Create, craft and cultivate in l’Alt Empordà, Spain

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  Beschreibung

  As you might have noticed, our beautiful living planet is facing serious dangers and degradation. However, something magnificent is struggling to emerge in it: a new civilization based on real democracy, genuine ecology, holistic science and natural spirituality. That's what we, living beings of the 21st century, absolutely need: an integral transformation based on Love, Truth and Freedom. To realize such a (r)evolution we must conceive a new holistic paradigm and put it into practice, an awesome adventure which, luckily, has already started.
  
  Are you up for it? :)
  
  Hi. My name is Blai and I'm a 40 years old Catalan guy. After studying philosophy and cinema I got involved in cultural, ecological, political and social movements and projects. I gave dozens of workshops and public lectures on strategy, vision and organization for holistic social change, produced some short-movies and wrote many articles on those matters.
  
  Around 2014 I delved in my own personal transformation and began to research, create and learn for the conception of a new method, a framework for systematic, integrative and conscious personal evolution. As this method emerged, a stationary support system was also created, a forest center was established and a series of retreats where conceived. Now I keep on developing all of this... and, from time to time, I host workawayers who can help with their particular skills, beautiful energy and positive vibes.
  
  Here's more details about my projects:
  
  THE CENTER. A healthy and healing humanized forest based on permaculture design principles. Stunning views, beautiful paths, some huts, compost toilets, meeting places, raised garden beds, a big Bell tent, some fruit trees, an old stone cottage… a work-in-progress piece of paradise which serves as a gathering spot and, occasionally, as a small retreat center.
  
  THE METHOD. Since 2016 I'm conceiving an holistic framework and integrative system, a toolbox for personal conscious transformation, a panoramic and profound process to cultivate inner peace, exercise mental power and build positive character traits. I'm currently writing a book about it.
  
  THE CRAFTS. With the help of volunteers and collaborators, using natural and up-cycled materials, I'm producing a special kind of stationary (not for sale for now) which is used in the retreats as the material base, the physical support, of the Method.
  
  THE RETREATS. The retreats I organize and facilitate are based on the Method I'm developing and are a series of seven weekends in a one-year process. The participants learn and experience some of the most important notions and useful tools for self-knowledge, self-creation, self-organization, self-care and self-improvement.
  
  For now, all of these are non-profit projects which have the sole purpose of learning, growing, sharing, creating, enjoying and living within the new paradigm I've mentioned before. Most volunteers help me in the maintenance and improvement of my center-home-forest-garden.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Kunstprojekte

  Sprachpraxis

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Unterrichten

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

  Betreuung von Tieren

  Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie

  Hausarbeiten

  Handwerkliche Arbeiten

  Hilfe mit Computer /Internet
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  My place may be a very appropriate context to learn, experience and practice various methods, techniques and frameworks to develop the potential of the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of our human experience: Positive Psychology, Integral Theory, Yoga, Mindfulness, Meditation, Perennial Philosophy, Sedona Method, Lifebook, Productivity Systems and Hacks, Journaling, Writing and Drawing Therapy, Plant-Based Healthy Diet, Biodance, Ecstatic Dance, Contact Impro Dance... and, of course, the Method I've created. ;)

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  Arbeit

  Here's the work-lines in which you may help me:
  
  CRAFT. Do you enjoy working with your hands? Do you have some experience in handcrafting? Folding and cutting papers, gluing, painting, sewing, washing,... Relaxing tasks which you can do while listening to music and/or podcasts.
  
  CREATE. If you are painter, a graphic designer, an illustrator, a videographer, a photographer and/or a web master and would like to help me in some of these fields, we might find a way to put your creative skills and passions at work.
  
  CULTIVATE. I'm cultivating raised gardening beds and developing a permacultural forest, so sometimes there's the need to cut down some pine trees and plant some other species, move some soil, dig, water, build, repair...
  
  CARE of the house: painting, cleaning, decorating...
  
  So, depending on your interests and skills, on the one hand, and on the current needs of my projects, on the other, we will find the specific combination of task that best suits our needs.

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  Gesprochene Sprachen

  Catalan: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend
  Spanisch: Fließend

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  Unterkunft

  There's two possible accommodation spots:
  
  A. THE FOREST. A big and beautiful Bell Tent in the forest and/or an old stone cottage. Stunning views of the hills and the fields nearby, the Pyrenees mountains and the Mediterranean sea. We have running water and battery lamps, but no electricity, shower, hot water or Wifi.
  
  B. THE APARTMENT. A beautiful rustic apartment in a Village. It has WiFi and all the other basic comforts of modern life.
  
  In winter, the usual accommodation is the option B, while in summer it's the option A. In autumn and spring, it can be the A and/or the B, depending on needs and availability.

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  Was noch ...

  AREA. L'Alt Empordà is one of the most beautiful and culturally active areas of Catalonia. The beaches of Sant Martí d'Empúries, with its Greek ruins and old villages, or Sant Pere Pescador, with it's natural park and bay, or Cap de Creus, are among the various interesting spots.
  
  TRANSPORT. The train station is 3 km away from the village apartment and 10km away from the forest center, and with the train you can easily go to Girona, Figueres or Barcelona. I can lend you a good bike to explore the local area by yourself.
  
  EXCHANGE. There’s two options of exchange. The Option A is the all-included which involves working 5 hours per day, 5 days a week, and you get the accommodation and all the food. The Option B involves 3 hours of work per day, 5 days a week, and doesn't include the food. We will decide which of this two exchange modalities suits us better; and it’s possible to do a combination of both -one week for each, for example.
  
  FOOD. Mostly organic and locally produced vegetarian food, prepared in conscious and creative ways. Two big meals a day plus some healthy drinks and snacks. In case we exchange with Option B, you will be able to buy your own groceries from local stores and/or supermarkets. Sometimes we cook together, sometimes you cook for yourself and I do the same, sometimes you or I cook for both: we go with the flow.
  
  DATES. I'll be hosting the whole September.
  
  All the Best,
  
  Blai

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

  Dieser Gastgeber nimmt gern Digital Nomads bei sich auf.

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.

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  Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

  Dieser Gastgeber ist bereit, Reisende mit Haustieren bei sich aufzunehmen.

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

  mehr als zwei

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  Arbeitszeiten

  3 or 5 hours per day, 5 days a week

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