"If you find yourself asking "what's next?" in your life, there's a boom industry of personal growth retreats and curricula to help navigate midlife transitions, big or small. The first step requires some introspection: "Who am I now? Or who do I want to become?" These are incredibly common questions, especially at key transitions in life, whether that's launching children and becoming an empty-nester, walking through a career disruption or navigating the loss of a partner through divorce or death."
""I think of midlife not as a crisis, but as a chrysalis. It's that middle stage between caterpillar and butterfly," says Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy and author of the The Midlife Manifesto. "You're letting go of some things and something else is being created at the same time." Conley describes his organization as "a midlife wisdom school," and it's among the new crop of courses and workshops including at universities and community colleges"
Personal-growth retreats, courses and curricula have expanded to support people navigating midlife transitions of all sizes. The initial step centers on introspection, asking who one is now and who one wants to become. Midlife commonly coincides with empty-nesting, career disruption, or loss of a partner through divorce or death. Midlife can function as a chrysalis, a middle stage of letting go while new identities form. Programs provide practices, tools, community, quizzes and archetype frameworks to guide reinvention. Archetypes include seeker, lone wolf, impact-maker and sage, each offering different pathways for transformation.
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