Tourism-Travel: Old school / New School

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Bringing a new way of thinking to all that we work and live with. Once we start thinking as a traveler, everything is open to change.

Managing a garden space brings happiness

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Far ranging benefits for managing a public -private garden space in Fernwood.

Making use of waiting time in departure lounges

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Great conversations on long delays before flights bring many rewards. The waiting time just disappeared.

Pic a Flic – a video store that lasts

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The only remaining video store in Victoria. It has a customer base that is generations deep. It meets needs that online distribution would never address.

Living Learning Communities

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In its second year at UVic. Options for incoming students to choose a type of community that may fit with their interests in community, learning and sustainability.

Training to be Traveler in Your Own Town

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Given to students in a sustainability and urban renewal class at UVic to consider for a month long student field school project to learn how to become a Traveler in Your Own Town, lessening the social isolation prevalent on campus

Learning zoology on the bus

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Great example of a Traveler moment on a Toronto city bus. A casual conversation on the bus opens eyes to a broader, deeper view of the environment. ‘The little connections like this is what bonds us together.’

Life lessons from athletics

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Years of activity and experience in athletics flows into career development.

1934 Oldsmobile

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I biked past Gord as he was driving up to his friend’s home and asked if he owned the car. He said he had restored it. I suggested this was a ‘story.’ He parked the car and he shared some

Traveler in the Classroom: Conversations as brief therapy

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Ideas shared in a Child and Youth Care class at UVic.Their focus this semester is strength based theories, specifically solution focused brief therapy. Here we show how to develop a practice of authentic conversation.