AUTHOR, Travel writer,
ENVIRONMENTALIST,
CreativE MENTOR
Having worked as a travel writer for the past decade, Nina Karnikowski now writes about travel that conserves and uplifts more than it destroys, and demonstrates how travel can help solve social and environmental problems. The author of the memoir The Mindful Traveller, as well as Go Lightly, Make a Living Living and The Writer Within, Nina’s writing appears regularly in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Traveller, The AFR’s Life & Leisure, Condé Nast Traveller and more. Nina also leads ‘mindful travel’ expeditions, is an advisor at The Conscious Travel Foundation, and offers purpose-led mentoring for writers and creatives.
Books
A memoir and manifesto about the ethics of modern travel. Nina Karnikowski takes an expedition to the very essence of travel, reflecting on the profound and transformative experiences to be had heading into the wild or just staying put, and demonstrating how to travel in a way that is as nourishing for the places we visit as they are for us.
Want to feel connected, inspired, calm or creative? Pick a card from ten categories and follow the journaling exercise to evoke that feeling. We have 70,000 thoughts each day: The Writer Within will help you slow down and sort through them, making for clearer, calmer, lighter days ahead. Not just for writers, but for anyone wanting to connect more deeply to themselves and the world.
Structured around hundreds of green travel tools – from avoiding single-use plastic to giving back to communities, from embracing slow travel to protecting wildlife – and including low-impact adventures and interviews with the world’s leading eco-adventurers, Go Lightly is full of ideas for how to say yes to travel that conserves, educates and inspires more than it destroys.
Make a Living Living is for anyone wishing to build a successful career doing what they love, outside the 9 to 5. It profiles 26 creatives from around the world - from a potter living in the Australian bush, to a tiny home builder in Japan, to a knitter in New Zealand - who share how they built their extraordinary lives. A series of interactive exercises help you live a life less ordinary, too.
Published Work
LATEST PRESS
On the release of The Mindful Traveller, Nina is interviewed by Australian Traveller and Escape.
If you love travelling the world, why not take care of the world? A discussion with ABC Radio about regenerative travel.
Who magazine and the Australian Financial Review’s Life & Leisure section review The Mindful Traveller.
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