Join the Heart Crew

• Comfortable expressing yourself in English

• A grounded presence and emotional stability, with openness to growth and feedback in community life

• Some familiarity with Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and practicing self-responsibility beyond blame or victim roles

• Previous experience in community living or other intensive group processes

• Flexibility to move with the natural rhythms of group life (being at ease when alone at times, enjoying the buzz when many people are around, and warmly welcoming or farewelling new arrivals)

• Joy in caring for others, offering a helping hand when someone is sick, or simply guiding a newcomer through their first days

• A love for nature-based living (lighting wood stoves, chopping firewood, using compost toilets, walking outside at night to pee, or enjoying the coziness of tiny living spaces)

• A generous spirit, ready to share tasks and to take responsibility for group needs.

• Confidence to guide or support community processes without expecting direction or supervision "from above".

• Spanish language skills

• A driver’s license, ideally with your own car

• Love for cooking and caring for shared spaces

• A wide network of friends and contacts who may enjoy joining community life

• Energy and motivation to occasionally organize weekend gatherings or events

• Group facilitation experience, such as initiating a talking stick circle or helping mediate conflicts

Each Heart Crew member is dedicated to at least one, better two or more of these areas:

• Coordinating kitchen, shopping, and household flow

• Keeping our common spaces clean with regular deep cleaning

• Gardening and farming, cultivating plants and caring for the land (permaculture knowledge is a big plus)

• Maintaining and improving our natural buildings and infrastructure (clay, wood, paints, electrics, plumbing & mechanics, and occasionally cement or bricks)

• Marketing and social media, sharing our spirit with the wider world

Alongside the shared daily life of the community, where tasks are distributed fairly among everyone, Heart Crew members are also offered a work exchange where they contribute 15 hours per week. These hours are typically arranged as 3 days of five hours each and are guided by the project’s core team, when the rest of the week is all about self-responsability and co-creation. The focus here is on specific responsibilities that go beyond the normal flow of communal task-sharing.

In addition, the Heart Crew takes over the coordination of community life, ensuring that essential needs are met. This does not mean Heart Crew members should carry related tasks themselves. Instead, they support a fair and smooth distribution of responsibilities, where everyone contributes their fair share, regardless of role. Most often this happens through the Community Mandala system, which helps make sure that the care of the community is shared by all. 

Please be aware, community tasks, like running a common household, shopping, keeping used spaces clean, caring about the communal environment, supporting each other, are not part of work exchange, but happen independently between everybody present.

In combination with the work exchange, there is no rent for using the environment. However, each Heart Crew member is also expected to contribute to the shared costs of food and other essential resources, such as gas, firewood, and transport. This ensures that the project can run in a sustainable way without needing to rely on commercial activities.

Yearly membership fee: 30 €

Heart Crew members are warmly encouraged to invite friends and people from their networks who might enjoy joining our journey, whether for a weekend, a few weeks, or even longer.

When a Heart Crew member brings someone in and takes primary responsibility for their integration - what we call “hosting” - they receive a provision of 20% of that person’s contribution. Alternatively, they may choose to reduce the guest’s contribution by 20% and waive their own share. This gives them the flexibility to host friends under special conditions.

On average, by hosting two people, the provision already exceeds the Heart Crew member’s own monthly contribution. Hosting more participants can even create an additional income stream, which may be used to cover training costs or support one’s personal economy.

Heart Crew members are also welcome to organize events and invite participants. For these, they may request additional contributions, which they are free to use as they see fit.

To support these activities, we provide: Graphic materials for social media, access to our community social media channels and access to the event sign-up interface on our website.

The 20% share is not applied to the training fees, which are handled independently.

Here you find additional information:

The Winter in the Ecovillage Laboratory

FAQ: Contributing your personal Skills as Work Exchange

The Heart Crew Terms