Crafting Your Next Chapter

Crafting Your Next Chapter is a cohort-based program for experienced individuals in mid-to-late career who want to imagine the next chapter in their professional and personal lives, and answer the question: What comes next and how do I get there?

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Reframe, Revitalize, Reinvent

The latter part of one’s career for highly motivated individuals can be a time of stress and uncertainty about the path forward. But it can also offer a unique opportunity to reflect on what matters, to reimagine the possibilities, and to more fully realize one’s promise and potential for a flourishing future. Incorporating the latest findings of lifespan development and positive psychology, this intimate online program provides in-depth support for successfully and proactively navigating what's next.

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Engage in Dialogue and Reflection

Take stock of your values, experiences, and goals through reflection and dialogue as part of a high trust community of peers. With a deepened understanding of yourself and what matters, explore the possibilities for your next chapter, building on your unique strengths and resources.

 

 

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Chart Your Course

Take action towards a meaningful and fulfilling future. Use the tools and resources gained through this course to forge the right path for yourself and a plan for sustained progress.

 

 

 

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The UChicago Distinction

The course design reflects the University of Chicago’s uniquely powerful educational approach - a commitment to reflection and collective inquiry in the service of enabling individuals to live more meaningful, connected, and fulfilling lives. The course provides the resources, tools, and frameworks to support your progress, not just in the classroom, but in practical application to your life and work. You will have the opportunity to learn not just from your instructors, but from an energized and committed group of peers, both in small peer to peer support groups as well as in interactive classroom dialogues.

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The Crafting Your Next Chapter course is open to individuals in mid to late career who are looking to reflect and gain powerful strategies and meaningful insights to activate their next chapter of a fulfilling life.

Applications are now open, admissions are rolling, and the final deadline for submission is February 23, 2024.

To apply, please click here, then fill out and submit the application form.

The course provides the resources, tools, and frameworks to support your progress, not just in the classroom, but in practical application to your life and work. In addition to learning from your eminent instructors, you will learn from and with a committed and energized group of peers, both in small peer to peer support groups as well as in interactive plenary sessions.

The program’s three sections provide a clear roadmap for participants to follow in successfully crafting their next chapter:

REFRAME
Test the waters and expand the possibilities.

  • Reach out and learn
  • Explore
  • Experiment

REVITALIZE
Re-imagine and re-energize your current work and life.

  • Get clear on what matters
  • Clear the underbrush of the less meaningful/energizing
  • Focus on what's most important
  • Renegotiate current roles and commitments
  • Build new habits and mindsets

REINVENT
Architect your future life and work.

  • Set your vision
  • Draft a plan
  • Make pivotal choices about work and life
  • Stay the course

Learn more by viewing our recent information session on Crafting Your Next Chapter.

 

The class will meet every other Tuesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CT from March 5 to June 11. Each participant will also have two individual coaching sessions with an instructor, one towards the beginning of the course to help you get the most from the program, and one at the end, to help you think through how to continue to make progress in crafting your next chapter after the course ends.

All sessions will be hosted in the Central Time Zone via Zoom.

Learn more by viewing our recent information session on Crafting Your Next Chapter.

The program has a fee of $2,995 for selected members.

If you would like to be considered for scholarship support to cover part of the cost, please indicate that need in your seminar application.

I loved the readings and the discussion from my classmates guided so well by both Russ and Stephanie.  I really learned to be patient and incremental.  Celebrate the successes however small.  I am also left with the realization that this is a 'rest of my life pursuit' and that doing this with my significant other and family involved in my own personal growth is exciting and will be the most meaningful.

- Past Crafting Your Next Chapter cohort member

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The University of Chicago Graham School is pleased to partner with Rising Path Partners to offer Crafting Your Next Chapter for mid to late career business executives and professionals.

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