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Rainforest landscaping and trail maintenances

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The experience

Welcome! Our project in Itacaré unites technology with nature to honor biodiversity and foster deep connections with the environment. Your volunteer efforts are vital in building safe trails, communal spaces, and supporting reforestation. The Atlantic Forest is our true host, offering learning and well-being. Your dedication transforms lives and promotes sustainability. Thank you for being part of this journey!

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Between 18 and 45 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

The Wild PERMA Volunteer Program - CEWARI
Introduction
CEWARI Itacaré is a center under development, rooted in a wild coastal rainforest in
Itacaré, Brazil. CEWARI stands for the Center for Education, Well-being, Arts, Research, and
Innovation. It is a place dedicated to creativity, biodiversity, and intellectual and emotional
transformation. Construction of the space began about a year ago, and among its first active
initiatives is the Wild PERMA Volunteer Program, launched recently with the purpose of
exploring the deep connection between human well-being and nature.
A Two-Week Immersive RAW Experience
The Wild PERMA Volunteer Program is a two-week (14-day) immersive experience where
volunteers live in direct contact with the rainforest. Inspired by forest bathing and
ecological minimalism, the program invites individuals to slow down, reconnect with
themselves, and synchronize with the rhythms of the forest. Infrastructure is intentionally
minimal—just enough to support health and safety without disconnecting participants from
their surroundings. Volunteers live in tents, bathe in natural pools, and prepare meals in a
shared outdoor space, squat to poop on prepared dried holes, nap on a hammock
surrounded wild nature. Besides, sometimes there might be only one volunteer staying in
the forest, which could become a challenge for those dependent on other people’s presence.
For some volunteers, a 24/7 exposition of the natural self in wild nature could be mentally
overwhelming, especially those with little life experience staying in the wild. Therefore,
volunteers are free to leave the forest before the two weeks period, considering a minimum
stay of one wee

Activities & Shift

Activities and Daily Reflection
Volunteers take part in ecological and creative activities, such as: trail maintenance,
gardening and reforestation, forest preservation, and art with natural materials. More
importantly, they are invited to engage in personal reflection and growth through the use of
the “PERMA DIARY”—a guided journal based on the PERMA model of well-being: Positive
Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment.
Each day, volunteers document how the forest interacts with their emotions, thoughts, and
sensations: when they wake up, during their work, while eating breakfast, and after their
activities. This daily journaling becomes a mirror of their experience and a record for
scientific understanding of how wild nature can foster mental resilience and emotional
balance.

Who Is This Program For?
The volunteer program is open to everyone: people with trauma, those facing anxiety or
depression, leaders seeking deeper strength, and individuals already well who want to grow
even stronger.
The forest welcomes all—it helps people not just to be better, but to get better, to overcome,
and to become more whole.

Rules

A Transcendent Purpose
What happens during the 14-day immersion doesn’t stay in the forest. It ripples outward.
The knowledge, clarity, and resilience gained by each participant are carried into families,
communities, institutions, and society at large. This is not only a personal journey, but a
contribution to something larger: a global shift in how we relate to ourselves, others, and
the Earth.
A New Kind of Research
In this forest valley, volunteers become part of a new kind of research—one that honors
both scientific insight and natural wisdom. Each diary, each conversation, and each
sensation observed becomes part of a deeper understanding of how nature shapes human
well-being.