GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.”

— John Muir

Global Women in Leadership Network’s
GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation
are immersive travel experiences that are on a mission to affect change both internally and externally.

Crossing Borders and Breaking Boundaries!

Retreats, team projects, and international excursions.

Lives are changed, hope is restored and destinies are altered on both side of the ocean during our life altering adventures.

In past years to GO meant going to the Congo DRC . . . or to Kenya, Guatemala, Brussels or Qatar. Cycling across the United States. Most recently ‘going’ meant leaving for Portugal and Spain to complete the Camino de Santiago with twelve other women.

A circle of women, view of their feet surrounding a plaque on cobblestone.

Come along with Anastasia! Contact her at: anastasiahansel@gmail.com!

A Trip for Transformation – 2007

Upcoming Adventures

Photo of Julian Project House from a garden bench. — Julian Project House

Annual Global Women in Leadership Retreat
Julian, California
September 8-11, 2026

San Clemente coastline image. — San Clemente Coastline

GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation
Women’s Retreat
San Clemente campgrounds overlooking the ocean.
October 5-9, 2026

A journal for GO OUTSIDE! adventures, with a biblical worldview.

Front cover of the journal, a drawing of a women looking through binoculars and wearing a straw sun hat.

Photo of feet, dirty and nails grown out from long hike.

Anastasia and two other hikers of the Camino de Santiago GO OUTSIDE! adventure.

Fellow hikers of the Camino de Santiago who are also utilizing the Listen to My Life courses through Anastasia.

PAST ADVENTURES

GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation

San Juan Islands – September 2025

A combination of hiking, biking, and honoring Tim Hansel and his time with Summit Adventures as it’s founder.

GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation

Portugal and Spain – Fall 2025

Conquering the Camino de Santiago with twelve other women.

Alaska Writers Retreat

Harvester Island, Alaska – September 2025

GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation

Mammoth

Anastasia on her bike in Mammoth.

Group photo in Mammoth.

GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation

TIRZAH Trip with the Maasai in Kenya

Group shot of fellow travelers for TIRZAH in Kenya, all wrapped in Maasai blankets in reds.

Pamphlet for TIRZAH on the left and Cycling for One with TIRZAH

GO OUTSIDE! – Trips for Transformation

Leaving for Africa Again and Again!

Anastasia at the airport getting ready to check her bags.

In the midst of Congo’s war zone in 2014, GWLN was given a four day window of time to cross the border and go into the Congo. GWLN hosted two “Listen to My Life” gatherings with 15 trained women counselors who work with rape warfare survivors.

GWLN tackled the third fistula ward at HEAL AFRICA’s hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo with what they called an EXTREME MAKEOVER.

Anastasia playing chauffeur for Heal Africa volunteers and staff.

Anastasia with a group of village women outside.

Setting the table at the guest house outside. Purple tablecloth with white place settings.

Anastasia in a kitchen with women of the village cooking.

Rape warfgare victim in her newly decorated and cleaned safe area.

Anastasia standing with friends in a hospital in Goma.

Decorated and cleaned safe area. for warfare victims in Goma.

As UN trucks, tanks, airplanes and soldiers streamed across the border preparing for battle, banks closed, businesses closed, and Goma’s airport closed. They knew they needed to leave before the border closed.

Two smiling women standing in a hall leafing outside in Rwanda.

As we say ‘YES’ at the edge of each day’s UNknown

Lives are touched
Destinies are altered
Hope is restored

Rwanda and the Congo have become one of Global Women in Leadership Network’s classrooms . . . the landscape for transformational change.