Holistic Centers Network

Head Chef at Findhorn Foundation

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Hours: Full time position, 37.5h/week
Location: Based at Cluny Hill, Forres, Scotland
Salary: indicative Band B

We are inviting applicants to apply for a staff position within the Findhorn Foundation, for the role of Head Chef with overall responsibility for catering across the whole of the Foundation. Following reopening, after being paused for two years, this is an exciting opportunity to join a new team to re- welcome our guests.

You will be based at Cluny Hill, where our main kitchen is situated, providing food for the household and guests there, and also providing food for guests at the Findhorn Foundation Park campus (ten minutes away). Our food philosophy focuses on a mainly vegetarian diet providing a balanced and nutritious menu to our guests and staff.

The post holder is expected to be part of the focus team, which ensures smooth running of the Cluny campus. We also expect the holder of this post to be aligned with the spiritual impulse of the Findhorn Foundation and committed to embodying our spiritual core principles in daily life.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Direct the food philosophy of the Findhorn Foundation. This includes a mainly vegetarian food profile, sustainable practices as well as providing a balanced and nutritional meal plan for guests, students and staff, including designing new recipes.
  •  Ensure quality and on-time delivery of food, both in Cluny and to Park Campus, including scheduling of staff and meeting operational and financial objectives.
  • Hiring and training kitchen staff, such as cooks and food preparation workers.
  • Create a welcoming ambiance, educate and lead the kitchen team of staff and volunteers.
  • Implementation of policies to meet all local and national food and beverage safety requirements, licensing and certification.

REQUIREMENTS/SKILLS:

  • 5+ years of experience in a similar position
  • Formal culinary education
  • Exceptional communication and team working
  • Flexibility, ability to step in where needed
  • Leadership skills, ability to set boundaries and give feedback
  • Knowledge of HR management in a culinary environment
  • Hold a full UK driving license

Click here to view Role Profile.

Are you interested in this position but don’t have all the pre-requisite skills? Send us your CV and covering letter anyway explaining how you feel you could contribute to the future of the Findhorn Foundation.

To apply: Please send your CV and cover letter of no more than 2 pages indicating how you fit the requirements, to hr@findhorn.org.

Closing date: 9am Monday 29th August 2022.

Kirpal Meditation and Ecological Center, Hawaii

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General Manager position:

Seeking full-time, on-property resident General Manager for vegetarian meditation retreat center located in Pahoa, Hawaii on the Big Island of Hawaii. 

Job duties include: Hiring, training and management of volunteers, hiring and management of support staff, marketing, guest services, grounds and maintenance. 

Applicants should have strong organizational and financial skills and experience, QuickBooks and/or google docs proficiency, spiritually motivated.
Please review www.kmechawaii.org for more information.

This position reports directly to the founder/owner. Compensation is negotiable and commensurate with experience.

Leonard Sussman CLU, ChFC
Owner and Founder
Kirpal Meditation and Ecological Center, Hawaii
“A self-sustainable community that nurtures spiritual growth”
www.kmechawaii.org
e-mail: lennysussman@gmail.com, kmechawaii@gmail.com

GENERAL MANAGER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Full-time (on-site)
At Big Bear Retreat Center

Big Bear Retreat Center is currently seeking a General Manager to further its mission and manage the overall operations of our ±100-acre property with guest capacity up to 100.

The new General Manager will be responsible to ensure that BBRC is a safe, smooth-running, welcoming, and all-encompassing venue of the highest quality, conducive to meaningful, healing, and transformative retreat experiences. This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced, like-minded retreat or hotel manager to further the vision and provide the operational leadership to shape our future endeavors. This role requires year-round on-site management in a mountain setting at 7,000-foot elevation and includes housing.

Big Bear Retreat Center is an inclusive and accessible place for respite, healing, transformation, cross-cultural dialogue, collaboration, hope, and joy. We do this by offering a mix of silent Insight Meditation retreats, and by partnering with organizations supporting various communities including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, first responders and veterans, and mindfulness communities.

Full Job Description

To apply, please email cover letter and resume to: jobs@bigbearretreatcenter.org. 

Post 2022 Kripalu Gathering Update

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After more than two years of being physically distant from one another,we finally came together for a magical, empowering, bonding in-person experience at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge Massachusetts. We were a small but mighty group with representatives from Breitenbush, Hollyhock, Esalen, Open Center, Omega, Guest House Retreat Center, Clear Sky Retreat Center, The Art of Living Retreat Center, the Retreat Center Collaborative as well as some bright new faces and voices from emerging centers.

For those who could not be with us in person this year, your presence was felt and your real life selves were deeply missed.  We held a seat to honor those who were not physically with us but whose “spirits” were there –  for the indigenous ancestors of the Stockbridge Munsee band of Mohicians, on whose land Kripalu sits and stewards; for our many friends from around the globe from centers that could not be with us this year; and for those individuals who we have not met but are dreaming a holistic center into existence.  

Kripalu’s space was the perfect container for reconnection and reflection about the toll of the past few years and what the future holds.  We were immersed in the natural beauty of the Kripalu campus and the sacred feeling of the space and were encouraged to rest, restore and renew. Daily meditation and yoga offerings; nutritious, delicious meals; nature walks; a cooking class; collaborative break-outs; as well as presentations on a wide range of topics such as fundraising, strategy and culture, a CRM presentation by Instil (an organizational sponsor of the gathering), and stories from those who are leading from the edge.  

