Ashraf

Syria
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Travel information
I am currently
Travelling
Activities i am interested in:
Yoga teacher, mindfulness practices, spiritual healing, ecological projects, and lovely openminded and openhearted community life. I love the sea and want to live next to it <3
My next destination:
Thailand - from May 2024 until Aug 2024
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Description
The call of Asia has been echoing within me, and it's finally time to answer! Touching down in Thailand this March, I'll be immersing myself in a Yoga Teacher Training on the beautiful island of Koh Samui in April.

With a 7-month adventure across East Asia on the horizon, I bring a mix of skills – from psychotherapy studies and permaculture gardening to woodworking. Having lived and volunteered in various European communities over the past three years, I'm now thrilled to create new connections, gather fresh experiences, and dive into the vibrant world of Workaway! 🌏✈️🌱
Interests
Dancing
Writing
Self development
Performing arts
Drawing & painting
DIY & crafts
Books
Plant care
Outdoor activities
Sustainability
Charity work
Cooking & food
History
Mountain
Nature
Hiking
Events & social
Sailing / Boating
Yoga / Wellness
Politics / Social justice

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Languages
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
More details about my language interests
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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Life at a Farmstay
Charity Work
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
Eco Projects
Animal Care
Teaching
Able to teach about:
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Languages
Art Projects
More details about your skills
I am a licensed Yoga teacher, meditation, and breathwork instructor.

Through my psychotherapy studies at the Free University of Berlin, as well as additional education from classes and workshops, I have acquired a diverse set of skills and tools aimed at enhancing psychological well-being, guiding both interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts, understanding group dynamics, providing life coaching, and facilitating spiritual healing.

Over the past three years, I have resided in various communities across Europe, where I have honed valuable skills to support my personal journey. I am eager to share these skills whenever the need arises:

- Woodwork: My expertise covers construction, maintenance, restoration, and decorative woodwork. I am proficient in using machinery, as well as carving and painting wood.
- Gardening and Planting
- Mindfulness and Meditation Practices
- Drawing from my psychotherapy studies and diverse workshops, I have learned effective conflict mediation techniques and ways to support mental and emotional well-being.
- Childcare
- Cooking, Hospitality, and Guest Services

These experiences have equipped me with a rich array of abilities that I am excited to contribute to your community.
Age
28
What else ...
I am deeply passionate about wilderness, spirituality, diverse cultures, and the enriching exchange of experiences. My aspiration is to foster collective growth, spreading awareness and consciousness.

I'm a self-motivated and responsible person. I make sure to keep my surroundings shine and vibrant. When I'm given a task, I give my best to accomplish it.

My connection with all beings is built on trust, authenticity, love, and honor. Life has humbled me and taught me to not feel shy or ashamed to say, "I don't know how to do this. Can you please help me?"

I love celebrating life, engaging in deep philosophical and emotional talks, participating in cacao ceremonies, dancing, doing art, and watching sunrises and sunsets.

To thrive and find happiness, I seek open-minded and lighthearted individuals who express boundaries and needs honestly and respectfully, as I commit to doing the same.

A clean and calm sleeping space is important for me, and the rest would naturally fall into place.

I appreciate hugs
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
  No
- Special dietary requirements
  glad to try new food

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8 Jan 2021

Left by host for Workawayer (Ashraf)

Ashraf is the kind, amazing, gentle, dynamic spirit you see in all his photos here. He is an incredible human being doing extraordinary things in the world. At 24 years old, Syrian native and past 5 years in Germany now as a university student, his experiences speak for themselves. He is courageous, well-intentioned, hardworking and joyful. He… read more seeks and strives for community, family, human relating, and deep friendships. He will always be a welcome guest and helpful contributor anywhere he goes. Our time together required sometimes strenuously communicating our needs for specific personal boundaries and strongly emphasizing our own way of doing things. This was due both to me not more clearly emphasizing the work-agreement details and the limitations/boundaries of what we were offering in exchange, and the WorkAway volunteer perception of open exchange versus host expectation of work exchange. (Our primary intention was work help, his primary intention was coming to live altogether in family). In hindsight, I needed to be much more clear in our Work Away contract details, our house and family rules, and more clearly outlined boundaries of what is and what is not included in our Work Away agreements versus our personal family life. We had two first-time young Work-Awayers here simultaneously, Ashraf as one of them. We learned altogether that the Host's end of the deal needs to be very clearly and specifically communicated if it is a Work-Away work-exchange agreement versus just a voluntary cultural exchange of relaxed communal living like roommates or birth family. Ashraf's open heartedness and eastern cultural tendencies toward communal living and extended family are much more open, and his personality very strong and leading. With clear detailed communication and specific job and house rules, Ashraf continued to be the angel and prince that he is, humble, cooperative, intelligent, open-hearted, compassionate, wise and generous. He is very flexible, creative, and full of positive energy. Ashraf will do best in environments/exchanges that are very openly communal, with room for his own tastes and ways of doing things, but also with very organized, clearly defined, very specifically communicated expectations and agreements, if any are necessary at all. He is still gathering his life experiences, and across hemisphere cultures. He is an incredible human being for doing this, alone, and for his continued gentle, joyful, open heartedness as he continues being One with all humans. We Love you, Ashraf. Thank you for living and sharing life and work with us. We go with you.

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