6 days with deeply passionate, wise leaders & wildly exotic experiences
in the beautiful state of Michoacan, Mexico
Adventure Date: 10.27.21 - 11.03.21
Become the leader others want to follow, immerse yourself in another culture, and create space for new insights and fantastic adventures.
Celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a ritual that has endured since Pre-Columbian times, natural beauty, vibrant colors, and rich traditions.
Are you a Leader or Director
with a team, layers of management, or multiple direct reports?
‣ inefficient processes due to poor communication & disorganization?
‣ lack of accountability, finger pointing & hostile working environment?
‣ redundant systems, wasted time, energy & money?
Or maybe your organization is coming back together for the first time in a long time and you want a fantastic, meaningful new launch… Something exciting that awakens possibility in yourself or your team. An opportunity to take you from a team of success to a team of significance.
But what is really cool, is you have fun, serve others, and elevate your life’s story while doing it!
This is not an everyday experience. This is a journey…
We do not change when we are comfortable. We challenge you to experience people, cultures, the world in a new and exciting light, different than any other professional experience you have experienced. We know you want to create your very best life…
Join for a life changing adventure.
The time is now.
The Noble Experience Highlights
Come journey with us and help heal one community at a time, while exploring waterfalls and jungles, beaches and forests. Come build an orphanage for innocent victims of poverty and disease, or install a water system for those without clean water. Meet Maasai people who will teach you how to create beautiful beadwork while laughing easily about our different world views.
Explore all our planet has to offer... You may even unearth hopes and dreams you put away for a later date.
Now is the time, this is the year.
Having the patience to listen to others – particularly those we aim to serve – is central to being a true leader. Listening is an act of empathy, a state of quiet action in which we seek to understand how others think and hope to live their lives.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz ~
Your Journey begins with a simple YES…
Our life changing adventures take you around the world
We will explore the must-sees, but we go even further. Our culturally immersive experiences benefit the local community but the ripple effect of the experience carry on for much longer after we have left. We are proud to partner with programs that impact various areas of focus, particularly clean water initiatives, sustainable microenterprise, and programs that empower our youth which include education and youth leadership initiatives.
Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look FEAR in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Why NOBLE?
Because when we know better, we do better.
You know you have the potential to do great things, and you know you are surrounded by imaginative, creative and life-affirming folks who strive for excellence in all they do.
You know that each of your team members yearn for something spectacular, something that can unlock the greatest potential for all and create an unbreakable camaraderie…
Christina Dyer
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Christina brings over two decades of experience in business and psychology to help leaders become the best leader they can become for themselves and others.
She is adept at human relations; she is an igniter and a connector, a possibility thinker, a revenue generator, and a savvy and respected behavioral expert.
Christina's priorities are firmly entrenched where family is everything, friendships are treasured, and clients are personal and priceless – paying meticulous attention to all aspects of their needs to ensure optimum success.
Christina's global travels have immersed her in cultures of 30+ countries, backpacking, photographing, and working on service-based projects. From the fun-loving Maasai tribes of Kenya to the gracious people of Kathmandu, Nepal, her global work and experiences have been life-changing and transformative. They taught her the importance of trust, adaptability, problem-solving, navigating change, leadership, and above all, having a global mindset around cultural respect and sensitivity.
Christina holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University, Fullerton. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), and a Certified Executive Coach (CEC) with The Global Coach Group, certified by the International Coaching Federation. Christina is also a Culture and Change Consultant with SweetRush, a corporate training & development company.
Christina lives in Northern CA with her husband and three young adult sons. She comes alive with exotic travel, great wine, and forgiving karaoke...especially all at once!
Hernani Alves
Chief Strategy Officer
Hernani Alves makes the most complex skill in business, awesomely simple.
Hernani was born in Angola, Africa, and started his professional life as a part-time employee to eventually become an Executive for a $3 billion publicly traded company that was regularly voted as a Best Workplace. Today, he's a best-selling author and an international speaker that helps leaders build world-class teams focused on getting results.
Hernani has worked with Stanford University, University of California, Oklahoma State University, iHeart Radio, HR.com, Recruiter, Idea Mensch, CEO World Magazine, Conscious Company, Extreme Leadership, and more.
In his best-selling book, “Balanced Accountability: Three Leadership Secrets to Win Hearts and Maximize Performance,” Hernani delivers clarity on the case for accountability and the steps organizations, and individuals need to take to unleash their potential.
Hernani’s second book, “The Champion Advantage: Get the Mindset to Win At Home and Work”, focuses on how two different people experience the exact same event and have totally different outcomes. The leader that maximizes their controllables and resets their lives will get a head start to winning like a Champion.
Hernani resides in California with his wife, Angie, and their two children. He loves to eat cheese and play golf in his free time. He does not like very scary movies, for example, The Wizard of Oz.
Become A Noble Adventurer
Christina will work with the group to release specific conflict-creating issues, discuss challenging habits and limiting thoughts.
