Retreat Volunteers Urgently Needed; New Discounted Rate Available
13 June 2025
Without precious volunteers, offering our Wake Up and Summer retreats at Plum Village France will be very challenging. Unfortunately, volunteer registrations are far lower than hoped, so we’re asking for your help–and we’re offering new scholarships to offset the cost of attending and supporting these retreats!
We’ve just added a new scholarship option of €50 per week for both the Wake Up and Summer retreats, so Wake Up starts at €100 for two weeks and the Summer Retreat starts at €200 for four weeks.
- Register for the Summer Opening Retreat 4 July to 6 August here.
- Register for the Wake Up Volunteer Retreat 6-18 August here.
Thank you for being there, dear friends.
The Plum Village France Volunteer Retreat Team
We would like to invite experienced practitioners in the Plum Village tradition to support us from July 4 – Aug 5 as volunteers in the 2025 Summer Opening Retreat (July 10 – Aug 2).
Volunteering can be a very rewarding and fulfilling experience, allowing us to practice mindfulness in a spirit of joyful service, while helping to foster harmony and well-being for all the participants.
Practical Information
Volunteers will arrive on July 4 to settle in, meet the monastics and the volunteer team. We will learn, practice, play, and prepare for the retreat together.
Volunteers will also stay a few days after the retreat, departing on August 5, to help us wrap up the retreat and join the farewell gathering.
We only consider applicants who have practiced at one of the Plum Village centers.
Children program volunteers
We are looking for children program volunteers who are well-grounded in the Plum Village practice, know how to flow harmoniously as a team, and aspire to offer your presence, creativity, and care to the young ones.
- English Children Program
- French Children Program
- Italian Children Program
- Spanish Children Program
- German Children Program
- Dutch Children Program
Teens program volunteers
We are looking for teens’ program volunteers who are well grounded in the Plum Village practice, know how to take care of your “inner teen”, and aspire to offer your presence, creativity, and care to the young ones.
The teens’ programs are in English and French. We also appreciate volunteers who can communicate in Spanish, Italian, German.
In 2025, the brothers will host the teen boys’ program in Upper Hamlet (UH), and the sisters will host the teen girls’ in New Hamlet (NH).
All General Volunteers
We dearly need the support of volunteers who are grounded in the Plum Village practice, are at ease among families and children – especially on hot days – and aspire to offer your energy and skills to the wider community.
You may be supporting the monastics in cooking, driving, translating, cleaning, setting the meditation hall, gardening, leading a group of retreatants … essentially, being part of the sangha family.
We know you are there, and we are very happy