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Living Above Ground: What's Next
There comes a time in the lives of many accomplished people when they have achieved what they once set out to achieve.
Leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, physicians, artists, athletes, business owners, and others whose identities have been shaped by achievement eventually arrive at an unexpected transition.
For some, it is called retirement. But retirement is only the circumstance. It does not describe what is really happening.
After a lifetime of pursuing goals, building expertise, earning respect, and measuring success through accomplishment, a different question quietly emerges:
Who am I when I am no longer defined by what I accomplish?
That question became deeply personal for me.
After decades of building a career I loved, I realized it wasn't the work I wanted to leave behind. It was the constant striving, proving, and measuring that had quietly shaped my life. As I questioned my assumptions about aging, achievement, and worth, I began to see how deeply our culture equates value with productivity and success.
But those are cultural assumptions—not truths.
What if the years ahead are not about winding down, but about waking up? What if freedom from achievement is not a loss, but an opening into a richer, more intentional way of living?
That possibility became the inspiration for Living Above Ground.
Living Above Ground is founded on a simple belief: the quality of our lives is shaped not only by what happens to us, but by the consciousness we bring to our experience.
As we become aware of the assumptions, habits, fears, judgments, and patterns that have quietly directed our lives, we gain the freedom to choose rather than simply repeat. We begin to live by intention instead of habit, creating a future that expresses who we are becoming—not merely who we have been.
Through thoughtful conversations and small-group dialogue, Living Above Ground brings together accomplished people who want to explore the possibilities that emerge when achievement is no longer the measure of a life.
The question is no longer,
"What have I achieved?"
The question becomes,
"Who am I becoming... and how do I want to express myself in the world?"
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The Commonwealth Fund
Ken Davidson’s understanding of people and how we all operate is exceptional. I met Ken in the late 1980s when he provided a months-long comprehensive communication program to my organization. Our work together at the Commonwealth Fund lasted more than twenty years and was extremely successful. I learned so much about myself and how to work effectively as a team member. Later when I became the VP of Administration at The Commonwealth Fund, I brought Ken in to work with our most senior management. We offered his Essentials of Effectiveness course to all our staff. It was a fantastic experience! I hope you will find his work to be as useful as I have.
Diana Davenport
Over the course of many years, Ken has consistently helped me master the necessary skills to create environments in which my company, my partners, my employees, and my clients thrive. The beauty of his work is that whatever I learn can be applied in all aspects of my life - work, family, friendships - you name it. His models and ways of thinking about communication, effectiveness, partnership, sales, and purpose provide a structure and a practical approach that simplify complex dynamics.
Julie Halpin Anderson