Individual and team conflicts, unclear alignment, culture shock, unrealistic expectations and travel discomforts… these things can and do happen while on service collaboratives, but instead of letting these challenges short circuit the team, Christina will help focus the team on the gifts within these potential problems and turn them into opportunities to learn and grow.
Our goal of Noble Adventures is become comfortable in uncertainty, innovative in the face of hardships and challenge, and free to be flexible and more adaptive.
Ultimately, we learn to take what is experienced on the adventure and realized through reflection, take it home, applying the lessons learned in our own communities, organizations and living rooms. As these challenges dissolve, you’ll sense the core of peace that can continue to direct your life long after your adventure is complete.
5 life changing days to transform the leader within, while empowering those without...
Transform yourself and your team with a Noble Adventure:
An experience that will improve your business performance, broaden your global perspective, grow your market organically, and catapult your company to become a sought after employer - one that benefits society with meaningful impact. And what is really cool, is you have fun, serve others, and challenge your personal and professional stories while doing it!
In our global villages, we create customized experiences that serve YOU and your most intimate goals and soul felt needs. You will access that space of peace, purpose and connection to the Earth, to others, and to all things greater than ourselves.
This is not an everyday experience. This is an ADVENTURE…
We do not change when we are comfortable. We challenge you to experience people, cultures, the world in a new and exciting light, different than any other professional experience you have experienced. We know you want to create your very best life…
Join for a life changing adventure.
The time is now.
Join us for
5 days of deeply passionate, deeply spiritual & wildly exotic experiences
in the beautiful state of Michoacan, Mexico
10.27.18 - 11.03.18
Dia de los Muertos Itinerary
Oct 27th
Arrival & Welcome: Set Intentions for your Experience
Arrive at Morelia International Airport. Be greeted by the Noble Adventures Director of Collaboratives to transport you to our accommodations at Cabanas Legoverde.
We will get settled in our rooms and allow time for rest from the flights. Take time to unpack, relax and refresh, and/or explore the grounds around you. You’ll find that the natural beauty and tranquility of the Cabanas will draw you further away from your everyday life and deeper into peace.
We will gather to meet the rest of the team, and review our service project, its development, and its impact on the community.
For dinner, you’ll be served a beautiful meal in the cozy and friendly setting of the leadership retreat center.
Fire Circle - Christina and Hernani will work with the group to address any specific concerns or personal challenges that may have arisen.
On this first evening, we find that folks are tired from travel but often wired from sensory overload. All of this is normal, so we hold space for this first night for people to be gentle with themselves and decide what they need to become comfortable and rested for the week ahead.
Oct 28th
Day 1: Entering Community as Servant
Morning Centering: We will begin each day with centering exercises for quieting your thoughts and enhancing your mindfulness of time and place.
Breakfast and Morning Group Learning Session: Breakfast will be served community style. Leaders will briefly begin with the foundational underpinnings of self awareness and its impact on leadership.
Service Project: Leaders will brief the team on the project, the impact of its completion, and the challenges that may be involved. The team will discuss and decide the best roles and responsibilities, with participants challenging themselves to step outside their normal everyday roles.
Lunch Break | Project continues
Return to Cabanas | Afternoon Integration and Rest: We’ve found that between the jet lag, early mornings, and project work, time for rest, reflection, and integration is an essential part of the experience. You can shower, nap, journal, or relax outside and take in the view. We will offer a guided meditation for those who seek deep relaxation and stress relief.
Dinner: We will be joined by the local community members to have dinner family style.
Temazcal “Sacred Fire Ceremony”: Ceremonies are found all over the world and have been used to promote health and spiritual growth for thousands of years. It persists as a tradition because it is safe, it is healing and it works - when done according to clear tradition and protocol.
Oct 29th
Day 2: Conscious Leadership through Service
Morning Centering
Breakfast and Morning Group Learning Session: Leaders will have exercises for the team to examine deeper levels of conscious leadership around values, personal hurdles to overcome, and accountability. Triggers that hinder your best life will be explored and a plan of action developed to reshape your life moving forward.
Day 2 of the Project: Continue project after morning debriefs and new roles considered for the day based on the previous day’s learning.
Lunch | Mid-day Integration/Rest Break
Project Wrap Up & Debrief: Review our experiences with the project and honor the work we have done. We will provide information about the “Four Magical Cities of Michoacan”, the festival and the days ahead. We will be visiting 3 of the 4 cities to deepen our appreciation of the people and their culture.
Surprise Event With our Zacapu partners - Dinner & Free time
Oct 30th
Day 3: The Future of Collaboration, Teaming, & Purpose
Morning Centering | Breakfast and Morning Group Learning Session
Special Legoverde Activity: Focus on “Teaming” and necessary elements to create rapid development of meaning and team cohesion through experiential activity.
