Things To Do
Lots To Do @ Chimorel
Plan an Adventure / Walk in the Woods
You can plan a variety of activities at the Sanctuary. These include The Human Journey, Financial Planning, your wedding, and other events. You can also plan other adventures. Some include a Murder Mystery evening, a bonfire, a birthday, or a unique work experience. We are open to your suggestions and will work with you to plan a training exercise, a family event, and more.
We provide a limited concierge service when you plan in advance. We can book a large variety of activities for you on request and sometimes may be able to get discounts for you. If your total bill comes to more than $1400, this is a free service for up to three activities. Otherwise, you pay you pay $25 for each activity we schedule and the cost for each event. You are encouraged to do your own advance scheduling and tell us before you come. Then we will remind you before the event. Both the limited concierge service and the variety of events will be planned in advance.
Now for a Walk in the Woods or any other experience, you do on your own without planning. This is where you find peace, do a little work, chase the geese, let God in, and all those mana moments when something magical happens – they will just happen. Be open to them. Relax, recharge, revive. Allow the peaceful energy that fills this place to restore your soul. A little transformation will happen. You can take it home as our gift to you.
Plan Your Wedding
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For many couples, our wedding service is like a one-stop shop that covers all the details of your wedding. The Sanctuary is a beautiful place to get married, if you do nothing more. But there is a lot more waiting for you.
If you plan your wedding six or more months in advance and are willing to complete our Before You Say I Do experience, Pearl or Warren can be your officiant. You can certainly choose your own officiant.
We offer limited coordination/planning services to reduce the overwhelming list of details and keep costs under control, so if you are planning a wedding, let us know.
Plan an Event
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We like to limit our events to 100 visitors or less. It keeps the neighbors happy, helps to keeps our landscape beautiful, and fits well within the facilities available at our ten-acre site.
Your event may be simple like a bonfire or using the bounce house or trampoline. It may be a birthday, an anniversary, a graduation, a company training, or another learning experience. We plan a variety of events periodically, you can participate in. We may even be able to schedule stilt walking, fire eating/spinning, and other adventures. As long as you stay safe and don’t disturb our neighbors, your imagination is your only limitation.
The Human Journey
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The Human Journey is a little like a board game and a lot like a three-act play. It supports you, your family, and/or an intimate group of six people to feel more connected. It is a therapeutic experience that touches your heart and opens the door to improved communication.
As therapy you will become familiar with three listening skills. You will travel from childhood, to adulthood and begin to step into the future. As you tell your stories, others will practice listening. You will listen at a much deeper level than normal. You will explore. You will feel joy and may cry. You will bond.
Step-by-Step Financial Planning
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Chimorel’s Step by Step Financial Planning starts with getting & keeping a job. You learn to maximize resources like money, time, information and energy. You learn to manage risks in your life and to fund the major goals in your life. Finally, you plan to add value and satisfaction to your life through planning for college, retirement, travel, charity, and whatever else is important to you.
This program begins a lifetime of financial growth. Once you have a fullfilling career that pays well, you begin to manage the resources and risks in your life. You develop the investment strategies that will meet the long term needs in your life. You will plan all those things that bring satisfaction to you. We will open the door, but you must walk through. You can stop at any point and the journey will stop until you start again.
Work Out, Have Fun
A five-minute walk across the street at the Concord Township Park offers outdoor exercise equipment, basketball, baseball, tennis, playground, shelter house, and many more opportunities to have fun or work out.
You can have a picnic, swing on swings, and watch a variety of sports activities – all for free. When the fields and courts are not being used, you may be able to schedule or use them, as well.
Find Peace | Spectacular Surroundings
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Find Peace
As mentioned in a Walk in the Woods above, this will just happen. The important thing is that you let it happen. Leave your problems behind. Let the beauty and peace of this place come in.
You will gaze out one of our beautiful windows. You will relax on the spacious patio. You will sit on a big rock beside the pond. You will watch the ducks, maybe even yell at the geese. You will walk in the woods. You will look up at the trees and invite God in. You might lie on a blanket and watch the clouds go by. Yes, let the beauty and peace come in.
You might get up from watching the electric flames in the fireplace, stretch your legs, take your partner’s hand, and walk out on the porch to watch the stars. Take a deep breath in through the nose, out through the mouth. Now repeat. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breathing. Notice your heartbeat. Sit back in a big comfortable chair. Rest your head. Take the tension off your neck. Stare into her eyes. Put your arm around his waist. God is always with you. Let Him in.
Spectacular Surroundings
Like finding Peace be open to the spectacular surroundings at the Sanctuary. Of course, you will discover a little mud and some dead trees. You will also discover birds, tall trees, sunlight glistening across the pond, and a natural beauty that fills your soul.
Enjoying the spectacular surroundings is a mindset thing. Make the small decision to enjoy. This is a first step toward transformation. Yes, transformation is optional. Yet, when all around you is beckoning, when the air is blowing on your face and tall trees are swaying, when you see a fish jump or hear a bird chirp, the small decision to open your life to all the possibilities ahead becomes a little easier to do.
Then as you leave, remember and do. The spectacular surroundings are still there. They will go with you until you come back. You will be stronger, more wealthy, happier, and more peaceful.
Other Ways to Enjoy the Sanctuary
Stock The Refrigerator
Plan this in Advance. After you order and have your groceries delivered, we will stock the refrigerator for you.
Every time my wife and I travel somewhere, we like to cook our own food, but we don’t like to figure out where the grocery stores are and take a couple of hours out of a busy day touring to buy food. If your total bill comes to more than $1400, this is a one-time free service. If your bill is less than $1400, we will charge $25 for this service. You buy the food and have it delivered. It is really convenient to arrive with a stocked refrigerator and you don’t have to figure out what to do with the leftovers. We’ll take care of that for you, as well.
