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Life Guard (CPR & Rescue certified) Cleaning and Maintenance of Moscow City Swimming Pool

Small boat captain, Search and Rescue, Servicing aids to navigation along the Inside Passage, Forklift qualified, Fire-fighting qualified, Deck Force supervisor (10-12 members). 1 week survival school.

Creating and assembling jewelry

Working with migrant laborers in the grape vineyards of Switzerland. The language barrier was an unlearning in teamwork & Communication.

Full time pizza production - Rotating; dishwasher, dough, pizza assembling, Baker, Boxer, Cleaning. In one rotation we produced 500+ handmade wood fired pizzas to be sold as frozen pizzas.

This was an informal internship, assisting Dieter at his bakery in Northfield Vermont. He was baking traditional German wood fired sourdough. real rustic old man, made his own wooden spoons and peels, didn't measure anything. A good hands on old-world learning experience.

Painted the interior and exterior of Anne Duclos's house (Mansion) in New Haven. Used a 40 ft lift.

Setting up art stations for, and facilitating interaction with 1-5 year old children.

Built clay oven, baked wood-fired sourdough bread, sold door to door. Alternate yield community connectivity

Living in Gouldsboro, Maine at the Post Peak Oil institute (now called Zocalo), twice a week I would sail with the owner of the institute to Mount Dessert Island, where I was installing gardens and brick pathways with a crew of six.

For three years from spring through fall I lived with my wife at a seasonal log cabin in Lincoln VT on a 150 acres of land surrounded by national forest. We sanded and weather proofed the exterior of the cabin, built an indoor ventilated dry toilet, built a large earthen oven, maintained the grounds, cutting/moving brush, We helped Vermont Family Forest to map the land for putting it on a Trust. We installed a new cable and hardware for the trolly that brings you across the river (from the road side to the cabin side) before the land was sold on our third year.

Once a week selling bread and jewelry at the Bristol Farmers Market, made Market flyer and T-shirt

Since the spring of 2010 Kailash Ashram has been our summer home. We exchange work for rent. We have installed the beginnings of a food forest (Photo Gallery on page - L&CR Extras), this will be its third season. We also clear brush and vines, restoring the forest, I built a composting toilet and we do general maintenance, wood piling, cooking, cleaning, house sitting etc.

I am teaching the Earthen Oven workshops with Mark Krawczyk - http://www.yestermorrow.org/instructors/view/194

Age 16-17 I spent the year abroad, it was a year with abundant yields. I learned Spanish, I took an art course at the Fine Arts college once a week. I spent every weekend in the small Basque fishing village of Laketio, where old cultural traditions are still practiced. I lived with a Catalonian Family out side of Barcelona for one week. I spent one week on the island of Majorca. At the end of my program my father, step-mother and grandmother came and we toured around Spain for one month.

Leaderful Leadership despite hierarchy rule

Creativity through photography and darkroom

Canada, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Switzerland, England, France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ghana, India My learnings and unlearnings while traveling are beyond places, most revolve around the commonality of humanity, the joy and sorrow, the struggles and triumphs. There are many wise people still upon this Earth, many are the simplest. So many happenings in travels get magnified in later life. As in the butterfly effect, having a tremendous impact on how you see yourself and relate to the world.

During this entire season I lived in a cave outside of Bristol, Vermont, I call it The Heart Cave. The cave is across the New Haven river ( which you must ford) from the Lords Prayer rock 10 minute walk up South Mountain. I was bare foot, with no flashlight, hitchhiking where I needed to go. Corinne and I also lived in the cave for one month together in 2004. It is the most perfect environments I have ever inhabited.

I started to do "The Initiation" which is carried out by the Remembrance Community, who have been taught and ordained by Martin Prechtel. Many of my friends have gone through the process which takes one year. Before and after I tried to go through the initiation myself, I participated in many of their ceremonies. This is a 'rights of passage' process which was brought by Martin from the indigenous Mayan people of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. I will expand on this Un/Learning at some point because it is crucially relevant to 'creating our culture'. One of the critical issues was the elder initiating had not been initiated themselves because it is a youth to adulthood initiation. It is a great and powerful thing they are doing, yet I dropped out after 6 months for various reasons.

For these two winters I lived in and help found a spontaneous international community called Ram Ram. I lived barefoot this entire year. Experiences: monk life style, pilgrimage to Mayan ruins and through Belize, yoga, meditation, devotional singing, baking, communal cooking and gardening.

A balanced relation rooted in Spirit and Ethic Overstanding and Love

This experience taught me about punctuality, responsibility, the importance of 'the need' you are fulfilling in a business design to be clear and identified. I learned the joy of fulfilling multiple needs as a producer and a community member/supporter.

Staying with Naga Baba Shivaraj Giri, an elder sadhu who lives naked - Digambaram (He was highlighted in the documentary film "Naked in Ashes") Many deep experiences with Baba over the past three years as well. The Indian culture has a social structure that was created by high visionaries and has coded into it "securities". One such code is a high respect held by the 'house holders' (working class) for those who have nothing, 'renunciates' monks/sadhus. There are many such codes and it is a beautiful thing to see that it is an integral - interdependent support system that is grass-roots / commons.

Several months during these three winters, Corinne and I would go daily to sit under the mango tree with Baba Shyam Kishore Das. He is a Sita Ram Baba, which means he worships the Divine as masculine and feminine united. He has been a renunciate since he was a boy. His teachings are simple, “Don’t run after money! Use your life to serve others with devotion.” His Love overflows and fills our lives, having nothing, living outside and he still tries to give us what little he has.

My wife and I completed this 72+ hour Permaculture Design Course taught by Mark Krawczyk and Keith Morris in Burlington, VT.

Completed and assisted a 2 week residential Permaculture Design Course, taught by Bernard Alonso in Auroville, South India at Sapney Farm

This was a 2 day course at Yestermorrow Design /Build School - http://www.yestermorrow.org/workshops/detail/redesigning-wastewater

I started teaching earthen ovens in the fall of 2012 with Mark Krawczyk at Yestermorrow design/build school, Vermont, USA

I took a weekend workshop for hands-on building of a hugelkulture mound in Mont-Pelerian Switzerland.

I took and completed a six day workshop on timber framing at Yestermorrow design build school. We cut the timbers using hand tools and raised a structure as well as having class demos and classroom discussion. Amazing course!

I took a weekend workshop at Yesretmorrow learning the skills and processes involved with Hempcrete. We also got an update about the political obstacles as well as the progress Vermont is making to be able to legally grow industrial hemp.

I completed a week long leadership intensive at Metta Earth Institute in Lincoln, Vermont, USA.

You can see some PDFs I have created of booklets and outlines here -

http://www.slideshare.net/jahlove108/documents

See the mindmaps I have created here.

http://www.xmind.net/share/Simhabode/