REDEFINE YOUR CAREER. DESIGN FOR MEANING. OWN YOUR FUTURE.
Life is an adventure into the unknown.
Knowing how to be intentional and navigate towards what you want next may be the most fundamental tool you ever learn.
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Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator is the world’s first “virtual retreat” that gives you the time, space, tools, and community to navigate through your next transition with intention and clarity… without leaving home.
Through original workshops, weekly live sessions, practical tools, frameworks and peer-to-peer conversations, we will help you identify the core tensions between the lifestyle you want and the career trajectory that aligns your values, interests, and skills.
REDESIGN YOUR LIFE FRAMEWORK.
PLAN FOR THE UNKNOWN.
RETHINKING YOUR FUTURE...?
PROGRAM DETAILS
Upcoming Dates:
March 20 – April 19, 2020
Deadline:
Standard Registration: March 13th, 2020
Pricing:
$537 | Early Registration
$665 | Standard Registration Ends March 13th
$895 | Final Call
Est. Time Commitment:
~8 hours per week
(3.5 hours of live sessions, combined with offline tools, conversations & exercises)
Participants:
~25
What You Get:
• 15 Hours of live workshops and sessions, also recorded and available 24/7.
• 10 Offline exercises, frameworks, and assignments that support your journey and can be used for a lifetime of learning.
• 8 “Open Office Hours” for facilitated and peer-to-peer conversations around the topics and themes we’re discussing.
• Extra 1:1 sessions with your lead facilitators and Unsettled co-founders.
• A live community platform to connect, post, share, and discuss daily with 25+ other professionals from around the globe.
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator Program Overview
Are you chugging along in your career without a clear heading? At a crossroads, taking a sabbatical, or feeling the need to hit pause, assess, and design your next step to make sure it’s intentional? Then our Lifestyle Incubator is for you.
Unsettled’s 4-week virtual retreat is not your typical online course. It is a highly interactive and collaborative community learning experience designed to hold you accountable to your growth, and only available on our digital platform.
Through weekly live sessions and offline exercises, Unsettled’s facilitators will guide you through the essential tools for navigating uncertainty, the processes to dig deeper into your biggest questions, and the personal frameworks for planning and setting clear intentions for the choices you make that define who you are and what you do.
We’ve designed this journey to push the boundaries of your thinking in three parts:
Part 1: Our approach to radical self-awareness and self-assessment that gives you maybe the best understanding of your values, interests, and goals you’ve ever had.
Part 2: An in-depth methodology to truly design your next career move based on your desired lifestyle and what you discovered in part 1.
Part 3: A plan of action that is (1) achievable, (2) will get you on the trajectory you’ve designed, and (3) that you truly believe in and come back to time and time again, along with practical tools to keep you on track and help you navigate uncertainty ahead.
By the end of the retreat, you will have an awareness of what it is you want, you’ll have designed a vision for what that looks like, and you’ll have an actionable plan to begin to take steps every day to get you closer to alignment between your career and your life.
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator Program Overview
Are you chugging along in your career without a clear heading? At a crossroads, taking a sabbatical, or feeling the need to hit pause, assess, and design your next step to make sure it’s intentional? Then our Lifestyle Incubator is for you.
Unsettled’s 4-week virtual retreat is not your typical online course. It is a highly interactive and collaborative community learning experience designed to hold you accountable to your growth, and only available on our digital platform.
Through weekly live sessions and offline exercises, Unsettled’s facilitators will guide you through the essential tools for navigating uncertainty, the processes to dig deeper into your biggest questions, and the personal frameworks for planning and setting clear intentions for the choices you make that define who you are and what you do.
We’ve designed this journey to push the boundaries of your thinking in three parts:
Part 1: Our approach to radical self-awareness and self-assessment that gives you maybe the best understanding of your values, interests, and goals you’ve ever had.
Part 2: An in-depth methodology to truly design your next career move based on your desired lifestyle and what you discovered in part 1.
