by annapollock@me.com | Oct 18, 2013 | Biodiversity, Conscious Travel, Cultural Diversity, Culture, MOVE, Place, Protection
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...
by annapollock@me.com | Jun 30, 2013 | Indigenous Values, Mindsets, MOVE, Place, Value & Views
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...
by annapollock@me.com | Dec 31, 2012 | MOVE, Place, Protection, Value & Views
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...
by annapollock@me.com | Nov 28, 2012 | MOVE, Place
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...
by annapollock@me.com | Oct 23, 2012 | Conscious Travel, Mindsets, MOVE, Place, Value & Views
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...
by annapollock@me.com | Sep 9, 2012 | Biodiversity, Conscious Travel, Leadership, MOVE, Place, Protection
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...
