Would you like to join our friendly shop team? The shop also serves as an information center for various activities organized by the Nyingma Center, a Tibetan Buddhist center in the heart of Amsterdam. It’s fun and varied work!

1. Job description:
Assisting customers, operating the cash register, providing information about products and activities in the center, packing orders from the online store, filling meditation cushions, and occasionally delivering parcels to the post office.

2. Required knowledge or skills:
Communication skills, willingness to take initiative, cash register skills, preferably basic computer skills, and willingness to learn new things. We expect elementary knowledge and skills in speaking Dutch language and the wilingness to learn Dutch.

3. What will you gain from this:
Working in a friendly team. Good support. Combining mindfulness, learning to collaborate, and developing skills such as patience, perseverance, concentration, appreciation, etc. As a volunteer, you can participate free of charge in the “Day Start” online on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. You can also participate in the live Kum Nye yoga and meditation classes every Monday through Wednesday from 5:15 PM to 6:00 PM at the Nyingma Center. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to volunteer with us, but we do require an affinity for Buddhism and the activities of the Nyingma Center.

4. Working Hours:

One or more half-days per week. Available on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and/or Saturdays from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

See also the Nyingma Centrum Nederland website.

Apply for this vacancy, and we will contact you.