Part 3: A plan of action that is (1) achievable, (2) will get you on the trajectory you’ve designed, and (3) that you truly believe in and come back to time and time again, along with practical tools to keep you on track and help you navigate uncertainty ahead.
By the end of the retreat, you will have an awareness of what it is you want, you’ll have designed a vision for what that looks like, and you’ll have an actionable plan to begin to take steps every day to get you closer to alignment between your career and your life.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Upcoming Dates:
March 20 – April 19, 2020
Deadline:
Standard Registration: March 13th, 2020
Pricing:
$537 | Early Registration
$665 | Standard Registration Ends March 13th
$885 | Final Call
Est. Time Commitment:
~8 hours per week
(3.5 hours of live sessions, combined with offline tools, conversations & exercises)
Participants:
~25
What You Get:
• 15 Hours of live workshops and sessions, also recorded and available 24/7.
• 10 Offline exercises, frameworks, and assignments that support your journey and can be used for a lifetime of learning.
• 8 “Open Office Hours” for facilitated and peer-to-peer conversations around the topics and themes we’re discussing.
• Extra 1:1 sessions with your lead facilitators and Unsettled co-founders.
• A live community platform to connect, post, share, and discuss daily with 25+ other professionals from around the globe.
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Who Is Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator For?
You’ve worked hard to get where you are. You did everything you were told. Checked the boxes as the years went by. Started a career for yourself. Got an apartment, lived the city life, took your two weeks of vacation a year. You learned how to survive – no, f*%k it, thrive – on your own.
And then? It all seemed to slow down. You couldn’t help but start to wonder, “Is this it?”
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator is for professionals who are ready to…
- Design your next move. For those who want to be intentional about making a career and lifestyle change.
- Create an independent lifestyle that has alignment between your career and your life.
- Get a clearer picture of what’s next, and learn to reframe your story and trajectory based on what’s meaningful to you.
If you’re feeling stuck and looking for the essential tools for lifelong learning, the processes to dig deeper into your biggest career and lifestyle questions, and a highly interactive and collaborative community of peers to help you grow, then this is for you.
MEET YOUR PEERS
Reviews & Testimonials
Jenna Pettit
Client & Curriculum Development, Yale School of Management
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator taught me about my behaviors and tendencies that have taken me off course from reaching the life of my dreams. I was able to uncover incredible insights about my own patterns, justifications, and fears that have unknowingly guided my journey thus far. Unsettled surrounded me with a framework and warm encouragement to continue the work to finding my focus and moving forward with intentionality. The self-knowledge gained during these exercises is more valuable than I can put a number to…
Michael Lynch
Leadership Coach & Bestselling Author, Australia
Unsettled has developed their own unique program (and believe me, I have done many) that helps you very quickly connect with what’s most important to you and get real clarity around where you want to go. Not only that but, the wonderful support of all the other Virtual Retreaters has been such a blessing. I would highly recommend this program for anybody who feels “unsettled” with their current career or lifestyle, and is looking for that insight, spark, inspiration or clarity.
Roxana Balzac
Director of Corporate Strategy, Puerto Rico
Unsettled’s facilitators and community members don’t just preach a lifestyle philosophy – they unapologetically live by their ethos. Through the Lifestyle Incubator, I shook up my routine and got my s*** together on some major life decisions. I gained eye-opening perspectives from a diverse group of bright, driven and creative professionals from all over the world. And most importantly, I found the motivation to finally follow through on the decisions that will define the next stage of my life with clarity and intention.
Tripti Aggarwal
Social Entrepreneur, Netherlands
As they say, “when you realise you’re tired of your own shit, that’s when the magic happens!” If you’re beginning to feel committed to changing your narrative, I’d highly recommend working your way forward with Unsettled. The Lifestyle Incubator has truly met my expectations of ‘no buzzwords please’. It’s curated on solid foundation of deep experience and right intentions, and delivered with excellent facilitation skills. The team does more than just nudging or guiding you. Their tools, workshops, frameworks and perspectives have given me enough to start paving my own path. You won’t get all the answers, but you will begin to see which answers should matter to you most and why!
