General Information
| Couch available | Traveling at the moment |
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| CouchSurf requests replied to | 100% |
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| member since | September 4th, 2008 |
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| profile views | 1649 |
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| age | 77 |
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| gender | Several people |
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| membername | SKILLSURFERS |
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| occupation | travellin round- visiting people/communities/projects.. collecting ideas+visions &spreadin them throughout europe+the world |
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| education | mostly autodidactic |
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Languages- EnglishExpert
- GermanExpert
- FrenchIntermediate
- SpanishIntermediate
Groups I Belong ToCouch Information
No couch currently available for surfing. we only have some busses that we are travellin round in
- if you want to join our tour for a while,
feel welcome to contact us, maybe we got some space free in our bus!
we'll be somewhere around france, spain and portugal!
you can contact us on this website, or our other websites:
skillsurfers.eu
on blogspot
on myspace
on gaia Friends (37)
 Peter Gustafson
25, Male
Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Friends since July 2008
"from three projects before!"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
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 Regina Singelnstein
21, Female
Corbeil-Essonnes, Ile-de-France
France
Friends since September 2009
"goood"
Friendship Type: Good Friend
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 Anna Basting
18, Female
Rosenheim, Bavaria
Germany
Friends since February 2007
"live with her for a while..."
Friendship Type: Best Friend
 30+  30+  30+ |
 Martin Burghart
24, Male
Munich, Bavaria
Germany
Friends since March 1996
"different people, i know some since i was 10"
Friendship Type: Best Friend
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 DAS_NORARON
24, Female
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Friends since January 2007
"with some of them I lived together for a while"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
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 Stella Schmid
21, Female
Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Friends since August 2006
"from live"
Friendship Type: Good Friend
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 WALDMUME
22, Female
Munich, Bavaria
Germany
Friends since August 2006
"Travelled and lived together"
Friendship Type: Good Friend
30+ 30+ 30+ |
 Soma Haus
25, Several people
Munich, Bavaria
Germany
Friends since March 2006
"about wonderful magic of life"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
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 Gustaf o slava Gruenewalden
24, Male
Marburg, Hessen
Germany
Friends since August 2007
"most of em are friends..working for making my dream true :P"
Friendship Type: Close Friend
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 NEMO123
21, Male
Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Friends since May 2008
"some more hippie-freaks..."
Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Personal Description We are a group of young people that decided to move out in the world to encourage and motivate its people, spreading awareness that together we are able to progress to something more inspirational and sincere than the trends towards social isolation, passive consuming culture, lack of prospects, and unneccessary hierarchies in learning and working life.
We prepared some content (scroll down!), but in the end it's your ideas which make the tour what it should be
So take part! Another world EXISTS!
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our websites:
skillsurfers.eu
on blogspot
on myspace
on gaia
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WE WILL BE TRAVELLIN FRANCE/SPAIN/PORTUGAL THIS WINTER AND SPRING (08/09)
AND WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!! :
* we are searching people to give us accomodation (when it is too cold to sleep in our busses)
to let us cook or shower in their place
* we are searching people to help us with translations of texts
* we are searching cool contacts of projects, initiatives, groups, communities, projects, single persons or even entreprises interested in our ideas or having cool ideas themselves that they wanna share with us
* we are searching places to do workshops at, cool festivals where we can make an information point or skillsharing area at, ... or whatever other ideas
* we are searching artists who wanna do some cool street shows with us, e.g. (political?) street theatre
* we are also searching people who wanna travel with us for a while and give some positive inputs
* we are searching people who are interested in building up alternative economy networks as well as education/skillsharing networks
and programmers who can help us in creating (open source) software/social networks for that (we are connected with some ruby on rails programmers in germany who are working on the software of tsolife and on other projects)
* we are searching for people in ecovillages etc to teach us permaculture, alternative medicine and that kinda things...
* we are searching... well...
YOU!!!
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topics we can do workshops about and we are interested in are e.g.
* education networks
* web 2.0 and really "social" networks
* fairtrade and solidarity economy
* gift economy /"freeconomy" and open source movement
* "open space" and how to decrease hierachies in events
* "eventguerrilla"
* the neo-eco-movement ("lohas")
* ...
moreover we can do some juggling/fireshow- stuff
we wanna do some art projects like street theatre
and some guerrilla gardening :-)
we are interested in ecological subjects also, e.g. we want to learn about
* permaculture
* natural medicine
tsolife.org
migrobirdo.org
sterneck.net
brueckenschlaeger.de
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CouchSurfing Experiencehosted lots of people in somahaus and panaroma&fbm41 (see friends profiles)..
didnt do so much surfing ourselves in the end...Interests skillsurfers.eu
on blogspot
on myspace
on gaia
tsolife.org
migrobirdo.org
sterneck.net
brueckenschlaeger.de
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-education:
* education networks
* free education
* school critics and alternative schools
- internet/computers/networking:
* web 2.0 and really "social" networks
* how to build up networks and databases for sharing skills, ressources, ...
economy:
* fairtrade and solidarity economy
* gift economy /"freeconomy" and open source movement
partys/events/culture
* "open space" method and how to decrease hierachies in events
* "eventguerrilla"
* consum critcism in events / parties
* juggling/fireshow- stuff
* street theatre
* jam sessions, experimantal music
* experimental photo-art and films
ecology:
* the neo-eco-movement ("lohas")
* guerrilla gardening :-)
* permaculture
* natural medicine
Philosophydance for change :-)Teach, Learn, Share SKILLSHARING - CAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
the most important thing for us while we are travelling is learning and teaching ... the skillsurfers project is mostly a skillsharing tour inspired by the ideas of the travelling school of life.
