LivingSynona™

Wherever you live, your lifetime is still unfolding.

LivingSynona™ is the online expression of the Synona™ movement for Lifetime Development. Wherever you live, it offers thoughtful company as you learn to hear yourself more clearly, exchange what life has taught you, and take next steps that genuinely belong to you.

Your lifetime is happening today. You can practice developing it in the middle of your actual life.

Why LivingSynona Exists

Everyone is given a lifetime. Very few are ever taught how to develop one.

Most education teaches us how to earn a living. Very little teaches us how to steward a life.

LivingSynona exists to advance Lifetime Development.

It is an ongoing place to think more clearly, ask better questions, strengthen your judgment, develop wisdom, and make increasingly better use of the one lifetime you have been given.

What We Practice

LivingSynona is built around four lifelong practices:

Discern. What is your lifetime asking of you now?

Design. How do you intentionally shape your next season instead of drifting into it?

Develop. What wisdom, character, capabilities, and relationships need to grow?

Steward. How do you faithfully care for everything entrusted to your life?

These aren’t lessons to finish. They are practices to return to for a lifetime.

What Makes LivingSynona Different

Most online communities exchange information. LivingSynona exchanges earned understanding. People don’t gather because they have all the answers. They gather because together they see farther than they can alone.

You will find:

• Bounce™ conversations

• Thoughtful questions

• Reflection practices

• Real-world experimentation

• Stories that shorten another person’s learning curve

• Individuals committed to living lives that genuinely belong to them

This is not passive content. It is active development.

The Kind of Individuals You’ll Meet

Builders (of what matters).

Parents.

Entrepreneurs.

Students.

Artists.

Visionaries

Professionals.

Retirees beginning their next chapter.

Those facing mid life crisis, care givers, and those facing major BIG birthdays.

Individuals quietly asking: “How do I make better use of the rest of my life?”

Not because life has gone wrong. Because they believe it could become even more fully theirs.

The LivingSynona Experience

As a member you’ll participate in ongoing opportunities to grow through:

• Guided conversations

• Bounce™ partnerships

• Small group discussions

• Monthly teachings

• Practical challenges

• Reflection journals

• Shared discoveries

• Questions worth living into

• The Exchange of Becoming™

• Encouragement from individuals walking the same path

You are never expected to have everything figured out. Only to keep practicing.

Steward of LivingSynona™

Julie Demaree is the Steward of LivingSynona™, helping cultivate

a welcoming place for thoughtful connection, honest conversation, and the

continuing practice of becoming more fully ourselves.

Julie brings years of experience in life, career, and small business coaching, along with management of both businesses and nonprofit organizations. Her undergraduate studies focused on human development and psychology.

Her own life reflects the possibility of continuing to become. In a later career chapter, she earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Christian Education and Formation from Princeton Theological Seminary. There, she cultivated her passions for the contemplative life, pastoral care, mental wellness, and missional entrepreneurship.

Beyond her work, Julie loves time with family and friends, social dancing, photography, and singing in a female-voice barbershop chorus. She remains a loyal Nebraska Cornhusker football fan—and firmly believes a comeback is coming.

She is the proud mother of five and “Loolee” to nine grandchildren. Raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, she raised her family in Austin, Texas, and now lives in Brandon, Vermont, where she savors all four seasons, especially autumn.

We are delighted to welcome Julie into this stewardship as LivingSynona™ grows—wherever we live, and through every season of becoming.

What We Believe

You cannot spend time around individuals intentionally developing their lives without beginning to develop your own. Possibility is contagious. Wisdom is transferable. Character grows in good company. Every life well stewarded enlarges the freedom of another.

Is LivingSynona™ For You?

LivingSynona™ may be for you if:

• You want to live more intentionally.

• You value thoughtful conversation over noisy opinion.

• You enjoy learning from lived experience.

• You believe wisdom can be cultivated.

• You want friends who help you become more fully yourself.

• You are willing to practice, not merely consume.

Our Invitation

No one can live your lifetime for you. But you do not have to develop it alone.

If you are ready to create/re-create/advance, design, and develop better uses for your lifetime…

Welcome.

This is LivingSynona™

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