Work / Volunteer
Almost everyone joins our volunteer Geese Patrol. You don’t want the Canadian Geese to set up housekeeping any more than we do. They leave unwelcome messes. Some bite. They are arrogant and territorial. They are big and could hurt your children. We discourage them in many ways we will tell you about. Chasing them away is an adventure in itself. This is a seasonal activity.
We have many, many projects waiting for you – upgrade the drive and parking, clear the dead trees, rake, throw the rake to clear the pond, paint, sweep, mop, drive, shop, build a climbing wall, create a labyrinth, build a greenhouse, plant & tend the gardens/flowers/vegetables, build a cob house, learn how to build your own cob house, create marketing videos and materials, update our database, spread gravel or wood chips, mow part of approximately five acres, set up & take down for events, use your creative imagination in hundreds of ways, think of something to support someone.
Everyone who works with Chimorel starts as a volunteer. We typically work in 4-5 hour shifts and pay $50+/shift. You volunteer the first hour. So your pay is kind of $12-15+/hr. You typically get a free meal or two. You learn some potentially valuable skills. And we pay bonuses to people who work both really hard and very smart. For most people, it isn’t about being paid. You can choose to volunteer. It is about the experience of working together to make something better.
We are constantly looking for competent leaders who support people in their transformational process worldwide. You might become one of those leaders. You could earn $35-100,000+/yr full-time. This link leads to Work With Chimorel on Chimorel’s main website and many other links. It is usually best to indicate your desire to work in advance, but you could decide spur of the moment when we have something that needs to be done.
Transform
Transformation starts with making small decisions. It only takes a few seconds to make a decision that can change your life. It may take years of little decisions to clear away all the issues before you can make that decision.
You clear away all the issues by making many small decisions. Visiting the Sanctuary can be a restful and adventurous experience. Transformation is optional. Transformation begins as you become aware of the peace surrounding you and the connecting doors this peace opens. It continues as you do what you decide to do.
Accommodations
Comfortable Accommodations
You will discover a big comfortable, cozy chair just about big enough to share with your best friend. Turn on the electric flames in our fireplace. Your friends will share a big comfortable, cozy couch or another recliner couch. The beds are comfortable, even the two bunk beds. The kitchen is spacious and has many appliances and cooking options. The shower and tub are warm and wet. The patio has many places to relax. There is so much to do or not do as you choose. And don’t forget to walk in the woods or around the 1.5-acre pond. A good brisk walk enhances relaxing, recharging, and reviving.
More Things To Do
To initiate our limited concierge service we have prepared an Excel spreadsheet with things to do under the headings shown below. When you sign up, the check mark asking for this planning toolis already set. If you just want to relax, recharge, and revive, unclick the check mark. We can email the spreadsheet to you when you arrive, if you decide to plan a few adventures when you get here.
You can sort the spreadsheet by Name, Miles, Price, Type, or Zip Code to speed your planning process. The spreadsheet contains Notes and an Online section, as well. Notes give you information about a particular venue. Online provides the website or a link to buying tickets.
Restaurants, Taverns, Ice Cream
There are more than 140 restaurants, taverns, and ice cream spots within 10 miles of the Sanctuary. We will tell you our favorites when you arrive. The spreadsheet provides you with all 140+ in a sortable Excel file. Ratings & # of Raters change over time but will be approximately reflective. Call your restaurant ahead for hours open, takeout & delivery. The price section for Restaurants, etc. is called $ Range. If you discover a spot you like we haven’t listed, please tell us about it.
Shopping, Groceries, Services
There are lots of grocery stores, retail shopping stores, health clinics, and other services within a five to ten-mile area. We limit some to within five miles. The miles shown can be less than the actual miles. The stores & services shown are not all-inclusive. We shop and use many of the ones shown and will share our favorites when you arrive. If you decide to Stock Your Refrigerator, use Kroger or Walmart with their delivery service to save money. If you discover something you like, please tell us about it.
Art & Culture
We list more than 45 museums, performing arts theaters, art galleries, symphonies, ballet performances, and more within an approximate 25-mile range. Included are both passive (watching) and active (making) art experiences. Below we list more sources to find art, as well as, other experiences.
Art Makes Columbus: https://www.columbusmakesart.com/
Capa: Columbus Association for the Performing Arts: https://www.capa.com/
Delaware Thing To Do: https://www.visitdelohio.com/things-to-do/attractions/
Experience Columbus: https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/
Explore Ohio: https://ohio.org/home
Outdoor & Indoor Adventure
Approximately a five minute drive the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium with Zoombezie Bay and 4D Theater. There is so much to do here that you might want to seriously consider a day of adventure at the zoo. We list more than 60 adventure activities. Most of them will take at least 3-4 hours. Some could be all-day adventures and could be considered day trips. To avoid getting overstressed we suggest not trying to do more than two/day – a morning and afternoon, perhaps an evening and … Anything further than fifteen miles should add approximately 1 hour to your planning considering both going and coming.
Shows, Entertainment & Sports
We list a few more than 20 theaters, entertainment sites, and sports activities, including bowling, laser tag, fencing, skating & more. OSU Athletics includes OSU football, basketball, and many other OSU sports activities. Other colleges have sports activities that are not listed. If ballroom dancing is your thing, ask Warren. He has a personal friend who owned a top studio.
Day Trips & Sight Seeing
Another personal friend recently started the Columbus Touring Company. You can rent a charter bus for a personalized tour of the surrounding Columbus area at reasonable prices. Day trips and sightseeing include farms, parks, fairs, festivals, and other activities that will typically take most of the day. They are usually a little further than other activities, but a few are nearby. One that is just down the street is Olentangy Caverns.