Kelly Stevens
Creative Director & Owner, Seven Creative
What I found was an incredibly warm and open community, poignant and effective online working sessions, quality content and exercises, and in general just the richness and depth of experience possible in a virtual setting. I feel like I’ve cracked open so many areas of my life for examination, and have all the tools to make meaningful and true-to-myself assessments that will drive the changes I want to make. Any time I’ve felt stuck or needed an outside opinion, the instructors and fellow students were open, honest and incredibly insightful. It’s empowering to hear someone halfway around the world has bubbled up the same question you have, or that you’ve somehow said something that gives a fellow Unsettler new insights into their own life.
Carrie Silver
Community Manager, USA
Joining the Lifestyle Incubator was one of the best decisions that I made. Before, I felt really alone in my search for a new career because I followed a less traditional path. It gave me a sense of ease and support and made me feel so much more grounded in my decisions and where I want to head next. Alongside this, the best part of the program has been the community. I now have friends from around the world that I can work on the tools with and whom I know really got me in this process. So really, thank you Unsettled for this amazing experience.
Maxine Thomas
Head of Strategy, Canada
In the course of your career – and your life – 30 days is just a blink. If you give yourself permission to take that tiny amount of time and see what you’re capable of, not only will you be amazed at what you can accomplish personally and professionally, you’ll emerge with the perspective and energy to do the things you’re truly meant to do.
“The Unsettled Lifestyle Incubator surrounded me with motivated, successful, and smart people from around the world. Together, we had the freedom to be completely honest in a way that is sometimes easier with strangers. It was a profound experience that will shape my thinking, living, and goals for a long time to come—it’s already got me questioning and making changes in how I think about my job, where I live, and what I want in the future. It’s given me a sounding board and cheering section—as well as accountability—for where I go next. There’s a zero percent chance that you won’t learn a lot about yourself.”
– Lisa Seidel, Entrepreneur & Photographer, USA
“Unsettled taught me…to use my life as a testing ground. To break the problem down into its parts, develop some hypotheses of what might fix those pain points, and find ways to test out those hypotheses, quickly and effectively, before making any big decisions. In the end, I figured out I didn’t need to quit my job to be happy. I just needed to change the rules of engagement.“
– Claire Hobden, International Development Expert, Switzerland
PART I: ASSESS YOUR REALITY
Step back and gain perspective on why you are feeling burnt out or unfulfilled. What’s driving your need for change? Get clear by using key frameworks that help you understand your current trajectory, values, lifestyle, and career goals.
PART II: DESIGN YOUR TRAJECTORY
PART III: EXPERIMENTATION & ACCOUNTABILITY
ABOUT UNSETTLED
A WORLD-CLASS LEVEL OF FACILITATION & PROGRAMMING
Since 2016, Unsettled has taken over 2,000 participants on a journey that’s allowed them an intentional pause to think more deeply about the question “What’s next for me?”
The process behind Unsettled has brought us to 20+ countries. Won us awards from the United Nations and recognition from publications like The New York Times. Built a global community of professionals who have all set out to redefine their careers, redesign their lifestyles, and recreate alignment between their work and life, that spans 80+ countries and all backgrounds imaginable. We ask the big questions, but we don’t prescribe one-size-fits-all answers or solutions.
A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PROFESSIONALS
Unsettled is a global community for those who refuse to settle in their pursuit of growth, meaning, and adventure. We bring together corporates, creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, freelancers, and the intellectually curious who seek to replace routine with adventure. You will share this online experience with like-minded peers who hold a wealth of experience far deeper than just their careers and join our growing community of 2,000 Unsettled alumni spread out over 80 countries around the world.
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Leilani Franklin-Apted
VP of Experience, Unsettled | Co-Facilitator
Leilani (Lala) is the lead designer and content developer behind all of Unsettled’s experiences, and has led and facilitated dozens of trips around the world helping participants answer “what next” and design their lives for meaning. Lala is your quintessential multicultural TCK (that’s Third Culture Kid in plain-speak). She has lived in Asia since the age of 7, and has had a career spanning fashion design, content and copywriting, adult education, and art, among many others. She holds a life-long fascination with crafting stories and narratives that move us, and loves bringing seemingly mismatched pieces together into a thoughtful and inspiring whole, something she can be found doing on Unsettled retreats.
