Alentejo, Portugal · June–September 2026 · Limited places
The PurposeFlow Pilot is a June–September 2026 co-creation period for facilitators, creators, and skilled contributors ready to help shape a regenerative stewardship program from the inside.
Pilot Anchor Stewardship program
The world needs more empowering stewards. Help us bring this dream to life.
Between June and September 2026, a group of facilitators and creators will live and work at PurposeFlow to help us design, test, and shape the Anchor Stewardship Program before it opens its doors officially in September. The Anchor Stewardship Program is a regenerative, land-based learning journey for people who want to live with more purpose, responsibility, and stewardship in a rapidly changing world.
We need two kinds of people
We are looking for two real contributions. One role is more facilitation-facing. The other is more practical and infrastructure-facing. Choose your path.
June–September · Alentejo · Facilitation background required
You have a modality, a practice, or a facilitation background. You have led workshops, held circles, or created learning experiences. Now you have the chance to root that work in place, co-create the curriculum, and help shape a program that can empower others well.
Apply as a facilitatorJune–September · Alentejo · Skills, initiative, and willingness required
You are practical, capable, and ready to work. You might be a permaculturist, a builder, a content creator, an AI specialist, or someone who knows how to build self-sufficient systems. Your contribution will help bring this program to life while giving you a meaningful, skill-developing summer inside a growing regenerative network.
Apply as a creatorDifferent entry points, shared purpose — and the capacities below offer a clearer sense of the kinds of contribution that can genuinely strengthen this pilot.
Some of the skills we're looking for
These are some of the practical and facilitation-based capacities we are actively looking for. You do not need to fit every card exactly, but you should recognise yourself in at least one of these areas and feel ready to contribute in an impactful way.
Circle holding, workshop leadership, embodiment practices, group process, and the ability to create containers people can trust.
Systems thinking, regenerative philosophy, teaching design, and the ability to help shape meaningful learning journeys.
Permaculture, water awareness, seasonal rhythms, ecology, land-based regeneration, self-sufficiency, climate resilience, and the practical care that keeps land-based projects alive and healthy.
Conscious communication, community governance, holistic project management, nervous system literacy, and the grounded steadiness needed to help shared life feel clear, resilient, and deeply human.
Electricity, carpentry, cooking, natural building, maintenance, repairs, and the kinds of hands-on skills that keep a living place functioning and helps us grow the space for the program.
Content creation, storytelling, social media support, website updates, backend organisation, AI-assisted workflows, automation implementation, and the digital systems that help us communicate the project clearly and keep things growing behind the scenes.
What this summer is actually for
We are building the foundations of the Anchor Stewardship Program before it opens to the public in September. That means building the curriculum, the place, the shared culture, and the documentation that makes the program coherent when people arrive later.
Sessions, workshops, and learning modules will be designed, tested, and refined with the facilitators who are here. What works stays. What does not gets reworked.
Infrastructure, gardens, communal areas, and land systems will be built, maintained, and improved by the creator team. The physical environment needs to be ready for a full program by September.
How we make decisions together, how we navigate conflict, and how we hold community will be practised and refined during the pilot so it is embedded before the first official cohort arrives.
Everything learned, built, and tested during the pilot can be documented in ways that share with the wider world what we are creating here. Facilitators contribute to this. Creators contribute to this. Everyone’s experience helps shape what comes next.
The world needs more stewards, more builders, and more people willing to help a meaningful vision take form.
What life looks like
Based full-time at PurposeFlow in the Alentejo for some or all of June–September. Real community. Shared meals. Shared moments. Shared decisions.
Facilitators bring their own work and modalities. Creators apply their practical and digital skills where they are most needed. There is structure and there is flexibility.
People who contribute meaningfully to the pilot have a genuine pathway into the Anchor Program itself, whether as facilitators, core team, or long-term collaborators, meaning that you get the chance to become a deeper part of the community.
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We are not looking for people to fill a schedule. We are looking for people who want to be part of building something that lasts, and who understand that the building itself is the foundation that everything else is built on.
This is not a one-size-fits-all exchange. We are shaping different ways for people to be part of the vision, depending on what they bring, how they want to live, and how deeply they want to participate.
That may include private indoor spaces, glamping, fuller volunteer-trade models, part-contribution arrangements, co-living while continuing your own projects, or lighter volunteer rhythms that still leave room for freelancing, remote work, or building your own business. The aim is to shape an exchange that feels energising, fair, and genuinely mutual.
Not everyone who joins the pilot will move into facilitation of the full Anchor Stewardship Program. But the strongest fits may grow into deeper collaboration, wider opportunities, and longer-term involvement inside the PurposeFlow network.
Pilot ↔ Anchor connection
The pilot leads into the Anchor Stewardship Program, opening in September 2026.
See the Anchor side of the systemApplication form
We have now connected the live application flow. Use the form to apply as a facilitator, a creator, or a contributor who bridges several areas.
The live form is the correct destination for all pilot applications and is the fastest way for us to review aligned submissions.
Who should use it
If you hold workshops, build spaces, cook, coordinate, communicate, or support the land through practical or digital skills, this is the application route to use.
What to prepare
It helps to be clear about your background, your available dates, and the kind of facilitation, practical work, or systems support you feel ready to bring.
Frequently asked questions
If you're not sure yet - this section is here to reduce ambiguity. If you have more specific questions please get in touch at [email protected]
The Anchor Program is the more established next step. The pilot is the living build phase that comes before it. This means you are not simply arriving to receive a finished experience. You are helping shape the rhythms, spaces, learning culture, and real foundations that the full program will later stand on.
Not necessarily. We are open to different stay lengths, especially for creators and practical contributors. That said, a longer stay usually makes the experience more meaningful because it allows you to build relationships, understand the land, and contribute in a way that has more continuity and depth.
It is structured enough to feel trustworthy and real, but open enough to keep evolving. We will have clear roles, working rhythms, and shared priorities, while also staying honest about the fact that some parts of the pilot are still being refined through lived experience. That balance is intentional rather than accidental.
There may be paid opportunities for people taking on genuine facilitation responsibility or other forms of high-value contribution. The exact structure still depends on the final model and the needs of the program, so this is something we would clarify in direct conversation once we understand your role and level of involvement.
Apply anyway. Some people will clearly fit one role, while others may bridge several areas such as facilitation, communications, land work, or systems support. What matters most is whether you can contribute in a grounded, useful way and whether you feel aligned with the spirit of building something meaningful alongside others.
Hands-on skills are deeply valuable here, especially when they help us improve the space and prepare it for the program. This can include carpentry, natural building, gardening, cooking, maintenance, repairs, electricity, logistics, and the everyday competence that allows a shared place to function well and feel well cared for.
Yes. We are not only building the physical space, we are also building the systems and visibility around the project. Skills in marketing, storytelling, social media, design, backend organisation, documentation, AI-supported workflows, and digital coordination can all be genuinely helpful if they are applied in a practical and grounded way.
The rhythm will likely be a mix of shared work, practical contribution, meals, conversations, and moments of reflection. Some days will feel more physically focused, some more facilitation or planning based, and some more communal. The aim is not to create a rigid retreat schedule, but a real working rhythm that still leaves room for presence, connection, and learning.