[Scpg] Cuyama Learning Center Internship Announcement

Tue Feb 22 16:16:30 PST 2005

Cuyama Learning Center Summer Internship
A project of Wilderness Youth Project

Summer 2005

**How to Apply: Please fill out attached application and send to
clc at wyp.org for consideration.
Further Questions:  Please direct any further questions you may have to
Cindy Montross at the Cuyama Learning Center at 805-886-7239 or at the
email above.

Wilderness Youth Project is offering its first summer residential
internship program  at the Cuyama Learning Center for a select few
adults who are interested in gaining practical and experiential skills
in earth mentoring with children and families, permaculture design and
application, and cooperative interdependence with self, place and
community.

This internship will be residentially based out of our Cuyama Learning
Center, which consists of a 455 acre ranch surrounded on three sides by
national forest at 3,800 feet in elevation in a pinyon-juniper woodland,
an artesian spring, ponds, and some of the best tracking substrate and
animal diversity in North America (according to Mark Elbrock).  This
off-grid permaculture designed project is powered by wind and solar
(soon to have hydro), fed by a gravity delivered water system, has a
community tent kitchen, a large swimming pond, varied growing areas for
fruit, nuts and vegetables, all with room to stretch and wander.  We
have a large pond in which to cool off in the summer heat and with the
higher elevation we have cool nights most of the summer.

This internship offers the participant the opportunity to offer his/her
gifts as s/he works in a permaculture designed learning center, assists
in youth and family camps, plants and tends the food forest and gardens,
gets immersed in the day to day tasks of regenerative farming, earth
building, learns and shares ways to sustain oneself and the greater
communities of people, flora, and fauna that surround us.

In this first year we are looking for a two men and two women who are a
good and diverse fit into our group dynamic.  The internship demands
dedication to one’s walk in one’s own truth, integrity, openness to
communicate, and an unwavering love for the earth and ALL her children. 

Skills and experiences offered in a variety of learning scenarios:
Permaculture Design and Application
Natural building technology
Youth camp design, logistics, and philosophy
Earth mentoring with youth
Family mentoring and support
Specific activities to draw youth into their gifts
Empathy skills
Community Interdependence Skills
Storytelling
Cultural Mentoring
Origins Teachings
Old-way skills experience and application
Habitat relationship building and caretaking
Composting, greywater and sustainable building practices
Way of Council
Group dynamics, diversity, and wholeness practices
Place and system to express individual gifts and honor those of others
Basic regenerative farming experience
Sit spot time in the high desert
Tipi living
Joyous work with hands, soil, sweat, and heart

We invite those called to be a part of beginning a story here as our
first intern community at Cuyama Learning Center.  Step out of time and
into timing, where together we work hard, care for ourselves, the earth,
each other, and discover, honor and share our personal gifts with all
our relations.

Logistics:
When:  Internship begins on June 15th, and ends on August 31st.   All
applicants will be notified by April 16th if they have been chosen.
Accomodations: A tipi as living space, healthy food, and fresh spring
water are provided.  Each intern will have one’s own 16 foot tipi for
privacy in an individual living space.  Our living systems at the CLC
are very basic with composting toilets, limited communications, and
simple  structures.  This is truly an adventure in outdoor living and
learning.  
Hours of required work: Varied due to different program schedules, farm
needs, resident and guest teachers sharing, yet required internship
hours will average out to about 40 hours a week.  There will be windows
of time to wander, track, go to town, get lost, get found, play music,
share at fires, nap, swim, sit at your sit spot, flintknapp, make
clothing, watch scorpions and rattlesnakes, and look for horned lizards.
How to Apply: Please fill out attached application and send to
clc at wyp.org for consideration.
Further Questions:  Please direct any further questions you may have to
Cindy Montross at the Cuyama Learning Center at 805-886-7239 or at the
email above.

Please visit our website at www.wyp.org, look at the attached vision
document about the Cuyama Learning Center, and visit a project one of
our founders has developed at www.mentoring4peace.org to gain a better
understanding of the wefts and warps of our cultural basket and the
vision we are humbly carrying out into the world.

Warren Brush
Wilderness Youth Project
Founding Director
w at wyp.org
805.886.7239 

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