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Guided Global Travel for Adults 50 and Over

“We believe that adventure truly happens, when we allow something utterly new and wonderful to take root in our awareness.” -Anne Conrad-Antoville & Anthony Antoville of Champion Adventures

Are you drawn to global travel, but would rather not travel alone? Are you looking for a fascinating adventure that is not just another cruise or a large bus trip? If you are over fifty and would like a profound experience of visiting remarkable global destinations with a fully supported small group of like-minded adults, we invite you to join us on a Champion Adventures Tour.

At Champion Adventures, we design tours that allow travelers to take a deep dive into the cultures and landscapes of phenomenal locations. Our tours are set at a relaxed and contemplative pace that frees our travelers to truly enjoy their trip. We fully support your journey so that you are free to explore, learn, experience and deeply enjoy your own glorious adventure.

Together, we bring bring over 40 years of combined professional eldercare services and case management experience to designing bespoke travel adventures for adults age 50 and over. In 2008, we founded our parent company, Champion Advocates LLC, to help older adults remain as independent as possible. Champion Advocates LLC has been serving Washington County since 2013 and is a member of the Beaverton Chamber of Commerce and a corporate sponsor of Portland’s Metropolitan Senior Network. 

Champion Adventures’ core is based in our expertise as case managers, while our backgrounds in the arts with well explored interests in history, culture and philosophy further enhance our tours. Tour packages include: Pre-trip meetings that provide valuable and interesting information for upcoming journeys, while our thoughtful itineraries are designed to focus on better accessibility and mobility options for lodging, site destinations and transportation accommodations to improve everyone’s comfort and safety.

Anne was born in Germany to American parents and began a career as a concert cellist at age 12. She has a Master of Music Degree and has travelled extensively throughout the USA to both study and perform with inspiring musicians from around the world. Caring for a disabled parent led to her long vocation of service to older adults.

“I am a lifelong student of the arts, mythology, antiquity and philosophy. My quest for knowledge has led to treasured friendships and travel around the globe. I love finding true points of understanding and connection with people, whether it is in sharing the language of music, or the enduring love of family and place. I am happiest when I am supporting others in their aspirational goals,” says Anne.

Anthony was trained as a visual artist, studying with many renowned artists and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Southern California, and is Care Manager Certified by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers. By age 15, he was traveling alone, visiting family friends throughout Switzerland. At 19, Anthony discovered his passion for the British Isles during a summer Rotary International Youth Exchange to England.

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Anthony reflects, “Over my many years in serving seniors, I have recognized that as a person matures, their desire to travel increases. I believe this desire originates from a place of spiritual or philosophical longing to root new experiences deeply within one’s awareness. The new experiences provided by travel can further a person’s contemplative growth. Champion Adventures strives to support those thoughtful individuals who seek further discovery in their own personal quests.”

Champion Adventures Highlighted Tours for 2017-2018 include:

Scotland – Highlands and Islands Visit a wide variety of historic and living wonders. Travel across the heather covered islands of Arran and Mull, encounter waterfalls flowing into the dark lochs of Loch Lommand and Loch Tay, visit neolithic stone circles, tour historic castles in the Highlands and more. Registration closes March 15, 2017.

Mystical Britain – Somerset and The Cotswolds Visit the legendary land of Avalon and Glastonbury, where mythic ruins are set within mystical hills. Experience the ancient Roman temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva and explore the medieval city of Wells with its magnificent cathedral and roam the Georgian city of Bath. Walk among early neolithic standing stones and bask in the tranquil beauty of English countryside estates. Registration closes April 1, 2017.

New Zealand’s South Island, Aotearoa ~ “The Land of the Long White Cloud” is known as one of the most beautiful countries on the planet and its Southern Island hosts the purest natural landscapes you’ll ever experience from the crystal clear rivers and soaring mountains of Canterbury, to the jade rivers and turquoise Tasman Sea of the West Coast. Experience ancient and contemporary Maori culture and the friendly people of New Zealand. Registration closes August 1, 2017.

Discover more at ChampionAdventuresGlobal.com 

Champion Adventures is a registered Division of Champion Advocates LLC, Geriatric Case Management Services in Beaverton, Oregon.

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Chocolate and Cabernet

Disney’s “Maleficent” is a Tale of Forgiveness

Maleficent, Disney’s recent blockbuster release, reveals an unusual way to express the timeless message of forgiveness to its viewers, young and old alike. The tale of the formerly evil villainess in the classic Sleeping Beauty is provided a much needed backstory in this updated version to explain what has led her to unleash such hatred against the newly born babe, Aurora.

We learn that a great violation has been committed upon Maleficent by Aurora’s soon to be father, Stephan. This would be the mutilation and stealing of her faerie wings through deception and manipulation by Stephan to gain favor and the eventual kingship from the dying human king. A new war ensues between these two worlds and the innocent on both sides are made to suffer. All of this for the sake of the old king’s desire to destroy the faerie realm and plunder its coveted wealth of unimagined riches.

Yet, the innocent Aurora shows Maleficent the path back toward compassion and healing as only a child will. Through the years that lead up to Aurora’s fateful 16th birthday, Maleficent slowly rediscovers her own love of the natural world and a shared awe of wonder as expressed in Aurora.

