Volunteer Week, June
Saturday, 9th June, 2018
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Chisholme is an amazing place to volunteer. You can learn great new skills and really feel appreciated for who you are and what you do.
Georgie Cass
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The days are very long, here in Scotland in June, which is the hub of the gardening year. We'll be continuing with successional sowing of later crops and planting out of tender ones.
Activities will be varied, with work also in other areas such as woodland, house and kitchen.
You will be living and working in a place dedicated to supporting the discovery of your own potential.
Chisholme is a school – an unusual one because here there are no teachers. The guiding principle of the education is the essential Unity of all Existence. This is a wholly inclusive perspective, not limited by dogma or religious considerations. You can read more about it here.
So in addition to working with your hands you are very welcome to take part in conversation and study, meditation and other supportive activities. You will have the chance to give space to yourself and your own questions. You will also enjoy great food, good company and the chance to explore the beautiful countryside around Chisholme.
The hope is that you will leave at the end of the week with more than you came with: new friends, new skills (such as gardening or cooking) and a new understanding of yourself - and a wish to return!
For this week, there will be a special programme:
The week begins on Saturday with an introductory meeting after supper and then an introduction to the garden itself after breakfast the next morning.
Thereafter in outline the programme will be as follows:
Sundays: Walk in the countryside after lunch.
Mondays: Optional study after tea.
Tuesdays: A movie after supper.
Wednesdays: Free afternoon; optional study after tea.
Thursdays: Join our weekly devotional practice zikr if you wish, in the evening.
Fridays: Optional study after tea; end of fortnight bonfire on final Friday evening.
Saturdays: Mid-Saturday free; final Saturday group conversation and feedback.
Suggested Financial contributions
Full week: £90 or £60 (Students and unwaged)
Day rate £14 or £9
A non-refundable deposit of £10 will confirm your place.
Concessions
If you are unable to pay or cannot pay the whole amount, then please do not hesitate to write to secretary@chisholme.org to discuss your circumstances.
Accommodation is shared, in double, triple or dormitory style rooms. Bed linen and towels are provided. Wash facilities, showers and toilets are grouped together on the ground foor
To book
To book online, please click here... or email info@chisholme.org
Tel +44 (0)1450 880 215 so we can send you an application form.
Chisholme is an amazing place to volunteer. You can learn great new skills and really feel appreciated for who you are and what you do.
Georgie Cass
About the courses at Chisholme
All courses at Chisholme, however much their formats differ, begin with the principle of the absolute unity of existence, in view of which unity all life, in whatever sphere, is interconnected and interdependent.
If this is so, then who and what am I? Is it possible for me to come to know my reality and place within the one absolute existence? And what is the way forward, to know myself within the context of unity? That such knowledge is possible, and that there is indeed a way towards it is the reason for all courses that Chisholme offers.
There are different lengths of courses at Chisholme. From a weekend to six months, the course comprises a beginning, a middle and an end and has a continuity of participants throughout. Each participant begins at the same starting point as every other, and all complete the course together. To begin at the beginning, it is important that each participant, whatever their prior learning and experience, enters upon the course with ‘beginner’s mind’, as far as possible putting aside all previous understandings, with a freshness of intent and enquiry.
This kind of knowledge cannot be taught as such, and for this reason Chisholme has no teachers. Rather, this knowledge is within each of us already and reveals itself as and when we are ready, when the time is right. Chisholme’s courses aim to provide the best circumstances for each participant to approach this transformational moment, whether during the course or in the future.
Each person’s journey to self-knowledge will be different.
Please email secretary@chisholme.org
to register your interest.
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