This interactive workshop on Transformative Travel was originally given at an event in Boulder, Colorado called On the Road to WITS (Women in Travel Summit).

1. On the Road to WITS

2. Transformative Travel
1. What is it, exactly?
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2. Why is it the key to feeling
ALIVE and on FIRE…
even after you return home?
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3. What could your own
transformative travel experience
look like?

3. The Hero(ine)’s Journey

4. “The more alienation, panic
and solitude one feels on a
trip, the more likely she or he
is to be changed by it.”
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“Your true traveler will not feel
that [she] has had [her]
money’s worth unless [she]
brings back a few scars.”
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-Paul Fussel, Abroad: British Literary Traveling
Between the Wars
On Discomfort

5. Opportunity
• Transformative travel is a
catalyst that kicks a deeper,
wiser part of you into action
• Leaves you with the capacity
to confront challenge and live
as fully and as BIG as you can
• Increases your awareness,
your connections, and your
authenticity

6. DIY: Transformative Travel
1. Choose a destination completely different from
your home culture (where you engage in completely
unfamiliar activities)
2. Choose lots of engagement and conversation with
the people who actually live there
3. Go alone: remove yourself from your usual
influences and influencers to see who you truly are

7. DIY: Transformative Travel
4. Create time for reflection each day on what you've
learned (journaling)
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5. Plan a post-trip activity that supports you in
reflecting on what you learned during your travels

8. Your Turn…

9. Clarity + Purpose
1. What places scare you…but don’t terrify
you?
2. What core feelings do you wish you could
feel more often? (deep love, full-blown
happiness, rock-solid confidence, etc.)
3. What types of people (artists, entrepreneurs,
scientists, digital nomads, etc.) do you
desire to meet more of?
4. From what you know, which cities/countries
are known for having those types of people?

10. "It is not necessarily at home that we
best encounter our true selves. The
furniture insists that we cannot
change because it does not; the
domestic setting keeps us tethered to
the person we are in ordinary life, who
may not be who we essentially are."

11. Bold Magic Travel Coaching!
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Staying Connected

12. Join 500 influencers and brand representatives in Irvine,
California on March 18-20, 2016 for a weekend of
workshops, networking, and growing our global
sisterhood.
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Tickets for WITS start at just $159.
Visit www.witsummit.com for more information or learn
about Wanderful and the international network of women
who travel at www.sheswanderful.com.