Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Cecil Beaton
e>v is a worldwide aliveness movement: courageously living in choice, liminality and possibility. Join us.
You know that feeling of aliveness you have when on vacation? What if every day felt that free? That amazing? That alive? Now it can. With Evolution Through Vacation, the philosophy that helps you use the experience of travel to transform your every day existence into something that rocks your world, shakes your core and changes the routine of everyday living to an experience of truly being alive.
The quick story:
Evolution Through Vacation (e>v or “e-through-v”). It’s an idea. A philosophy. A movement that gathers together people who believe that life is meant to be experienced in the richest, most playful way possible. e>v says use the energy and experience of vacation to live in choice and possibility in every moment. At home and abroad, on and off the road. To illuminate the way, it's also a down-loadable e-guide that transforms your vacation into a kickass personal growth adventure. And it's so much more...
What do other travelers say?
Karen says: My most valuable take-away from the philosophy? A visual / feeling of the personality of my best-possible self.
Ann says: e>v is open. Fun. Freeing. ALIVE. What more could you want in life?
Why vacation?
While most travel guides focus on the tangibles of a vacation––where you’ll go and what you’ll see––e>v focuses on the intangibles of your trip: where you want to grow, what you want to learn, who you want to be on this journey and beyond. (Idea: go big.)
And it starts with four big ideas:
1) Liminality. (Wait, limi-what?) Liminality.
Evolution Through Vacation introduces a new kind of space to travelers near and far: liminality. Liminality or liminal space is the simple idea of betwixt and between. In the middle. On the threshold. It’s a term rooted in anthropology and psychology where, according to Webster’s, “a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect.” And, oh what an effect it can produce. (Think: In the twilight. On the verge. When anything can happen.)
2) Courage
Evolution Through Vacation explores the idea of courage – the powerful energy that moves you to create a dream and a vision. Courage allows you to stare down and step past inhibiting stories. Courage is what keeps you from being talked out of aliveness. In short, courage allows movement.
3) Choice
In your life – every single day – you are the Editor-in-Chief. You always have a choice in how you compose your reality. You always have a choice in what you believe. You always have a choice in what you will do. And you always have a choice in how your next moment will feel. Evolution Through Vacation believes this to the core and brings it to life in amazing ways.
4) Possibility
Possibility is making yourself available to the unexpected nuggets of learning and options around us all the time. Possibility is freedom, liberation, release. Possibility is what you’re ready for when you’re ready for anything. So ... you ready? Of course you are!
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Evolution Through Vacation by Elissa Gjertson + Gretchen Helmer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.