A Centre: for whom?
The core community
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A MAJOR ROLE in the life of the Centre will be played by the resident (or core) community. This will be a group of lay men and women who will live in the Centre and dedicate all their time and energy in taking care of their personal practice and of all those who visit the Centre for retreats, mindfulness days or periods of practice. This core community may be joined by others wishing to spend longer than average periods in the Centre, ranging from one month to a year.
The community will be responsible for all the daily work and tasks, thus avoiding the need to hire staff. No member of the community will have to work outside the Centre.
The basis of the community’s life will be the Five and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. These will provide the foundations for a simple lifestyle, awareness of the environment, and mindful communication and consumption.
This intense, spiritual community life will constitute the ideal setting for the stability and serenity of the Centre’s inhabitants, and create the best conditions for the welcome, care and encouragement extended to the Centre’s guests. Welfare of the guests will be inspired by the personal examples and sharing of experiences of the resident community.
As a result of collaboration with the Intersein Zentrum, a training course was initiated in autumn 2005 for all Italian practitioners who would like to become members of the future Italian Centre. This course will allow participants to experience and take advantage immediately from the mindfulness practice in a stable community, and to learn from the experience gathered until now by the Intersein Centre the regulations of life in a lay community.