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About Our Family:
We are a family of six - Mark & Stacee (parents) & we have 4 children, Giana (26), Bryn (25), Sabine (23), and Jake (18).
After graduating UCSD with a degree in Global Health, our eldest daughter now lives in Arizona where she is attending medical school, continuing her path toward becoming a physician. She previously worked in San Diego at a clinic as a scribe and volunteered at a clinic across the border in Mexico.
Bryn recently completed her studies at SF State in CriminalJustice and Chinese and is graduating from American University in Washington, D.C. with a degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution. She previously completed her 5th capstone year in Taiwan and has a deep interest in global studies, language, and culture.
Sabine is in her Senior year, studying Economics full time at an American University with a campus in Madrid, Spain, where she is currently living and studying abroad.
Jake is our youngest and is 18 years old, a senior in high school, and preparing to head off to college. He is interested in Architecture, woodworking, and photography, and he has recently fallen in love with skateboarding, snowboarding, and playing goalie in water polo.
Our family loves to see the world, and our children are well traveled & fluent to differing degrees in English, Mandarin & Spanish. However we are about to be empty nesters.
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 have started a non-profit]
In the near 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 teach Gardening through art & hands on experiences
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Bénévolat
Projets artistiques
Aide avec des éco-projets
Enseignement
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
Aide dans une ferme
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Centres d’intérêt
Politique/justice sociale
Végétarien ou végan
Dev. durable
Culture
Dev. personnel
Films et télé
Ferme
Bénévolat
Soin des plantes
Histoire
Bricolage / artisanat
Livres
Art et design
Langues
Jardinage
Cuisine et alimentation
Architecture
Menuiserie
Yoga / bien-être
Nature
Fitness
Camping
Montagne
Plage
Activités en plein air
Randonnée
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
You will learn about the culture of the San Francisco Bay Area
You will be involved in a local Mission Based initiative
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
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.
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Hébergement
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.
Autres infos...
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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Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Espace pour garer des vans
We can accommodate parking a car but not a motorhome
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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
