https://fullcircle-ss.com/home daily 1.0 2023-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/44e13a31-f4d6-482e-9989-db3fb1acdfc9/Hero+Journey+full.png Home - Our Approach Find out about our mission and our underlying beliefs and ethos towards designing and delivering true transformational travel. Our Why! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/f5380856-2be7-4041-9e1c-52b91e580685/Jeff+and+trackers.jpg Home - Our Partners Learn more about our amazing Local Partners and how we Support them and their critical Conservation Work through our Studies & Safaris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/72f0338f-c035-47f3-8d9f-d0b5a2c4e498/9Sept06+062.jpg Home - Our Signature Safaris Check out how our work seeks to add conservation value to each and every travel experience we promote https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/2b49df6e-c310-4313-9375-177bd64022b2/IMG_6776.JPG Home - Seize your Call to Conservation Travel Ready to take the next step? You can become a contributor to our cause while experiencing a life-changing travel adventure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/cb3b2f47-f061-4cb5-8e12-0728d267ea0e/TTC+Ambassador+logo+black+.png Home Proud to be a Conservation & Namibia Ambassador for the Transformational Travel Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/ba5dbb22-7f20-4d06-97e3-eb9fd5d34699/VERIFIED+BY+THE+TRANSFORMATIONAL+TRAVEL+COUNCIL-logo+%284%29.png Home Dr. Muntifering successfully completed the 6 month course in Transformational Travel Design in 2020 hosted by the Transformational Travel Council https://fullcircle-ss.com/studies daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/f98383db-5c51-428e-9384-3e768bc4bbbe/IMG_7372.jpg Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/b93342a9-ec62-4fb8-97ea-1e00e4df267a/IMG_7529.jpg Studies https://fullcircle-ss.com/safaris daily 0.75 2022-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/7a67e71f-81a7-400e-b542-96081d86f47c/IMG_4596.JPG Our Approach https://fullcircle-ss.com/what-we-do daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/441cbd67-2b16-4ae3-a57e-931f030e4890/_Z2S8603.jpg About - Our Mission: We cultivate and curate immersive and impactful conservation-oriented travel experiences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/38b96490-cffd-41fb-a47b-3cd4ce9cb7b8/SRT+field+staff+Credit+Dave+Hamman+Photography.jpg About - Our Mindset: “Travel, when designed and delivered properly, changes the world by changing how we see ourselves and our relationships with different people, wild life and wild places. It inspires and transforms us to make change for the common good.” Dr Jeff Muntifering (FCSS co-Founder) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/9ce67226-7772-4880-a0e2-04001c87738d/HeroJourney_noback.png About - Full Circle & The Hero’s Journey We take our name, Full Circle, from Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth he termed ‘The Hero’s Journey’. This pattern, clearly present in thousands of stories across hundreds of cultures and widely shared over thousands of years, posits that true transformation involves traversing three distinct fundamental stages including the ‘Departure’, ‘Initiation’ and finally the ‘Return’. During the Departure, the ‘Hero’ leaves the confines of his/her comforts and heads into the great unknown. The Hero must heed a ‘Call to Adventure’ (in our case, a ‘Call to Conservation’) and cross a threshold where there is no turning back. Once the Hero departs, s/he enters into the unknown and becomes initiated through a series of trials and tribulations constantly tested by both friends and foes, with help from some super mentors along the way. All leading up to a Revelation Point. It is here where the Hero is reborn and hence forth Transformed. To come Full Circle, the Hero must finally choose to Return home to share their newfound wisdom and perspective to help make the world a better place. https://fullcircle-ss.com/projects daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/1641219387540-TJL5WXIORW5YI1Q02MFJ/_MG_8938.JPG Local Signature Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/1641219450510-2381SNNNPDNHAKSFXRBT/8+-+Rhino+Rangers+with+camera.JPG Local Signature Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/1641219714265-7EF5T11UCFZS7Y03BBY0/Sno-Leopard-in-Manang-Photo-Tashi-R-Ghale_TRG7907-4.jpg Local Signature Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/1641480811568-MV2A4ORAIWS9GY51PL0H/Tashi-Ghale-camera-trap-Annual-Report.jpg Local Signature Projects https://fullcircle-ss.com/partners daily 0.75 2023-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/88ba7d12-df59-4ce6-9d60-afb40bd3ef6f/OGR.jfif Local Partners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/0f245a8c-4247-45d4-9c6d-1308586d281d/SAVEtheRHINOTRUST-logo_628kb.jpg Local Partners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/5ef42dd9-7292-4fc3-b5f3-48a56c01b147/CCF.jfif Local Partners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://fullcircle-ss.com/stewardship daily 0.75 2022-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/606a8918-d7d2-4c4f-a491-13301ee5683e/MW105930.jpg