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Zeno Life Plan PrivateYour life, by design.

Zeno Life Plan Private is a personalised life-planning programme, guided one-to-one by Emerson Resende, founder of Zeno Life Plan and author of its four-step methodology. Over ten private sessions you write your own Life Plan and articulate your own Life Purpose.

Request a Private Conversation Explore the four steps
  • Ten sessionsPrivate and one-to-one, around fifty minutes each
  • Three to five monthsSessions usually a fortnight apart
  • Guided by the founderEvery session with the author of the methodology
  • Two written outputsYour Life Plan and your Life Purpose

I Why it matters

We plan careers, finances and organisations with great care. Our lives deserve the same intention.

Capable people spend years learning to set direction: for a team, a company, a portfolio. They define what success means, decide where to invest, set objectives and review progress. Yet the life all of this serves is rarely planned with the same rigour.

Zeno Life Plan applies the principles of strategic planning to the design of a life. Across seven areas of life, not work alone, you define what fulfilment means, decide what you want to own, learn and do, commit to objectives, and articulate the purpose that connects them.

  • DefineWhat fulfilment means to you
  • ChooseWhat you want to own, learn and do
  • CommitObjectives you can act on
  • ArticulateThe purpose that connects them

Life planning is not a remedy for something broken. It is the practice of choosing your direction deliberately, and it is often most valuable when things are going well.

II Who it is for

For people ready to author the next chapter.

The programme suits people who think clearly about other things for a living, and now want to think as clearly about their own lives.

  • i.

    Leaders and senior professionals

    You set direction for organisations and want the same rigour applied to your own life.

  • ii.

    Founders and entrepreneurs

    Your work and your life are closely woven. You want both pointing in the same direction.

  • iii.

    People at a turning point

    A new role, a move, a change at home. The previous plan no longer fits, and you want to write the next one well.

  • iv.

    The successful, asking what next

    Much is going well. You would rather choose the next decade deliberately than let it arrive by default.

What it is not

It is not coaching, and it is not therapy. You will not be told what to want, and the work looks forward rather than back.

IV How it works

Ten conversations. One Life Plan, written by you.

Sessions of around fifty minutes, usually a fortnight apart. The time between them matters as much as the sessions themselves: it is where reflection becomes decision.

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The four steps unfold in order across the ten sessions, at the pace your thinking requires.

Sessions
Ten private sessions
Length
Around 50 minutes
Rhythm
Usually every two weeks
Duration
Around three to five months
Languages
English, Portuguese or Spanish

The Private Programme is offered to a limited number of individuals, allowing each engagement to receive dedicated personal attention.

V What you create

Two documents, and a different way of deciding.

The programme ends with two documents you have written yourself. They are not reports prepared about you. They are the plan for your life and the purpose behind it, in your own words, and they remain yours.

Document one

Life Plan

Illustrative
Step 1 · Fulfilment, in three words per area
Career
Autonomy · Mastery · Impact
Family
Presence · Warmth · Continuity
Body & Health
Energy · Strength · Calm
+ four more areas
Step 2 · Assets
OwnA home with space for family to gather
LearnPortuguese
DoWalk the Camino de Santiago
Step 3 · Objective and activities
Reach B2 Portuguese by December 2027
  • Two lessons a week
  • One book in Portuguese each quarter
Written by the participantEdition 1
Document two

Life Purpose

Left blank
Growth
Experiences
Contribution

My Life Purpose is

Shown blank deliberately. Your Life Purpose is discovered and written by you, never drafted for you.

Personally developed

Every word is yours. The method provides the structure and the questions; the answers come from you.

Built to be revisited

A living document you can return to, review and revise as your life changes.

A habit of review

Reflection, structure, action and review: a way of deciding that continues long after the final session.

Emerson Resende, founder of Zeno Life Plan

VI Your guide

Emerson Resende

Founder of Zeno Life Plan · Author of the methodology

From planning for institutions to planning a life.

For more than fifteen years Emerson has worked internationally on climate finance, policy and strategy, within the UN system and international development institutions.

That work rests on strategic planning: clear objectives, honest assessment, disciplined review. He saw organisations plan with great rigour while the people inside them had no comparable structure for their own lives.

Zeno Life Plan is his response, bringing together Stoicism, Vipassana, behavioural science and strategic planning. In the Private Programme he guides each session personally. He is not a coach: his role is to hold the structure and ask the questions that help you reach your own answers.

“The tools organisations use to plan their future should be available to the people inside them.”

Emerson Resende
“The Zeno Life Plan programme allowed me to improve various areas of my life holistically, with clarity and purpose. Its methodology significantly influenced my journey of self-discovery and fulfilment, at work but especially in my family relationships.”
Christian Parra
Christian Parra, PhDClimate Specialist, IDB Invest · United States
“Working through the seven areas with Zeno Life Plan helped me organise my thoughts, set clear targets for my home life and direct my business forward. I highly recommend the programme to anyone feeling stuck or lost at a halfway point in life.”
Hanne Gathe
Hanne GatheInterior Designer · Norway

Personal reflections from participants in the founder-led programme, shared with permission.

VII The investment

One programme. One price.

A private engagement with the author of the methodology: ten sessions, the reflection between them, and a Life Plan and Life Purpose you will return to for years.

Private Programme

€10,000

+ applicable VAT

  • Ten private sessions
  • One personalised Life Plan
  • One personally articulated Life Purpose

Payment in two instalments: 50% on signing and the remaining 50% no later than the fifth session.

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Full programme terms will be provided before you commit.

VIII Begin

Begin with a conversation.

Tell us a little about yourself. Emerson reads every request personally. If the programme is right for you, you will both know.

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    Your request

    A few details, and a sentence about what brings you here if you wish.

  2. 02

    A personal reply

    Emerson replies personally to arrange a time to speak.

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    A private conversation

    To explore together whether this is the right time, and the right method, for you.

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For individuals. Organisations, please request an employer demo instead.

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Questions, answered plainly.

How is this different from coaching?

Coaching usually helps you pursue goals you already hold. Zeno Life Plan gives you a structured method to decide what those goals should be, across the whole of your life, and to write them down. You leave with a Life Plan and a Life Purpose of your own.

Do I need to be facing a crisis or a transition?

No. Many people begin because things are going well and they want to choose the next chapter deliberately rather than by default.

Who writes my Life Plan and Life Purpose?

You do. Emerson guides the process and asks the questions; every word of both documents is yours.

Is this connected to my employer’s Zeno Life Plan platform?

No. Zeno Life Plan Private is a personal engagement with the founder. It is separate from the Life Plan app and Life Plan Enterprise, and it is not part of any organisational licence.

Which languages are the sessions in?

English, Spanish or Portuguese. You can choose your preference when you request a conversation.