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About Our Family:
We are a family of six - Mark & Stacee (parents) & we have 4 children, Giana (25) Bryn (24) Sabine (22) and Jake (16).
After graduating UCSD with a degree in Global Health, our eldest daughter currently lives in San Diego and is in a Masters Program & is trying to get into medical school while she also works at a clinic as a Scribe. She also volunteers at a clinic across the border in Mexico. Bryn just completed her 5th capstone year in Taiwan and is traveling in Madrid, Spain until it's time to come home in May and graduate from SF State with a degree in Criminal Justice & Mandarin, Chinese. Sabine is in her Junior year, studying Economics full time at an American University with a campus in Madrid, Spain. Jake is a sophomore in Highschool and is interested in Architecture, woodworking, photography and he recently fell in love with skateboarding, snowboarding, and playing the goalie in waterpolo.
Our family loves to see the world, and our children are well traveled & fluent to differing degrees in English, Mandarin & Spanish. When applicable, we would love for our guests to help Jake practice Spanish & Mandarin and in turn, volunteers are able to practice their English.
Since 2005, we have been sharing the joy of art, textiles and jewelry making with our community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The aim of our family business is to enable children’s creativity through holistic art education.
We believe that artistic expression is crucial to healthy development. Art should be an engaging, tactile, and rewarding experience. Our goal is to create peaceful and inclusive spaces where each child is empowered to make truly unique treasures by hand.
SUMMER CAMP ART & YOGA
Our full day Gardening, Jewelry Making, Art Exploration, and Textiles camps also include an hour of Yoga to encourage mindfulness and movement. Meditative focus is a natural part of craft making, and we strive to bring this mindset to all of our events.
NEW GARDENING INITIATIVE: [We are starting a non-profit]
In the future we will be looking for help on our 2 acre San Diego home to do the following:
Help incorporate Permaculture & Sustainability Principals
Help with Grant writing
Landscape Architecture - to create a food forest, herb, pollinator and flower garden
Help begin a Community Garden for children
Help teach Gardening through art & hands on gardening fun to children
We want children to express their creativity & have fun in our classes, birthday parties & camps.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will learn about the culture of the San Francisco Bay Area
You will be involved in a local Mission Based initiative
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
If you love gardening, landscape architecture, sustainability, permaculture, traditional construction techniques such as straw buildings/Japanese joinery etc, art, textiles, photography, videography, jewelry making, yoga & children & want to be a classroom teacher or develop experience in your field, this is a perfect learning opportunity for hands on experience.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
You will have a bedroom & shared bathroom in our home.
We will consider you family during your stay.
We will provide some meals.
We will pay minimum wage in accordance with the city you are living in.
What else ...
We are only 13 miles outside of San Francisco and within walking distance to public transportation (an underground train called BART) + buses
The Bay Area and San Francisco are filled with wonderful opportunities to explore and experience - food, culture, art, nature, beaches, mountains.
We live in a beautiful, quiet equestrian neighborhood only 20 minutes to the quaint, quintessential beach town of Encinitas, CA - the nearest beach is Moonlight beach
There are times when you will be able to travel work free (dates/schedule given to you in advance to allow for planning)
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We can accommodate parking a car but not a motorhome
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Stacee and her amazing family treated me with love, support and nothing but positivity from day one. My trip through California has been my personal medicine, and I'm so grateful for having had the opportunity to stay with and become part of the Gillelen… read more
I feel incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to share a piece of my life, life’s work and my home and family with This lovely girl. She will definitely be in… read more
I have a hard time writing down how amazing my time with the Gillelens was, there are just to many happy… read more
She brightened our home & my day each and every day. She was loved… read more
From the moment I arrived, I became a member of their large family.
Stacee and Mark are exemplary parents, they have raised four great children.
Giana, Bryn, Sabine and Jake are so open and sociable that it's amazing how… read more
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Stacee and her amazing family treated me with love, support and nothing but positivity from day one. My trip through California has been my personal medicine, and I'm so grateful for having had the opportunity to stay with and become part of the Gillelen… read more
I feel incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to share a piece of my life, life’s work and my home and family with This lovely girl. She will definitely be in… read more
I have a hard time writing down how amazing my time with the Gillelens was, there are just to many happy… read more
She brightened our home & my day each and every day. She was loved… read more
From the moment I arrived, I became a member of their large family.
Stacee and Mark are exemplary parents, they have raised four great children.
Giana, Bryn, Sabine and Jake are so open and sociable that it's amazing how… read more
It's more than a work. It's more than a workaway experience. It's about sharing the life with the most beautiful family we ever met in our entire life tho. Stacee, Mark, Giana, Brynn, Sabyn and Jake… read more
I met people with a very big heart and we shared some great moments. I have worked with very open-minded and kind people. If you are looking to stay in San Francisco, do not hesitate!
Chloe is absolutely lovely, funny, good-natured, easy going, very responsible and a hard worker. She became part of our family and became close friends with our daughters and was like an additional older sister to our son.
Chloe… read more
He is an… read more
As you can read my name is Davide and I lived in Stacee's house for almost 3 months and I think I really can say.. it was one of the best experience I ever had in my life.
Stacee and her family was been all the time nice and cute with me and Jake, their youngest son.. was… read more
