You Can Design Your Next Chapter
Here’s the simple when, where, and how.
When
Wednesday, March 31, 5 p.m. through
Saturday, April 3, 11:40 a.m.
For the benefit of everyone, all participants are expected to be present for the entire time (no late arrivals or early departures). We suggest that you arrive the day before so you can start the workshop feeling fresh and well-rested.
Where
Ferncliff Conference Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Ferncliff is 30 minutes from the airport, in a beautiful natural setting by a small lake. Lodging is in comfortable, motel-style rooms, each with a lake view.
How to be there
Take these three steps to secure your space in the workshop:
- Reserve your place. A fully refundable application deposit of $100 holds your place in the workshop for four business days, while you complete your application and decide for sure that you’re going to be with us. If for any reason you decide not to complete the process, just let us know and the deposit will be refunded immediately. If you do go forward, the deposit is applied to the workshop fee. Click here to make your deposit.
- Complete your application. The application is three simple questions. You’ll also have the option of a phone conversation with Pam McAllister, who acts as “admissions director.” (She wrote What Kind of World Do You Want? with Jim Lord and has co-facilitated the Quest workshop with him in the past.) The purpose of this application process is to make sure there’s a great fit between your expectations and what the workshop has to offer.
Returning alums please note: You can skip this step. (Of course, Pam would still be glad to talk with you.) - Finalize your registration. Payment of the workshop fee of $2750, less the $100 deposit, secures your space. (The fee includes all meals during the workshop.)
“A colleague and I went half-way around the world to attend.”
Elaine Pickering, Hong Kong
“I wouldn’t have missed this for the world.”
I had no idea how profoundly this remarkable experience would affect my view of the world and the way I see my ability to change the world. I found such clarity of purpose and I have been able to give myself permission to joyfully express my own essence. This was the most productive, most inspirational, most transforming three days I’ve ever spent.
Rufus Woods, Editor and Publisher, The Wenatchee World, Wenatchee, Washington, USA
Her audacious vision came to be
My first workshop with Jim was the moment I was able to see that my life had a pattern. It wasn’t a patchwork of unrelated things, as I had thought (because I didn’t have a career, moving as I did from journalism to public affairs to running a business to doing election administration and observation). I saw that I was a learner, a teacher, and a researcher and explorer.
It felt so wonderfully good to see that pattern, because it gave me something to build on for the next part of my life. (I remember that Jim told me how impressed he was that I was investing in myself, to come to that workshop; and that has stayed with me. I had never thought of it in quite that way before.) At that workshop, I wrote a vision for the future that seemed so audacious that I promptly put it away for several years and only rarely looked at it.
And then I realized recently that it is indeed coming to pass.
Rosemary Cairns, Researcher and consultant, Canada and Serbia
Dreams become real in India
Jim magnifies one’s power to dream and dream big. My first workshop with him gave me courage to take the plunge and start my own non-profit organization, Muskaan (which means “smile” in English).
The full package — the book, two workshops and leadership program, and the APPRECIATION that I have received from my workshop mates — has made me love my dream all the more and has given me energy to translate it into reality.
Vibha, Founder of Muskaan, Lucknow, India
[Vibha uses only her first name in defiance of India’s caste system.]
Designed his “next act” in the public sector
That last workshop was instrumental in my thinking through this “next act” in my career, as I ready for transition. We face a remarkable opportunity to redesign the public sector in my state.
Dan Loritz, Vice President, Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA