No Regrets Summit 2026 – Free Event to Help You Make the Most of the Rest of Your Life
It is easy to live as though there will always be more time to tend a relationship, say what matters, make a change, prepare for the future, or give fuller attention to the life that is already here.
No Regrets: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life brings together more than 25 voices in aging, psychology, caregiving, grief, relationships, resilience, palliative care, contemplative practice, estate planning, and healthy longevity for a thoughtful exploration of how to live life’s later chapters with greater intention.
Over six days, the journey moves from mortality and meaning into vitality, caregiving, loss, compassionate preparation, wisdom, legacy, and letting go. Guided contemplative and embodied practices also create space to reflect on what you are hearing rather than simply collecting more information.
Whether you are thinking about your own aging, caring for someone you love, moving through loss, preparing for the future, or simply asking what deserves more of your time and attention, you can choose the conversations that feel most relevant to your life.
Why Attend No Regrets: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life
Later life can bring questions that ordinary productivity advice cannot answer. You may be wondering how to stay engaged as your body, identity, relationships, or responsibilities change, or how to use your time more intentionally while accepting that time itself is finite.
No Regrets approaches these questions from several directions rather than offering a single formula for aging well. Physicians, psychologists, relationship educators, grief specialists, caregiving experts, contemplative teachers, elder-law professionals, poets, and end-of-life practitioners contribute perspectives on living, loving, preparing, grieving, and completing life with greater awareness.
The six-day structure gives these conversations a clear progression, beginning with impermanence and meaning before moving through vitality, caregiving, grief, practical preparation, wisdom, legacy, and letting go. You can use that progression to notice what deserves attention now and which conversations may be worth bringing into your family, relationships, or personal reflection.
Who Should Attend No Regrets
This summit is for adults who want to think more intentionally about aging, relationships, caregiving, grief, preparation, purpose, and the use of the time they have. It can be equally relevant whether these subjects feel immediate or whether you simply want to approach them before a crisis makes them urgent.
It may also be valuable for family members and caregivers who are supporting someone through aging, illness, dementia, loss, or end-of-life decisions. The sessions combine emotional, relational, practical, and contemplative perspectives, allowing you to focus on the parts of the journey most connected to your present circumstances.
- Adults reflecting on what they want the next chapters of life to mean
- People navigating changing roles, identity, purpose, health, or relationships as they age
- Family caregivers seeking more compassionate and sustainable ways to care
- Anyone preparing for difficult conversations about aging, illness, care, or end-of-life wishes
- People living with grief, anticipatory grief, bereavement, or other significant losses
- Those interested in strengthening important relationships and addressing unfinished emotional business
- Adults who want to organize practical matters in ways that can reduce future confusion and burden
- People drawn to contemplative practices that support reflection, gratitude, compassion, and letting go
What You’ll Learn During No Regrets
The summit explores what changes when we remember that life is finite without allowing that awareness to become paralyzing. You will hear ways to clarify values, deepen gratitude, remain engaged through later-life transitions, and bring more intention to relationships and everyday choices.
You will also explore the realities that can accompany aging in ourselves and the people we love, including caregiving, dementia, illness, grief, family dynamics, difficult conversations, and the challenge of caring for others without losing connection to yourself.
The later days turn toward preparation, legacy, and completion, including medical wishes, legal and financial organization, possessions, passwords, memorial preferences, hospice and palliative care, stories, values, contribution, and the inner practice of letting go.
- How awareness of impermanence can clarify what matters most
- Ways to remain engaged with purpose, creativity, connection, and contribution as roles change
- How to approach caregiving with compassion while maintaining personal boundaries and resilience
- Perspectives on family dynamics, dementia, serious illness, and difficult conversations
- More compassionate ways to understand grief, bereavement, ambiguous loss, and continuing bonds
- How forgiveness, gratitude, reconciliation, and honest conversation can address unfinished emotional business
- Practical areas to organize before a crisis, including wishes, documents, finances, passwords, and possessions
- Ways to think about legacy through relationships, stories, values, and contribution
- Perspectives from hospice, palliative care, psychology, contemplative practice, and end-of-life education
- Reflective practices for meeting uncertainty, change, remembrance, and letting go
Contemplative and Embodied Practices for Living What Matters
No Regrets is designed as a journey to participate in, not simply a collection of interviews to consume. Alongside expert conversations, HeartMind includes opportunities to slow down, reflect, connect with the body, and integrate what the subjects mean in your own life.
