The group gathers inside the walls of Santiago for an early dinner of traditional Spanish food getting the feeling of the movida and positive energy.
You will be welcome in Santiago and on your first day, you will take the time to reflect on the different aspects of your current situation. The exercise will take a 360-degree “polaroid” of your life and create a picture of where you now stand.
"...I’ve got a smile on my face that lights me and all around. My joy comes from within..."
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Our clients’ experience
Individual mentoring, group mentoring and peers mentoring, with spaces for reflection and integration.
Walking Mentorship is an innovative and very successful concept. I loved each of the programs I did with Joao Perre Viana. They are very beautiful walks with interesting people. João alternates between individual mentoring, group mentoring and peers mentoring, with spaces for reflection and integration. This dynamic takes place during the walk itself, making this experience absolutely magical. I´ll keep walking with you, Joao.
Aida Chamiça
Executive Coach | MCC (C-Suite level and extended leadership teams)
It looks like walking, but in the end, it's thinking and crystallising the best ideas.
It's difficult to find a program more physically and intellectually intense. It looks like walking, but in the end, it's thinking and crystallising the best ideas which you have in your head. The venues are fantastic, you will find new friends and a fantastic Mentor, with whom spending a week is a real treasure.
Vladislav Burda
President at Family Business Network Ukraine
Return to your roots, and make a step to the better version of yourself.
Walking mentorship is a unique program that helps to harmonize your feelings, body, and mind. It’s a week that you can dedicate only to yourself to create your life strategy. Joao will gently guide and inspire you to pass your way, return to your roots, and finally make a step to the better version of yourself. If you are at the crossroad in your life, Joao's walking mentorship program is the right decision.
Natalia Tolkacheva
Head of Digital and marketing Communications
A structured approach to improve your life and your focus on work.
It was an outstanding experience! The walk is a dream by itself - mostly unpaved roads and trails, little villages full of history and nature in abundance. Being en route with fellow participants from all over Europe was a huge plus for me! The experience is a structured approach to improve your life and your focus on work.
Bernhard Fanger
Founder Performance in Balance
My joy comes from the within
I swear I’ve got muscles that weren’t there just a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve got a smile on my face that lights me and has somehow an impact all around. My joy comes from the within, where I managed to put in good order every moment, every challenge (and there were pretty big ones), every joke and laughs; but also the good memories from the places and the people we crossed.
Claudia Nogueira
Managing Partner Plus / People Development
An innovative program that takes mentorship to a new level.
João is like a star that guides us through “the Camino…”. He is an extraordinary human being, with strong professional mentoring experience and expertise - João applies an innovative program that takes mentorship to a new level.
Graça Amaral
Executive Coach | team Coach
A week of self-recognition, tranquillity, and connection with nature.
The Walking Mentorship in the Camino was a great achievement for me. I had the privilege of doing the program with João that helped me to reconnect with life.
A week of self-recognition, tranquillity, and connection with nature. I recommend the walking mentorship program to anyone who wants to find a better version of themselves. It was one of the best experiences of my life!
Ana Sena
Pet handler
The best way to slow down, not to burn out.
Great paradigm shift experience! For me Joao's program was the best way to slow down, not to burn out, recognize and accept my nature, experience digital detox, synchronize my mind and my heart. It was a perfect approach to look at my life and myself from another perspective! I wish you all dare to show up and join Walking Mentorship!
Anastasia Tumanova
Innovation manager and team coach.
Move forward and develop our personal and professional lives
Joaos passion to transmit to us the need to always move forward and develop our personal and professional lives has been very enjoyable and rich to me. I certainly recommend everyone to have the first talk with João and discover his WALKING MENTORSHIP program.
Eduardo Villaverde
Director of Sales & Operations en Experience Box Spain
Revise work and personal life in a balanced and natural way
The change of perspective triggers within each participant allow us to revise work and personal life in a balanced and natural way. Joao intervention as a mentor is discreet but always present and reassuring that everyone is on track and focused to enjoy every moment.