Lunch | Mid-day Integration/Rest Break
Free Time for Exploring the City of Zacapu and Shopping
Dinner with our with our Zacapu project Partners
Oct 31st
Day 4: Mysteries of Patzcuaro & Dia De Los Muertos
Morning Centering (Optional)
Breakfast at Cabanas: Our Mexican partners will provide an overview of the last few days of the trip and tell some tales behind the history of Dia de Los Muertos Adventure. Today will have surprises for everyone and will be a relaxed, fun, and unique day!
Depart for the Ancient City of Patzcuaro
Lunch: At a local restaurant with a unique opportunity to deepen your love of Mexico.
Accommodations in Patzcuaro: Unpack, refresh, relax in the beautiful, natural setting of Quinta Santa Maria.
Special evening event planned!
Nov 1st
Day 5: Dia De Los Muertos Adventure Begins
Breakfast will be served by a private local chef
Morning overview of excursion details: Travel along the scenic hills of Michoacan. Spend the day and evening celebrating the spiritual and exotic festivals dotting the colonial city of Patzcuaro.
Lunch | Surprise Event
Meet up for an optional happy hour in Patzcuaro City Centre
Dinner: Evening festivities continue
Return to hotel for sleep
Nov 2nd
Day 6: Boating Excursion to the Island of Janitzio
Breakfast will be served by a private local chef
Travel to Lago de Patzcuaro’s port to boat to Janitzio Island: the heart of the Dia de Los Muertos celebration. We will hike to the top for spectacular views and festivities. A history of the festival will be given upon arrival so there is a deep understanding and appreciation of the culture of these people and their ancient traditions.
Festival & Dinner: On your own or with the group
The driver will return everyone to Quinta Santa Maria
Nov 3rd
Depart: Explore the Colonial City of Morelia
OPTIONAL: We are offering an optional quaint streetcar guided tour in English in Michoacan’s Capital city of Morelia, a 16th century UNESCO World Heritage City. Tour the Cathedral of Morelia, a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in the city center, the incredible Spanish architecture and beautiful city gardens throughout Morelia. Shopping opportunities are in abundance in Morelia.
The airport is a short drive from the city center. All airline departure times will be coordinated and accommodated.
Here’s the thing about a Noble Adventure—you will be in Mexico with an entire team completely dedicated to creating a unique, fantastic and memorable experience for you. It is also a developing nation, so things are always paradoxical - simpler and often more difficult. While we publish this schedule to give you a sense of how the days flow, please know my team and I will be changing things up along the way—all of it geared toward giving you the best experience ever.
~ Christina Dyer ~
Why NOBLE?
Because when we know better, we do better.
You know you have the potential to do great things, and you know you are surrounded by imaginative, creative and life-affirming folks who strive for excellence in all they do.
You know that each of your team members yearn for something spectacular, something that can unlock the greatest potential for all and create an unbreakable camaraderie…
Become A Noble Adventurer
Christina will work with the group to release specific conflict-creating issues, discuss challenging habits and limiting thoughts.
Individual and team conflicts, unclear alignment, culture shock, unrealistic expectations and travel discomforts… these things can and do happen while on service collaboratives, but instead of letting these challenges short circuit the team, Christina will help focus the team on the gifts within these potential problems and turn them into opportunities to learn and grow.
Our goal of Noble Adventures is become comfortable in uncertainty, innovative in the face of hardships and challenge, and free to be flexible and more adaptive.
Ultimately, we learn to take what is experienced on the adventure and realized through reflection, take it home, applying the lessons learned in our own communities, organizations and living rooms. As these challenges dissolve, you’ll sense the core of peace that can continue to direct your life long after your adventure is complete.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
~ Queen Elizabeth ~
Meet Christina Dyer
MS, LCPC, CEC, MGSCC
With over two decades of experience working in the fields of psychology and business – and with people of all ages and from all walks of life, understanding the complexities of the human condition is in Christina’s DNA.
Strong business ethics combined with keen leadership skills are core to Christina’s fundamental understanding of taking on challenges bigger than herself. It’s a standard of excellence that she’s applied throughout the course of her personal and professional journey.
Christina’s global travels include backpacking, photographing and immersing herself in cultures from more than 25 countries. From the fun-loving Masai tribes of Kenya to the gracious people of Kathmandu Nepal, her global work and experiences were life-changing and transformative. They taught her the importance of trust, adaptability, cultural competence, problem solving, navigating change, leadership and above all, having an open sense of the “other”.
Christina is adept at human relations; she is an igniter and a connector, a possibility thinker, a revenue generator, and a savvy and respected behavioral expert. Christina’s priorities are firmly entrenched where family is everything, friendships are treasured, and clients are personal and priceless – paying meticulous attention to all aspects of their needs to ensure optimum success.
She embodies being a servant leader, believing that when one succeeds, we all succeed. She coaches others to become their best selves – whether it’s through her intensive executive leadership one-on-one coaching, facilitating teams with customized, continuous improvement programs, or leading and collaborating with individuals and teams through hands-on, customized community-led global collaboratives.
Christina holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University, Fullerton. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Certified Executive Coach (CEC) with Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching (MGSCC), certified by the International Coaching Federation.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look FEAR in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~