The contemplative and embodied practices explore awareness of impermanence, gratitude, self-compassion, compassion for caregivers and loved ones, embodied ways of meeting grief and uncertainty, remembrance, and letting go.
This approach helps connect intellectual understanding with personal reflection. The central question is not only what you know about aging, loss, relationships, or preparation, but how those insights influence the way you are living now.
- Pause long enough to notice what feels personally important
- Reflect on values and priorities that may need more attention
- Explore gratitude and compassion as lived practices
- Use embodied awareness when meeting uncertainty, grief, and change
- Create space for remembrance, honest conversation, and letting go
- Translate an insight from a session into one meaningful next step
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The speaker lineup spans psychology, healthy aging, resilience, relationships, caregiving, grief, practical preparation, palliative care, contemplative practice, and end-of-life education. These different disciplines allow the summit to examine later life as more than a medical or longevity question.
Meaning, Aging, Purpose and Resilience
James Hollis, PhD, brings a Jungian perspective on finding meaning in the second half of life. Daniel Siegel, MD, contributes work connecting mind, relationships, awareness, and wellbeing, while Rick Hanson, PhD, brings expertise in psychology, resilience, and contemplative neuroscience.
Parker J. Palmer, PhD, explores questions of vocation, integrity, and an inner-directed life. Marci Shimoff contributes perspectives on happiness and unconditional love, while Brian Vaszily brings more than two decades of work focused on healthy aging and longevity.
Self-Compassion, Forgiveness and Relationships
Kristin Neff, PhD, is a psychologist and co-developer of Mindful Self-Compassion. Fred Luskin, PhD, directs the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects, and Margaret Paul, PhD, is co-creator of Inner Bonding.
Gay Hendricks, PhD, and Katie Hendricks, PhD, contribute work on conscious relationships and body intelligence. Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy.
Caregiving, Grief and End-of-Life Care
Bridget Sumser, MSW, brings experience in palliative-care social work, while Ira Byock, MD, is a palliative-care physician and author of The Four Things That Matter Most. Barbara Karnes, RN, is a hospice nurse and end-of-life educator, and Henry Fersko-Weiss, LCSW, is an end-of-life doula and licensed clinical social worker.
Roy Remer brings caregiving education through the Zen Caregiving Project. Gail Rubin, CT, contributes expertise in death education and funeral planning, while Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, DMin, and Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell bring contemplative, bereavement, and grief perspectives.
Contemplative Practice, Embodiment and Letting Go
Master Mingtong Gu teaches Wisdom Healing Qigong, Sue Morter, DC, works in bioenergetics, and Michael Stone teaches breathwork. Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer contributes a literary and reflective perspective on wonder, loss, and life.
Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, brings decades of work on mortality and cultural attitudes toward dying. Additional speakers include Ocean Robbins, Jason Prall, Debra Poneman, Richard Tedeschi, PhD, Andrea Miller, Harry S. Margolis, JD, and others.
Six-Day Summit Schedule and Daily Themes
No Regrets runs November 10-15, 2026. Each day follows a distinct stage of the larger journey, moving from awareness of mortality toward living, caregiving, grieving, preparing, creating legacy, and letting go.
Day 1 – November 10: Awakening to Impermanence
Mortality, Meaning & What Matters Most
Day One explores how remembering that time is limited can clarify values, deepen gratitude, strengthen relationships, and help us stop postponing important parts of life. Featured Day One voices include James Hollis, PhD, DaeEss 1Dréa Pennington Wasio, MD, Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, Marci Shimoff, and Sue Morter, DC.
Day 2 – November 11: Flourishing Through All of Life’s Stages
Vitality, Purpose & Living Fully to the End
Day Two focuses on physical and cognitive vitality, reinvention, belonging, friendship, intimacy, creativity, contribution, purpose, and the transition from simply growing older to becoming an elder.
Day 3 – November 12: Loving & Caregiving Through Aging, Illness, Dying
Tending the Relationships That Matter Most
Day Three examines caregiving, boundaries, family dynamics, dementia, serious illness, difficult conversations, changing relationships, emotional resilience, and the challenge of staying open-hearted while caring for others.
Day 4 – November 13: Grief, Loss & the Practice of Letting Go
Finding Meaning Through Loss & Bereavement
Day Four explores anticipatory grief, bereavement, ambiguous loss, the body’s experience of grief, continuing bonds with those who have died, and the gradual rediscovery of meaning when life has changed.
