Anna Pollock Presentation to Adventure Travel World Summit, Namibia, 2013

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Adventure Travel World Summit Keynote presentation, Anna Pollock - Leading the Way: The Adventure of Travel

Transcript of Anna Pollock Presentation to Adventure Travel World Summit, Namibia, 2013

LEADING THE WAY

Anna PollockFounder, Conscious Travel

THE ADVENTURE OF TRAVEL

"once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be

let loose.” Fred Hoyle, 1948

How Do You Perceive This Floating Sphere?

Real Estate?

Spaceship Earth ?

Living Organism?

“This report shows the world on a development trajectory

that is not sustainable.

If we fail to alter our patterns of production and

consumption, things will go badly wrong.”

10 mega-forces, all connected in ways we don’t

fully understand.

The Earth’s environmental system is simultaneously coming under increasing

stress. Future simultaneous shocks to both systems could

trigger the “perfect global storm”, with potentially

insurmountable consequences. 50 risk sources, all

connected in ways we don’t fully understand

Source: Globescan

“Adventure tourism is what tourism

ought to be today and is what tourism

is going to be tomorrow.”

Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General,

UNWTO2012

“We have one generation in which to shift

human consciousness”

Jeremy Rifkin

Don’t ask what your country can do for you, ask what you

can do for your country.

John F Kennedy

You never change things by fighting existing reality

To change something, build a new model that makes

the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Shifts in Consciousness - People

We want to become more, not acquire more!

Are You Sufficiently Unreasonable?

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Are You the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For?

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw

An inner adventure

A journey of becoming

An outer adventure

A journey of exploration

Taleb Rifai’s Challenge

Guides, Mentors

Compass = Values

When you want to build a ship, you don’t start

collecting wood, cutting planks and distributing work,

but waken in the heart of people, a longing for the great and endless sea.

Antoine St Expury

This shimmering jewel is NOT a problem to be solved but a living being to which we belong and in which we are as embedded as the cells in our

body

A Transformative Shift in Perspective

Learn to look in a lake as earth’s eye and, by looking, measure the depth of our own

natureThoreau

We are Nature and She is Us

Through Experiencing Wonder & Awe

“it’s the wild that preserves humanity”

You’ll move your guests from numbness to aliveness

from indifference to empathy

can “read the love letters sent by the wind and the rain, the

snow and the moon”

Your Higher Purpose – to help your guests fall in love with life and Mother Earth and so that

they too

One generation to shift the relationship between Humans and Mother Earth:

 •From Ignorance to Curiosity

•From Superiority to Respect

•From Mean-spiritedness to Gratitude

•From Extraction to Regeneration

•From Indifference to Activism

•From Disdain to Love

YOU are the ones we have been waiting for

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Thank You!

Anna Pollockwww.conscious.travel

theconscioushost@gmail.com