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Open Volunteer Positions
Landscape Artisan, for Banyan Grove Our property is filled with lots of potential for outdoor activity. To accomplish this, we would like to engage some landscaping expertise. If you have experience and background in outdoor design,... |
Awakin Circle Chef, for Banyan Grove Once a month, we host an Awakin Circle -- where we sit in silence for an hour, engage in a circle of sharing, and then conclude with a shared meal. If you are available to help cook some or all of... |
Event Coordinator, for Banyan Grove We routinely have many in-person circles, events, retreats and residencies at Banyan Grove. This volunteer position is to help coordinate various strands of the events, align it with the vision of... |
Content Scout, for Seeds + Transformation The role is to look for deep articulations about people, organizations, books or media coverage related to sustainability of the soil and soul. |
Awakin Call Biographer, for Awakin Calls Learn the stories of our remarkable speakers’ lives, and help present their stories to the world from the lens of their inner transformation journeys! This volunteer will write a 3-5 paragraph... |
KarmaTube Tweeter, for KarmaTube We are looking for an active Tweeter to help post KarmaTube content on Twitter and keep the community engaged with the portal. |
Transcribe Inspiring Conversations and Journeys, for Awakin Call Help us take our Weekly Awakin Calls, which feature a conversation with a unique guest speaker each week, and edit it into a transcript (with some context about the topic), so it can be shared... |
Translate Awakin Wisdom Readings, for Awakin Wisdom Readings Weekly readings are often translated in other languages like Hindi. If you are proficient in another language, and are able to translate few paragraphs every week, please let us know and we would... |
Good News Scout, for Open Good/Positive History We are looking for a volunteer who can help us build up a database of good news. It will requires researching stories on particular day, writing a couple sentence description summary, and adding... |
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After each call, we post an edited transcript. This blog post has the potential to spread quite far, from ServiceSpace blog to DailyGood.org, so we would like to have them reviewed by a copy... |
Upcoming Events
Awakin Meditation Gatherings
Join for an hour of meditation, followed by a circle of sharing and dinner in silence. They happen in varying frequencies in different cities but always a joy to catch one!
WHERE: Santa Clara NYC Oakland Ahmedabad London, Singapore, More...
Upcoming Forest Calls
Call into our weekly conference call, every Saturday, as a few Service Space coordinators share inspirations from the previous week and interview an inspiring guest speaker!
Karma Kitchen Sundays
Imagine a volunteer-run restaurant where all guests pay forward for people after them. While frequency is different at different locations, you can volunteer any week.
WHERE: Berkeley Washington DC Chicago Hayward Tokyo ...
Volunteer Reflections
Feb 08: Heart Mob In Ventura California
Dear Friends,
One of our local synagogues was recently vandalized with a hateful message. Someone painted a swastika on their sign. The message was quickly erased. But Inspired by ServiceSpace,...
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Feb 17: Inspiring Link
Around 5 Years Ago ... | KindSpring.org
A place to practice small acts of kindness. For over a decade the KindSpring community has focused on...
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Feb 09: Kindful Kids: Supporting Boys To Embrace Diverse This week's 'Kindful Kids' newsletter is on Supporting Boys to Embrace Diverse Emotions. Take a look."We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being...
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Feb 06: Maya Soetoro-Ng: Pragmatic Peace Studies For Social This week's Awakin Call guest: 'Maya Soetoro-Ng: Pragmatic Peace Studies For Social ChangeReflection questions: Our guest this week believes that peacebuilding is teachable, and that "fear is...
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Feb 13: Alan Wallace: Fathoming The Mind And Nature Of This week's Awakin Call guest: 'Alan Wallace: Fathoming The Mind And Nature Of ConsciousnessReflection questions: Our guest this week describes a seemingly chance encounter while hitchhiking as a...
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Feb 12: Pauline Boss: Ambiguous Loss And The Myth Of Closure Pauline Boss is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of, among other books, "Loving Someone Who Has Dementia." Boss offers the perspective that the idea of closure...
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