Dear Traveler,

Intentionality is the Groundwork for Transformation

You yearn to travel. Excited at the prospect to have an incredible experience, one like you’ve never had before!

And yet, when you consider where to go and what to do, become overwhelmed.

There are so many options it is difficult to wade through.

If this sounds like you, please read on!

Pause. Breathe. Doing so is a start to listen to your body, connect to what is truly in your heart, discover your whys.

What lights you up? What do you seek? Maybe it is seeing a new place or being outside of your comfort zone. Maybe connecting with family. Maybe it is an active adventure.

There is a new paradigm emerging as we recognize how travel is a tool for empowerment.

A conscious interruption from the status quo, travel offers ways to discover new parts of oneself. Discover your resilience, invite curiosity and reimagining reality itself!

The unfamiliar delivers new information. Senses come alive with novelty. And how will you navigate this new terrain? Welcome to finding your brave!

The world is a big place and there are lots to choose from. Being more intentional invites meaningful and lasting transformative experiences to unfold.

Instead of planning only for what you want to do on a trip, consider also how do you want to be? This intentionality is the groundwork for true transformation.

True transformation is likened to a metamorphosis by Joe Pine in his book The Transformation Economy. He also references Agnes Callard, author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming and Yale professor of philosophy L.A. Paul, who offer that substantial change equates to something deeper than gaining a new point of view or perspective, it is ‘revising how you experience being yourself’.

It is such a great change that in fact, one cannot determine at the start what that consists of because it is truly something brand new. It ‘affects your values and sense of self so much’ that it cannot be predicted or fully understood until it actually occurs! Wow!

Travel brings life to living. Travel is a pathway to truth!

Melinda Alcosser utilizes travel as practice, a means of self-discovery and to imagine what is possible! Melinda is excited about her role to serve as travel coach, walking mentor, and transformational travel designer. Supporting people to connect the dots, discover your whys and nurture your greatest potential toward human flourishing! Oh, and as a pickleball travel expert, coach, and group leader – let’s play and connect and live this life fully, with grace and love.