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Program Overview

As a Change Maker fellow, you’ll have access to inspiring activities and invaluable tools to plan your next life chapter, one with social impact. You’ll be guided by an expert facilitator to assess where you are in your life and identify your talents, strengths, and aspirations. Through internal reflection and external discovery, you’ll envision where you want to go next. And you’ll leave with a practical plan to build passion and purpose into your next stage of life.

15-20

peers going through transition experience together

1

semester long (4 months)

Hybrid

combination of in-person & remote

2

evenings per week
(Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

Program Components

Change Makers Professionals

Connect

You’ll join other accomplished professionals at a similar stage of life, sharing stories and learning together as you shape your next chapter. 

Explore

In the weekly discussion-based Transitions sessions on Tuesday evenings, you’ll reflect on what you’ve done and explore new trajectories to leverage your experience and contribute in new ways for the greater good. Sample session topics:

  • Changes at midlife and beyond
  • Transitioning from your career to a next chapter in life
  • Discerning and pursuing purpose in this next chapter
  • Thinking differently about work possibilities
  • Making an impact in your community
  • Relationships, health, and wellness
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Weekly Perspective Series - Change Makers Program

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In the weekly Perspectives seminar series on Wednesday evenings, you’ll hear from experts on various aspects of a full life, including wellness, traditional and non-traditional work roles, the new world of work, and creative and social impact opportunities. Sample seminar topics:

  • How our own beliefs about aging affect us
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Wellness and the power of purpose
  • Intergenerational connections
  • Opportunities for impact internationally

Grow Your Brain

You’ll have the opportunity to audit university courses, learning alongside traditional-age students.

  • Take a course for pleasure or intellectual stimulation, without the burden of tests and grades. Learn about architectural history, music theory, social entrepreneurship, or anything in between.
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Enrich

With access to university events including lectures, seminars, exhibitions and performances, you’ll expand your intellectual horizons.

  • Take in an art opening at one of our campus galleries, catch some performance art, attend lectures on architecture and planning, biology, business insights, current events, and more.

Volunteer

You’ll have the option to apply your skills in new ways through volunteering with a nonprofit organization or other social impact venture. Sample internships:

  • Teach or provide business expertise at early childhood learning centers
  • Share your tech skills with older adults to help reduce isolation and increase connection
  • Address food insecurity in Colorado
  • Help refugees resettle and acclimate to life in the US
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