Pilgrimage: Costa Rica

Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, July 25.

Student Information

First name:

Last name:

Campus address:

Home address:

Preferred email address:

Preferred phone number:

Birthdate:

Year in school:

Gender (optional):

Race/ethnicity (optional):

Religious or spiritual affiliation (if any):

Chaplaincy involvement (if any):

Campus ministry involvement (if any):

Other campus organizations:

Major(s) and minor(s):

Please list any courses that you are taking/have taken that help prepare you for this experience.

Please list any travel, living, or study-abroad experience in a foreign country, including location, duration, and purpose of trip.

Are you an international student?

Yes No

If so, what is your home country?

Do you speak another language?

Yes No

If so, what language(s)?

Short answer questions

Answer the following questions in a few brief paragraphs.

Share your reasons for applying to this particular pilgrimage to Costa Rica.

This pilgrimage may include students from multiple faiths or no religious tradition. Please explain how interfaith work contributes to your understanding of your own spirituality.

Describe an experience in which you have engaged with an individual from a different spiritual background or religious tradition. What did you learn about yourself through this encounter?

The pilgrimage course and travel intensive provide a unique opportunity to cultivate practices that will enrich your spiritual life. Describe what spiritual practices, if any, are already a part of your daily life and which ones you hope to develop through participation in this pilgrimage program.

The pilgrimage to Oracle, Costa Rica will involve yoga, meditation and hiking. Are you comfortable engaging in these spiritual practices?

Recommendations

Each applicant is required to obtain two recommendations. Please provide contact information for these individuals below. It is strongly encouraged that at least one recommendation be a professor or university staff person. If you are new to campus and don't yet have a faculty or staff person to ask, two recommendations from off campus individuals will be accepted. Student recommendations will not be considered among the two required recommendations. Applicants are responsible for contacting the individuals who will be completing their recommendations and providing them a link to the recommendation form: https://chaplaincy.richmond.edu/programs/pilgrimage/costa-rica/recommendation.html. All forms are due by the application deadline, Monday, July 25 at 5:00 p.m. Applicants whose recommendation letters have not been received by this date will not be considered for participation in the pilgrimage.

Recommendation 1

Name:

Address:

City:

State:

Zip:

Phone:

Email:

Relationship to student:

Recommendation 2

Name:

Address:

City:

State:

Zip:

Phone:

Email:

Relationship to student:

Commitment of Participation

I have read and understand the Pilgrimage expectations and the COVID-19 policies for travel (links available in sidebar) with the Chaplaincy's Pilgrimage program. I understand the team, time commitment, spiritual, and financial commitment involved with being a Pilgrimage participant. I am prepared to make a full commitment to the program. I am also aware that if I am unable to participate in the pilgrimage, my deposit will not be returned. Typing your name and the date will serve as your electronic signature.

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Recommendations

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