Our final session was aptly named “Listening for the Emergent” and masterfully facilitated by Eset Rose, a member of the senior leadership team at Kripalu and a teacher of transformation and healing. Eset led us through a powerful visioning experience that engaged our subconscious selves to open up about what we will bring into the future. We then took our emergent intentions and poured them into the sacred vessel that had been gathering our offerings throughout the week in our daily water ritual beautifully crafted by Jenyng Wu.

In a world in which we all experience a peculiar form of nihilism, expressed broadly in mainstream and social media, we can also see the roots of human solidarity expressed in moments of crisis. We who are involved in holistic centers all across our world continue in the work of making sanity flourish.

In gratitude,

The HCN Board

The Holistic Centers Network 2022 Annual Gathering…in pictures.

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It was a beautiful Gathering. Kripalu’s space was a container for both the practical and the sacred.
A water ritual was held throughout the week where we poured our individual intentions into one sacred vessel to hold our collective offerings.
A seat was held for the ‘spirits’ with us, from the Indigenous ancestors of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans on whose land Kripalu sits and stewards, to our HCN friends who could not be with us in person but were with us in spirit.
“By centering the legacies of leaders who are systemically in the margins of social hierarchies and distribution of resources – we are much more likely to find innovative, dazzling, and replicable models for leadership for these times…Their leadership has historically and currently centered the margins because of a deep understanding that when the most marginalized among us thrive, all of us do.” – Akaya Windwood quote, as part of ‘Leading from the Edges’ panel facilitated by Ling
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
-Carl Jung
And some friends who came with bright smiles and camaraderie.

Special thank you to Instil, a sponsor of the Gathering, and for engaging HCN as a discovery partner, exploring innovative ways a traditional CRM might work to serve holistic communities.
[Click here if you’d like to learn more or be a discovery partner yourself!]

We look forward to sharing more about the Gathering in the community calls to come. Stay tuned!
HCN Board

Amplify Voices of the Global Majority at Kripalu

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Amplify Voices of the Global Majority is a free online series starting
February 10th on Thursdays through April 7th. 

What is Amplify Voices of the Global Majority?  Centering Indigenous Wisdom, Community Care and Collective Liberation, we have joined forces with changemakers around the globe who work to dismantle inequity and harm, steward the planet, prioritize collective wellness, and stress interdependent liberation. Our incredible line-up includes adrienne maree brown and Mia Herndon, Millana Snow and Lauren Ash, Hawah Kasat and Abdul Muhammed, Yoli Maya Yeh and Aja Shah, Seher Sikander and Eniafe Isis Adewale, Shawn Stevens and Shannon Chada, and Raudhah Rahman and Mia Park.  
This free series will explore the following topics:  

  • Indigenous perspectives on community, culture, and nature  
  • The importance and urgency of climate action  
  • How to cultivate an inner and outer awareness for personal and collective liberation  
  • How the right relationship to the planet and one another fosters healing  
  • How to harness the power of the Spring Equinox  
  • How to live with a worldview of inter-being, not division and separation  
  • Healing through Indigenous yoga. 

You can register for these programs through our website at anytime. You did not need to be present at the event to access the recordings. Link to webpage and registration here.

This series was made possible by the generous support of Kripalu’s donor community. 

Shamanic Intensive Healing and Training Retreats in Boliva

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The Sacha Runa team participated in the 2021 Virtual Gathering and now extend a warm welcome for you to join them in Bolivia. Experience the magic of two incredible locations in the Andes and Amazon, two incredible Sacred Medicines which complement each other wonderfully (Ayahuasca & San Pedro). Their male and female Shamans work together in peace, harmony, integrity and sacredness to help you reach your potential and manifest your destiny.

The intention of the retreat is to connect to source, receive vision and wisdom, and bless all of creation, to purify and liberate, and give thanks, as well as to send and receive blessings for all sentient beings. Become aligned to your divine purpose, incarnate the new time and serve the well-being of all that is.

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Community Call: Navigating Transition

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As members of HCN, many of you have read news of a new direction for us all within HCN. The full message from the Board circulated 16 July is posted below. You’re welcome to join the community call this week as we navigate the transition.

Over the last year I’ve been studying for an Inner MBA, along with a few other HCN friends, and it was a gift last week when the module focused on ‘How are you dealing with change?’ The framework offered by Jeremy Hunter during the Inner MBA, will be woven into the call including the three basic ways human beings meet change and the journey along the transition curve.

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Webinar: Online Retreats and Collaborative Prosperity

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Online programming remains a key area of focus and in our webinar today we invite you to join an open dialogue with Gene Keys founder Richard Rudd and his Creative Team.

Specialising in online courses and virtual Retreats, the Gene Keys creative team have developed a highly successful model of interactive, online engagement with a truly global reach. The team has further increased this through collaboration with like-minded organisations and networks through affiliate programs.

I was introduced to the Gene Keys path many years ago through a friend and colleague at Findhorn and really value this approach to spiritual growth. The insights help integrate the potential and transform the shadow within us all, and it’s been fascinating to see the Gene Keys online community grow and evolve.

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This gathering has been INCREDIBLE. As a small center based way out in Yosemite National Park, I really feel folded into the greater network. This feels so vital. Thank you for creating this!

Heather Sullivan, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Balanced Rock Foundation