That means that we want to exchange our knowledge and ideas with you, wanna teach you about what we know, learn from you and carry the seeds of inspiration you are giving us with us
to let your ideas grow in other places... :-)
topics we can do workshops about and we are interested in are
* education networks
* web 2.0 and really "social" networks
* fairtrade and solidarity economy
* gift economy /"freeconomy"
* "open space" and how to decrease hierachies in events
moreover we can do some juggling/fireshow- stuff
we wanna do some art projects like street theatre
and some guerrilla gardening :-)
we are interested in ecological subjects also, e.g. we want to learn about
* permaculture
* natural medicine
Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org ProjectWe think that couchsurfing as well as other hospitalitynetworks (e.g. hospitalityclub.org, bewelcome.org) are very important and about the best outcome of globalisation - but we should not get lazy and be satisfied with this, but develop on these ideas of freedom and solidarity until they cover every aspect of daily life.
We cannot only help each other with places to sleep and "travelparty support", but we can share everything and really create a better world. The web 2.0. can be a chance to reach freedom and equality by networking projects and people and saving ressources...
We want contribute to building up skillsharing, landsharing, ressourcesharing, ... networks
Also we think it's important to talk about data security, about how to make internet projects like this more transparent and how to decrease hierarchies in the structures.
Also we want to think about how web 2.0 can have an impact on political issues and give back power to the people...
opencouchsurfing.org
Locations TraveledReferences
 From Akvile Kavile Vilnius, Lithuania
Aug 13 Positive i met some of them in berlin! worth to know them! superpositive!  From Réka Eördögh Budapest, Hungary
Jan 17  Positive come on!!!!!!!! let.s have an island:)O  From Luraya Lukas Mora, Sweden
Aug 20, 2009  Positive The skillsurfers are working with grgeat social and ecologic projects. funny people, with a lot of energy and good ideas of how to change the world- and they even do something for it. Not this kind of hippies which sit and smoke all day and talking philosophie of how everything should be...
had a wonderful time with you!  From *aviva* la loca Sitges, Spain
May 6, 2009  Positive Anja and Sam arrived in their big "bus" smiling and tolerant....a few days later they came back and we spent days talking, thinking and they worked hard. They reinforced a lot of "other ways" of life that I've thought about and they are an inspiration....making people think and analyze in a very gentle and indirect way...they are strong, good people and i hope that portugal and munich and berlin can enjoy you two and you will enjoy the new and old places even more!  From Katey Burak Gloucester, United Kingdom
Apr 26, 2009 Positive A very fortunate find, they showed me a different way of travelling and was a wonderful learning curve for me.  From Dante Monson Sint-Gillis - Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Apr 10, 2009  Positive I connected to some of the people of the little Traveling School of Life Tribe back in spring 2006, in Zajezova, and since then developed friendships with some of the people involved, and stayed in touch through the internet with the developments of the project. A hitch hiking burnout ( after 5 years of ungoing hh'ing ) lead me to not join the tour.  From FRANCOISE MANDERSCHEID Montpellier, France
Dec 24, 2008 Positive It was wonderfull ! They are very nice, dynamic, open minded, polite, and good cookers ;)... We speak a lot about their project... And they can come at home as soon as they want !  From Manuel Berenguer Roldan Barcelona, Spain
Dec 23, 2008  Positive Nice people! we have the same objective, and its make this world better.
lets go to do it!  From Enric Caussa Morales Barcelona, Spain
Dec 23, 2008 Positive The 15 Skillsurfers came to the flat with the three vans, and taught me some didjeridoo, guitar, nice recipes, and more than everything else, made me feel like part of the group. We had lots of fun and even celebrated the Full Moon!  From Astrid Österreicher Vienna, Austria
Nov 17, 2008 Positive I feel lucky to meet the Skillsurfer group, they organised a great trip!  From Max Kushnir Coimbra, Portugal
Sep 29, 2008  Positive it´s somewhat my family, sotosay even though we´re playin´on different playgrounds these days From Stella Schmid Berlin, Germany
Sep 20, 2008 Positive good,that you have a mission,which will make the world a bit more interesting and better
From Soma Haus Munich, Germany
Sep 19, 2008 Positive wow great great people... the tour.. wonderful idea.. was born "in me".. in the house.. at the high-times of the soma-house.. the tour will bring people ideas dreams and spirits of the old soma out in the world to inspire others and network them...
you really really should meet them on their way.. and perhaps you will join them.. i promise you will have a great time you will never forget
you never will have regrets about it...
try it ;)
From Peter Gustafson Berlin, Germany
Sep 19, 2008 Positive as part of this great endeavor i hope to contribute to our experiences!
From Martin Burghart Munich, Germany
Sep 19, 2008  Positive a fantastic project, see you in portugal this winter! |
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