Owning Wisdom with Chip Conley
Chip’s 50+ Film Festival
Dec 17 - Dec 22, 2024 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley
Do You Love Watching Great Movies – Especially During the Darkest Time of the Year?
Welcome to the first MEA film festival focused on great movies with themes focused on those 50 and older – popcorn included!
Here’s your chance to join Chip Conley and other inspired film buffs for five incredible days of unlocking your inner wisdom while watching great movies geared specifically to people aged 50 and older.
You’ll watch seven films over the course of the week and enjoy soul-enriching in-depth conversations with your fellow participants – as well as some potential drop-in Santa Fe film legends (no guarantees but Alli McGraw, Neil Patrick Harris, Julia Roberts and George RR Martin live in Santa Fe full- or part-time).
This will be a unique and unforgettable way to start the winter holiday season. Both recent and older films will be shown with writing prompts to help you see how cinematic art can imitate and inspire your life. Given that New Mexico is such a popular film location, we’ll also talk about the history of films that have been made near MEA’s campus.
In this Owning Wisdom workshop facilitated by Chip Conley, you’ll enjoy a light version of the MEA core curriculum while also enjoying great movies and inspiring conversations with other wisdom-seeking individuals.
What You’ll Gain
Through a combination of our MEA Owning Wisdom curriculum and watching and discussing movies that explore themes relevant to people in the second half of life, you will:
By the end of your five-day film festival with Chip in Santa Fe, you will have a greater appreciation for the power of film to help you make sense of your own experience and cultivate meaningful connections with other amazing humans who make you feel like an cherished member of a loving and supportive community.
If you’re looking to do something different this holiday season that feeds your soul and helps you deepen your sense of human connection and love for others, be sure to join us!
Meet Your Faculty
Chip Conley
MEA Co-Founder and Author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
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.
(Plus, have we mentioned he’s a pretty big film buff?)
What Chip’s workshop participants have to say...
“Chip Conley reminds us all to savor the wisdom, self-knowledge, and joy that accompanies this time in our lives.”
Father Richard Rohr
Bestselling author, speaker and spiritual thought leader
“If we are lucky enough, midlife will find us all, but that doesn’t mean crisis has to accompany it. The brilliant and beloved Conley reminds us that with transition and uncertainty comes possibility. No, our doors are not closed after forty, fifty, sixty: in many ways, they are more open than ever.”
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, author and host of Where Should We Begin
“Chip Conley will show you that aging is a superpower, capable of changing you (and our world) for the better.”
Arthur C. Brooks
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times
bestselling author of From Strength to Strength
This workshop is for you if...
You’re looking for something different to do to get in the “holiday spirit”
You love watching movies and discussing them with other people
You’re looking for a fun way to gain valuable insight into yourself
You’re searching for ways to tap into your own capacity for creativity
You want to connect with others and explore powerful topics and ideas with them
The idea of a quick getaway to nature right before Christmas sounds pretty perfect
7 Films in 5 Days with MEA Founder Chip Conley and Friends
That’s it! That’s the pitch. Come hang out with Chip and other incredible members of the MEA community and immerse yourself in powerful, beautiful, thought-provoking films that make you laugh and cry and appreciate humanity’s boundless capacity for creativity – and the complicated beauty of life on planet Earth.