Claim Your Character

We'd love to have you join us here at Journey School! While every real place has a real limit to its ability to provide for the physical needs of the local community, there is no such limit in the imagination. You are invited to come along as we work through new ways of living that respect each other, our natural world, and our beautiful souls.

Begin by creating a character here. We'll send you a handmade base - basic clothing, hair, face, and shoes complete - and you create from there. Who do you want your character to be? What skills, gifts, dreams and fears do you imagine you would experience here? Every two weeks, we'll send you an assignment to develop the life of our character. This is your chance to try on any set of attributes you'd like to explore through the bimonthly prompts and actually customizing your character base. How do they dress, what tools or toys do they carry with them, what home do they ask to inhabit?

Whether your character will be born to the Journey School community, travel through it as a trader, long to immigrate here, or plot secretly to run away from us as soon as you are able, we hope that you work within the context of Journey School as a real place where the Declaration of Four Sacred Things provides the foundation for our construction, our politics, our economy, our celebrations, and our plans for the future. Just to keep it real, every six weeks, your character will receive a package from Journey School. Whether it's a raw resource, a beautiful gift, or a challenge, we have found some of our most precious moments have come from the least expected lesson.