This campus no longer has any steady way to get volunteers and there are barely any stable stable householders. Only 3 householders live on property, two have no residential manager. If you're one of the volunteers they manage to get to come for a year, they will work you 80-100 hours per week to cover their lack of staff. They use all day workers who have no experience in community prior to being hired, and they will hire anyone off the street in their desperation to fill staffing gaps it seems. They claim to be anthroposophical, but nothing about the campus runs the way other communities of that model do. The office manager Kristen will lie to you, and belittle you if you complain. They have been blacklisted from at least one German volunteer agency for disregarding the contract, overworking the volunteers, and keeping them isolated on the property. This is a truly awful place to volunteer since COVID took out the programs, it was a great place before 2020- but the management have no intention or ability to build it back to what it once was. Find yourself a more reasonable place to volunteer, you will regret coming here.
I was a german volunteer worker for one year at Lukas and I have to say it was nice! The Community includes 4 houses in each live 4-residents , 2 co-workers and 2 volunteers.
The people who live there are so kind and it was fun to live and work with them.
The community has many different workshops, like gardening, cooking, working in the woodworkshop and much more, where the residents can help. My main task was it to help, teach and include the residents in their daily life and help in the household. On Holidays or Sundays there were also some outings with the house or with the whole Community, like having a bbq or going to concerts. It was a year with great experience and I still try to visit the community once in a while.