Each of these positions is available as a part of CML’s Residential Program. If accepted, you will live at our Center, follow our schedule, including daily meditation practice, and receive a small stipend.
Modern Monastic
The Center for Mindful Learning is changing fast. We are constantly faced by challenges that require adaptability and quick learning. We need individuals who are capable of facing unfamiliar challenges with perseverance and creativity.
This is summed up by the following:
“There’s something that you must do. We don’t know what it is or how to do it, and it needs to be done right now.”
Requirements:
- A passion for spreading deep mindfulness practices
- The ability to do what needs to be done
Responsibilities:
- Do what needs to be done to move the Center for Mindful Learning forward
Perks:
- World class one-on-one meditation instruction
- Daily meditation and yoga periods
- Daily exercise periods
- Delicious, healthy, local, vegan food made by our full-time chef
- On-site ponds, sauna, art studio, and vegetable garden
- Hundreds of acres of forest and fields with trail network
- Live in a loving and supportive community
- Time for creative pursuits (art, music, dance)
- 5 hour work days
- Play a key role in helping a burgeoning organization fulfill its vow to create a contemplative culture in the modern world.
- Opportunity to take on leadership roles
Apply by filling out this form. Please send any questions to residents@centerformindfullearning.org.
Marketing Director
The Center for Mindful Learning is currently developing a business model to bring together monastics and business leaders . Part of our business development process involves marketing business model prototypes in order to judge whether there is market traction. We are looking for an individual with marketing experience in order to aid in these efforts. The marketing director will also help market our Modern Mindfulness for schools program and more general organizational projects.
Requirements:
- Marketing experience in businesses and/or non-profits
- Skill in brand-building and data-driven decision making
- An interest in innovating with a community of mindfulness professionals
- Proficiency with social media
Responsibilities:
- Support efforts to test products with potential customers for our sustainable business model search
- Inform team members of effective ways to connect with different audiences
- Bring online attention and support to CML
- Aid in the presentation of CML’s story
Perks:
- Twice daily world class one-on-one meditation instruction
- Daily meditation and yoga periods
- Daily exercise periods
- Delicious, healthy, local, vegan food made by our full-time chef
- On-site ponds, sauna, art studio, and vegetable garden
- Hundreds of acres of forest and fields with trail network
- Live in a loving and supportive community
- Time for creative pursuits (art, music, dance)
- 5 hour work days
- Play a key role in helping a burgeoning organization fulfill its vow to create a contemplative culture in the modern world.
- Opportunity to take on leadership roles
Apply by filling out this form. Please send any questions to residents@centerformindfullearning.org.
Assistant Teacher
CML’s Vow is to create a contemplative culture for the modern world. A key component of a contemplative culture is a holistic and rigorous training environment with expert oversight. The Assistant Teacher will work closely with Soryu Forall, our guiding teacher, to provide such oversight.
Requirements:
- 5 years of monastic practice in an established tradition
- Respect and gratitude for the lineage of mystical traditions
- Interest in adapting and possibly improving the effectiveness of traditional practice
- Interest in both Awakening (transcending the world) and Responsibility (improving the world)
- Fluency in English
Responsibilities:
- Assist in the development of both sides of the residential program (Awakening and Responsibility)
- Oversee the day-to-day functioning of the training center (schedule, community relations, receiving gifts, managing relationships between trainees)
- Develop and sustain relationships with donors
- Produce written content regarding the training
- Oversee the organization’s mission to lovingly serve all living things
- Scrutinize the training’s ability to provide deep insight as it adapts to a new era
Perks:
- On site ponds, sauna, art studio, and vegetable garden
- Delicious, healthy, local, vegan food made by our full-time chef
- Hundreds of acres of forest and fields with trail network
- Live in a loving and supportive community
- Time for creative pursuits (art, music, dance)
Apply by contacting assistantteacher@centerformindfullearning.org.