April 15th | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
The Boutique Adventures
Collecting Moments, Not Just Miles
Explore the art of capturing travel through journaling, creativity, and shared stories.
Facilitated by:
Stephanie
Flanders-Martin
Stephanie Flanders Martin is a retreat expert and co-owner of Boutique Adventures by The Martins & Jet Set Sorority. Boutique Adventures is a boutique travel agency specializing in luxury retreats and curated group experiences around the world. She designs transformational journeys that bring people together through adventure, culture, and meaningful connection.
After a 32-year restaurant career, Stephanie transitioned into the wellness industry and co-owns Tree of Life Yoga Studio, where she teaches and integrates mindfulness and movement into her retreats. A 500-hour Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist, she blends wellness, travel, and community to create experiences that inspire growth and lasting impact.
Together with her husband Marcus, she also co-owns TEAM Referral Network franchises, helping professionals build powerful connections and thriving communities.
Why join our Travel Journaling Summit?
April 15 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
Use Journaling to Reduce Stress and Be More Present While Traveling
Discover how journaling can help quiet the mind, reduce stress, and create space to reflect on the experiences, people, and moments that make travel meaningful.
Explore Two Different Styles of Travel Journaling
Experience both art journaling with Karen Robinson and reflective travel journaling with Mary Knippel, giving you multiple ways to document your adventures whether you love creativity, storytelling, or both.
Transform Trips into Meaningful Life Stories
Learn how journaling deepens your travel experiences by helping you slow down, reflect, and capture the personal insights that turn a trip into something truly transformative.
Who You’ll Hear From?
A Curated Travel Host
A Transformational Storyteller
A Creative Journaling Artist
Mary Knippel
Writer | Storyteller
Mary E. Knippel offers soul-centered writing programs, workshops, retreats, and private mentoring that help women transform lived experiences into meaningful Soul Stories of wisdom, healing, and purpose. Blending 40+ years of journalism with intuitive guidance, her work supports women in reclaiming their voice, releasing myths that keep them silent, and creating stories that become legacies. Learn more or connect with Mary at https://maryeknippel.com.
Karen Robinson
Retreat Host | Therapist/Transformation Coach
Karen Robinson, MSW, LCSW, is a best-selling author, therapist, and transformational coach with over 25 years of experience helping women heal and thrive. As the founder of Heal Thrive Dream, she empowers women to rise above trauma and create lives they love. Her retreats are safe, supportive spaces for healing, growth, and personal transformation. Karen’s mission is to help women release the past, embrace resilience, and step fully into the joyful, empowered lives they deserve.
Sketch Your Journey: The Art of Travel Journaling
Travel memories don’t have to live only in your camera roll. In this creative and interactive session, Karen Robinson will guide you through the joyful practice of art journaling your travels.
Through simple techniques and playful prompts, you’ll learn how to transform travel moments into beautiful pages using sketches, stickers, color, and meaningful mementos. Whether you consider yourself artistic or not, Karen will show you how easy it is to create a journal that captures the spirit, color, and emotion of your adventures.
This session is designed to be hands-on and fun, so bring a few simple supplies and create along with us.
You’ll leave with:
*Creative ways to capture travel memories visually
*A few completed pages in your travel journal
*Inspiration to turn your trips into meaningful keepsakes
“Pack Your Creative Carry-On” Supply List
For the most fun during Karen’s session, we invite you to bring a small creative travel kit so you can play along during the workshop:
Travel Case – Keep all your creative tools together like a mini artist’s carry-on
Handmade Journal or Sketchbook – Your personal space to capture memories
Fine Liner Pen – Perfect for sketching, outlining, and writing reflections
Dual Brush Markers – Add color, lettering, and creative touches
Mini Thermal Printer – Print small photos instantly to add to your pages
Finding Your Transformational Soul Story Through the Art of Travel Journaling
Discover how travel journaling can uncover the transformational Soul Story hidden within your experiences. Author and Soul Story Mentor Mary E. Knippel shows how recording meaningful moments, reflections, and synchronicities during your travels can deepen self-awareness, spark creativity, and reveal the powerful story your life journey is waiting to tell.
Participants will:
• Discover how travel journaling reveals deeper personal meaning within everyday experiences
• Learn simple techniques for capturing meaningful moments while traveling
• Understand how reflection transforms memories into powerful personal stories
• Recognize the synchronicities and insights that shape their life journey
• Leave with practical journaling prompts they can begin using immediately
• Feel inspired to see their travels—and their lives—as part of a transformational Soul Story
Our event is sponsored by Write to Rise. When you join the event live, you will be entered to win a FREE 30 day membership with their community!
Who This Is For
The Meaningful Traveler – For travelers who want to capture more than photos and learn how journaling can preserve the moments and meaning behind each journey.
The Reflective Story Seeker – For those who enjoy reflection and want to explore how travel journaling can reveal deeper insights and the story unfolding in their lives.
The Creative Memory Keeper – For anyone who loves creativity and wants to turn travel memories into beautiful keepsakes through art journaling and visual storytelling.