Guilherme Collares Pereira
Director of international relations - access to energy at EDP
The most amazing way of personal and professional development that I experienced
Walking Mentorship is the most amazing way of personal and professional development that I experienced.
Every detail, every path, every moment is to be assimilated and enjoyed. All will have meaning and impact on the final result.
Get ready, prepare yourself and go.
Joao Godinho
COO Lift World
Sometimes you need a little magic to find the things you're looking for.
Sometimes you need a little magic to find the things you're looking for, right in front of you. Then take the time, the place, a small group of great people and a guide to guide you in a personal, unique way — step by step to the best version of yourself. Joao and his Walking Mentorship program gave me the time, the place, the unique group of great people and a little magic to take the next step. I highly recommended it.
Koen Theré
Zaakvoerder • Ivanhoe • Creatieve Communicatie Full service
Duration
Typically a one week experience from Saturday to Sunday. We usually gather the group on the first day to start our slowdown process and resume the walking part of the program the following day. A small group of like-minded people walking towards the best version our ourselves.
Dynamics
We use our flagship program - Destination You - that has passed the test of time. Since 2015 almost 1000 people have embarked on such a unique journey towards the best version of themselves. A trustworthy space to gain control over your life, clarify your ideal future, align your purpose with your vision and create an action plan.
What's included:
- Exclusive Walking Mentorship methodology.
- Pre-walk orientation session + Individual Mentoring Sessions during the program.
- An individual feedback session after the program.
- Time to walk on your own and with each participant.
- Personal Insurance.
- Exclusive license to access the WM online learning hub.
- 8 nights double occupancy accommodation in places ranging from unique houses and century-old monasteries to a private albergue.
- All breakfasts, lunches and evening meals with drinks included.
Activity Level
- Average of 15-18 Km per day
- Suitable for anyone reasonably fit and healthy
- No specific walking experience required
Our accommodation has been selected among local partners that provide an experience that reinforces the mentoring and exercises we are doing every day.
Sometimes you will have marvellously simple meals and others simply marvellous gastronomic experiences. We offer moments that range from sleeping alone to experiencing the opportunity to go deep on your thoughts, moments to sleep in double rooms to share the experience and in one of the days, in a private Albergue to live the true pilgrim approach staying in a dormitory altogether.
You will walk in The Vía de La Plata, an ancient pilgrimage path that crosses the west of Spain from south to north. Our Route starts in Ourense and will take us to, Oseira, Dozón, Bendoiro, Bandeira and Boqueixón just before we reach Santiago de Compostela.
Together with like-minded people, you will live a mixture of companionship, unusual lodging, fantastic meals, and endless walks. The end of each program points to the beginning of a new cycle in life. Each step brings you closer to a more autonomous and intentional life.
Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrival in Santiago de Compostela Exercise - 0,00KM
Day 2 - Ourense to Oseira Exercise - Connecting the Dots
We will take the Train to Ourense (our starting point) and will walk towards the Monastery of Oseira, where we will stay for the night. On the way, we walk through quaint villages, magic forests and stop for a second breakfast of real orange juice, homemade cake and coffee on our way to happiness. At lunch, in Cea, you will feel welcome and at home.
The second exercise is an invitation to disconnect totally and use the opportunity to dig deeper into yourself and look back in your life. What you learn from your history will help you craft your future.
Day 3 - Oseira Exercise - Time Lab
This is a day to rest your legs without having to carry your backpack. At Oseira Monastery simplicity rules - rooms are plain but spacious and comfortable, shared meals are simple but always good, and the lack of options makes you value the luxury of time in all its glory.
If you want, you can visit the Monastery, attend prayers and even book a talk with one of the Brothers. Today's exercise will make you see how you use your time and your activities align with your inner self. This is a process where you have to work from the inside out.
