Cultivating Purpose with guest faculty Cecily Mak & Soren Gordhamer

A New Year Reset: Embrace New Wisdom Habits for a Successful 2025

Dec 9 - Dec 14, 2024 in Baja, Mexico

Led by: Soren Gordhamer, Cecily Mak, Barbara Tint

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Create powerful new habits that amplify your ability to succeed with the founders of Wisdom 2.0 and Clearlife

You already have everything you need to excel at whatever it is you want to accomplish in life.

But all too often, our own thoughts and habits get in the way of us showing up as our best selves and getting the results we desire.

The good news is, you can form new behaviors and beliefs at any time that will empower you to make wiser decisions and take more effective action that will help you achieve the outcomes you want.

Wisdom 2.0 founder Soren Gordhamer and Clearlife founder Cecily Mak would love to help you let go of what’s no longer serving you and form powerful new wisdom practices that will unlock your highest potential for success.

Here’s your chance to “release the brakes” and head into 2025 operating at maximum capacity to accomplish incredible things in the year ahead!

In this transformative workshop co-facilitated with Wisdom 2.0 founder Soren Gordhamer and ClearLife founder Cecily Mak, you will learn how to create new habits and practices that empower you to show up clear, focused, and fully present in the moment and create a more conscious and intentional life.

What you’ll gain

Through a combination of our MEA Cultivating Purpose curriculum and Soren and Cecily’s wisdom-based mindfulness teachings, you will:

Learn how to use simple mindset and movement practices that help you experience calm presence, even in life’s chaotic moments
Explore your habits and thought patterns and the impact they have on your life with curiosity and self-compassion
Identify the root causes of habits that aren't serving you while dissolving any unhelpful narratives associated you may have associated with them
Discover how to use the Eight Awarenesses as support tools for crafting and living a life you no longer want to numb yourself against or escape from
Tap into your own inner guidance and own your power to live your life in a way that best serves you, free from anyone else’s expectations or judgment

You will leave the workshop feeling clear, energized, and inspired to make 2025 the year you step into your full power and live an undimmed life liberated from the habits that are stopping you from showing up as your best self.

Meet your faculty

Soren Gordhamer

Founder and host of Wisdom 2.0

Mindfulness teacher | Entrepreneur | Author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected

Soren is the founder and host of the wildly popular Wisdom 2.0 conference, which brings together technology leaders along with teachers from wisdom traditions to explore how we can live mindfully and wisely, and engage the great technologies of our age in ways that benefit us, our society, and our world.

Through Wisdom 2.0, Soren has created a global movement on conscious living in modern times. Along the way, he has engaged and interviewed everyone from spiritual teachers such as Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle, to tech leaders including the founders of OpenAI, Twitter, Facebook, eBay and others.

Soren is also co-founder of Wisdom Ventures, which explores the application of ancient wisdom in modern life. He has been engaged in the exploration and teaching of wisdom, compassion, and mindfulness for over 30 years. He has taught mindfulness in a wide range of settings, from Google’s corporate headquarters, to youth in New York City prisons, to genocide survivors in Rwanda.

Cecily Mak

Author of UNDIMMED: Awareness Practices to Reclaim Power, Agency, and Freedom from Unwanted Habits

ClearLife Founder | Host of Undimmed: A ClearLife Podcast

Cecily Mak is co-founder of Wisdom Ventures and the visionary behind ClearLife. She is a former lawyer and Silicon Valley executive turned writer and podcast host who helps people create undimmed lives full of intention and presence for themselves, free from the stigmas of addiction.

ClearLife was borne from Cecily’s own experience of choosing to stop using alcohol and other escapist substances as a dimmer in her life. Although she started her alcohol- and substance-free journey as a 30-day experiment, she quickly realized that her life felt so much clearer, richer, and more intentional without them.

As she continued her journey, Cecily discovered that many other people are also ready to change their relationship with substances, unhealthy eating habits, workaholism, obsessive people-pleasing, and other unhelpful habits . The ClearLife community she has helped create through her podcast, newsletter, and social media channels includes 130,000+ people who are interested in creating more intentional and presence-filled lives for themselves.

Cecily's upcoming book, UNDIMMED: Awareness Practices to Reclaim Power, Agency, and Freedom from Unwanted Habits, will be published by Flatiron Press (Macmillan) in early 2026.

This workshop is for you if...

You’re beginning to realize that some of your behaviors are preventing you from feeling clear, confident, and fully present in the moment

You’ve been asking yourself, “How can I show up in a more present and powerful way and find the fulfillment I crave?

You’re ready to explore a different way of being that doesn’t involve softening the sharp edges of your life with unhealthy habits and behaviors

You’re interested in learning new mindfulness practices that empower you to show up more consciously and attentively and make better decisions in the moment

You're interested in living a more unmediated, substance-free life – but don’t consider yourself to be an "addict"

You’re looking for a supportive community of other individuals who are dedicated to living lives of clarity, purpose, intention, and presence

You’re ready to release old habits and behaviors that no longer serve you so you can step into your full power and live a more impactful life

You’re excited to discover the possibilities that appear when you’re no longer numbing yourself or avoiding discomfort

Do this powerful work on our awe-inspiring beachside campus in Baja

Baja, Mexico

El Pescadero Resort

A stunning oceanfront property offering all of the amenities of a luxury hotel with beautiful beaches perfect for swimming or surfing. Located on the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, just a short drive from Todo Santos, the “Pueblo Magico”.

Beach walks
Poolside lounging
Warm ocean waves
Fire pits
Magical sunsets

It’s time to listen to what your inner voices are telling you.

Forming new mindset practices and habits that enhance your clarity and focus is a life-affirming act of agency and choice.

No matter what may be holding you back from showing up as your best self – whether it's unhealthy habits, substances, ideas, or behaviors, or taking "healthy" behavior to the extreme – when you liberate yourself from their constraints , you will find your freedom.

Are you ready to discover how rich and fulfilling your clear and unmediated life 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

5 days and nights of lodging at our boutique luxury retreat center in Baja or Santa Fe with all of your meals, snacks, drinks and other amenities included
Daily sessions and experiential activities to help you connect with your inner self, envision your desired experience, and release what no longer serves you
Meditation covering a range of practices to soothe your nervous system and help you cultivate greater mindfulness and presence in the moment.

Movement to get the energy flowing and build your strength and agility as you chart your course forward to the life you want to live.
Incredible bonding experiences with the most amazing humans you’ll ever meet.
Three delicious, chef-prepared meals plus snacks throughout the day prepared from scratch with the freshest local ingredients.
Festive gatherings to cultivate connection and celebrate the joy and beauty of life.

Tuition starts at $4,000

Ready to start your journey?