What cause is near and dear to your heart? Tanner Colton, Head of Design + Innovation at The Transformational Travel Council and Co-Owner of Travel Life Adventures, shows us how healing from oppression can create a ripple effect to improve things across the globe. And how mindful travel helps us to do that.

What does it mean to be a catalyst? What does it mean to heal? What does that “first step” look like? I have come to see exploration and travel as a form of therapy. A companion and a tool to supplement the daily work of navigating the intense and often debilitating affects of mental health challenges. When I leave home with questions about myself, about the world around me, that seeking leads me places I didn’t even know to go.

“Once I am gone, that’s it. My line. My way of life. All gone.”

Or so it was translated to me by my friend Hicham as we sat in the shade of a small tent in the scorching mid-day sun. The combination of sand being whipped through the air like a million little projectiles by the unrelenting wind and the unyielding heat from the sun, being under a tent shade was about the only place to be at that moment.

What does it mean to return from a meaningful experience? Why does it seem so difficult when we do? After a lifetime of traveling I still seek answers to these and would like to share with you some of the reasons I feel this is the case.

Our most cherished travel memories have something in common. The deeper value of travel lives within all of us and within each experience.

What has lead us to this point in our work? Why do we continue to strive for deeper connections? How can you connect with us and with the world in a more meaningful way? Come and hear some of our story.

2022 is the year to re-imagine our relationship to travel and set some new and exciting goals.