Connection Walk on the Camino de Santiago
Reflect. Connect. Rejuvenate.
A guided pilgrimage to deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
Walk into feeling inspired, joyful, vibrant and your full aliveness.
A special journey with Firestart Connections' Lisa Kalfus and Red Monkey
|
Travel through the Basque Country of Southern France & Northern Spain Saturday, June 21 - Sunday, June 29, 2025 Group size is limited to 14 pilgrims. |
|
|
Connection walks on the Camino are an opportunity to deepen or radically enhance your relationship with yourself and others.
Based on the three facets of connection that help enable our most grounded and fulfilling lives - connecting with yourself, nature and others - we will be deep diving into what authentic connection means for you and how to achieve it. |
Basque France and Northern Spain Route for Pilgrims
Upon your arrival in Spain, you will be invited into Connection Hour®, an experience to explore your inner world and quickly feel comfortable and excited, sparking meaningful connections with new "friends".
In the first part of the journey, we will focus on walking meditation, listening to the quiet and vital parts of ourselves by radically slowing down in your mind and life’s pace.
In the second part of the journey, in connection with nature, we’ll experience cultivating deep presence and awakening to the wonders and awe that nature provides in each step. From trees, mountains, chocolate and wines we will focus on waking up our senses.
In the third leg, you’ll focus on how to spark real conversations to cultivate joy and aliveness with others. We’ll explore how to go deeper, faster, to create emotional connection and intimacy and ways to make someone feel seen and understood. Many say that this type of connection is the most enriching conversation skill you will take home.
In the first part of the journey, we will focus on walking meditation, listening to the quiet and vital parts of ourselves by radically slowing down in your mind and life’s pace.
In the second part of the journey, in connection with nature, we’ll experience cultivating deep presence and awakening to the wonders and awe that nature provides in each step. From trees, mountains, chocolate and wines we will focus on waking up our senses.
In the third leg, you’ll focus on how to spark real conversations to cultivate joy and aliveness with others. We’ll explore how to go deeper, faster, to create emotional connection and intimacy and ways to make someone feel seen and understood. Many say that this type of connection is the most enriching conversation skill you will take home.
What makes Connection Walks different from other pilgrimages?
Your guides are experts in guiding deeply connected experiences and have
Learning how to cultivate deeper connection from this immersive experience will catapult how you ignite this in your daily life. Your relationship with yourself, friends, family and others will forever be transformed.
While each person is walking for their own reasons, everyone’s journey is important and benefits the whole group. Your group will be carefully curated to ensure a collective effervescence where each person will be honored and learn from each other’s unique story.
Learning how to cultivate deeper connection from this immersive experience will catapult how you ignite this in your daily life. Your relationship with yourself, friends, family and others will forever be transformed.
While each person is walking for their own reasons, everyone’s journey is important and benefits the whole group. Your group will be carefully curated to ensure a collective effervescence where each person will be honored and learn from each other’s unique story.
|
Who’s Walking? The group is perfect for solo travelers, friends & partners looking to have a transformational journey together to deepen their connection. Tools you will walk away with:
|
Experience Outcomes:
Walk into feeling inspired, joyful, and your full aliveness. You'll:
Walk into feeling inspired, joyful, and your full aliveness. You'll:
- Gain confidence to quickly form authentic relationships in any social interaction and deepen connection with loved ones.
- Radically slow down to reset your mind and body from stress, burn out and overwhelm.
- Reconnect with yourself and your purpose so you know what you are walking towards.
- Evolve the relationship with yourself and others to feel nourished, not drained.
- Appreciate and enjoy spending time with yourself and the transformative impact of practices that cultivate presence.
- Form new friendships with other conscious, adventurous travelers.
Your Journey Includes:
- 9 days of Walking Meditation Pilgrimage along a beautiful section of the historic Camino.
- All accommodations from luxurious, boutique hotels to restored farmhouses, you'll stay in extraordinary lodgings picked for their beauty and the generosity of their caretakers, as well as 3 nights in 4-star hotels in Pamplona and Bilbao.
