You built something remarkable. Now you're not sure who you are without it.
Guided Camino pilgrimages for professionals navigating life's defining transitions. Small groups. Coaching woven through. A guide who has walked the road.
The inaugural Ultreia walk. October 1, 2027,
Camino Portugues, Ponte de Lima to Santiago de Compostela.
Up to eight walkers.
Something is ending. A role you held for decades. An identity you built your life around. The career that told you who you were. There is a moment, often unspoken, when the weight of a long-held role begins to feel like a stone in your chest.
You may have chosen this. You may have seen it coming. You may have even wanted it. And still, standing at the threshold, you find yourself carrying something heavier than you expected – uncertainty, disorientation, the strange weight of not knowing what comes next.
This is not a malfunction. This is the passage.
Maybe you're the professional who hasn’t stepped back yet but who senses, with growing certainty, that the life they are living is no longer the life they want – someone who has been searching for work with more meaning, more connection.
I built Ultreia because I went looking for this and could not find it. Not a retreat. Not a conference. Not six sessions in an office with a whiteboard. A road, a small group, and enough hours on my feet to hear myself think.
Who This Is For
Senior leaders, academics, professionals, and executives navigating major career transitions. People who have achieved a great deal and are asking, for the first time, what they actually want.
What the Experience Is
A three-phase arc: A small-group pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, framed by coaching before and integration after. Not a tour. Not a retreat. A structured passage.
What You Can Expect
Clarity about what you've been carrying. A question worth pursuing. The beginning of a map for what comes next. And a story that marks a before and after in your life.
Walking the Camino alone will change you. Walking it with Ultreia will change you in a direction you choose.
Rob Sanders
Rob Sanders is an experienced higher education leader and educator of 36 years who spent 26 years in leadership roles before stepping back to rediscover who he was beyond his title. He walked the Camino de Santiago as part of that passage and came back knowing what he was looking for. Now he guides other professionals through the same threshold he crossed.
"I walked the Camino de Santiago as part of my own transition from a long-held role to a quieter life. What I found wasn't just a path through the hills of Galicia, but a mirror for the transitions we all face. I came home with different priorities, a new community, and a much clearer sense of what I actually wanted."
Rob Sanders, EdD | Higher Education Leader | Pilgrimage Coach
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