About the club · Expeditions
Once a Month, We Set Out Together
An Expedition is four weeks spent on one part of your life, alongside a party of explorers who set out on the same morning. You choose where you're headed. Kip helps you plan a way there you'll actually walk.
Most days it asks for a few minutes. Some days it asks for nothing at all, and those go in the log too.
- Next sets out
- Tuesday, December 1
- Lasts
- Four weeks
- Most days
- A letter and a check-in
- Comes with
- Every membership
Inner Isles Explorers Club · Research Vessel Merriweather
Itinerary
How a month goes, from the week before to the day you come home
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The week before
The Expedition is announced, with a name and an invitation for the month. You choose the Isle you're sailing for, then sit down with Kip and plan what you're after and a handful of small steps you could take on any given day.
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Setting out
Everyone leaves on the same morning. Your plan goes up on the departure board as a luggage label, and the party writes on each other's labels before the ship sails.
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Every morning
Kip's letter arrives: your step for the day, a tale from someone in your party, something to wonder about.
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Every day
Check in, on trail or off. A stamp goes in your Trail Log either way, and it takes a couple of minutes.
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When you feel like it
Write a Field Note, which only you and Kip read. If it's worth passing on, turn it into a Trail Tale for your party or the whole club.
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Each week
Kip writes to the whole club about how the Expedition is going, and what explorers have been finding out there.
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Coming home
Everyone comes home on the same day. Kip writes the homecoming, and your label goes on your trunk, a mark of where you've been.
Most days
A Few Minutes, and Then Your Day
The Daily Dispatch
Day 12 of 28 · Fair winds
Good morning. Yesterday was a rest day in your log, and a good one. You'd been at the hard part of this for three days straight, and stopping for one is how a month goes the distance.
Your step forward for today
Write the first paragraph of the email to your sister. Just the first one.
Around the campfire
Rosa, on your Expedition, finally made the phone call she'd been circling for a week.
Kip writes it every morning: your step, a tale from your Expedition, a question to carry.
Didn't want to start today. Did the first ten minutes anyway and the rest came easier than I expected. Note to self: the wall is always at the beginning, never in the middle.
evening, if you feel like it. Only you and Kip read it.
Check-in
Day 12
Did you take a step forward today?
any time before bed. Sign it either way: an off day goes in the log too.
that's a mark in the log.
Over four weeks
One Mark a Day, Rest Included
Trail Log
Bound for an isle of your choosing
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Each day you check in, a stamp goes in your Trail Log: footprints for a day on trail, a cup for a day off it.
Miss a week and nothing piles up while you're away. The log is right where you left it.
The record
Where the Club Has Sailed
From the trail
What Explorers Bring Home
I think it'd be hard to inspire myself to 'get around to doing' this without something guided, timed, scheduled, and then having all this beautiful imagery.
Eric K.
I turned on my synth for ten minutes. I wouldn’t have done that if not for this expedition. This is one of the coolest and most helpful resources I’ve ever used!!!
Mike K.
Inner Isles is important! It is a great tool to help move me along in activity, thought, and process of things I want to manifest in my life. 🙂
Dianne M.
Inner Isles Explorers Club
Questions About Expeditions
- What if I join partway through a month?
- Expeditions set out on the first. Join any day and you'll sail with the next one; until then the rest of the club is yours, and Kip is glad to start planning early. Your 75-day refund is long enough to sail a whole Expedition, whenever you join.
- Do I have to follow the month's theme?
- No. Each Expedition has a name and an invitation: Frolic was about doing things for no reason at all, Dwell about living inside your days instead of managing them. Some explorers follow it closely. Most let it colour the edges of whatever they're already sailing for.
- What happens if I fall off the trail?
- Then you're off the trail for a while, and it goes in the log the same way a walking day does. Nothing piles up while you're away, and Kip picks up where you are, not where a plan said you'd be.
- Do I have to share what I write?
- No. Field Notes are private: only you and Kip read them. Sharing is a second step you take on purpose, and you choose who reads it and whether your name goes on it.
Something else? Email [email protected]. Matt reads every note.
The next Expedition
The December Expedition sets out Tuesday, December 1.
Join the Club
Four weeks on one part of your life, with a party of fellow explorers and Kip, and every Expedition after it.
Or see what a month is like first, on the Crossing.
Not sure it's for you? Talk it over with Kip first.
Membership is $50 a month or $500 a year, with a 75-day refund. Nobody loses their place here because of money: makes it half, or free.