- Breakfast and Dinner daily of home cooked French and Spanish Food (lunches are yours to explore connection in the bars and Camino eateries + 1 dinner is on your own to explore Pamplona's vibrant pintxos culture.)
- All Ground transportation from Bilbao, Spain
- Pre-Experience Preparation and community building 1 pre-trip group call and preparation support.
-90 Day Integration Support 3 Post-Pilgrimage Community Calls following your journey to facilitate your integration. Be supported in your powerful learnings that came from the experience.
- Porter Services so you need only carry a daypack.
- Carbon offset credit donated to sustainable tree planting to mitigate the impact of your flight.
- Toolkits and Resources to live more connected.
- 9 days of Walking Meditation Pilgrimage along a beautiful section of the historic Camino.
- All accommodations from luxurious, boutique hotels to restored farmhouses, you'll stay in extraordinary lodgings picked for their beauty and the generosity of their caretakers, as well as 3 nights in 4-star hotels in Pamplona and Bilbao.
- Breakfast and Dinner daily of home cooked French and Spanish Food (lunches are yours to explore connection in the bars and Camino eateries + 1 dinner is on your own to explore Pamplona's vibrant pintxos culture.)
- All Ground transportation from Bilbao, Spain
- Pre-Experience Preparation and community building 1 pre-trip group call and preparation support.
-90 Day Integration Support 3 Post-Pilgrimage Community Calls following your journey to facilitate your integration. Be supported in your powerful learnings that came from the experience.
- Porter Services so you need only carry a daypack.
- Carbon offset credit donated to sustainable tree planting to mitigate the impact of your flight.
- Toolkits and Resources to live more connected.
Cost: TBD
Review Snapshots
“10 out of 10! The Camino changed me for the better. I feel calmer, more patient and grounded. I am focusing more on the things that bring me joy and less on other’s perceptions. I feel open to other people again, instead of emotionally locked down. I felt my heart open and my husband says that we have never had better conversations. I cannot imagine better guides and am so grateful to have had this experience.” - A.L., Entrepreneur
“How I think about connecting with friends--new and old--will forever be changed. I was never super i intentional about how I engaged with others, and unless the conversation was flowing, I didn't go out of my way to create more depth. I'm realizing now how many missed opportunities I had in the past, because it is all about the 'how', and therefore, it's up to me. I've tried to integrate at least one question I learned from Lisa in every conversation, and have immediately seen how the depth of the conversation has changed!”
- Katie, Firestart Connections Connection Hour® program participant
- Katie, Firestart Connections Connection Hour® program participant
“This experience taught me what it means to feel 'expansive. It was great for me to practice being vulnerable and great for building my confidence. I saw an immediate positive impact after the trip in the depth of my connections both at home and at work.”
- Kim, Doctor
- Kim, Doctor
|
“Thanks everyone for sharing openly and listening to me.
I left the hike with a sense of peace I hadn’t felt in a long time” - Joe, Firestart Connections Hike participant |
|
MEET OUR GUIDES
Lisa Kalfus (Left)
|
Who is Lisa?
"I have been a lifelong connector and founded Firestart Connections™ when I decided to fully step into my purpose - to empower people to connect better, by having more real conversations." Lisa is an expert in human connection. She works with thousands of entrepreneurs, heart-led leaders and individuals around the globe each year to build social confidence and create authentic relationships. Read her bio Here |
Luigi Cojazzi
|
Who is Luigi?
Luigi is a passionate Camino pilgrim and full time writer and translator between his 5 fluent languages. Besides publishing a novel and a travel guide, Luigi has worked in Colombia with Peace Brigade International, doing observation and advocacy in conflict zones. In Barcelona, Luigi works as a translator for National Geographic and the European Union in Brussels as well as a tour guide for runningtoursbarcelona.com. In Luigi's spare time he can be found running marathons and exploring new Camino routes. |