Nature, circus and pedagogy at our inclusive non-profit project near Gschwend, Germany

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    Under the auspices of a non-profit, we operate a recreational and educational facility for inclusive movement arts, where learning, nature, circus and pedagogy come together.

    We see our task in making children and young people hungry for life. In doing so, we want to awaken young people's curiosity about themselves, about others and about their environment. All our offers include real camps with overnight stays, which create space for children and young people to find and invent themselves again and again, away from the multicomplex and stimulus-flooded everyday life.

    At our leisure farm, we offer young people an environment that invites them to try things out and thus creates creative opportunities for positive development. Being embedded in nature has a healing and inspiring effect. Our animals are included in an educational and therapeutic way.

    Every year, 4,000 poor and rich, handicapped and non-handicapped, socially disadvantaged and sheltered, immigrant and German as well as learning-disabled and highly gifted children and young people meet at our holiday camps, school camps, family holidays and educational programmes (school for artists, circus education, qualification for voluntary work). These apparent opposites dissolve in the work with the medium of circus, in that each young person can contribute his or her individual abilities to the group, thus creating a social togetherness characterised by mutual respect and appreciation. At the same time, our children and young people are proud to have created something themselves.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Charity Work
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Everyone who comes here enters into a cultural exchange, because we live in a community, everyone is different and shares their experiences and values. In communal activities, in the evenings around the campfire or in the forest at a cross-country game, otherwise in the circus training, the young people on the farm meet at eye level and can exchange ideas. In the middle of nature and among like-minded people, it is a blessing to get involved in new things and to learn. There are no disturbing factors here, such as car noise. Through this sensuality, everyone here can concentrate on themselves and their environment and fully enter into this energy. We notice every time that being part of the community helps the young people immensely. In the end, everyone has a huge added value and can go out into society with new tools of the trade, thus making a huge contribution to the community.

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    - Manual dexterity, help with minor renovation on our farm
    - Animal-friendly, help with feeding our animals
    - Cooperative, we are a community and everyone lends a hand wherever help is needed

  • Languages spoken

    German: Fluent
    English: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We offer workawayers well-maintained single rooms with their own shower and WC directly on our premises.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    - Good connections to Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Hall, Aalen, Schorndorf (30 min. each) and Stuttgart (45
    min.).
    - Cars are available for hire
    - Peace for body and soul with lots of nature
    - Active social togetherness
    - Little traffic, sustainable living
    - Great sights and culture in the surrounding area

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have a large parking area and access to electricity and sanitary facilities

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

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    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 344121116176

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