Following the success of the Adventure Learning Tour in October with International youth delegates from FEALAC and WOW Youth Champions in sustainable tourism practices in Seminyak and marine conservation in Pemuteran, Buleleng, WOW Bali of Yayasan Global Banjar Internasional, an International initiatives on sustainability and wellness based in Bali, Indonesia is organizing another Adventure Learning Tour involving UnCollege students. Part of “Voyage” program where youths takes a gap year between high school and college and/or any one year between college to find themselves and what they really want to do in life. WOW Bali offers this unique social entrepreneur program via our Internationally recognized “Sustainable Dynamics” framework to this voyage of self-discovery. This time, volunteers will go to community development and reef conservation projects in Tulamben and Amed, Bali to apply WOW’s Sustainable Dynamics framework in promoting social holistic entrepreneurship that is based on community cultural conservation towards regenerative sustainability and wellbeing. This “Ridge to Reef” development hopes to bridge upcountry villages with the needs of coastal village to preserve the local lifestyle that has offered us all abundances from our reefs.

1. WOW BALI INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE
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Adventure Learning Tour with UnCollege:
A “Sustainable Dynamics” Voluntourism Vision in Tulamben & Amed, Bali
Following the success of the Adventure Learning Tour in October with International youth delegates from
FEALAC and WOW Youth Champions in sustainable tourism practices in Seminyak and marine
conservation in Pemuteran, Buleleng, WOW Bali of Yayasan Global Banjar Internasional, an International
initiatives on sustainability and wellness based in Bali, Indonesia is organizing another Adventure
Learning Tour involving UnCollege students. Part of “Voyage” program where youths takes a gap year
between high school and college and/or any one year between college to find themselves and what they
really want to do in life. WOW Bali offers this unique social entrepreneur program via our Internationally
recognized “Sustainable Dynamics” framework to this voyage of self-discovery. This time, volunteers will
go to community development and reef conservation projects in Tulamben and Amed, Bali to apply
WOW’s Sustainable Dynamics framework in promoting social holistic entrepreneurship that is based on
community cultural conservation towards regenerative sustainability and wellbeing. This “Ridge to Reef”
development hopes to bridge upcountry villages with the needs of coastal village to preserve the local
lifestyle that has offered us all abundances from our reefs.
WOW Bali, as a top international initiative in Southeast Asia specializing in the areas of regenerative
sustainable human development, wellness, and creative learning for youth, sees the problem with money-
driven tourism development. After the past six years of research and case studying tourism as an
affective means to sustainable development, find that these type of development tends to use up the
natural resources very fast, have environmentally destructive practices, and leave very little control for the
local people to their resources and local culture. Not to mention the brain dump of local youths herded
into the tourism and hospitality industry.
Instead of being holistic entrepreneurs with more control of their destiny, resources—land, facilities and
business— freedom and creativity to preserve their culture and environment, the locals’ participation is
limited to being workers of big establishments as their highest end game. A holistic regenerative
sustainable approach to community development, on the other hand, emphasizes on the balance of
human with other humans, human with nature and human with spirituality and does so in collaboration
with different stakeholders to sustain themselves and easily regenerate their efforts.
Based on local wisdom, our intentions are to inspire to the locals in building a self-sustaining community
through WOW’s Sustainable Dynamics Collective model, which brings together businesses, academia,
government, NGOs and the communities, and base their efforts on human-centeredness—defining the
needs of the people and their resources—as an approach to profit-sharing. Through leveraging on each
other’s resources in collaboration, the locals can create opportunities for themselves and have the
optimum involvement in deciding the direction of the development of their communities and their
environment.
Our Adventure Learning Tour program is also built based on the Sustainable Dynamics framework (see
graphic below) wherein volunteers are taught WOW’s wellness framework to then apply it as they visit
local communities projects. The hands-on experience is meant to build deep understanding of the local

2. history, culture, and way of life as well as give them the opportunity to contribute according to the best of
their abilities. Unlike many other volunteer programs that keep their struggling program to make money
for themselves by charging volunteers a huge fee, WOW Bali’s volunteer program is done through what
we call “living like a local” and “PLUS One” cost structure to keep costs low for volunteers while making a
rich volunteer experience for them and the locals. “Living like a local” means the volunteers will be paying
only for what they spend at local prices while most other costs are covered through the mutualism of
sharing with the partners at the volunteer site. The “PLUS One” means they will donate minimally the cost
of their visits (room, board and travels cost) to the cause we are working on in Tulamben and Amed. The
goal is for the UnCollege volunteers to leave our program with WOW’s regenerative social holistic
entrepreneurship dynamics and hope of leaving zero trace on their visit.
Our initial partners in Tulamben and Amed will be local NGOs; currently working on the preservation of
the reef. Coral Reef Alliance, Reef Check and Conservation International will share with the young social
holistic entrepreneurs in training their current processes for adaptions of content and processes into
active learning modules that could be used for the village promotions of services to inspire real
voluntourism in preservation of the local culture and the enhancement of the current environment.
WOW BALI
NOVEMBER 8TH, 2015
Prepared by Ms. Sienara Arsyad
WOW Bali Director
“Dynamicsmeans the “forces and properties” which is characterized by being
adaptive to a constant change, activity or progress AND defined in a person as
positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas; relating to producing motion,
expressing an action, activity, event and/or processes. This understanding of
dynamicswill contribute to a greater understanding of “regenerative”
sustainability and wellbeing, which is the backbone of WOW “Sustainable
Dynamics” Initiative.”
– Hai Dai, WOW Bali Co-Founder and Creative Director