Stories & Articles

This c0llection of stories and articles have been sorted through the lens of the TTC Navigational Framework

SELF & SPIRIT: Personal Evolution

• Why We Travel by Pico Iyer

• 5 Reasons Why You Should Travel the World by Sam Austin for Live Learn Evolve

• Why Travel Makes You an Awesome Person by Matt Kepnes (of Nomadic Matt) for The Huffington Post

• The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears by Florence Williams for Outside Magazine

• How People Learn to Become Resilient by Maria Konnikova

• Transformed by Travel: 9 Stories by Annie Fitzsimmons for National Geographic

• An Interview with Phil Cousineau - Author of the Art of the Pilgrimage with Frederic Brussat

• For a More Creative Brain, Travel: How international experiences can open the mind to new ways of thinking by Brent Crane

• You’re a different person when you travel. Here’s why, and how to transform yourself at home by Jen Rose Smith

• The “New You” Business, by Harvard Business Review

OTHERS & BRIDGING: Relational Evolution

• A Navajo Photographer Reconnects with her Roots in New Mexico, The Washington Post

• Questions Every Anti-Racist Traveler Should Ask on a Trip by Alex Temblador

• Navigating Personal Perspective and Bias in Travel-Related Storytelling by JoAnna Haugen, (TTC Herald)

• Out and About us a Global Citizen by Dr. Anu Taranath

• What I’ve learned as a black traveler by Heather Greenwood-Davis, (TTC Herald)

• 13 Unique Ways to Connect with Local Culture Abroad Ethically & Sustainably by Gerry Isabelle

• Traveling While Brown: Journeys in Privilege, Guilt, and Connection by Anu Taranath

• What traveling taught me about White privilege and anti-Blackness— from a Black woman’s perspective by Grace Greene

• When it comes to planning trips, Black consumers feel “shut out” of the travel market by Jill Menze

• Get to Know Jessica Nabongo, the First Documented Black Woman to Travel to Every Country in the World by Alisha Prakash

• What Could Go Wrong? Common Cultural Challenges on Donor Trips: Visitor Edition by Caliopy Glaros, (TTC Advisor)

• How to Use Travel to Talk to Your Kids about Race by Sophia Hyder-Hock

SYSTEMS & STEWARDSHIP: Collective Evolution

• How to be a better traveler during climate change by Sally Kohn

• The passionate love of Life and of all that is alive by Daniel Christian-Wahl

• Intentional design and the next visitor economy, by Dianne Dredge

• Why Quiet Is So Important in Travel by Chloe Berge, (TTC Herald)

• How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies by Adam Alter for The Atlantic

• How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain by Gretchen Reynolds for The New York Times

• Re-Wilding Human Nature by Lucy Purdy on Positive.News

• Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call me in the Morning by Florence Williams for Outside Magazine

• This is Your Brain on Nature by Florence Williams for National Geographic

• Study: Hiking Makes You Happier by Lauren Steele for Outside Magazine

• The New Science of the Creative Brain on Nature by Carolyn Gregoire for Outside Online

• We Know Nature Makes Us Happier ... Now Science Says It Makes Us Kinder, Too! by Jill Suttie in YES! Magazine

• Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation by Umair Haque

OTHER …

• It's OK to Spend All of Your Money on Traveling, Science Says by Christine Schoenwald for The Huffington Post

• Pull the Triggers: A Stanford University Psychologist's Elegant 3-Step Method for Creating New Habits by Lila MacLellan for Quartz

• The Science of Why You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things by Jay Cassano for Fast Company

• Three Ways to Start Designing Your Dream Life by Celine Da Costa for Forbes Magazine

• Transformative Travel: An Enjoyable Way to Foster Radical Change by Susan L. Ross, Ph.D. in ReVision Magazine

• Transforming Everyday Tasks Through Travel by Leah Mayor for The Huffington Post

• Meaningful travel, or how to holiday with a purpose and return home with more than just smartphone snaps by Andrea Oschetti

BOOKS

If one of these books calls to you, please consider making your purchase at Book Passage or your local book store. You may want to tune into the Conversations with Authors through Book Passage, featuring live and archived sessions with the writers and thinkers most committed to America’s independent bookstores, including our very own Phil Cousineau!

• The Transformational Travel Journal - Your Guide to a Life-Changing Journey by Eric Rupp (TTC Partner)

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• The Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau (TTC Advisor)

• Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World by Anu Taranath

• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

• Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James Wallman (TTC Advisor)

• The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore (TTC Advisor)

• Awakening the Soul by Michael Meade

• Original Wisdom by Donna Bond

• Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte 

• To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

• Living with a Green Heart by Gay Browne (TTC Ally)

• The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life by Sandra Ingerman

• Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness: Heal and Transform Yourself and Our World with Ancient Shamanic and Modern Methods by Llyn Roberts (TTC Ally)

• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

• A Separate Reality by Carlos Casteneda

• Explorers of the Infinite by Maria Coffey

• Fearless by Steve Chandler 

• Awake in the Wild by Mark Coleman

• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

• The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau 

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell 

• The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy 

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 

• Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho 

• The Nature Principle by Richard Louv 

• Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean by Don Mankin & Shannon Stowell

• Roadmap by Roadtrip Nation

• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen 

• Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer 

• 17 Lies That are Holding You Back and the Truth that Will Set You Free by Steve Chandler 

• Getting Away from It All: Vacations and Identity by Karen Stein

• The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations by Jaime Kurtz

DOCUMENTARIES & MOVIES

Documentaries

• David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 

• Down to Earth

• Dark Tourist

• Finding Joe

• Being Hear (TTC Advisor, Gordon Hempton)

• Travels with My Father

• The Kindness Diaries

• My Octopus Teacher

• 180 Degrees South

• Pedal the World

Movies

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

• Finding Joe (the Movie)

• The Motorcycle Diaries

• A Map for Saturday

• Interstellar

• The Way

• In July

• Wild

• Forrest Gump

• The Beach

• Que Tan Lejos

• The Darjeeling Unlimited

• The Hundred-Foot Journey

• Lost in Translation

• Into the Wild

• Before Sunrise

• Up!

• In Bruges

• Indiana Jones (all of them!)

• Thelma & Louise

• A Good Year

• 7 Years in Tibet 

• Midnight in Paris

• Vicky Christina Barcelona

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