Owning (Body) Wisdom with Chip Conley and Molly O’Brien
Owning (Body) Wisdom
Feb 10 - Feb 15, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley, Molly O’Brien, Sarah Byrden
Financial aid is available. Apply Here.
You’ve spent your life accumulating knowledge – now it’s time to distill your wisdom.
By the time you reach midlife, you have gained decades of lived experience that contains the seeds of all the valuable wisdom you could ever hope to possess.
But knowing how to synthesize your experiences into wisdom can be easier said than done. So much of our acquired understanding lives more in our bodies and hearts than in our head – and can’t be accessed simply by “thinking about it.”
Unlocking deep insight requires you to go beyond your conscious mind and open the door to wisdom through your body and heart.
When you release the tension you hold in your physical body, you liberate yourself from the old wounds and discomforting emotions that caused you to experience that tension in the first place.
And you open yourself to insight and understanding that can’t be reached with your mind alone.
In this Owning Wisdom workshop co-facilitated with Chip Conley and Biodynamic Craniosacral massage and Rolfing® Structural Integration therapist Molly O’Brien, you will learn a powerful series of wisdom practices for the body, mind, and soul that will help you transform your lived experiences into profound insight and understanding.
What you’ll gain
Through a combination of our MEA Owning Wisdom curriculum and experiential body wisdom and movement sessions led by Molly O’Brien – including one full hour of massage with a certified therapist – you will:
You will leave feeling rejuvenated, energized, and empowered, with powerful tools to manage stress and overwhelm and optimize your health and vibrancy for years to come.
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
A three-time TED speaker on the big stage, Chip Conley is 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's been 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.
Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a “modern elder” at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – Chip founded MEA and has since dedicated his midlife years to reframing the concept of aging and helping people navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
Molly O'Brien
Certified Bodyworker
Biodynamic Craniosacral | Shiatsu | Rolfing® Structural Integrity | Kundalini Yoga
Molly O’Brien has been a bodyworker for thirty three years and has been fascinated by how the body moves and works since she was a teenager. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral and Shiatsu massage therapist with a background in Kundalini yoga.
Molly is also a certified Rolfing® Structural Integrity practitioner and helps her clients relieve stress and find pain relief through consciously paying more attention to our body’s structural system. She believes that if we want a better quality of life, we need to pay attention – and when we tune into our own body’s innate wisdom and inherent capacity to heal itself, incredible shifts can happen. She has seen it happen with her clients and also in her own life.
This workshop is for you if...
You feel disconnected from your body and want to improve your health, vitality, and overall well-being
You want to unlock your body’s innate wisdom for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing
You’re looking for practical proven tools to help you manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelm
You want to move better, sleep better, think better, and feel better now and for years to come
You have old wounds and trauma you’re ready to release
Looking to deepen your sense of community and connection with the world around you
Ready to let go of self-limiting beliefs that are stopping you from stepping into your full power
Ready to expand your sense of awe – and cultivate profound gratitude for the life you get to live
Yearning to feel like you’re part of something that’s much bigger than yourself
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.
Your body’s wisdom is available to you at any time
But in our culture, we have not been educated to sit with ourselves and listen to our bodies and understand what they are telling us. The good news is, there are age-old techniques available that you can access at any time to deepen your awareness of your body and spend more time noticing what comes up for you. And when you learn how to tune into your body’s innate intelligence, you can unlock your ability to thrive mentally, spiritually, and physically for years to come.
