There Is a Stirring in You
That Will Not
Go Quiet.
Tree of Service is for those who feel called — not just to live differently, but to help build the world they know is possible.
This is not a program. It is a path.
A 12-month or 5-year immersive ministry journey across living land, real community, and the deepest work of your life.
Who This Is For
You Have Felt It.
A pull toward something you can't quite name — something that keeps returning no matter how many times you set it aside.
Maybe you've just left something behind. A career. A chapter. A version of yourself that no longer fits. Maybe you've never quite belonged to the world being offered to you. Maybe you've had a taste of real community — of land, of shared life, of presence — and you cannot go back to living without it.
Tree of Service is for the person who is done asking if there is another way — and ready to start walking it.
Not as a student. As a steward.
Not to escape. To emerge.
Not to be fixed. To be formed.
The Path
A Ministry Path for the World Being Built.
Tree of Service is a leadership journey — formed in genuine practice, shaped by real land, and held by people who have walked it before you.
You will rotate through partner communities. You will live in real community. You will serve the earth and be shaped by it. You will learn what it means to lead not from position but from presence — to tend what you've been given rather than perform for those watching.
The land will teach you things that no classroom ever could.
The people will reflect things in you that you could not see alone.
And the work — honest, physical, purposeful work in service of something real — will reorganize you from the inside out.
"This is how leaders have always been made.
Not by degrees. By devotion."
Choose Your Path
The Depth of Your Calling.
The 12-Month Journey
One Transformative YearFour partner communities. A full arc of becoming.
- Months 1–3: Rooting — arriving, listening, learning the land
- Months 4–6: Growing — deepening into service and community
- Months 7–9: Emerging — finding your voice, your gift, your offer
- Months 10–12: Offering — stepping into leadership and giving back
The 5-Year Pilgrimage
A Lifelong CallingFive communities. A lifetime of rootedness.
- Year 1: Seeding — planting yourself in the work
- Year 2: Blooming — discovering what lives in you
- Year 3: Rooting — deepening your commitment and craft
- Year 4: Mentoring — beginning to hold others on the path
- Year 5: Becoming the Tree — elder, leader, living example
Where You Will Serve
Real Communities.
Real Land. Real Work.
Each partner community is a living, working place — not a retreat center dressed up as one. You arrive as a participant in the life of the community, not a guest passing through it.
La Paz Farm
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
A regenerative farm rooted in land stewardship, communal living, and the deep ecology of one of the most biodiverse regions on earth.
Ecomaste
Tinamaste, Costa Rica
A lush valley community where inner work meets community action — where what grows in the soil mirrors what grows in you.
Mystical Yoga Farm
Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
An off-grid sanctuary devoted to yoga, permaculture, and genuine community living — between three volcanoes on a sacred lake.
Protopia Community
Arenal, Costa Rica
A living experiment in regenerative ways of being — growing food, hosting gatherings, and building toward what's next.
What You Will Receive
You Are Not Coming to Consume.
You Are Coming to Become.
Land and Community Skills
Real training in regenerative stewardship, permaculture, community facilitation, and the practical knowledge of living well with others.
Leadership Formation
The Covenants of Leadership framework woven through your experience — not as theory, but as daily practice under real conditions.
Mentorship Throughout
Direct access to Ticon and the Nomadic Communities team — not just at the start, but across the full arc of your journey.
Community Network
Relationships across multiple living communities — people you've worked alongside, not just people you've met at an event.
Guidebook + Online Training
Lifetime access to the Nomadic Community Guidebook and online leadership training course — yours to keep and return to.
Your Offering Activated
By the end of the path you know what you are here to build — not because someone told you, but because the journey drew it out.
"The most important thing you will receive cannot be listed. It arrives in the stillness between tasks. In the circle after a hard day. In the moment you realize you are no longer searching — because you have found the place, the people, and the version of yourself you were looking for."
From Those Who Walked the Path
Jahendo walked the full journey.
He now owns one of the partner communities.
Jahendo — first Tree of Service participant. Now owner, Mystical Yoga Farm · Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. This is what the path is designed to produce: not a participant with new ideas, but a leader with new roots.
The Call Has Been There
Longer Than You Know.
You don't have to have it figured out.
You don't have to know exactly why you're being drawn here.
You only have to be willing to take the next step and trust what meets you there.
The path will do the rest.
We lead with presence, devotion, and the trust of living in right relationship — with ourselves, each other, and the Earth.
This is a suggested contribution to Nomadic Communities, a 508(c)(1)(A) faith-based ministry. Contribution details — including shared and private room options, installment plans, and scholarship possibilities — are discussed on your application call. If this path feels aligned and contribution is a genuine barrier, reach out at [email protected].