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About
Our Background
As faith leaders, authors, a professor of leadership, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a start up co-founder, and as parents, we've guided hundreds of people to design and realize a miracle year in their life.
Our Story
The Miracle Year Project was created in 2024 to help people live twelve months with joy and purpose—held by intention, supported by community, and shaped by meaningful goals. It is an invitation to live a year marked by risk and healing, rooting and believing, inhabiting a life that is truly one’s own.
When Albert Einstein lived such a year, it came to be known as his “year of miracles”—a season in which clarity, creativity, and breakthroughs converged.
As a family, we have lived five such miracle years ourselves: overcoming serious health challenges and loss, attempting extraordinary goals, stepping into new careers, and embarking on life-changing adventures.
For more than three decades, we have also studied and learned from leading thinkers and practitioners—through institutions such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford—and taught from faith and wisdom traditions, as well as from the science of resilience, emotional health and well-being. Along the way, we have helped individuals and families design and live into their own miracle years.
The word miracle itself means to wonder, to marvel, to be astonished—and even to smile. Our Life Design Course is an invitation to set aside twelve months—not to fix your life all at once, but to orient and transform it forever and to discover what becomes possible when you decide to live your own miracle year.
Our Approach
Our course is grounded in a simple but profound insight: our lives do not unfold in straight lines or fixed stages. Instead, they emerge through the dynamic interaction of three essential aspects of life—existence, relatedness, and growth—which continually intersect, reinforce one another, and evolve over time.
Our understanding is inspired by the work of Clayton Paul Alderfer, an American psychologist who developed ERG Theory as an alternative to linear models of human development. Trained at Yale University, Alderfer built upon the insights of Abraham Maslow while challenging the assumption human needs must be satisfied in a fixed sequence.
Where Maslow described a pyramid of stages, Alderfer recognized what most of us know intuitively:
- We often seek meaning while still stabilizing our finances.
- We deepen relationships in the midst of uncertainty.
- We grow not after life settles down, but while it is still unfolding.
The Miracle Year Life Design Course attends to all three dimensions —grounding existence, nurturing connection, and creating space for growth—so life can be shaped with intention as it unfolds.
Our course includes our workbook, 1:1 coaching, guided cohorts, and a monthly newsletter.