REEP

Residential Extended Education Program

Spend some transitional "in-between time" working at Esalen

Less what are you doing; more how are you doing

When personal and professional know-how is holistically fostered, we can go onward to our next opportunity with new experience, marketable skills, and a greater connection with self, knowing that we took risks and explored our vulnerabilities.

What if we leveraged our lived experiences as caring leaders, and applied those best practices out into the world?

Our collective next moves

Esalen is reimagining how we function on campus. We have a progressive vision for addressing the inefficiencies, the environmental and humanistic damage that our current societal systems perpetuate. As pioneers of the human potential movement, we are passionate and ambitious. Esalen is creating a blueprint for a sustainable educational kitchen and hospitality model. REEP, a work/live/learn cohort system, revolutionizes current paradigms through transformational experiences and educational opportunities that are embedded into a weekly schedule.

In recognizing and respecting the roles each person plays within the Esalen ecosystem — from gardener and dishwasher to housekeeper and steward — we are working toward producing creative solutions around waste and nutrition using a local, regenerative approach, and cultivating the art of cleaning and clearing spaces with mindfulness and love. The goal? A professional working model where people and the environment are harmoniously productive.