A Year to Live (May 2025)
Make a commitment today to join Cal Cates in a year-long exploration of life, authenticity, deep spiritual decluttering and clarity inspired by Stephen Levine’s introspective book, A Year to Live.
May 2025 -May 2026
Live, Online
Open to everyone
Course Dates & Location
A Year to Live is a year-long online course with both synchronous and asynchronous content.
We will meet (via Zoom) the first Tuesday of every month (starting on May 6, 2025) from 7:00PM - 8:00PM (eastern).
The course includes weekly prompts for meditations, writing exercises, recorded messages from Cal, and more.
Course Description
Make a commitment today to join Cal Cates in a year-long exploration of life, authenticity, deep, spiritual decluttering and clarity inspired by Stephen Levine’s introspective book, A Year to Live.
Spend May 2025 to May 2026 deeply connecting with what’s most important in your life. Loosen your attachment to things that don’t serve you. Forgive yourself and others and get down to the truth that none of us are guaranteed a single additional moment in this life. Meditate, soften your resistance, create and wonder.
Join your fellow humans for two meetings each month (one large group and one small), weekly writing prompts, inspired readings and the guidance and community to support you in living life as though each day is truly your last.
You will be held by Cal and your classmates as you enter as fully as you’re able into a 12-month journey of discovery and greater freedom from the things that hold you back. Some of us may not even have a year to live. Now is the time.
Meet Cal Cates, Facilitator
Cal Cates is an award-winning writer, published researcher, international speaker, and the founder and Executive Director of Healwell.
Cal is an inspirational change facilitator.
They have trained thousands of healthcare providers in skills of resiliency, self-awareness, communication, and forgiveness. They have dedicated their career to advocacy in healthcare, massage therapy as social justice, and to revolutionizing education for healthcare providers. Cal has trained with Roshi Joan Halifax, Ram Dass, Frank Ostaseski, and other leaders in the field of contemplative care and has created curriculum and written for trade journals on topics ranging from end of life care to interdisciplinary education to racism and the endless ways that humans make it hard to live in successful, equitable harmony.
We Believe in Options.
At Healwell, we are dedicated to addressing inequities. As you engage with our programs, we invite you to see your participation as an investment. Consider what you can contribute financially and how it aligns with your values. Your support helps create a more equitable future for all.
Equity Pricing
Our equity pricing is for those with marginalized identities and those in need.
$ 175
- Registration deadline is March 25, 2025.
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Standard Registration
The standard registration pricing is for those who have sufficient resources to cover themselves.
$ 250
- Registration deadline is March 25, 2025.
Pay It Forward
The Pay It Forward option ensures that others can have this same experience you’re about to have while continuing to be able to meet their basic financial commitments.
$ 300
- Registration deadline is March 25, 2025
Cancellation Policy
Please read CAREFULLY.
The course tuition includes a non-refundable $50 cancellation fee. If you cancel or withdraw from a course 30 days prior to the course start date you will be refunded your full tuition less $50. If you cancel or withdraw from a course fewer than 30 days (but more than one week) prior to the course start date you will be refunded 50% of your tuition. If you cancel or withdraw from a course fewer than 7 days prior to the course start date your tuition will be non-refundable.
In the event of proper documentation of medical emergency, death in the immediate family, or weather prohibiting travel your entire tuition may be allowed to be rolled over to a workshop at a later date. This special consideration will be allowed one time only at the discretion of the instructor.
If a course is cancelled due to low enrollment your tuition will be refunded in full.
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