Travel Evolves Us

Experiences that uncover the true self, lead to a renewed awareness that radiates positive impacts on others, communities, organizations, and the world.

 

Transformative Tourism offers a Brighter Future for all

The world is changing. It’s time for conscious evolution in travel and tourism. We’re using this moment as a launchpad to something completely different, a transformation economy, and encouraging a mindset, approach, and model that measures success based on more holistic, conscious, and virtuous outcomes.

We believe meaningful travel starts from the inside out – and that is where we’ve fallen short, with travel often reinforcing existing boundaries, worldviews, and practices, rather than stretching and illuminating them. The deep impacts of such personal transformations create ripples of impact felt by all.

Travel joins other catalysts for personal transformation and new lifestyle choices, from family and relationships to life events, personal health, etc. To be further explored, travel can be catalytic in a handful of areas: relationships, ecological footprint, consumer and travel choices, social purpose and philanthropic commitments, lifestyle and time management choices, and mindful, contemplative practice.

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The Problem

We suffer from a crisis of good travel. We are increasingly disassociated from the things that matter most – each other, experiences, and our communities and impact.

As a result, we are unhappier and poorer stewards of one another and our planet, with increasingly dire consequences. We see our present interconnected global challenges of digital addiction, societal separation, widespread environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, climate crisis, poverty, inequities, and injustices as issues, transformational travel and a regenerative approach can and should address, in a way that can be joyful, fulfilling, and rewarding for all.

Our Solution

MISSION

To educate, inspire awe, and advance tourism, travelers, and communities mindful of mutual respect, fairness, and the wellbeing of humanity and our Mother Earth.

VISION

Travel that raises the collective consciousness of humankind to regenerate and thrive

CORE VALUE: Renewal.

To restore, reinvigorate and refresh. A return to an ideal, true state. Requires intentional action and results in rewarding transformation. Infuses vitality yielding longevity and sustainability.

“To move allows us to leave home for the open road, where we can exult in the pleasure of going somewhere. But to become a savvy traveler means we need to move more than just our feet. We need to move our minds and our hearts if we are to have more than superficial encounters with other cultures. In this sense, movement, in all its myriad meanings, is one of the keys to transformational travel, which requires a shift from passive to active ways of engaging with the world. No deep movement, no deep change; no joy; no consciousness of the awe and wonder.”
— Phil Cousineau, Foreword, The Transformational Travel Journal

Travel Changes Us and the World

Deepening connection and meaning incites change that breaks down divisions within us and between us.

A more conscious travel holds the potential to bring more personal fulfillment, compassion, stewardship, equality, and belonging.

We're working to better understand the impact that transformational travel has on personal development and the subsequent adoption of pro-social, pro-environmental, and conservation behaviors.

Transformative tourism is good business and a natural and powerful catalyst to personal and societal transformation.

 

The Possibility

Most people can agree that travel can be transformative. We believe it’s superpowers are realized when actively engaged, applying a growth mindset, and developing an outcome-based travel practice.

Travel doesn’t become truly transformational until you have taken time for deep reflection, meaning-making, and taken inspired-action in your life!

This approach can accelerate the process and amplify the positive impact on your life and the lives of others.

Businesses and destinations that understand and appreciate this and are ready to adopt a transformative experience strategy represent the future of tourism.

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Our Work

We are dedicating our work to cause-driven initiatives that are centered on behavior change, traveling and living more mindfully, and fostering positive, holistic change at a traveler, host, and community level.

Our Programs and Products are hard-hitting, accessible solutions to some challenging and relevant issues we're confronting in tourism and as a society today and tomorrow.

 

The Power of Transformational Travel …

Transformation lies on a spectrum, from a small t to a BIG T, and it’s uniquely personal, and it cannot be designed, promised, or delivered. Traveling to transform is a balance of intention, awareness, and surrendering, the worst mistake you can make is trying too hard or setting expectations instead of intentions, and waiting for a transformative moment or an epiphany to occur, that really doesn’t work very well … We’ve tried.

  • Become more empathetic, humble, grateful, and compassionate

  • Increase awareness of the interconnectedness of the world and all living beings

  • Gain insight into who/what brings peace and joy to your life, and who/what detract from it

  • Embody desired attitudes, character, values, and behaviors

  • Be more comfortable with the uncomfortable, unknown, disorientation, and change

  • Change a career or a relationship

  • Heal from addiction, anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses

  • Feel more fulfilled, joyous, and alive

  • Embrace a growth mindset, optimize your life, and flourish

  • Realize your presence and live from essence

  • Gain clarity, courage, and confidence

  • Become more clear, creative, and innovative

  • Live a more attuned, healthier, and vibrant lifestyle through music, meditation, and movement

  • Recognize your own identity, biases, xenophobia, and prejudice

  • Change your beliefs about power, privilege, oppression, racial equity, and justice

  • Travel and live more virtuously, mindfully, and consciously

  • Practice “PMA” Present Moment Awareness

  • Explore plant medicines as a pathway to growth and healing

  • Eat healthier and more consciously

  • Find more quiet, calm, and stillness

  • Become a better friend, parent, child, role-model, and citizen

  • Know when to show up or walk away

  • Embrace challenge and obstacles as an opportunity for growth and personal development

  • Develop a gratitude practice

  • Have more conversations that matter

Travel is Sacred

It is a privilege, and its full power is only realized when you release expectation, let go of entitlement, and engage for the purpose of fulfillment rather than entertainment.