SF, You’re Invited: Traveling on Purpose to Change Your World

We all know travel can be transformative.  A great stretch of road, a deserted beach, unfamiliar food and customs, that guy or gal in the bar…these have the power to change us.

But what if you used travel on purpose to be transformative? What if you could design an adventure to change your life and the lives of others?

Traveling on purpose is changing the world of travel and personal development. It involves journeying to gain skills and experiences, hiking through landscapes that are different and demanding, working on a big project to increase your contribution to the world, and forming a community to support your growth. The convergence of adventure travel, personal development, and community building doesn’t need to be expensive or take you far away from home. You can design your own big project adventure close to home with friends and family.

Our speakers this month are Elizabeth Becker, principal of Becker & Company Consulting, a go-to-market strategy firm, and leader of The Machu Picchu Leadership Adventure; and Todd Sotkiewicz , general manager of Lonely Planet and a world traveler.

Elizabeth will introduce the concept of traveling on purpose and share the results of a travel adventure involving 10 women who embarked on a 6-month leadership development program that included two weeks of trekking in Peru. You can learn more about Elizabeth’s leadership adventures here.

Todd will share his perspective gained from working at Lonely Planet, a company that has been helping folks design their own adventures for over 30 years with travel guides and community, and his own travel adventures.

Elizabeth will be facilitating. She invites you to be in dialog around this topic using the a new way of “doing meeting” called convening. We will meet in circle and engage in a simultaneously ancient and new conversational structure that focuses on inquiry, listening, allowing all voices to be heard and engaging the collective wisdom of the group.

And she, along with Todd, will aid us in exploring how we can catapult ourselves from our day-to-day existence into a new level of enjoyment and contributing to our world by combining eye-opening travel, physically demanding activities, community building, giving back, and big project intention.

MEETING
When: Thursday, February 26th, 6:00-10:00pm (you can come and go anytime during the meeting)
Where: Ninth House, 465 California Street, 14th floor, San Francisco. Please sign in with security downstairs when you come in the main door and register under Abundance League.  Then come up to the 14th floor.   This location is on the cable car line and is accessible by BART (Montgomery Street station).   There’s parking at the build or at 345 California.

Learn more about our meetings here. And you’re invited to join our new social networking site which links members from three league chapters here.

AGENDA
6:00 – 7:00 Arrive, mingle, nosh
7:00 – 7:45 Member announcements (your passions, needs and gifts)
7:45 – 8:15  Break – exchange support, mingle, nosh
8:15 – 9:30  Discussion
9:30 – 10:00 Mingle, clean up
10:00 – Optional, take the discussion to a nearby bar

BRING
-Yourself, friends
-Healthy finger food for the potluck
-Shares: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting