Build, plant, learn and live in a community in nature near Lisbon, Portugal

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    "The Valley" - is community house on 16 hectares of beautiful valley that we are reforesting, with a giant warehouse for art projects, an eco-pond, a sauna...
    Liza, an experienced entrepreneur, and Chris - a lawyer, philosopher, entrepreneur and cognitive scientist. Together we started this community as a passion project: to become a hub for self-development practices, looking at the impact of things like meditation and contact improvisation dance on human development.
    Our big house always full of interesting guests, largely composed out of philosophers who are into meditation, meditators who are into dance, dancers who are into philosophy, scientists, tech-geeks.
    There is no commercial activity that the volunteers will be helping with.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    - Living in community, with regular community meals, board game nights and other activities
    - Yoga, embodiment, movement sessions.
    - Spontaneous workshops on themes like authentic relating, contact improvisation (dance) and a lot of philosophical conversations at dinners.
    - Interesting guests, scientists, artists, makers of all kind coming through the place

  • Help

    Help

    - Help on small and medium construction projects: a new chicken coop, small installations and reparations (any construction expertise needed!)
    - Planting trees, taking care of the land, taking care of the vegetable garden (permaculture and gardening skills very welcome!)
    - Helping out managing the house, cooking, taking care of animals and plants
    Workawayers won't be helping with any business activities, only take care of the private land that we are not using for business purposes.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    Greek: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent
    Portuguese: Fluent
    Russian: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    Learn Portuguese.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Private rooms (subject to availability) / shared rooms with other guests and volunteers / camping in tents (good mattresses, pillows and bedding provided).

    Food will be provided for the volunteers. We usually cook and eat dinner all together (all volunteers, guests and members of the community). Other mealtimes everyone cooks for themselves from ingredients available in the kitchen, but if we have more than 10 people at a given time, sometimes we can also cook lunch together.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    In you time off you can use our community car to go to the ocean (25 min to Ericeira - famous surfing town), to Lisbon (30 min), explore other villages around or have long walks on the peaceful countryside around the property. It's hard to leave the place though - usually a lot going on here.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    We have fast internet and dedicated coworking spaces.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    Vans welcome!

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 793166582353

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