Stewardship - Financial Contribution Conservation, especially efforts to protect high-value endangered species, is a very expensive endeavor. For each guest that books with us, we build in an option for our guests to pledge a modest yet meaningful 2 - 5% Conservation Contribution into our price. Full Circle will then match dollar for dollar each guest’s pledge up to 5% of the total trip selling price. While opting out of this contribution is not an option, we do allow - and in fact encourage - our guests to direct us which local partner to support with their contribution. Note: this is a direct gift from Full Circle on your behalf to our select Conservation Partners. Our Tourism Partners may also provide additional contribution which varies by company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/1c491b54-589f-4355-accc-a7f9b9204610/MW105229.jpg Stewardship - Facilitate the Distribution of Key Field Equipment As all conservation requires equipment and supplies, we also encourage our guests to consider support partners with critical supply needs. This may include boots, backpacks, data collection devices. In Namibia, for example, we encourage guests to support our Pack For Conservation initiative facilitated by local partners Ultimate Safaris and Cymot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/cac1c08e-c4a9-48dd-8856-a8ce3187c685/MW105970.jpg Stewardship - Facilitate Lasting Relationships During our studies and safaris, we encourage guests and our local partners to get to know each other on both a professional and personal basis. We don’t expect these relationships to end upon departure and rather work hard to ensure that lasting connections are forged and sustained well beyond the farewell. Through our Ranger Ambassador Project we commit to helping facilitate the continued exchange of stories and updates that keep guests connected to both our partners and their conservation work that sustain meaningful memories from both sides. https://fullcircle-ss.com/who-we-are daily 0.75 2022-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/8d7ebc5c-b4ff-497a-b3a8-ede668f8b0ae/Jeff+and+Rhino.JPG Who We Are - Dr Jeff Muntifering, PhD Born and raised in Minnesota (USA), Dr. Jeff Muntifering has been primarily based in Namibia since 1999 where he has served as Science Adviser to Save the Rhino Trust, a well-established local organization in Namibia, since 2003. His applied research has helped inform a variety of innovative conservation and management policies including community-based monitoring programs, rhino re-introduction strategies, behavior change campaigns and sustainable eco-tourism protocols including more than 25 scientific publications and book chapters. Jeff also coordinates a number of community-based projects in Namibia including the internationally renowned Conservancy Rhino Ranger Programme and the Rhino Pride Campaign which includes a suite of outreach and awareness initiatives ranging from Rhino Friends youth clubs to rhino-themed sports leagues. Recently, much of his time has targeted scaling up their community-led rhino conservation tourism model across Namibia as well as sharing the Namibian experience in China and Nepal on designing and delivering community-led conservation and tourism programmes. Jeff is proud and privileged to affiliate with a number of amazing institutions and individuals around the world including serving as: an adjunct professor at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, a guest lecturer at the Beijing Forestry University, Science Adviser to Round River Conservation Studies, an active member of two IUCN Specialist Groups, and as a Conservation and Namibia Ambassador with the Transformational Travel Council (TTC). Graduating from TTC’s acclaimed Transformation Travel Designer course (and subsequently a return lecturer) played a major role in his decision to enter the travel industry as a verified Transformational Travel Designer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/34e5793c-c972-4b36-9ad5-2fcab29a882d/DSC_0769_1.jpg Who We Are - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://fullcircle-ss.com/take-action daily 0.75 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/206fb7ae-a88e-408a-8f31-a5552a5d700c/Jeff+and+Nakili+Black+Rhino.jpg Take Action - Make it stand out Jeff with black rhino at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago https://fullcircle-ss.com/general-1 daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://fullcircle-ss.com/nepal daily 0.75 2022-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d19285d8d29474c78683ec/ae12555c-0db9-488d-ad62-91095580de05/IMG_6811.JPG Nepal - Come Experience Trekking with a Difference Full Circle is partnering with local Nepalese travel company’s Social Tours, Namaste Manang and Nepali conservation group BIOCOS including Nepalese conservationist Dr Paras Bikram and Tashi Ghale to help bring conservation-minded travelers to see how local people are working to save wild snow leopards in the heart of Annapurna Conservation Area. 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