Volunteer Programme to change your brain
The A2B Ecofarm skilled volunteer programme takes place in a beautiful rural area surrounded by plantations, indigenous forests and mountains.
What the programme entails
The skilled volunteer programme is essentially a bartering scheme.
Bartering entails exchanging your time and competent skills such as natural farming, water management and eco-construction etc, for board and lodging. The farm owner will lay out your weekly schedule and tasks which will be of high value and priority to the farm at that time. Flexibility is essential as priorities may shift.
Tasks must be completed satisfactorily to maintain the value proposition.
A2B Eco farm provides:
- Life on a beautiful 50-acre farm.
- Interaction with farm animals and wildlife.
- Basic single or shared furnished accommodation (which the volunteer must maintain and upgrade).
- Solar power and pure spring water.
- Fully equipped kitchen with a wood-burning oven and gas stove (excl. gas)
- Vegetable gardens, chickens, citrus fruit and nut trees.
- Basic groceries per month with meat twice a week. (Volunteers cook)
- Washing facilities. (excl. your soap)
AND
Ad hoc Training in the A2B Transformation Human Optimisation Programme!
On boarding training: Usage of the P-Tool compulsory before you arrive in order to understand how you have to approach the priority tasks, where to park your new ideas and how not to get involved in tasks that is non of your business,
Our environment is an 'environment for change' which means a tough-love empowering lifestyle and strong ecosystem management principles which foster constructive body, mind, and spirit practices while having zero tolerance for destructive influences like addictions. No addictions of any sort will be tolerated, and you must nurture your body with vegetables, for which you will be responsible to produce, spending minimum two hours of your day in the vegetable garden.
Lifestyle and Cost
A2B Ecofarm offers a skills bartering deal valued at R 9,800 per month for a period of three months (total value R 29,400). It is not an employment programme. It is a special opportunity for you to experience to live off the grid, rewire, do a lot of exercise, sleep early and secrete more happy hormones than stress hormones, and switch on your brain to improve body soul and spirit… gaining life gratitude.
You will barter 45 productive hours per week and enjoy the beautiful nature for the rest of your leisure time. A2B Ecofarm accommodates up to four capable adults for volunteering at a time. Once selected, you will be considered an integral part of our farm-family and we will be interested in your bigger life goals. We operate like a kibbutz; therefore, you are immediately required to adapt to hard labour during the day and rest equally hard during the night (not vice versa). By exerting effort doing walks and physical labout, your body secretes endorphins, and mastering new skills triggers serotonin release, resulting in restful sleep with only natural night sounds, optimising melatonin secretion for your brain.
The volunteer programme is offered for a maximum of three months.
On the positive side, respectful, empathetic and high-value individuals with good track record may apply after three months for our 6-month A2B Eco-farm internship programme. Stipends range from R1,000 to R6,000, depending on competency, volitional level, and collective future vision.
Volunteers and interns have structured rosters for various tasks, including guesthouse cleaning, animal husbandry, water/fountains management, brush cutting, alien removal, agriculture, cooking and building assistance.
We expect everyone to deeply care for each other, our ecology, our animals, and our physical resources, particularly valuing the A2B values and objectives (self-study) Music should be played through your own ear phones, We watch video’s on projector form time to time, and its themes are constructive and educational only.
If you fail to contribute value to the farm or negatively affect the ecosystem you will receive immediate reaction and offered 1-hour free professional help for improvement. Closed-mindedness, negligence, or heartlessness will result in immediate dismissal.
Ecosystem for Change
We practice the A2B "Ecosystem for Change management model," which you must familiarise yourself with and buy into before signing the Volunteers barter agreement and indemnity forms.
We maintain a positive spirit of hope, faith, and love, believing these faculties can create perpetual life. Every volunteer should exude an enthusiastic vibe and strive to live naturally and purposefully. Any belligerence will be reported on the WhatsApp group and the third time you will be expelled,
We are specialists in productivity assessments and all very conscious of performing tasks cost efficiently. We have developed a trailblazing application (APP) that helps you daily to see your response- ability level on the Occupational Intelligent scale and assess whether you are bartering a balanced transaction of equal value, or not.
You will be immediately given feedback on your performance if it is under the norm. This will be done in a caring way. However, it is written on the yellow card, for you to remember and step up. An orange card follows as second warning, and hopefully you will remediate your action. You will pack your bags if that didn’t help you improve your response- ability and gratitude.
Due to our national A2B organisation's focus on promoting optimal brain development and recognising addiction as the primary element that destructs body organs, disrupts brain function, depletes finances, and damages relationships, we enforce a zero-tolerance policy for addiction practice—except for enjoying our locally brewed ginger beers or fermented fruit juices.
You Will:
- Gain a better understanding of yourself and embrace things about others you didn't understand before.
- Realise why you reason the way you do and why your reasoning style is effective in certain scenarios and not in others.
- Learn to play to your strengths.
- Become more forgiving of other's shortcomings.
- Learn how to choose your words and timing carefully to manage another person’s responses.
- Grow your Occupational Intelligence Levels
Take action - Join our Volunteer Programme Now
Please WhatsApp Viv on +27 0810682652 if you are interested and want to know more.
We look forward to meeting you