Abroad opens doors to new worlds by curating intimate educational experiences into the world's ancient wisdom cultures, offering discerning travelers rare access to the teachers and guardians of these traditions.
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Why Abroad
To self, each other, the world, and something bigger than ourselves. Spending time in their world allows us to bring that connection back into ours.
For over a decade, Abroad has opened doors for extraordinary CEOs, founders, educators, creatives, actors, and helping professionals to experience a more meaningful map of existence, and the beauty of what makes us human.
In an age where knowledge has been democratized, people are seeking wisdom. Whether you are looking for greater meaning, purpose, vision, renewal, healing, or simply room to reflect outside the noise, Abroad experiences surface deeply personal, unexpected gifts.
We open doors that are rarely opened, to monks, shamans, elders, and healers who carry living traditions, and to a global community of leaders, founders, seekers, and helping professionals who become friends and collaborators for life.
Abroad exists to bring ancient wisdom into modern life while helping regenerate the cultures and communities that carry it. We partner deeply with the people and cultures we visit, help them achieve their visions, and remain humbly aware that our role is simply to facilitate access to the true wisdom teachers.
There are places you can visit.
And places you have to be welcomed into.
Quests & Pilgrimages
Quest or Pilgrimage, each is built on trusted relationships with wisdom keepers and rare access to living traditions. You travel with a thoughtfully curated cohort, carried by expertly vetted logistics, with preparation and integration with our wisdom guides woven in so the experience reaches your life and leadership.
Premium educational experiences designed for those who seek genuine wisdom, extraordinary teachers, and the kind of fellow travelers who become lifelong friends.
Small group experiences for the deepest immersion into ancient wisdom. Pilgrimages ask for more time, less comfort, and a willingness to enter practices carried across thousands of years.
You can read about ancient wisdom.
Or you can sit across from it.
Destinations
Our curated collection of wisdom cultures, each chosen for the living lineages of teachers who can bring us fresh perspectives on what really matters.
Compassion · Contentment · Interdependence
A living Buddhist kingdom where monasteries, contemplative teachers, and the philosophy of Gross National Happiness invite a slower, more connected way of being.
Vision · Reciprocity · Connection
Journey into the Andes to sit with a worldview shaped by relationship with the natural world, reciprocity, and the living traditions of shamanism.
Resilience · Adaptability · Awe
Travel across the steppe with one of the world's last great nomadic cultures, shaped by vast landscapes, ancient shamanic traditions, and deep self-reliance.
Presence · Harmony · Meaning
Enter traditions of Zen and Yamabushi Training, while cultivating Japanese ways of meticulous seeing that return attention to what really matters.
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Courage · Stewardship · Belonging
Learn alongside Māori teachers and communities whose traditions hold powerful perspectives on belonging, guardianship of the land, and our place within the cosmos.
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Nature · Balance · Long-Term Thinking
Walk the canyons and high desert of the American Southwest with Native American elders to explore balance with nature and thinking across generations.
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New wisdom cultures are added to the collection over time, as relationships deepen and invitations are extended.
Impact Stories
Executives, founders, award-winning professors, and actors on what changed after their Abroad experiences.
Inside an Abroad Wisdom Quest
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A deeply transformative experience grounded in mindfulness, leadership, actionable experiences, and values that transcend cultures and generations. You will get a clear roadmap to mission and impact, and develop a community that will stay with you for life.
Jesus Mantas
Senior Managing Partner, IBM
Through local chapters, gatherings, and ongoing practice, our global community and wisdom keepers make sure what you discovered in the mountains, valleys, and temples becomes a way of living, not just a memory.
Explore Community500+ AlumniIntimate CohortsA Global Community
Our alumni community who continue to learn, gather, and generate impact together after the experience ends.
Luminaries give their time, connections, and financial support towards our sacred purpose – to regenerate and preserve ancient wisdom for the benefit of all life.
Fellows are Abroad Wisdom Academy students who want to both deepen their wisdom and apply it to their coaching, therapy, or mentorship practices.
Partnerships
Some of Abroad's most powerful experiences are created in partnership with leadership networks, membership communities, organizations, and extraordinary faculty.
We work with partners to create private Wisdom Quests and immersive executive learning experiences, grounded in the same trusted cultural relationships and education that define Abroad.
You bring your community. Together, we open the door.
Ideal For
4.94 / 5
50 YPO CEOs rated Abroad's Bhutan Quest
91
Abroad's Net Promoter Score over a decade.
Abroad Wisdom Academy
For coaches, educators, practitioners, and alumni seeking deeper study, the Abroad Wisdom Academy offers extended immersion with ancient wisdom teachers and their practices.
About the Wisdom Academy
Getting Started
Step 01
Sit in on conversations with our founder and leading executives, coaches, and professors on why wisdom matters in the age of AI.
Step 02
Spend three days at our US campus hub, 1440 Multiversity, with luminary faculty and get a taste of Abroad closer to home.
Step 03
Browse the calendar, join an online information session, and find the Abroad experience that is right for you.
