Jake's Weekly Flow #31

Weekly Flow #31 - August 5th, 2023

Dear, Changemaker

Welcome to my weekly flow of news, events, insightful perspectives, and impactful stories aimed at creating positive change in your life and the lives you touch, at home and on the road.
 
My curious mind, intuitive soul, and big heart, along with some personal connections and crushes on extraordinary humans have put me in a position to receive an abundance of practical information, exciting innovation, and profound wisdom, usually travel-related, that has flowed to me, and now, on to you. Before you scan, take a breath, tune in, open up to the flow, and find your glow.

• OMG, can you imagine? Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have been Heaviest Animal Ever (Sorry, Blue Whales) - “I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale

• Podcast - Experiencing Emotional Liberation - by Loch Kelly - “In this podcast, mindfulness teacher Loch Kelly explores how the root cause of suffering lies not in the emotions themselves, but in the contraction of the mind in a limited sense of identity. Here he delves into the concept of emotional liberation, emphasizing that it is not about suppressing or eliminating emotions, but rather allowing them to flow freely without the Velcro of reactive self.” 

• Are you a hotelier, destination, travel advisor, or experience designer? Here is a very special invitation to sit with me on a Tourism Roundtable for the Emerging Transformation Economy. We’re working to lead, define and measure what happens when experiences become transformational. 

• Just so inspired by this work that TTC Ally Member, Raj Gyawali of Social Tours in Nepal is doing to capture meaningful stories in travel. “Resonate Travel is a local story-telling platform that currently has stories and guides written by locals and "inspired" travelers, responsibly curated by Emily Cathart, our editor who works out of Ireland. The philosophy here being - travelers should be inspired by stories from locals, and travel to try and immerse experience the immense pride locals have about their own destinations as that's the most sustainable trait of destinations... hence guides written by locals, local stories, burning issues, inspired travelers’ tales and stories of local change makers feature at resonate - currently 65 stories from multiple countries, 25 destination guides written by locals.” Sign up for the e-news!

• Are you a Tireless Traveler? Join me or Mona on our upcoming pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Need some inspiration? Join an insightful conversation between Mona and Joao founder of Walking Mentorship Friday, August 11 at 8am PST/11am EST

• Podcast: Join TTC's Mona Lewicka and Walking Mentorship Founder, Joao Perre-Viana, for an interactive session on ‘The Way.” Learn more about this transformative experience and the deep impact it can have on your life from the moment you take the first step. You can also hear them discuss the trip on the most recent podcast episode of "Keep walking with me" by Walking Mentorship.

•  A mesmerizing interview of one the most acclaimed travel writers on the planet, Pico Iyer. The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Travel as a Spiritual Experience with Pico Iyer. Pico is the author of dozens of books including The Lady and the Monk and The Art of Stillness, talks to Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod about the profound wonder that travel invites, how he came to cherish the feeling of wandering in the unknown, and how he came to find a home within himself.

This week I will leave you with an homage to Pico, including some of my favorite Pico Iyer quotes and a video conversation of Pico and the Dalai Lama. 
 
“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. What more could one ask of a companion?” ― Pico Iyer
 
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in and fall in love once more.” ― Pico Iyer
 
“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” ― Pico Iyer
 
“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.” ― Pico Iyer
 
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” ― Pico Iyer

His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins author Pico Iyer in a conversation by video-conference from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on June 17, 2020, as part of the Jaipur Literature Festival Brave New World series.

Journey on,

Jake Haupert 
Co-Founder & CEO
Transformational Travel Council
www.transformational.travel | LinkedIn

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