travel – ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:56:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-fav-icon-B-32x32.png travel – ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ 32 32 Morgan Blanco – Getting the World /vulnerability-touch-voice/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:51:17 +0000 /?p=1118  

When I started my journey abroad I had a vast amount of feelings, spreading from fear to excitement. I think I found that being a Boldleader allowed me to see that there is beauty in each of these feelings that I was having.

My time abroad has been one filled with uncomfortable situations allowing for me to transform my perspectives about the world even more, and making me come alive!

These feelings of vulnerability led to some of my greatest memories during my time abroad thus far. It has also allowed me to explore some of the basic human resources that I had lost, which were touch and voice. The relationships and friendships that I have gained through these amazing experiences has made me believe in myself so much more and has helped me enjoy every weird, joyful, and different minute of my time here. I found that the amount that I put in is minimal to the great amount I have gotten out from this experience. I wanted to participate fully and play the fool, and so far it has given me the world!

]]> Mikaela Lieb – Purposeful Participation /mikaela-lieb-purposeful-participation/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:59:33 +0000 /?p=1120 The opportunity to travel and practice something internal, in my experience, was a practice in consciousness-raising. It was finding something to focus and hone in on that was important to me, within myself, and to be able to practice and expand and explore it. It grew me immensely in many ways. At this point, for me, maybe even more importantly than the way it allowed me to change the way I related to myself, was how it altered the way I related to my surroundings, the country I was in, and the people around me. It created space for me to act and think in intentional ways I hadn’t considered before. I acted and thought from a space of vulnerability, reflection, value, courage and trust.

This is still something I carry with me in my travels today. Though I do not always place myself in a space of identifying, practicing, and exploring something narrow about myself internally, I am purposeful in how I participate, how I act, how I relate, and what I get out of different experiences. I am fully present even in seemingly insignificant moments, and I am able to catch myself when I am not. In effect, I believe that I learn more about myself, the people I am surrounded by, and the place I am in than I otherwise would.
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