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Agency
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Burnout
Heal Your
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for Your Soul
Live One
Cohesive Life
Leaders spend most of their lives moving fast.
Fast decisions. Fast conversations. Fast recovery. Fast transitions from one responsibility to the next.
When running feels like the only option,
walking brings leaders another pace.
The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage route across France, Portugal and Spain, walked for over a thousand years. Several times a year, we take a small cohort of leaders onto it.
Several days. No phones. No notifications. A slower pace shaped by walking, conversation, silence, and guided reflection alongside people who are all carrying something significant.
Leaders who have been running for a long time may need to walk before they can hear what the running has been covering.
The Pilgrimage Hike is either the beginning of a year of coaching or a meaningful chapter within one. It is never a standalone event — because a threshold experience only matters if there is somewhere to go afterward.
The road makes room for what the role crowds out.
STEP ONE
Express
Your Interest.
The cohort is small by design. Tell us you're interested and we'll reach out with details, timing, and whether it's the right fit for where you are.
STEP TWO
Properly
Prepare.
In the months leading up to the walk, participants receive coaching support to help them arrive ready — physically, mentally, and with intention for what they want to carry into the experience.
STEP THREE
Walk, Then
Continue.
The Pilgrimage Hike is the beginning of a coaching relationship, not the end of one. What surfaces on the road gets carried forward in the months that follow.
WHAT TO EXPECT
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Multi-day guided walk along the Portuguese Camino
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Small cohort — intentionally limited in size
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Guided coaching conversations alongside the walking
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Limited digital access — this is the point, not an inconvenience
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Follow-up coaching integration after the experience
SPOTS ARE LIMITED. EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST. JOIN THE WAITLIST.
WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT EXPECT
Hiking the Camino de Santiago helped me understand some basic principles.
"Take care of your feet." On the Camino, it's important to tend to blisters right away, groom your toenails, etc. The feet can be ugly and smell nasty, yet they're the foundation for every step you take. What it means: if your foundations are off (knowing your values, practicing your code of ethics) you're liable to slip or stumble. The feet are the base of the skeleton, and they point us back to the basics.
"There is no calamity like not knowing what is enough." This statement from Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu relates to through hiking: Sometimes we get overeager and try to press on to the next city or town. We think we don't need our rest day, but when we violate the principles of rest and food—taking only what is enough, not more or less—we find ourselves in the calamity zone. We pack too much weight, we get injuries. What it means: knowing "what is enough" is also about how many hours we put in at work, how much money we think we need to make, or how much energy to put into nonprofit work when our family is waiting for us to spend time with them. It's a principle for all of life, both on the Camino and at home.
Those are just a few principles, which I've written about in my book Old Roads, New Friends. The Camino gave me the time and space to work on these at a deep level.
Come on the Camino with the SeekFirst team. We'll walk beside you as you discover your truest values and codify your own principles.
– Adam G Fleming
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