Day 4 - Oseira to Estacion Lalín Exercise - Personal Inventory
We start today with a beautiful path between the Mediterranean maquis - a mix of trees and shrubs that don't grow much above our heads, perfect to look inside our own strengths and weaknesses. The smells can be amazing and it helps you to look inside. After a while, we reach the valley with agricultural fields and pastures and the perfect setting to look outside and to the future.
The Personal Inventory exercise will help you through your own personal SWOT analysis. Lunch meets us en route with the most authentic bocadillos. We stay in a simple and most welcoming Hostal, but the real treat is our host's restaurant where we'll eat real local food, literally from the garden to the table with delicious Spanish beer.
Day 5 - Estacio Lalín to Bedoiro Exercise - My Ideal Future
Today you will experience a visioning exercise. You will identify and describe how you idealise your life at a specific point in the future. We have a light walk through quaint villages and beautiful countryside, and sometimes the crows accompany us for a while.
Bendoiro is an old Pazo, a little piece of heaven - and just the place to envision your ideal future. Here you will feel pampered - the food is an amazing cross between contemporary and classic Galician, always supported on the best local ingredients, with amazing local wines by small producers. You'll have beautiful gardens, century-old rooms with fireplaces and countless corners for you to work on your exercise.
Day 6 - Bedoiro to Bandeira Exercise - Purpose and Outcomes
Now that you have imagined your future, you will build a bridge from your vision back to the present. This will provide you with the momentum for the decisions you must make and also the opportunity to align it with your purpose.
The landscape keeps changing, but somehow the walking becomes more natural. Another beautiful country manor awaits us and in Bandeira, we will have another real food experience, just like a local.
Day 7 - Bandeira to Boqueixón Exercise - Take Responsibility
After selecting the outcomes, you commit to in the previous exercise, you are ready to detail your Action Plan. This is the final kilometre of the program and the beginning of a new stage in your life.
To have a real feel of a pilgrimage, we sleep in a private Albergue this night, so you graduate as a true walker of the Camiño. The owner welcomes us, who will also be our cook, so you should be ready for a traditional and abundant meal, just like the locals.
Day 8 - Boqueixón to Santiago de Compostela Exercise - 1,00KM
The final exercise takes place with your Action Plan already in motion. Fine-tuning and feedback loops become your new norm. Arriving in Santiago is always a riveting experience. The throbbing energy of the arriving pilgrims mixes with the fiesta of the university students and the party seems to be ongoing. Immense joy, a feeling of overcoming and satisfaction mixes with all the stimulus of countless languages, street artists and restaurants.
Reaching the Obradoiro, the large plaza below the Cathedral we reach the end of our way. But our program is at its apex. We stay in a magical place just by the Obradoiro and this night the dinner is a private group event - cooked by the group, for the group - with special toasts to the new old friends you will have made along the Camiño.
Day 9 - Leave Santiago de Compostela Exercise - 1,00KM (Wrap-up)
The morning will be used to visit the Cathedral, the Pilgrim Museum, revise final exercises, have a wrap-up session and farewell.
Disclaimer: We reserve the right to change or modify any accommodation without prior notice for travellers' safety and/or comfort. If we make a significant change before departure because of a problem with a supplier, we will notify you of available alternatives as soon as possible.
We believe that our programs can change lives
Payment plans are available. Special conditions for unemployed, and under 30 y.o. If for some reason you cannot afford our prices, drop us a few lines presenting your case, and we will do our best to find solutions.
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"...I’ve got a smile on my face that lights me and all around. My joy comes from within..."
Price:
Standard: 3700€ (+VAT)
Early Bird (60 days before): 2400€ (+VAT)
Alumni: 1850€ (+VAT)
Program Type:
Group
Duration:
9 days
Location:
Camino de Santiago
Group size:
10 people
Distance:
15-18 Km per day
Dates:
- 1 October - 9 October 2022 Group complete
