Calling for Volunteers Family Retreat 2026

Help needed for our Family Retreat (June 29-July 5, 2026)

 

Dear Friends,

Are you interested in becoming a Volunteer to help with our Family Retreat?

To offer mindful and joyful service and work alongside monastics?

Service meditation and being a service leader is both fulling, challenging, and fun! 

Are you up for this next level of service meditation?

If so, consider joining us this summer and become a Volunteer!

To be a Volunteer for this retreat, we ask that you must have attended at least 1 retreat with us before at Magnolia Grove Monastery. (It’s most helpful to have experienced first-hand what our practice schedule is like, the flow, and are familiar with our monastery grounds before becoming a service leader in showing others the work flow with ease.)

Volunteers agree to:
– guide groups during service meditation, such as pot-washing, drying dishes, cleaning bathrooms, recycling etc.
– help set up circles for Dharma sharing
– be an assistant for monastics in the youth programs. If this interests you and you have prior experience with youth programs, you may mention in the Volunteer Form to help monastics in the teens’, tweens’ or children’s program. Helping with these youth programs will require you to miss a number of the regular activities with the adults schedule (such as listening to dharma talks, which you can find online after the retreat), however, it is extremely nourishing and a wonderful way to
express your creativity, learn from and pay it forward to the next generation.
– live according to the 5 Mindfulness Trainings while at the monastery and abide by
our safeguarding policies
– live in harmony with the community
 
We ask that our Volunteers:
– be in good enough physical, emotional and psychological health
– be familiar with the Plum Village practices and our center/s
– have attended at least one retreat before in Magnolia Grove Monastery

– Arrive on June 29th or 30th and leave late July 5th or in the morning of July 6th
after breakfast.

-understand that you may need to leave an activity early/stay behind after an
activity to set up for the following activity.

*Volunteers will receive a 50% reduction in fees.

We are currently in need of 20 Volunteers and will close the sign up once we have reached this number.

If you are interested in becoming a Volunteer, please fill out this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ERcF47ELB1P5Ij0yhTbV7jGe-g4lmT4cKWgqA_gYOY4/edit

For all inquiries concerning becoming a volunteer, please contact us at: volunteers@magnoliagrovemonastery.org and mention in the subject line: Family Retreat 2026 Volunteer

(*We apologize for missing the “s” in our “volunteers” email in our initial post and have just fixed it now.)

We look forward to working and practicing with you!

With Love,
Magnolia Grove Monastery Monastics

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