular calls and reunions with your cohort of campers, and encourage you to mentor new campers coming into the program.
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