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Connecting Cultures originates from a desire to see people have the opportunity to experience other cultures, other ways of being, and other worldviews from a different viewpoint. Rather than being someone who merely passes through an experience as purely an observer, Connecting Cultures offers you the opportunity to be a participant in that culture, that region or that experience for as long as you choose to be there.
The sub-description of Connecting Cultures is “Journeys of Discovery”. These Journeys may take many forms. The common theme they all share is that whatever the particular type of journey you undertake, you will return from having encountered other ways of life, other traditions or other parts of the world with a greater sense of who you are and what is of value to you in the life you lead.
The value of connecting with other cultures is that it gives us the opportunity to, by comparison, examine our life and the assumptions we make about it from another viewpoint. It is as if, by encountering another way of being, we have the chance to stand outside our customary life and view it from a fresh perspective. This gives us expanded self-knowledge that we could not gain in any other way.
Connecting Cultures does this in many ways. We offer tours and workshops that bring us directly into contact with the very essence of other cultures, traditions, and ways of life.
Our tours are lead by people who are intimately familiar with the region, its history, and its physical, social and cultural environment. This ensures that you will not only see the things that make the locale unique, you will have explained to you the significance of what you’ve seen. By the time you leave that region you will know how it is, and you’ll understand how it came to be that way.
Your tour leaders are there to ensure that you travel in comfort and safety while not missing an opportunity to engage with the local lifestyle. Our aim is to have you return from your tour rested, refreshed, re-invigorated and knowing much more about yourself and the region you’ve just visited.
Our workshops are similarly designed to enhance your personal ‘Journey of Discovery’. Whether it’s another culture, another belief system, or simply glimpses at another way of being who you are in the life you already lead, our presenters are the people to assist you as you travel along your path. They are experienced in the subjects on which they present so you can be assured you are not encountering some empty theoretical concept, but rather an experience that has been lived, understood and assimilated. |