Location: North Fork, CA (and others)What it is: A ten-day silent retreat to learn Vipassana meditation. The course is designed for all levels, even people who can’t sit still for longer than it takes to check email. The instruction leads you bit by bit to the first real sit a few days in. Don’t expect [...]

What it is: Originally made in the 1970s, during the renaissance of the women’s spirituality movement, this tarot deck is unusual in that the cards are round and the images are women, and goddess-based. Symbols are taken from women-centered rituals and based in non-western (and some western) global cultures.
Growth Potential: I find that tarot [...]

Location: Various locations in the U.S. and around the worldWhat it is: Pamela’s gatherings, called satsang (Sanskrit for “meetings in truth”), are meetings where people come to “take refuge in the heart.” In a supportive atmosphere of like-minded seekers, she employs techniques to question and quiet the mind, so that the loving, true nature of [...]

Location: San Francisco, CAWhat it is: This is a 3 day course designed to help people have more pleasure, and fulfillment in all aspects of their life, with an emphasis on their intimate relationships.
Growth Potential: During the pleasure course, you will have a chance to look inward and identify what it is that makes [...]

What it is: Individual financial coaching with Joetta Johnson of Conscious Bookkeeping. Conscious Bookkeeping coaches don’t tell you how to make money or how to invest it; they actually help you CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO MONEY so it’s easier for you to make it and you know what do with it once you have [...]

What it is: The 4 Hour Workweek is a book about designing your lifestyle to inform your job as opposed to your job informing your lifestyle. It outlines strategies for delegating, streamling and outsourcing tasks (yes to India or China) to free up time and stress so that you can do the things you [...]

What it is: This book provides an easy-to-use template for thinking through what kind of a person is your “perfect customer” and even more importantly, how you might attract that “perfect customer” into your life. And even though they use the word “customer,” it’s really about attracting whatever you want into your life: the [...]

Location: Arizona, New Mexico, TexasWhat it is: NOLS (the National Outdoor Leadership School) is a wilderness-based education program. During the course of a program (which range from 7 days to a full-semester), students learn leadership skills, learning styles, personal assessment techniques, and outdoor skills, of course. Not everyone’s journey is as extreme as this [...]

Location: SOMA/Mission district of San Francisco, CAWhat it is: The Authentic Man Program (AMP) presents an opportunity for you, or any man, to get really curious about who he is. This course gave me the tools to feel and understand that the way other people experience me is different, sometimes drastically, from the way I [...]

Location: New York, New York
What it is: Momentum Education is a New York-based company whose focus is on adult transformational education. Momentum Education is comprised of a collection of workshops: The Basic, The Advanced, and Leadership. The workshops encourage breakthrough learning experiences which support participants in realizing their full potential. The work is presented in [...]