This guide is the distillation of seventeen years of cross-cultural experience, four years of doctoral research, and one very specific question: what actually has to be true for a travel experience to change the way someone sees the world?
Inside you will find Mezirow's ten phases of transformative learning explained in plain language, the five conditions that have to be present for transformation to occur, the four most common reasons experiences fail to produce lasting change, and the Transformational Learning Arc, a practical four-step framework for designing transformative travel experiences from first conversation to year-long integration.
This is not theory. It is a practitioner's guide grounded in a research study that actually took place, with seven real participants whose perspectives shifted in documented, meaningful ways.
If you design travel experiences, lead retreats, run tours, or guide people through growth of any kind, this guide is for you.
This guide is the distillation of seventeen years of cross-cultural experience, four years of doctoral research, and one very specific question: what actually has to be true for a travel experience to change the way someone sees the world?
Inside you will find Mezirow's ten phases of transformative learning explained in plain language, the five conditions that have to be present for transformation to occur, the four most common reasons experiences fail to produce lasting change, and the Transformational Learning Arc, a practical four-step framework for designing transformative travel experiences from first conversation to year-long integration.
This is not theory. It is a practitioner's guide grounded in a research study that actually took place, with seven real participants whose perspectives shifted in documented, meaningful ways.
If you design travel experiences, lead retreats, run tours, or guide people through growth of any kind, this guide is for you.