IT ALL BEGAN WITH A JOURNEY
On the 1st January 1999, Travis Gale set out on a round the world bicycle tour, alongside my friend, Stephen Bonaconsa. Their vision was to raise R1 Million for children affected by and living with HIV / AIDS in KZN, South Africa.
On the 18th December 1999, they peddled back into Johannesburg, our starting point, having successfully cycled through 16 countries, raising R1.7 million for their cause.
THE MIDDLE JOURNEY - 7 KEY INSIGHTS
Drawing from 7 days of a round the world cycle tour, The Middle Journey explores 7 insights which will encourage and equip you through The Middle; the territory we must navigate in pursuit of our goals.
Every start has a day 5. Keep going.
Who you are will get you there. Refuel from your story.
What you focus on explands. Protect your perspective.
Mini milestones all add up. Think big, plan small.
Plans change. Be present and agile.
The middle is best done with others. Find your tribe.
Barriers sometimes win. Embrace and learn from failure.
OUR CORE OFFERINGS
THE MIDDLE BOOK
The Middle Book includes stories from the round the world cycle tour, along with their associated insights, which will encourage and equip you through The Middle; the territory we must navigate in pursuit of our goals.
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ONLINE COURSE
Do you have a goal that you want to achieve but have not been able to get out of the starting blocks? Do you have ideas that you wish you could turn into reality but just don’t know how to go about doing that? Are you currently working toward ambitous goals but have hit challenges which you need to overcome? Do you want to bring focus and strategy to what you are looking to achieve? If you have answered yes to any of these, then The Middle Journey Online Course is for you!
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
WITH AN ONLINE COURSE?
The Middle Journey will encourage you to take the steps required to achieve ambitous goals. You will learn how to approach your goals strategically, developing a plan to reach them. You will identify what stands in your way and how to overcome those challenges. You will articulate a clear purpose and vision for your goal and learn how to leverage that story during tough times. You will also identify the key people who will support your journey and how to deal with failures that may happen along the way. Overall, you will learn how to finish what you want to start!
HOW DOES AN ONLINE
COURSE WORK?
The 7 insights of The Middle Journey are each packaged into short 5 – 7 minute videos. Following each video, you will work through five questions per module on an interactive PDF. These questions will ensure you apply the insights directly to your journey and that your answers are documented. You can engage with The Middle Journey at your own pace. Coaching to assist you on the journey is also available.
COACHING
The Middle Coaching creates the space for you to articulate your goals and develop a practical strategy to reach those goals. Together with your coach, you will navigate the 7 insights of The Middle Journey exploring how to increase grit and resilience, how to ensure your goals are fuelled by an authentic purpose and vision, how to overcome the challenges that stand in your way, how to maintain momentum through intentional daily steps, how to develop and leverage a healthy perspective as you navigate barriers, how to ensure you are supported along the way, how to deal with failures and overall, how to finish well and reach your goals.
MEET THE FOUNDER
TRAVIS GALE
Travis is the author of The Middle book and founder of The Middle brand. Travis has been involved in people and organisational development work for the past 20 years, developing himself as a speaker, coach, facilitator and consultant. His core focus at The Middle is to craft offerings which encourage and enable individuals and teams to navigate The Middle and reach ambitious goals. One of Travis’s passions to develop actual journeys for clients, leveraging adventure to land The Middle insights, ensuring everyone walks away with a shift in perspective. His Middle offerings cater for Grade 4 – 7’s, Grade 10 -12’s, and corporate teams. Travis is currently navigating The Middle of marriage with his wife Toni (15 years), co-parenting his girls Ella (11) and Anna (7) and building The Middle and The Appletree Group as an entrepreneur. He has chosen trail running and fastpacking as a means to stretch himself and have an adventure, and can be found at endurance trail running events or out on multi day missions exploring beautiful parts of South Africa. His current goal is to run 10 x 100 mile trail runs, of which he has completed 6.
KEYNOTES
HOW TO KEEP GOING THROUGH TOUGH TERRAIN.
It’s The Middle that tests us with challenges, yielding a multitude of emotions. It’s The Middle that involves the raw and often painful need to dig deep, to push through the barriers that stand in our way, and show ourselves what we are capable of. The Middle is what we, as human beings, were designed for.
The Middle Keynotes are designed to encourage and equip individuals and teams to keep going toward ambitous goals. Leveraging stories from the cycle tour, Travis shares the insights he learned on the tour and how he has applied that to other areas of life since the tour, including; entrepreneurship, career development, projects, ultra sporting events, marriage, parenting and simply being human. Each insight he shares supports the development of resilience and grit, strengthening our resolve and ultimately our endurance which he defines as; the ability to keep going through difficult circumstances without giving way. If you or your team need encouragement and tools to reach your goals, then a middle keynote is for you. Each keynote will draw from the relevant insights that suit your context and include media, story, practical insights, relevant questions and sticky terms, which ensure impact and sustained reinforcement.
OUR CLIENTS REVIEWS
the middle adventures
Do you need to turn life into an adventure again? The Middle should be an adventure. By going on an actual adventure, you create the space to reflect, shift your perspective, energise yourself and connect with whats meaningful again. Regular adventure is a necessity and not a luxury!
Below are our upcoming adventures which you can join. We also offer adventures for private groups and are able to design an adventure specifically for your corporate team.
[GR 4 - 6]
5 - 7 APRIL 2024
MIDDLE ADVENTURE
[GR 10/11]
[PONDO]
MIDDLE ADVENTURE
[GR 10 - 11]
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