This sounds so lovely and will be a profound experience! I am fortunate that when I walked in 2013, I had many hours of solitude and it was the healing I needed.
Very fortunate indeed! For my first time, I focused heavily on logistics, which is consistent with my project manager mindset. However, I did not have some of the background or questions I needed, and thus never even inquired about silence, downtime, or personal time without such a frame of reference. I now prefer to walk alone, though I know that doing so in a supportive situation where the logistics and such are arranged would be what I would want if doing it for the first (or even second or third) time!
I was resistant at first to leading, or rather providing the space to guide others in a pilgrimage walk, until a colleague pointed out that I love few things more than to plan and organize travel, something that has always been more for myself than others.
Each time I learn more about the process and logistics and support, and thus my desire to help others experience something akin to what so deeply resonates with me.
This is so beautiful and immediately resonant. I can feel the difference between being pulled to socially and emotionally support others vs sinking into my own process and entering a much bigger conversation with the lands.
Thanks for sharing this, Cara. You are speaking my language! I spend a little time in the natural world every day, but really need this longer 7-day walk to help me do the same. So much of my professional work involves people and meetings and such that I need the time away for myself. I need to nourish and hold space for myself, as that is then the only way I can offer that to others.
This is also why I am doing this same stretch of the Camino I am offering to others at the end of the summer, for myself as a silent round in the Spring. This way I will nurture the silence and insight for myself to then hopefully pass along.
This is amazing, what a gift for everyone who joins! One day when I'm not parenting two small children, I'd love the opportunity to have this kind of experience!
That sounds like a concrete plan. I have seen parents do it with small children, though think that would be beyond what I would be able to handle (especially as I walk for silence and me-time!!).
This sounds so lovely and will be a profound experience! I am fortunate that when I walked in 2013, I had many hours of solitude and it was the healing I needed.
Very fortunate indeed! For my first time, I focused heavily on logistics, which is consistent with my project manager mindset. However, I did not have some of the background or questions I needed, and thus never even inquired about silence, downtime, or personal time without such a frame of reference. I now prefer to walk alone, though I know that doing so in a supportive situation where the logistics and such are arranged would be what I would want if doing it for the first (or even second or third) time!
Yes, it would be great to be able to depend on someone else to make the arrangements, so you could totally relax and disengage.
I was resistant at first to leading, or rather providing the space to guide others in a pilgrimage walk, until a colleague pointed out that I love few things more than to plan and organize travel, something that has always been more for myself than others.
Glad you figured it out and have been able to return!
Each time I learn more about the process and logistics and support, and thus my desire to help others experience something akin to what so deeply resonates with me.
This is so beautiful and immediately resonant. I can feel the difference between being pulled to socially and emotionally support others vs sinking into my own process and entering a much bigger conversation with the lands.
Thanks for sharing this, Cara. You are speaking my language! I spend a little time in the natural world every day, but really need this longer 7-day walk to help me do the same. So much of my professional work involves people and meetings and such that I need the time away for myself. I need to nourish and hold space for myself, as that is then the only way I can offer that to others.
This is also why I am doing this same stretch of the Camino I am offering to others at the end of the summer, for myself as a silent round in the Spring. This way I will nurture the silence and insight for myself to then hopefully pass along.
This is amazing, what a gift for everyone who joins! One day when I'm not parenting two small children, I'd love the opportunity to have this kind of experience!
That sounds like a concrete plan. I have seen parents do it with small children, though think that would be beyond what I would be able to handle (especially as I walk for silence and me-time!!).