Bestselling author, life coach, and speaker, Richard Leider brings the power of purpose to life helping us to find meaning, live longer, better.  He will be teaching at beautiful Rancho La Puerta the week of March 29, 2025.

To get a life, get a purpose! Purpose is not a luxury for the few, but is accessible to all and is fundamental to health, healing, happiness, and longevity, adding 7-10 years to your life. Purpose gives us the will not just to live but to live long and well. Legendary life coach Richard Leider offers a Purpose Checkup to help us unlock the power of purpose and inspire us to get out of bed in the morning with intention and joy.

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Richard will be the featured guest on Revolutionize Your Retirement interview series with host Dorian Mintzer.

Based on the completely revised fourth edition of The Power of Purpose, this program invites you to unlock the power of purpose at any stage in life. Purpose provides meaning, vitality, and a reason to rise every morning—and it’s the key to living longer, better, and more meaningfully.

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Rearview Mirror Revelations: What It Means to Grow & Give for Life

Join us for an insightful and inspiring presentation and conversation with the Bakken Center Senior Fellows, moderated by founder and director Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer. Our Senior Fellows are accomplished experts in their fields who have committed their talents in service to the Center’s vision of advancing the health and wellbeing of people and the planet.

Senior Fellow and Purpose Expert Richard Leider will lay the foundation for the discussion, and pose two key questions to the Senior Fellows: How are you growing? How are you giving? They will each reflect from their very unique vantage points on how they continue to find meaning in giving and growing for life.

Participants are encouraged to read Rearview Mirror Revelations with Senior Fellow Richard Leider prior to the webinar, and to have something to write on and with during the webinar.

Cost: Free
Time: 12-1:30pm CT
Register HERE

Modern Elder Academy is launching their first Midlife Mastery Summit.

Join 20+ world-renowned thought leaders for a 3-day virtual summit designed to help you reclaim your joy, purpose, and vitality – and make your next chapter extraordinary.

Get Ready to Transform Your Life & Relationship to Aging Over Three Extraordinary Days…

Dates: March 14, 15, and 16
Cost: $77 (attend all live sessions) or $117 (all live sessions plus recordings)

Click HERE to learn more and register.  Early bird pricing ends Feb 28th.

Richard will be teaching at Blue Spirit the week of February 1-8, 2025.

Wisdom & Wellbeing Week 4 Multi-Faculty
Purpose, Engaged Buddhism and Eco-Activism

During Week 4, sample from a wide variety of programs with acclaimed teachers and choose from the following workshops during the week.

Enjoy a workshop in the morning, try another in the afternoon, or stick with the same workshop all week. You can also abandon your schedule and head to the beach.

The program includes:
· All classes and program with world renowned teachers for this week
· Gourmet vegetarian and vegan meals from our Buffet-plus fish being served three times during the week.
· Blue Spirit amenities such as the Longevity Center, salt water pool and direct beach access.

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Everyone is getting old; not everyone is growing older. But the path of purposeful aging is accessible to all. And it is fundamental to health, healing, happiness, and longevity.

Richard helps us to reimagine aging as a liberating experience that enables us to become more authentically the person we were always meant to be with each passing year.

Time: 12-1pm CT

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Celebrating The Power of Purpose and the 30th Anniversary of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing with Richard Leider and Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer

Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Time: 12-1:30pm CT
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Join best-selling author, legendary executive-life coach, and Bakken Center Senior Fellow Richard Leider and Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer, globally recognized leader in integrative health and healing and founder and director of the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing for a celebration of the Bakken Center’s 30th and The Power of Purpose book’s 40th anniversaries.

Age discrimination remains a serious barrier to employment.  But creativity can flourish with age. And experienced workers and late-in-life entrepreneurs are often more productive.

Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Chris Farrell and his guests talk about the value of older workers and how to find purpose later in your career and in retirement.

Are you still working well into the traditional retirement years? If so, how do you think your work benefits you and the people you work with?

Call in during the 9am hour at 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828.

Guests:

Richard Leider is an executive life coach and founder of Inventure — The Purpose Company. He is also a best-selling author who has written twelve books, including the fourth edition of “The Power of Purpose,” which will be published in January.

Janine Vanderburg is the CEO of Encore Roadmap, which champions the benefits of older workers and intergenerational teams to businesses and brands. She is also the co-founder of Changing the Narrative, a national anti-ageism initiative.

Discover the Power of Purpose with Richard Leider!

Join a free, online Purpose Skills Sprint and Webinar with Richard Leider, Father of the Purpose Movement and keynote speaker at the Leaders25 Summit, who will guide you through his proven framework for discovering and living your purpose with a series of short daily activities and a culminating interactive webinar on how to build resilience through clarity of purpose.

What to Expect:

– Daily Action: Short, actionable tasks delivered to your inbox (15–20 minutes a day).
– Collaborate & Share: A private communal space to share your insights and ideas
– Live Webinar: A final day interactive session with Richard Leider to go deeper and answer your questions.

Sign up now and take the first step toward a more meaningful, purpose-driven life.

Dates: December 16-19, 2024

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With a focus on growing whole through unlocking a sense of purpose in later life, Richard celebrates the experience of aging with inspiring stories, real-world practices, and provocative questions to help you navigate the path from adulthood to elderhood with choice, curiosity, and courage.

Time: 12-1:15pm CT

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FOR PRE & POST RETIRED/AGING PEOPLE!

Richard Leider, nationally-recognized life coach, aging/purpose author, and TED-talker will be speaking on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 4:00pm. Reception and book-selling/signing following.  Richard will be talking about his latest book “Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Old?: The path to purposeful aging.”

No cost and no registration.  Please join in the Sanctuary.