Eventually, Maleficent strives in vain to reverse her dreaded spell that she had cast upon Aurora, and is left with but one final measure to cure the girl of the forever deathlike sleep. She must travel into the human kingdom, enter King Stephan’s castle and face his knights who are armed with weapons of deadly iron.

Forgiveness is a cornerstone of compassionate aging. Several times and in many ways, this compassionate message is conveyed.

Stephan as a young boy and would-be thief is forgiven by a young Maleficent and her faerie co-beings of his original trespass; the three tiny pixies repeatedly tussle and argue with one another to remain each others faithful companions over the years; Maleficent again forgives Stephan later as a grown man who had abandoned her to pursue his ambition among men, and Aurora forgives Maleficent of casting the doom-filled spell upon her.
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But most dramatically, Maleficent, in the heat of battle and clearly in a position to defeat King Stephan, gives him quarter and is willing to spare his life. It is only Stephan who chooses to cling to a hardened and merciless heart, thus seeking final vengeance.

By the re-vision of this tale, we are shown that forgiveness begins when we strive to rise above an insult, a trespass, a wound, an injustice.

Forgiveness is ultimately realized, when we knowingly attempt to break a painful or disastrous cycle in favor of reaching a new state of awareness within ourselves and in others. This process is one that can occur naturally over time as memories fade, the mind weakens and the ego-driven self slowly diminishes. Or, we can consciously decide which aspects of our lives that we wish to truly cherish and nurture through our remaining years.

© Anthony Antoville 2014

Anthony Antoville, CMC is Care Manager, Certified and COO of Champion Advocates LLC in Portland, Oregon. For more than 20 years, he has professionally served hundreds of families in addressing family relations and other elder issues.

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Planetary Elder

Farmers’ Markets: A Delightful Way to Connect to Earth and Community

For many years, my husband and I had a very large garden. We grew over forty different varieties of culinary and medicinal herbs. We grew apples, pears and grapes. In the early spring, we had peas, kale and spring onions. Through the summers, we had an abundance of lettuce varieties, and heirloom beans, carrots, radishes and tomatoes. In the autumn, we reveled in colorful beets, squashes, spinach and pumpkins.

We lived by the seasons and lovingly tilled, planted, weeded, mulched and watered. We enjoyed the contact with the earth and with living things. We enjoyed the physical work and the harvest of efforts made.

At this stage of life, it is our season to live in the city with a patio full of potted plants. I still am able to find my contact with the earth on a regular basis. One of my favorite things to do is to shop at the farmers’ market.

At the farmers’ market, I have come to know the farmers who are there every week. Their hands touch the earth every day and the gifts they bring from it carry that special regenerative interaction between humans and other living beings. Their vegetables and fruits are vibrant and alive with energy.

Last week, I visited the farmers’ market in Beaverton, Oregon and stopped by one of my favorite booths – that of a small family berry farm. These family farmers pick the berries when they are ripe on the vine, and every basket of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries being the epitome of perfection!
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One of the young women from the family farm glowed, as we chatted about the blueberries that had just come into season and how much we had enjoyed the extra sweet strawberries from the week before that were gone now. I filled my half box with the colors and aromas of the early summer and returned home with the blessings of earth.

© Anne Conrad-Antoville 2014

Anne Conrad-Antoville is CEO of Champion Advocates LLC in Portland, Oregon. She is Co-Founder of CompassionateAging.org. Anne is also President of Working Woman Aging Parents.

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Self-Driving Cars: A Solution for Aging Drivers

One of the most common concerns I discuss with family caregivers of older adults has to do with driving safety.

Visual deficiencies, slower response time, reduced range of motion in the neck and shoulders and cognitive declines caused by medications, medical conditions and/or various stages of dementia are some of the significant risk factors for senior drivers.

Statistics show us that inexperienced, younger drivers (16-24) are the most prone to be involved in auto collisions and accidents. But, did you know that their experienced older counterparts 75 years old or older rival them in risk?*

Families are struggling with many demands on their time and energy. The rigors of work, maintaining a household, raising children and realizing personal relationships must be kept real beyond a virtual-based existence are already challenging. When we factor in the time needed to take an older family member to medical appointments, trips to a store or social outings to meet friends, we can watch the precious minutes and hours of our day quickly vanish.

Wouldn’t it be amazing to know that the same senior could easily get into a self-driving car and perform those activities on their own or meet someone at a scheduled destination for added assistance?

And, I say “easily” because self-driving cars like some being developed by Google are designed for ease of getting into and out of the car. That freedom would be experienced be everyone involved in that senior’s life.

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Old time friends could stay in touch without waiting outside in the rain for a transport service or having to have a paid caregiver drive them to gather. Instead of scheduling ways around difficult transportation logistics, senior and family members alike can schedule more things to do on their own or together.

*The Hartford: Family Conversations With Older Drivers

© Anthony Antoville 2014

Anthony Antoville, CMC is a geriatric case manager with Champion Advocates LLC in Portland, Oregon. Since 1991, he has been helping seniors and their families address transportation concerns among other eldercare issues.

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