Wake Up Earth 2019 Service Retreat Application

    Dear friends, We are so happy that you have found us. Together we can make the Wake Up Earth retreat memorable. This year the Wake Up Service Retreat for volunteers will be from August 6th - 18th 2019. The WU Service retreat last year was so beautiful and nourishing, so we hope that many of the volunteers will have time to come back this summer! The service retreat will allow you to go more deep into your practice and experience of the Plum Village community life. You can support the cooking teams by preparing delicious vegan meals together or you can help your hospitality seed grow by helping out in the teahouse, as a work coordinator or in other areas. You can only join this retreat if you have visited Plum Village for multiple times and preferably have helped us before. Please note, that the Wake Up retreat is ONLY for people between 18 - 35 years old. For the Service retreat we can accept volunteers, who are older than 35, only in special cases. For the service retreat you will be arriving on 6 August and leave on 18 August 2019. This will allow you to settle in, build the team and receive training. We will have Dharma sharing in volunteer families together before and during the retreat in order to nourish and support each other. For the cooking teams we would need: * gastronomic experience, preferably vegan/vegetarian, in an industrial kitchen where large numbers are catered for * or on a smaller scale but with good energy and ability to learn quickly. * Ability to work quickly while remaining calm and peaceful * That you are reliable and responsible All tasks are of equal importance in the kitchen! Washing the dishes is as important as cooking and preparing the vegetables, with a smile, is the same as walking through to the dining room with the finished dish...and a smile ! . We will have a separate schedule apart from the Wake Up Retreat. You are able to attend the schedule of the retreat only partly. Before the retreat starts, we will have a chance to get to know each other, practice and prepare before the retreat. We will come together frequently in order to deepen our practice in the process of serving the community. This year the Wake Up Earth Retreat will take place in both Lower and Upper Hamlet. Women will stay in LH and men in UH, but the retreat is organised by both hamlets together and we will come together many times during the retreat to enjoy the collectice energy of the fourfold Sangha. Because the retreat will be held in two places, the organisation and logistics are also a bit more complex than during the previous Wake Up retreats. We try our best to find a good and suitable responsibility for everyone.The organising team would like to ask for your support and understanding that we might not be able to provide you with your task and space preference number 1. We ask you to follow the decision of the organising team, in which hamlet you will stay and work. All volunteers are required to camp in a tent that they provide. The Wake Up retreat organizing team is looking forward to practice, serve and enjoy together with you so that we can offer again a wonderful and joyful Wake Up Earth retreat for many young people from all over the world. If you are interested please fill out the form below. For more information please write to us at the following address : wakeupearth2019@plumvillage.org

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    What is Mindfulness

    Thich Nhat Hanh January 15, 2020

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