YPO Southern 7 Retreat
at MEA’s Rising Circle Ranch in Santa Fe
Sep 29 - Oct 2, 2025 Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley, Sue Izzo
Reframe your relationship with aging and lay the foundations for your extraordinary future together with Chip Conley at MEA
As you and your spouse or life partner venture further into midlife, how do you know that you’re on the same page when it comes to your shared future?
And how do you make sure you’re both able to successfully navigate the challenges that life will inevitably bring your way as you get older?
Whether you’re dealing with retirement or career pivots, empty nesting, aging parents, or changing physicality, knowing how to adapt to unexpected challenges and live a life of purpose and meaning is the key to finding joy and fulfillment in your midlife years and beyond.
And if you and your partner join MEA founder and bestselling author Chip Conley on a beautiful regenerative horse ranch in New Mexico’s high desert in late September 2025, you will gain powerful science-backed tools and practices that will empower you to do just that!
Join Chip for a transformative couples workshop and discover how to navigate life’s unexpected transitions and find more joy, purpose, and fulfillment in everything you do – together and individually.
What you’ll gain
Through a blend of fun, science-backed experiential activities and illuminating discussion, you will gain powerful tools and practices that will help you:
You and your partner will leave energized and excited about your future together – and eager to take the next steps to make your shared vision a reality.
MEA, which has been heralded by The New York Times as the “world’s first midlife wisdom school,” is proud to have successfully hosted YPO many times in Baja as well as at our new retreat center in Santa Fe – and to have earned the highest rankings by YPO members for our facilities and world-class programming.
We would love to have you and your spouse or life partner join us for what is sure to be a transformative experience!
Meet your faculty
Chip Conley
MEA Co-Founder and Author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
Bestselling Author | Entrepreneur | Innovator | Disruptor | Speaker
Chip Conley is a three-time TED speaker on the big stage and one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of business innovation, psychology, and spirituality.
As one of the creators of the boutique hotel movement and the "modern elder" to the young Airbnb founders, Chip is a disruptor and expert on entrepreneurship and business leadership. He’s a globally-recognized thought leader on the future of work and the competitive advantages of a multi-generational workplace, and serves on the board of Encore.org and the advisory board for the Stanford Center for Longevity.
Chip was inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a “modern elder” at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – to found his latest company, MEA (Modern Elder Academy). He is now on a mission to disrupt the aging industry by giving people the tools they need to thrive in midlife and beyond and create long, healthy, purposeful lives for themselves.
He and his team are dedicated to providing transformative growth experiences in breathtaking natural environments that inspire people to become their best selves.
This workshop is for you if...
You’re looking for effective ways to boost employee morale, motivation, and performance
You want to communicate more effectively with colleagues across generations and foster a more collaborative work environment
You are seeking to harness your decades of wisdom and experience to make a more meaningful impact at work
You want to create a workplace culture that values wisdom and encourages continuous growth
You are looking for more effective ways to meet your customers’ needs and earn their loyalty and devotion
You’re ready to build a resilient organization that can adapt to challenges while maintaining a strong sense of purpose
It’s the perfect opportunity to deepen your relationship as you gain the tools and practices that will make your shared vision for your future a reality.
Santa Fe, USA
Rising Circle Ranch
An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.
Plus, you’ll get to enjoy The EQUUS Experience® Exclusive to Santa Fe Workshops
Experience breakthrough learning with The EQUUS Experience®, where horses—our millennia-old wisdom partners—will help us understand our true selves. Guided by EQUUS® facilitators in training Lee Johnson and Sue Izzo on our own Rising Circle Ranch, this non-riding interaction with horses offers self-discovery through intention-setting, observation, and group discussion.
Created by Kelly Wendorf, Founder of EQUUS®, an award-winning equine-assisted learning process, this unique opportunity is available at MEA's Santa Fe campus.
It’s a powerful enhancement to your workshop experience that will make you feel more profoundly connected to yourself and to the world around you.
Are you ready to discover how incredible your future together can be?
People come for the workshops,
but they stay for the community
This is truly MEA’s “secret sauce” and something you can only experience in person: the powerful connections you will make, not only with your fellow participants and the incredible MEA faculty, but also the deeper sense of connection you will feel to your own inner self and the natural world around you.
Research into aging shows that your relationships play a HUGE role in your health and wellbeing later in life. At MEA, you will make deep and lasting connections and become part of a larger community that will make your life richer and more meaningful.
Many of our alumni cohorts have stayed in close touch for years after their workshop and we have a growing number of local alumni chapters all over the world. It’s a joy for us to see them continuing to offer each other community, friendship, and support as they create thriving midlives for themselves. So if you have been feeling at all disconnected or isolated on your journey, we would love to have you join us!
Have we mentioned the food?
The MEA experience is designed in part by Chip Conley, a world-renowned boutique hotelier, which means the food is amazing.
All of the ingredients are locally sourced, organic, and made from scratch in our kitchens by hand-picked chefs. The delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners will leave you feeling nourished inside and out – not to mention the blended drinks made with fresh fruit and other top-shelf ingredients.
Each retreat center has multiple kitchens that always have snacks and beverages available. At MEA, we believe that thriving is delicious!
Your Workshop Includes
Double Occupancy Rate
$5,400 per couple
Ready to start your journey?
YPO Southern 7 Retreat
at MEA's Rising Circle Ranch
Sep 29 - Oct 2, 2025 Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley, Sue Izzo
Step into your next chapter with confidence and ease, knowing that every detail of your experience is being taken care of by our world-class faculty and hospitality team.
$5,400 per couple
