Posts Related to Place
Adventure in Namibia – proving the power of community based conservation and tourism
Excitement is mounting! In less than four hours I start my journey to Namibia to participate in the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s annual World Summit (2013). It's such a privilege for many reasons: 1. Namibia leads the world in wildlife conservancy because it...
On the tip of the tipping point – when ecology is understood to be spiritual, there’ll be no going back.
A core tenet of Conscious Travel is an understanding that each place is alive and sacred. Host providers will develop truly sustainable livelihoods that benefit their communities when they come into right relationship with all life. Our indigenous brothers and sisters...
Here’s to a Disruptive, Transformative 2013!
Well dear friends I hope you had a restful, merry holiday break with those you love. The good news is that we survived the end of the world that some had predicted! The great wheel of time turned We're moving on - we're sensing a big shift We're moving on - but...
Place is back – how did we ever lose it?
A consistent theme of this blog, that will persist until The Shift/The Transition/The Great Turning/The Great Disruption is over, relates to the power of paradigms to shape behaviour. A perceptive reader will notice that I haven’t used the word paradigm much because I...
Conscious Travel in Three Words, 17 Characters & 3 spaces
If I had to summarize what Conscious Travel is all about in just three words I’d use: Value, Mindset, Place Value The biggest tragedy associated with mass, industrial tourism is that it is selling itself, the rest of humanity and the planet short. Ironically, this is...
Where Do You Stand?
I write this before dawn in Sydney in a modern, sterile hotel room overlooking Botany Bay – the sheltered harbour that James Cook entered some 242 years ago when our current scientific, materialisitic worldview was just entering adolescence. I am sure that, if brought...