Feeling restless? Burnt out? Curious?
What life could look like with more intention—and a lot more energy?
The Adult Gap Year Workshop is a virtual experience for adults ready to step off autopilot and explore the power of a purposeful break. Whether you’re dreaming about a mini-retirement, a career pause, or simply time to think clearly again, this workshop is your invitation to slow down, zoom out, and get excited about what’s possible.
This workshop is for you if:
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You are considering pushing pause on the busyness
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You want to do something different than what you have been doing
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You are concerned about how a gap year will impact your responsibilities
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You don't know where to start or what is possible
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You just feel stuck
In this one-hour session, our resident gap year expert, Michelle Dittmer will share best practices for getting unstuck and not wasting any more time!
With over 15 years of experience in gap year coaching, working with hundreds of young and young at heart Canadians, she knows a thing or two about how to make this process successful and less stressful.
Michelle will be covering:
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Decision-making tools - is this right for me? Now or later?
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Pro-Tips for navigating all of the small reasons for saying "no" (or people who doubt your path)
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Ideas for brag-worthy gap year experiences on any budget
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Tools and resources you can tap into for the rest of your gap year.
1 hour.
Everything you need to know about getting started on your adult gap year!
Guided gap year planning
support from Canada's leading gap year experts.
Michelle Dittmer
Recognizing that students were not being provided with enough opportunity to get hands-on experience to develop life skills, Michelle left the classroom to explore other ways of helping young people find direction and fulfilment. She worked to train other teachers, she instructed outdoor education, she traveled for pleasure and for work and researched what today’s youth really want and need.
All of her life experience drove her to the same conclusion – we need to slow down and give young people the space and time to figure out who they are and to engage in meaningful experiences.
Michelle founded the Canadian Gap Year Association as an antidote to business, mental health challenges and young adults feeling confused and unfulfilled. She has committed her professional life to giving families permission to slow down so their kids can be the best version of themselves and make a healthy transition into adulthood