There is an ancient Welsh saying:

‘Tri pheth a dylai dyn ystyried: Ble mae, O ble mae’n dod, a ble mae’n myned’

‘There are three things which a person should consider: where he is, where he is coming from, and where he is going’

These pages are about movement and change

of

• a passing from one place to another
• the encounters that occur
• the discoveries made
• the delights that result.

Peregrinations

In 1976 a group of around 95 young people & adults made a 4 day walk along the Wales-English Border to Hereford. It was a form of pilgrimage created in celebration of the 1300th anniversary of the Cathedral & Diocese of Hereford.

Since then such purposeful journeys usually as ‘interloping’ walking quests and explorations, have occurred across the UK & also, across Europe, as international partnerships.

All the activities were planned as informal educational processes encouraging participants to learn more of themselves and of the people, the places & the wider environments that they encountered.

The term ‘pilgrimage’ (implying a journey, travelling as a stranger to a place having personally efficacious value) was adopted for all the walking journeys. The destinations, as in all traditional pilgrimages, were required to be of significance but the journeys, made as direct as possible, were of equal importance..

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To develop the work a registered company was created in 1995: Pathways: Inspirational Development Ltd. This became a UK not-for-profit ‘Community Interest Company promoting journeys as a means of social and personal discovery – Journeys as a means of learning.

Since 1990 the ‘Journey’ concept was used to create community based partnerships across Europe. Participants shared project themes and travelled to each other’s location, to share and to learn of the details, the similarities & differences that exist across the continent.

Most of these partnerships were funded by the EU Life Long learning Programme (‘LLP’) & ‘Erasmus Plus’.

Some of the recent pilgrimage journeys are recorded on this site. The partnership programmes usually have their own web sites.