Travel Change Your Life - Softcover

A. Kottler, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787909416 ISBN 13: 9780787909413

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

This is an inspiring look into the deeper significance of travel. It reveals how traveling provides an ideal opportunity for personal change and the chance to take an inner journey and reflect on spiritual needs. Noted psychologist Jeffrey Kottler shows how to understand the reasons why we travel, to identify problems to deal with and goals to achieve on a trip, and to plan a journey that can inform, enlighten, and bring about life changes.

About this title

About the Author

JEFFREY A. KOTTLER is the author of twenty-five books including Beyond Blame and The Language of Tears. He is a professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

From the Back Cover

Discover how you can make the most of your vacation, business trip, or weekend getaway by seizing the moment to create a profound personal transformation.In this lively and informative book, noted psychologist, author, and travel enthusiast Jeffrey Kottler reveals how travel experiences provide ideal opportunities for personal change. Once you learn how to become a transformative traveler, your vacations can become adventures that will test your notion of who you are and how the world works, expand your physical limits, celebrate a new romance, or deepen your spiritual growth. The book offers a wealth of suggestions both practical and imaginative that will forever change the way you approach travel.

From the Inside Flap

Discover how you can make the most of your vacation, business trip, or weekend getaway by seizing the moment to create a profound personal transformation.In this lively and informative book, noted psychologist, author, and travel enthusiast Jeffrey Kottler reveals how travel experiences provide ideal opportunities for personal change. Once you learn how to become a transformative traveler, your vacations can become adventures that will test your notion of who you are and how the world works, expand your physical limits, celebrate a new romance, or deepen your spiritual growth. The book offers a wealth of suggestions both practical and imaginative that will forever change the way you approach travel. Jeffrey Kottler maintains that the keys to travel that can change your life are flexibility and the willingness to get outside your normal comfort zone. He encourages you to avoid just-like-home accommodations and activities and be open to abandoning your agAnda to take advantage of unexpected opportunities. To prove his point, he offers witty anecdotes and compelling stories that show how to respond to the unforeseen with spontaneity, humor, and openness. And for those traveling abroad, Kottler explains how to get the most from your trip by following the rhythms of the people and the land you are visiting. Kottler gives advice on what sort of trip to plan to enhance the type of change you are after: trying on a new identity, living a healthier lifestyle, or deepening your personal relationships. He also provides a list of specific questions that will help you focus on exactly what you want to accomplish on your trip and how you intAnd to reach your goals. If you are traveling to Timbuktu or the hills of Tennessee, Travel That Will Change Your Life is the only guidebook you'll need on your journey becoming a transformative traveler.

Reviews

In his professional and personal life, Kottler (counseling and educational psychology, Univ. of Nevada; The Language of Tears, Jossey-Bass, 1996) has seen many examples of individuals using travel to explore their inner selves. To assist in making this process of change more conscious and effective, he offers ways to use travel to make personal changes. Changes can be large or small, and Kottler explains different possibilities, for example, opening up to adventure, getting lost, facing fears, and finding one's sense of space. Examples and suggestions are clear and interesting. This intriguing work is recommended for public libraries.?Alison Hopkins, Queens Borough P.L., N.Y.
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Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787909416
• ISBN 13: 9780787909413
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196