A trip to the last great wilderness
The Inaugural Walking Softer Leadership Summit will commence with a trip to the world's southernmost continent, Antarctica. We will sail in comfort and style on the expedition-ready Island Sky. During this immersive experience, 104 guests will both witness and learn about the real-time impacts of our changing climate. With this voyage, Walking Softer aims to inspire action to conserve and rewild our planet through the re-imagining of how we live and how we lead.
Our days in Antarctica will feature two daily ‘off ship’ excursions and landings exploring rugged coastlines, picturesque bays, and famed harbors, with stops at penguin rookeries, seal wallows, bird colonies, and whale feeding areas as well as sites of historic and scientific interest. Opportunities for camping, kayaking, and hiking excursions, plus an optional polar plunge for the brave!
We leave this magical place and make our way north, once again crossing the famed Drake Passage. The sail north will allow us time to decompress and integrate the life-changing memories made.
Our vision is an inclusive, biodiverse world where all life thrives.
With eight billion people on the planet all desiring and deserving to live a decent life, we must reinvent how we live. We’re currently trapped in an endless cycle of hyper-consumerism with a consume, trash, repeat mentality.
This short-sided mindset must be challenged. How we make things like food, clothes, and consumer goods must evolve to be more sustainable. The same is true for transportation, construction, and energy production — it is all ripe for reinvention. This necessary shift is also the biggest economic opportunity the world has ever known.
We are on a mission to inform, inspire, and support change-makers to take bold and immediate action in the conservation and regeneration of our planet.
Let’s move!
Questions? Email antarctica@walkingsofter.org.