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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
Aug 12: "I Have Enough" - Sung By Children! Since last month, I've been working full-time in a school at Auroville, co-learning with 10-12 year old children. It's been very enriching to witness how sponteously children express love,...
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Aug 11: Beautiful Comment Received From A New ... Beautiful comment received from a new KindSpringer today:
"Thank you so much! I think this is going to be a good place for me.I feel surrounded by kind ,loving people already! May you walk gently...
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Aug 12: Laddership News: Perfect Imperfect This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. This month's stories bring to heart the perfection in our imperfection. In a lively and amusing call, Bonnie Rose...
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Aug 03: Intelligence Of The Heart Two talks on engaging the intelligence of the heart ...
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Aug 12: I've Been Providing A Room In ... I've been providing a room in my house lately for visitors to our area as a short term place to stay in. I didn't have to advertise, just as soon as I was open to it being rented in that...
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Aug 14: The Light In Your Heart And The Way Back Home Last Sunday, a Chinese lady at the Palo Alto farmer's market stopped me and shared about an upcoming play. I was surprised to read the content -- they were touching stories about values from...
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Aug 03: Toward A New Conception Of God "Every human being is born with an intrinsic yearning to understand, to contact and, eventually, to serve something higher in ourselves and in the universe. Plato calls this yearning eros. It...
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Aug 04: Kindful Kids: Gardening With Kids This week's 'Kindful Kids' newsletter is on Gardening with Kids. Take a look."The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not...
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Aug 05: Maitri Tune By Rebecca Lawrence This week's 'Maitri Tunes' newsletter is a song by Rebecca Lawrence: Together As One.
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Aug 05: Stopping The War This week's Awakin reading is by Jack Kornfield titled 'Stopping The War': The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but...
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