10-week certificate program
For Emerging Leaders
A certificate in wise and compassionate leadership, combining virtual learning with an immersive residency in Bhutan.
Explore Program
Abroad Wisdom Academy
Sit at the Feet of the World’s Ancient Wisdom Teachers
Transmitting and regenerating ancient wisdom for the benefit of all life.
Our Mission
Wisdom for our collective future.
We open doors to new worlds for leaders and seekers, offering rare access to wisdom cultures and teachers through relationships built over more than a decade.
Our certificate programs help leaders and helping professionals cultivate wisdom, judgment, and compassion to steward our collective future. Because access creates responsibility, we work in long-term partnership with the people and traditions who welcome us, supporting what matters most to their communities.
Our Programs
Certification Programs
10-week hybrid certificate program
For Helping Professionals
For coaches, therapists, healers and mentors who want to learn directly from living wisdom teachers and carry that learning into their practice.
Explore ProgramOur Programs
Introductory Workshops
3-day residential workshop
Lead With Wisdom
For leaders exploring how they treat themselves, what they are afraid of losing, and what their leadership is ultimately for.
Explore Program
Introductory workshop
Wisdom Worldview
An introduction to living wisdom traditions and our relationship with nature, community, time and the web that connects it all.
Explore ProgramThe Wisdom Worldview
A worldview shared across ancient and living traditions.
Across nearly every ancient and living wisdom tradition, from the high Andes to the Mongolian steppe, the Himalayas, the sacred mountains of Japan and the lands of Aotearoa, a shared worldview emerges, expressed through each tradition’s own language and practice.
We call this the Wisdom Worldview. It is not ours. It is what the people who carry these traditions have shared with us, and it is the foundation of every Academy program.
Living Traditions
Rare access to the teachers of this worldview, across cultures and continents.
Impact & Regeneration
Access creates responsibility.
We work in long-term partnership with the people and traditions who welcome us, supporting what matters most to their communities.
Community
We belong to one another.
A community of leaders, helping professionals, wisdom teachers, and stewards carrying this work forward.