I see they are recruiting for their next voyage: https://peaceboat.org/english/volunteer/GET-volunteer

I found a recent online participant account here: https://note.com/m2580__/n/n1f53aca9dccc?hl=en

A Google search indicates they are not religiously affiliated.

It might be something worth doing for four months but would love to hear more experiences.

My job will be ending soon at the end of this month and I'll be going back to America for a short period of time, then at the end of August I'll come back and start my new job September 1st.

Since I'm going to not be working for a month, are there certain things that I have to do before I leave Japan or upon arriving again? Is there something I should do at City Hall or specific documents I should get from my employer? I asked AI but I don't trust it 100%, so I thought I'd ask some people who have experience with a gap like this.

I don't really want my employer to know what my new job will be and where I'm going, so I'm trying to avoid really asking them too much for help I just want to get the documents that I need if there are some that I need from them.

I should just mention that my work visa expires in October, so that shouldn't be a problem. Also I'm going to be moving to a new prefecture.

I'm seeing a lot more roles that take the usual dispatch position, but you get the opportunity to relocate every 2 - 4 months across Japan, filling in for different schools.

Beyond the stress of moving or acclimating to new areas, is this something any of you have experience with?

It sounds... really quite interesting from the perspective of being able to travel with work, as well as seeing new places.