Assistance
WORK CAMP AND TAKEDOWN CAMP
Instructed and coordinated by
Nirtan Luc Broelinckx, Katharina Salah Eggers,
Ingo Bosse and Kirana Ricke
Both the Work Camp and the Work Study Program require you to apply in advance! Please send us your Applications as soon as possible, especially if you want to help in the Work camp. Please don’t come without our prior approval, and apply as soon as possible! For more information and the application form please write to katharina: staff@zenithinstitute.com or read “Participation in Staff/Workstudy” on this website. You can also download the application form here.
Building 2010: June 13th - July 17th
Takedown 2010: August 15th - September 1st
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Building up and Taking down
When we first arrive at Campra in the middle of June, we will just find the mountains, the trees, the meadows, the cows. During the next five weeks, we will build platforms for about 10 big tents and many small tents (about 1000 m2), lay about two miles of water pipes, build toilets, put up lots of big and small tents—all this against the background of the fantastic natural landscape, and together with others from many different countries with diverse cultures and languages.
To participate in the Work Camp means lots of physical work, healthy mountain air, sweating under the hot sun, but also sometimes shivering in the rain and cold wind. Good food, simple community living, making friends, meditating alone or with others, discovering and rediscovering dormant qualities in oneself, and in between again and again to be made speechless by the majesty of the mountains. This time offers the possibility to unite spirituality, work and play in community. Together we will be creating a space and atmosphere that will welcome the invited teachers and all participants, and offer them the possibility to create and follow the different programs in a supportive environment.
To express something of the spirit of the Sufis: service to the community,
tolerance for others, finding joy in working together, the opening of the
heart, and respect for being different—all these are what make a
spiritual community.
To support this process, there is time and place for daily meditations, and in the evening we will have group activities such as Zikr, singing and making music, "sharings" or other activities, on the weekend also a nice mountain walk.
Everything that has been constructed throughout the Work Camp has to come down in a period of about two and a half weeks after the camp. We invite all participants and also all staff members to help us in this task, be it for the weekend, for some days after the camp, or even better for the whole time. We are happy for every helping hand.
This also offers a good and spontaneous opportunity to feel your body again after an intense time of meditation and to be in a community again or simply to spend some more time in those marvelous mountains in good company before we all go out into the world again. After the abundance of experiences in the camp, it is a very nice process to deconstruct, pack and store everything. We wrap up the exterior as well as the interior, and in the end there is just again mountains, meadows, and cows.
Camp participants helping with the takedown will get reduction for one of the weeks in next year’s camp: 25% for one week of takedown, 50% for two weeks.
Requirements
For the buildup and takedown Camp we are looking for people who enjoy living and working in community, and are not affraid of fysical work. Of course handyperson’s skills are welcome, but it's possible to learn. We welcome as well everyone who feels to support our work with whatever gift they bring, we are also in need of creative and flexible cooks who would like to take care of about 25 hungry workers. The Camp just needs a lot of helping hands.
During buildup and takedown we will be living in a wooden building near the campsite, or you can camp with your own tent. This is a time of intense and concentrated work, and in general not a time and place to bring small children.
Some Rools and Regulations
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As a participant in the Buildup Camp, you will have the possibility to continue
working during the camp and/or participate in one of the programs for reduced
prices, depending on the length of participation in buiding up.
(5 weeks of workcamp will give one week of free programm, less will be given in proportion.) - It is also possible and welcome to participate in the Work Camp just for 2 or 3 weeks, but a minimum of 2 weeks is suggested.
- Staff members who stay from the beginning of Work Camp through the Camp until the end of Takedown will receive a donation for travel expenses.
CAMP LEADER TEAM
Zahir, Nirtan, Ingo
Katharina, Kirana, Majida