Via Francigena (Road to Rome) | Spring 2025 - Kiki Keating + Walking Mentorship

On your first day, we will gather the group in Rome and take a train to Montefiascone, where we will start our walk.. 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.

 

 

 

The second exercise is an invitation to disconnect and use the opportunity to dig deeper into yourself and look back at your life. What you learn from your history will help you craft your future.

 

We start today with a beautiful path along the Etruscan Via, perfect for examining our own strengths and weaknesses. The smells can be amazing, and they help you look inside. It is also the perfect setting to look outside and to the future. The Personal Inventory exercise will help you through your own personal SWAT analysis. 

 

Today, you will experience a visioning exercise. You will identify and describe how you idealize your life at a specific point in the future. Although today, unfortunately, we are not going to border Lake Vico, which is relatively close but invisible to the pilgrim's eyes because it is located in a higher position, the stage is of great beauty due to the abundance of forests and hazelnut plantations and walnut trees. As if the green were not enough, history is present in the Orlando Towers and, of course, in the walled buildings of Capranica and Sutri, two monumental towns of the first order. As a cherry on top, the end of the stage has a surprising archaeological area made up of a notable Etruscan necropolis and a Roman amphitheater, all integrated into a natural park. Nothing better in Lazio, since we were in Bolsena and its lake!

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 them with your purpose. The landscape keeps changing, but somehow, the walking becomes more natural. 

 

After selecting the outcomes you commit to in the previous exercise, you are ready to detail your Action Plan. This is the program's final kilometers and the beginning of a new stage in your life. 

 

The final exercise takes place with your Action Plan already in motion. Fine-tuning and feedback loops become your new norm. Arriving in Rome is always a riveting experience. Immense joy, a feeling of overcoming and satisfaction, mixes with all the stimulus of countless languages, street artists, and restaurants. Reaching the St. Peters Cathedral, we reach the end of our route. But our program is at its apex. We stay close to the Vatican, and this night, the dinner is almost a private group event - with special toasts to the new and old friends you will have made along the Via Francigena.

 

You are free to book your departure anytime. Safe travels!