Email | LinkedIn
Jonathan Kalan
Co-Founder, Unsettled | Co-Facilitator
Jonathan is the co-founder of Unsettled, a TED Resident and speaker, and award-winning photographer, journalist and media entrepreneur. He’s traveled over 75 countries and navigated multiple career paths along the way, from covering political and technological revolutions across Africa and the Middle East to running Silicon Valley startups and growing Unsettled into a global travel brand. In his spare time, he hustles leaf plates and is an avid surfer, kayaker, biker, sailor, and all-around adrenaline junkie. See his TED Talk, “The Power of Priviledge” on TED.com
@KalanShoots | LinkedIn | Email
Michael Youngblood
Co-Founder, Unsettled | Co-Facilitator
Michael Youngblood is the co-founder of Unsettled and a lifelong entrepreneur who has always pursued adventure and growth in his career and lifestyle. He’s founded an eco-tourism company to guide people into the backcountry, researched innovation at MIT, and taught entrepreneurship on behalf of the U.S. State Department. His work has been featured in dozens of media publications including the NYT’s, Forbes, Outside Magazine, and many more. He’s an avid mountain biker, snowboarder, wannabe naturalist, sailor, and all-around backcountry explorer. See his TED Talk, “Finding Your True North”.
@Youngbloodm | LinkedIn | Email
CORE PROGRAM DESIGN & OUTLINE
I. Radical Self-AWARENESS & INQUIRY
Our desire for change is often rooted in an evolving definition of ourselves. Something has changed, and in doing so has shifted our personal frameworks, priorities, and even definitions of success. Extensive self-awareness and a process of radical self-discovery leads to better alignment between our work lives and our lifestyles. Being radically aware of your interests, values, and lifestyle preferences will have a direct impact on how you will define and shape your transition.
In this module, we will practice self-assessment and mapping of our values, interests, lifestyle preferences, and work style. When we understand that the only constant in life is change itself, we need to learn the tools to cultivate and practice a constant sense of self-awareness around our decision making, and flex this skillset not just during periods of transition, but also throughout our lives.
II. LIFESTYLE & CAREER design
It should come as no surprise that at Unsettled we believe our careers should support and enhance our lifestyles. We do not see a separation between work and life. There is no “work/life balance” to be sought, only integration of our careers into our lives so that they serve the same end. An integrated answer to the question, ‘What do you want out of your one short life on this planet?’
We often think our lives our defined by the major decisions. Yet true momentum is built one choice and one decision at a time.
With a seemingly infinite realm of opportunities and decisions we face each day, all decisions benefit from being guided by a sense of purpose; a blueprint of how to get what you want out of life. Like most things with lasting value, to build anything requires that you have a vision, a design, and a plan for how you will build it.
iii. Experimentation & PRACTICE
When we say “life is an experiment” we mean it in the truest sense. Yet it’s not a series of random experiments; It’s an experiment within your life’s vision. A process of trial and error, discovery and reflection, we must go through before understanding what works for us.
You will learn our approach of how to conduct small experiments throughout life anytime you are asking “What’s next for me?”. How to track your progress, stay on course, evaluate decisions, and make micro-adjustments when necessary.
When you finish this final unit, you will know more about what you want (self-awareness), have a plan laid out for how you will get there (lifestyle design), and a totally new approach for taking small steps that can get closer and closer to what’s next for you.
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Our Guiding Philosophy
To guide people on a quest of life, meaning and adventure. Fuel inspiration, exploration and discovery of the world around us. Create value that enriches and improves the human experience. Seek purpose and meaning, wherever it may lie. Aspire to always push the boundaries of the unknown. Think differently about tomorrow, and seize the opportunities today that will make it possible.
Unsettled is a global community for those who live and work differently.
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