Now What? Clarity for Your Career and Life

Now What? Clarity for Your Career and Life is a three-day wellness retreat at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is for anyone staring at a resume and wondering what comes next, whether you are weighing a career change, feeling stuck, or sensing that the old way of planning no longer fits. The program is led by Laura Berman Fortgang, author of Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction, and it asks you to do a soul search before a job search.

What to Expect

Fortgang describes the old approach to career planning as a paper roadmap, when what is needed now is a fine-tuned GPS. The program is concrete and practical, and it is also interactive and, by the organizer's description, fun. It moves from confusion or indecision toward a clear direction, and it helps you design a plan to get there.

Over the weekend you work on:

- Breaking down the barriers to clarity
- Releasing limiting beliefs
- Seeing how your past holds clues to your future
- Finding a sense of purpose
- Determining your criteria for happiness in work
- Facing money obstacles head on
- Honoring and making sense of your intuition

The days follow the usual Kripalu rhythm. Arrival day begins with check-in at 2:00 pm, a Kripalu Yoga class from 4:45 to 6:00, dinner, and a first program session from 7:30 to 9:00 in the evening. The full days start with yoga at 6:30 am, followed by a silent breakfast. Program sessions run from 9:00 to 11:30 in the morning and again from 1:30 to 4:00 in the afternoon, with lunch in between and another yoga class before dinner. On the final morning there is yoga and silent breakfast, then a last session from 9:00 to 11:00, and lunch before departure. Times can shift, so the schedule given at check-in is the one to follow.

About Laura Berman Fortgang

Laura Berman Fortgang is an author and career clarity coach. She wrote Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction, which gives this program its name and its approach to finding direction in work and life.

The Setting

Kripalu is a yoga and health center in Stockbridge, in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Accommodations are intentionally simple, meant to help you unplug and feel grounded. Options include private rooms (single or double occupancy), semi-private rooms shared with a limited number of people, and dormitory-style rooms. Rooms are ready by 4:00 pm, and a luggage room is available if you arrive earlier. Check-out on the last day is at 10:00 am, though you may stay on campus and take part in workshops until 2:00 pm.

Three meals a day are included, and breakfast is taken in silence.

Before You Go

No experience with yoga, meditation, or career coaching is needed. The program is open to people at any stage of professional or personal transition, and it is taught in English.

Your stay includes lodging in the room type you choose, three daily meals, more than ten yoga classes a day to choose from across the campus, access to the Kripalu grounds, and program instruction and materials. Healing Arts sessions and items from the Kripalu Shop and Cafe are available for an additional fee.