Rare Access to the World's Hidden Wisdom Cultures
Abroad opens doors to new worlds by curating intimate group journeys into the world's ancient wisdom cultures, offering discerning travelers rare access to the teachers and guardians of these traditions.
Trusted by Visionary Communities & Organizations
Ancient Wisdom Cultures Remember
What It Means to Be Whole and Connected
To self, each other, the world, and something larger 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.
Wisdom
In an age where knowledge has been democratized, people are seeking wisdom. Whether you are looking for greater purpose, vision, renewal, healing, or simply room to reflect outside the noise, Abroad journeys surface deeply personal, unexpected gifts.
Access
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 often become collaborators for life.
Regeneration
We’re here to bring ancient wisdom into modern life while helping regenerate the cultures and communities that carry it. We partner deeply with the people we visit, support local initiatives, and remain humbly aware that our role is to facilitate access to the true wisdom teachers.
Two Ways to Travel
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 considered logistics, with preparation and integration with our wisdom guides woven in so the experience reaches your life and leadership.
Abroad Wisdom Quest
7–8 DAYS |16–24 TRAVELERS |PREMIUM LODGING
Premium journeys designed for those who seek genuine wisdom, extraordinary teachers, and the kind of fellow travelers who become lifelong friends.
Abroad Pilgrimages
9–11 DAYS |12–16 TRAVELERS | SIMPLE LODGING
Small group journeys for deep immersion into ancient wisdom. More time, a bit less comfort, and a willingness to enter practices carried across thousands of years.
What Door Will You Open?
Our curated collection of wisdom cultures, each chosen for the living lineages of teachers who can bring us fresh perspectives on what really matters.
Bhutan
COMPASSION | CONTENTMENT | INTERDEPENDENCE
A living Buddhist kingdom where monasteries, contemplative teachers, and the philosophy of Gross National Happiness offer a radically different view of leadership and flourishing.
Peru
VISION | RECIPROCITY | CONNECTION
Journey into the Andes to sit with a worldview shaped by relationship with the natural world, reciprocity, and centuries of living spiritual tradition.
Mongolia
RESILIANCE | ADAPTABILITY | AWE
Step into one of the world's last great nomadic cultures, shaped by adaptability, interdependence, and an intimate relationship with the land through ancient shamanism.
Arizona
NATURE | LONG-TERM THINKING | BALANCE
Walk the canyons and high desert of the American Southwest with Native American elders whose practices hold time, place, and long-term thinking at their center.
New Zealand
COURAGE | STEWARDSHIP | BELONGING
Learn alongside Māori teachers and communities whose traditions hold powerful perspectives on identity, ancestry, and responsibility to future generations.
Japan
PRESENCE | HARMONY | MEANING
Enter traditions of Zen and contemplative craft, and Japanese ways of seeing attention, purpose, and meaning differently.
New wisdom cultures are added to the collection over time, as relationships deepen and invitations are extended.
In Their Words
These journeys are often difficult to describe, so we let the executives, founders, professors, and artists who travelled with us share what changed.
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
By getting off the grid, coming to a beautiful place, connecting with like-minded leaders, with a beautifully curated program, it's a perfect recipe for personal and leadership transformation.
Seth Streeter
Founder & Chief Impact Officer, Former YPO Health & Wellness Board Chair
If you are seeking a break from the world and you have a desire to dive deeper into your true purpose, join an Abroad quest. You will be transformed and aligned with your true purpose at this critical time on our planet.
Tamra Fleming Cleveland
Former Starbucks Executive
A Community That Walks Beside You for Life
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.
500+ ALUMNI | INTIMATE COHORTS | A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Partners / Organizations
Open a Different Kind of Door for Your Community
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 that define Abroad.
You bring your community. Together, we open the door.
IDEAL FOR
Leadership and executive networks
CEO and peer communities
Family office and investor communities
Universities and executive education
Thought leaders and faculty
Purpose-driven organizations
Fifty YPO CEOs rated Abroad's Bhutan Quest 4.94/5
〰️ 91 < Abroad's Net Promoter Score 〰️
Fifty YPO CEOs rated Abroad's Bhutan Quest 4.94/5 〰️ 91 < Abroad's Net Promoter Score 〰️
For Those Called to Go Deeper
Abroad Wisdom Academy
Become a Wisdom Carrier
For coaches, educators, practitioners, and alumni seeking deeper study, the Abroad Wisdom Academy offers extended immersion with ancient wisdom teachers and their practices.
More time. Deeper study. Structured preparation, immersion, and application.
Hear how an award winning Chief Learning Officer’s life was changed by Abroad
After the Abroad Bhutan Quest, I committed to a full year of coaching. Having once been coached by the legendary Bill Campbell, I can say that Abroad’s coaching delivers the same level of impact.
Chuck Geiger
Former CTO, PayPal, EBAY & Travelocity
Rare Access to the World’s Hidden Wisdom Cultures
About Abroad
Abroad exists to open the door between ancient insight and modern life.
We partner directly with wisdom keepers, and as a Regenerative Social Impact Company, we give back. Through our nonprofit and local collaborations, we’ve contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to indigenous communities to preserve timeless wisdom for future generations.
By honoring both ancient traditions and the modern dream, we are supporting a more fulfilling, compassionate future.
Walk the Path of Wisdom
A single step can change everything. Begin your journey into deeper clarity, connection, and purpose.