The Camino Creativity Pathway is a series of prompts designed to stir your creative impulses while you walk. As your gentle companion, it encourages mindful awareness, curiosity, and imagination, helping you deepen your insights as you experience both the special and the mundane moments of the Camino.
The Camino is an ancient pilgrimage. When you walk, you tread in the footsteps of saints… and sinners. It’s a time of deep introspection, of discovery, of connection. It’s a time for transformation, growth, new beginnings.
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Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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As children, we were absolute beginners. As innately curious little beings we dreamed up ideas, explored with all of our senses and created from our imaginations with whatever tools and materials we could grasp and without any proof that it would “work”. We didn’t know what we should fear.
As we grew, we encountered the critics and the judges. Maybe we began seeking to please. We conformed. We had less time for play and exploration… eventually, maybe, we had no time.
Our creative spirit is always within us and it’s where we find our authentic selves. It helps us make shifts if we learn to access it.
*On a long Camino? cycle through the prompts multiple times, as each new day and new environment brings a new perspective! On a Camino shorter than 10 days, you can continue with the prompts when you return home, do 2 prompts a day, or just select prompts that inspire you.
"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
— Edward De Bono