Unsettled Lifestyle Incubator
About this Programme
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator program helps you answer the question, 'What's next for me?' with intention and clarity. Through original workshops, frameworks, assignments, and peer-to-peer conversations, we will guide you through the essential tools for navigating how to design and take action towards a career and lifestyle that aligns with your values and interests.
Paid-for training
Programme type
Online / Remote
Location
Facilitated By
Unsettled
Unsettled is a global community for professionals seeking to break out of their routine and find new inspiration. We authentic offer work and travel experiences for those who embrace the unknown and value meaningful human connection. Our aim is to inspire people to pursue a lifelong journey of growth, meaning, and adventure.
About the Programme
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator program helps you answer the question, "What's next for me?" with intention and clarity. Through original workshops, frameworks, assignments, and peer-to-peer conversations, we will guide you through the essential tools for navigating how to design and take action towards a career and lifestyle that aligns with your values and interests.
Through original workshops, frameworks, assignments, and peer-to-peer conversations, we will guide you through the essential tools for navigating uncertainty, the processes for digging deeper into your biggest questions, and the frameworks for planning and setting clear intentions for the choices you make that define who you are and what you do.
You will identify the core tensions between the lifestyle you want and the career trajectory that aligns with your values, interests, and skills, and set a course to move into action.
What you can expect
The Lifestyle Incubator is an interactive and workshop-based approach to self-inquiry and lifestyle and career design. This means that the content is based on exercises, worksheets, and facilitated discussions that instigate questions, reflections, and planning toward the lifestyle and career you want for yourself next.
You can expect moments of self-reflection, talks led by the Unsettled team, and interactive sessions where you will share, contribute, and partner up with other participants in the retreat.
The Lifestyle Incubator Approach
We are a company rooted in questions. You will find zero sweeping promises of helping you land your dream job, getting that promotion, or finding your higher purpose in life. There are no one-size-fits-all prescribed answers to life's biggest questions.
This is about experimenting with life as a process. It’s about developing and practicing the essential tools for navigating uncertainty. And it's about doing this with a highly collaborative, global community where we cut the BS and answer the questions.on “What’s next for me?”
Your one month plan of action...
Since 2016, Unsettled has taken over 2,500 participants on a journey that’s allowed them an intentional pause to think more deeply about the question “What’s next for me?”. This process behind Unsettled has brought us to lead over 150 experiences in 25+ countries, win awards from the United Nations and recognition from publications like The New York Times, and build 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.
This is how we do it.
Dates and times
January 31 - February 27, 2024 7:00pm London Time/2:00pm ET
April 3 - April 30, 2024 9:00pm London Time/4:00pm ET
We recommend that you dedicate about 6-8 hours of work per week.
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Or drop us a line at hello@beunsettled.co for more details or to schedule an introductory call.
Testimonials
Reasons to join Unsettled's Lifestyle Incubator
Claire, Switzerland
I'd always said my work was my calling, but it started to feel like I was treading water, getting more and more bogged down each day. As much as I felt the urge to change things up, it felt inconceivable to move on it from it. I thought I was going to have to cut off the limb to save my life. But Unsettled taught me to break the problem down into its parts, develop some hypotheses of what my help to 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 to be happy. I just needed to change the rules of engagement.
Lisa, USA
Through this community I was able to be vulnerable, change my vision of my own contributions to the world, challenge others, reflect for people all that they are capable of, and to cheerlead bravery. It was a profound experience that will shape my thinking, living, and goals for a long time to come.
Michael, Australia
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, so they can truly live a life worth living.
David, USA
I was skeptical of the idea of a "Virtual Retreat". However, the best part of Unsettled was the opportunity to meet a diverse group of people from all over the world willing to show up, be vulnerable, share insights and support each other. The Unsettled team did a great job facilitating community and the group who showed up to my virtual retreat was fantastic!
BaoAnh, Hong Kong
Unsettled changed my view on decision making and instead look at life as a series of experiments- which is such a freeing concept. It liberates me from the pressure of having to make the best decisions and allow me to focus on the discovery process.
Roxana, Puerto Rico
I shook up my routine and got my s*** together on some major life decisions. I gained eye-opening perspectives from a group of bright, driven and creative professionals from all over the world. And most importantly, the motivation to follow through on the decisions that will define the next stage of my life with clarity and intention."
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Programme FAQs
All your questions should be answered here.
We believe life is one great 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.
Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator program – our first ever “virtual retreat” run entirely online – will give you the time, space, tools, and community to navigate through your next transition with intention and clarity… without leaving home.
Through original content, live working sessions, peer-to-peer conversations, and daily content, Unsettled’s Lifestyle Incubator will help you identify the core tensions between the lifestyle you want and the career trajectory that aligns your values, interests, and skills.
Whether you’re working full time, taking a sabbatical, or going through an intentional career transition, this experience is designed to help you break out of your routine and think more deeply about your life and career trajectory.
A “Virtual Retreat” is a lot like an online course, however, it’s much more collaborative, interactive, and it’s a shared experience. Like our regular Unsettled retreats, we create an environment where people can connect and find as much meaning and growth from the connections they make as the content and structure we provide. All content will be delivered digitally, through a mix of live video conferences, recorded sessions, offline exercises and tools, and a community chat and content sharing platform that will be active throughout the experience.
We don’t see the difference. If 30% of your entire life is spent working (that’s 90,000 hours for the average person), then we see the two as intrinsically linked. You don’t have a work self and a non-work self. You have your entire self, and that’s how you want to show up each day. Our approach to designing a lifestyle and career -whether your looking to gradually or radically change one or the other – is to identify the tensions, challenges, and opportunities within both.
The Lifestyle Incubator is an investment in your future, so you should carve out the time to take it seriously. For these programs, you can expect to dedicate 6 – 8 hours per week. Not all of this is live – there will be on average 2 live sessions per week (1.5 – 2 hours each), and the rest will be more asynchronous or offline. The program is meant to be spread out throughout the weeks with some light weekend and evening commitments.
Yes! Around 70% of our participants hold demanding full-time jobs while they are managing the program. Some of them also have families, kids, volunteering engagements, or are working on a few programs at the same time. If you feel too busy or overwhelmed, then perhaps the Lifestyle Incubator is what you’re looking for to put you on the path to more balance and fulfilment with work.
The Lifestyle Incubator is an interactive and workshop-based approach to self-inquiry and lifestyle and career design. This means that the content is based on exercises, worksheets, and facilitated discussions that instigate questions, reflections, and planning towards the lifestyle and career you want for yourself next.
You can expect moments of self-reflection, talks led by the Unsettled team, and interactive sessions where you will share, contribute, and partner up with other participants in the retreat.
We’ve designed this program to be flexible but thorough in its delivery. There are plenty of extras we’ll be throwing in, and as always with Unsettled, it will be a co-created and iterative experience, meaning we design for you – the participant – to get the most out of the program, and will adapt based on what we discover along the way.
Absolutely. After such a powerful shared experience, people tend to stay connected for well after the actual program ends. We leave the communications platforms up, and invite participants to join our 2,000+ community of Unsettled alumni from 80+ countries and all of our in-person and virtual retreats.
We have an alumni-only Facebook group, LinkedIn group, newsletter, informal meetups in the real world, and even alumni-geared adventures and experiences like sailing and summits. Unsettled is a global community, and a network of incredible professionals living unconventional lives that can benefit you whichever path you choose after the program.
Additional questions here: https://beunsettled.co/virtual-retreat-faq/