Please answer the questions below. You can cut and paste these on a google doc or email in order to give the answers.

If you have a challenging time writing, can you somehow send a video where you can answer these questions?

Or, answer very briefly and we can cover the details more in an interview–as long as you have provided references.

References: People you have lived with or worked for. Names, numbers, email.

Your background:

Name, contact info, basic demographic information, and anything else you’d like to share about where you’re from, your family, past experiences, etc.

Community:

• How did you hear about us?
  What is your experience living in intentional community?
  Describe what’s important to you in a community.

What interested you about Wellspring Monastery in particular? What do you think you would benefit from? What do you have to contribute?

Values:

• Tell us about your values.

• How are you living out your values now? How do you want to in the future?

• What types of spiritual practices are you doing now? What are you interested in doing?

How would you describe your spiritual life?

Lifestyle:

• How do you like to spend your time?

• What do you do to sustain yourself financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, etc?

What kind of living environment to you like (in terms of privacy/common space, cleanliness, noise levels, number of community/ political/ social events in your house, children, emotional closeness with housemates, etc)?

Other nitty gritty:

• How do you feel about our current policies and will they be difficult for you?: no smoking, no drugs, no animal products consumed or utilized on the land, and celibacy.

• Is there anything we should know about your history?
• Have you been convicted of any crime?
• Do you have long term physical or mental health issues?
• Have you had difficulty with drugs and alcohol? Do you have addictions?

How do you deal with personal and community-level conflict?