Your Questions, Answered
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Getting started is simple. Reach out through our contact form or schedule a call—we’ll walk you through the next steps and answer any questions along the way.
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MaveradoSynona™ is different because it’s not about doing more. It’s about becoming more aware, more connected, and more true to what actually matters — together.
MaveradoSynona™ is mentioned in the same breath as Esalen Institute or Findhorn Foundation because all three value reflection, growth, and human possibility.
Where MaveradoSynona™ differs is this: we are not retreat-based or program-led. We are a repeatable, everyday practice of values-based living where people learn to hear their own maverick center and help one another advance through Bounce™.
If those places feel like a powerful visit, MaveradoSynona™ is learning how to live that way on a Sunday.
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
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Synona is not interested in how many birthdays you have collected. It is interested in whether you are still willing to turn toward what is true. Many people reach retirement with something unfinished tapping them on the shoulder.
The conversation I want to host.
The wrong I want to help right.
The music I never made.
The courage I postponed.
The mentoring I am finally ready to give.
That tap is not nostalgia. It is instruction. At MaveradoSynona™, elders are not sidelined. They are stabilizers of the field, carriers of pattern recognition, living libraries of what works and what does not.
And something else happens.
When someone who has lived a long life is still willing to grow, everyone younger recalibrates upward. Possibility expands.
So the real question is not:
“Am I too old?”
It is: “Am I done becoming?”
If the answer is no, pull up a chair.
You are right on time.
He published Angela’s Ashes at 66 and picked up a Pulitzer.
A lifetime gathered itself and spoke.
Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson Moses; 1860–1961) was an American folk artist celebrated for her vivid, nostalgic depictions of rural life. Beginning her artistic career in her late seventies, she became a cultural icon whose self-taught style symbolized simplicity, perseverance, and American pastoral heritage.
Her first Little House book arrived in her mid-60s.
The stories that shaped generations had been marinating for decades.
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Testimonials (people who have worked with Maverick Center or been in community) tell it best.
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Most people arrive at this question during disruption. A milestone birthday. A career success that strangely feels empty. Being good at something and still being released. Children leaving home. Or the quiet, persistent ache that whispers, this cannot be all there is. All of these moments are real. All are honorable starting points. But they are not the ideal beginning. The ideal time is earlier, around sixteen to eighteen, when a young person first collides with the giant cultural question: What are you going to do with your life? What major? What job? What future? Imagine meeting that moment already knowing how to listen to your inner guidance. Already knowing how to test a direction. Already knowing how to seek reflection without losing yourself. That changes everything. And earlier still, the groundwork can begin at home. Around dinner tables. In car rides. On ordinary Tuesdays. Through small ideas, lived examples, honest conversations, exposure to possibility. Parents do not have to be perfect guides. They do not have to have achieved their own best use of a lifetime. Even attempts. Even mistakes. Even stories of what they would try again. These are powerful inheritances. No one is disqualified from starting where they are. But if we can give people the tools younger, they get more years of living aligned instead of years spent recovering or catching up.
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Services rendered (talks, guidance, programs, Bounces) during Synona times are rendered freely. Our gift to the community. We are donation based.
Services rendered from Maverick Center are paid by the hour. This is the professional practice. Here Diane has been helping people build lives that are aligned with their inner guidance, then execute, adjust, and move through change in practical, grounded ways. Think: clarity, strategy, and movement.
Session are one-on-one, usually by telephone.
This is real-time, lived application.
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No.
Many members value therapy, coaching, mentoring, and spiritual communities.
Synona doesn’t replace any of those.
We are a place where individuals gather to think more deeply, ask better questions, exchange earned understanding, and help one another advance their lives.
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No.
Individuals from many different backgrounds participate.
Synona does not ask anyone to adopt a particular worldview.
Freedom of conscience is essential.
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No.
Life doesn’t unfold in semesters.
Synona is an ongoing practice.
As your life changes, your questions change.
As your questions change, your development continues.
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Never.
Some gatherings you’ll speak.
Others you’ll simply listen.
Both are valuable.
Participation is always your choice.
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Membership is by invitation and mutual discernment.
We care deeply about protecting the quality of the conversations and the culture we are building.
The goal isn’t exclusivity.
The goal is stewardship.
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Most places help you succeed in one area of life.
Synona helps you develop the person living the life.
We believe the greatest contribution an individual can make is to become increasingly capable of faithfully stewarding the one lifetime they have been given.
Because every life well stewarded is an example to family, friends, legacies, communities, and the world.
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Lifetime Development is the ongoing practice of intentionally living your life.
At Synona, we organize it into four lifelong practices:
Discern what your lifetime is asking of you.
Design your next season with intention.
Develop the wisdom, character, and capabilities to live it well.
Steward what has been entrusted to your care.
It isn’t self-improvement.
It’s the stewardship of an entire life.