Travel. Running. Adventure

2022 Sandel European Adventure 

LOCATION: London, Paris, Lauterbrunnen, Zermatt, Cinque Terra, Florence, Gaiole in Chianti, Rome, Positano

Theme: Challenging Our Bias (Recongnizing our bias)

              "Not being bothered by being bothered"

              The Practice of being patient 

1. Study of 1 Peter - how to be faithful to the truth while being respectful of differences 

2. Not being disrupted by being disrupted 

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2020 Sandel Summer Sabbatical 

LOCATION:   Pacific Grove,CA - (West Coast/Colorado)

Theme: SIMPLICITY and SUSTAINABILITY 

1.  Simple, basic, theology: Ephesians, Proverbs, Book: Sit, Walk, Stand - Watchman Nee

2. Simplicity of Health: Learn what to eat for fuel, the importance of sleep, and how to balance strength training and running

3.  Sustainability of Energy: learning about the environment and our responsibility to be informed and steward the Earth

4. Simplicity of Relational Curiosity: How to be great listeners and great question askers

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2019 Sandel Summer Sabbatical - 13 Colonies (East Coast)

Family Goals: character traits/ life skills 

MAIN GOAL: Shaping our kids’ mindset to be fascinated by the multi-cultural American life of humankind. 

•To not just “be okay with” cultural diversity of people but to become fascinated and endeared to other cultural ways of being human. 

(Not just Poverty, but thru science, art, engineering) 

•In moments where it might easy to “be annoyed” that our subway is late, that they instead might take a different appreciative perspective to take in the bigger moment that someone is in charge of the brilliance behind creating and executing this complex system. To cultivate a gratitude and awe for human ingenuity. 

MAIN GOAL: Learn to discern and balance the wisdom of personal safety vs. unfair judgement of human dignity

•Help encourage our kids to have the courage to speak to others they might otherwise never choose to talk to. 

•And, by doing so, they will slowly become more comfortable being around others. 

•Also- to teach them how to listen to our own internal spirit of discernment to feel either creeped out or at ease with the person. 

•To learn to safely test our big assumptions about people who are not like us. 

MAIN GOAL: To build Internal Locus of Control: Empower our kids to be challenged to learn how to think differently not just act differently because we want them to move from mindset of compliance to an act of thought commitment.  

•to increase social awareness in any new situation

•to gain respect of the immediate context

•to increase behavioral appropriateness/contextual blending

•to build an awareness of social norms/ cues taken from the people around you- through immediate observation and awareness of the environment