Day 5 – November 14: Preparing Compassionately
Taking Care of What Matters – Unburdening Survivors
Day Five turns toward medical wishes, legal documents, finances, passwords, possessions, funeral or memorial preferences, family communication, and the practical organization that can reduce uncertainty and conflict for loved ones.
Day 6 – November 15: Wisdom, Legacy & the Final Letting Go
Living & Completing Life with Awareness, Love & Integrity
Day Six brings together hospice and palliative care, psychology, spiritual practice, contemplative traditions, legacy, stories, values, contribution, fear, uncertainty, and the human practice of letting go.
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
No Regrets: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life runs online from November 10 through November 15, 2026. Each day’s sessions become available at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, which is 4:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and remain free to watch for 24 hours.
You do not need to watch a presentation at a fixed broadcast time. Use the daily email link to access that day’s sessions and watch them at your own pace within the 24-hour viewing window. The videos can be viewed on a phone or iPad as well as other internet-connected devices, and the free summit videos offer English and auto-translated subtitles through YouTube closed-caption settings.
HeartMind also plans a free Encore Weekend for November 21-22, with all sessions available again for 48 hours beginning at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on November 21. An optional paid Lifetime Access package provides ongoing access to the sessions through the HeartMind Institute online library, along with session transcripts and audio downloads.
- Check your email each day for the current access link
- Look in Spam and Promotions if an access email does not appear
- Use the daily link at any time during that day’s 24-hour access window
- Use the CC control in the video player for available summit captions and subtitles
- Watch for the November 21 Encore Weekend access email if you want another opportunity to view sessions
How to Register for No Regrets
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
How to Get the Most From the No Regrets Summit
You do not need to treat a six-day event as a viewing marathon. The daily themes make it possible to decide in advance which parts of the journey feel most relevant to your life and give those sessions your fuller attention.
Because each day’s free sessions are available for 24 hours, a little planning can make the experience easier to integrate.
1. Notice Which Day Feels Most Personal
Review the six themes before the summit begins. Mortality and meaning, vitality, caregiving, grief, preparation, and legacy may carry very different weight depending on what you are living through now.
2. Leave Space for Reflection
The summit includes contemplative and embodied elements for a reason. Give yourself a few quiet minutes after an important session rather than immediately moving to the next one.
3. Write Down What You Do Not Want to Postpone
- One conversation you want to have
- One relationship you want to tend
- One practical matter you want to organize
- One way you want to be more present in ordinary life
4. Keep the Daily Access Emails Easy to Find
Star or flag the HeartMind access emails, and check Spam or Promotions if a day’s message is missing.
5. Let One Meaningful Action Be Enough
You do not need to resolve every question raised during the summit. One honest conversation, one practical preparation step, or one change in how you use your attention can be a worthwhile way to carry the experience forward.
About Fleet Maull, Katja Cahoon, DaeEss 1Dréa Pennington Wasio, Ron Siegel and Michael Sapiro
Fleet Maull, PhD, is a dharma teacher, executive coach, social entrepreneur, and founder of Heart Mind Institute and Prison Mindfulness Institute. He is also the author of Radical Responsibility and Dharma in Hell.
Katja Cahoon, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and clinical researcher specializing in trauma-informed therapy, as well as a yoga, mindfulness, and meditation teacher. DaeEss 1Dréa Pennington Wasio, MD, is an integrative physician, trauma expert, psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitator, and author of Top Ten Traits of Highly Resilient People.
Ron Siegel, PsyD, is a psychology professor at Harvard Medical School, clinician, educator, and author of The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Finding Happiness Right Where You Are. Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a Zen Buddhist monk, clinical psychologist, psychedelic psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author of Truth Medicine.
Together, the five co-hosts guide a summit that crosses psychological, contemplative, relational, medical, caregiving, and end-of-life territory. The more than 25 featured guest speakers contribute their own areas of expertise within that broader six-day journey.
Free Gifts and Bonus Conversations
Free registration includes immediate access to three bonus conversations so you can begin exploring resilience, meaning, and living fully before the six-day summit starts.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Receive an exclusive bonus conversation with psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk, MD.
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Receive an exclusive bonus conversation with psychologist Arielle Schwartz, PhD.
Michael Beckwith
Receive an exclusive bonus conversation with Michael Beckwith exploring themes connected with meaning and living fully.
The three conversations are available immediately after free registration.
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