Don’t let the gray hair fool you.  With a membership of 40 million plus, AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, is a force to be reckoned with.  

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, at the exclusive Cavallo Point Resort & Spa, a select group of very bright scholars, innovators, and Fortune 500 executives are sitting down to discuss the “future of the wellbeing movement.”  

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  In his new book Flourish, (Free Press: Simon & Shuster, 2011) Martin Seligman, esteemed psychologist and one of the founders of the Positive Psychology Movement, inspires us to become optimists and to get the most out of the lives we have been given.

MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Jesse Schell one of the world’s top 100 young innovators. Early in his career he was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio where he worked on Disney theme parks and the massively popular kids game Toontown Online. Continue Reading

Maybe you search for meaning through an intensified, secular engagement with ordinary, daily life -- or draw from the deep, eternal stream of meaning accessible to generation after generation via traditional forms of worship.

Spirituality is a fundamental part of being human. It is the story we use to explain our existence and orient ourselves in the world. Rituals are critical to cultivating a healthy spirituality because they allow us to act out our particular stories.

Imagine if you will a gift. One that will inspire, motivate and challenge. Your life will have new meaning. Continue Reading