A New Book: Tamera - a Model for the Future

To be published in September 2010

The journalist Leila Dregger wrote a book about Tamera, it will be published in September in Verlag Meiga. more...

Invitation for the Open Saturday in Tamera - September 4th, 10 am

With the book launch: TAMERA - a Model for the Future

10.00 am – Welcoming in Tamera – at the Guest house
10.30 am – Walk through the water landscape with Sepp Holzer and the Ecology Team of Tamera
1.00 pm – Lunch in the Test field of the SolarVillage (if sunshine, solar Lunch)
and Information about the Permaculture and the Test field for a Solar Village
3.00 pm - The Tamera Community presents its new book: Tamera - a Model for the Future more...

Stepping out of the system of violence - creating models for peace

GRACE Pilgrimage 2010 in Colombia

Together with the peace village San José de Apartadó and Padre Javier Giraldo, Sabine Lichtenfels will lead a pilgrimage in Bogotá from the 1st to the 9th of November 2010. The pilgrimage will travel through power places and places of conflict in the surroundings of the capital, in order to unite peace iniatives from around the world and to give a signal of hope for Colombia. The peace village San José de Apartadó is a seed of hope for the whole country and could become a model for reconciliation in South America. However, the peace community is still relatively unknown within the country. One of the goals of this pilgrimage is to help changing this, as well as being an experience of reconciliation and reflection, as every Grace Pilgrimage has been. more...

Tamera's Summer University inspires a new perspective on life

A review by Uri Ayalon, organizer

Under the title “Tamera – Test Field for a New Culture” more than 400 people gathered in Tamera for 10 days of studying, celebrating and researching a new cultural model for our planet. This Summer University, the 16th that has been held in the peace research centre Tamera, was special in the variety of guests who attended it and in the sacred spaces which were created again and again in the meeting point between the different cultures and perspectives. more...

Growing a healthy future in Kenya

by Malika Cieremans

A dream is coming true in Kenya for more and more village farmers. From a marginal life without much hope for a better future, the OTEPIC directed by Philip Munyasia is bringing knowledge, empowerment and joy to the communities. Philip is presently studying in Tamera. more...

12 days to go until the Summer University!

July 13th

Tamera is in the last stage of inner and outer preparation for the 16th Summer University, this year with the theme: "Tamera - Test Field for a New Culture". In two weeks the global think-tank will start with hundreds of participants from more than 20 countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Ireland, Russia, India, Israel, Palestine, France, Spain, Italy, Kenya, Ecuador, Korea and Ukraine. Already, almost 100 students in total are currently taking part in the three-month Basic Semester of the Monte Cerro Peace Education and in a special one-month leadership course, which together form part of an education program that is supporting several groups from around the world who wish to establish new peace communities. The atmosphere in Tamera is moving as if there was a whole-summer Summer University going on! more...

Global Learning with Sepp Holzer in Tamera

by Linda Parfenoviča, Lettland

Sepp Holzer an Austrian permaculturist specialising in waterlandscapes returned to Tamera to give a permaculture seminar in the beginning of June. Interest in Holzer`s permaculture and aquaculture is growing. People from 13 countries participated in the seminar, including Palestine, Israel, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Latvia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and USA. This variety represents the diversity of our planet and reflects the urgent need for solutions to increasing global problems, such as desertification, drought, poverty and starvation. more...

Stone Circle Completed

96 Stones representing archetpyes

The communal work of art is complete. The Stone Circle in Tamera has received 31 more stones. Rather like a miracle, one action melted into the next. Those who now enter the Stone Circle will experience the feeling of a cosmic peace community. 96 archetypes are now standing there in communal complementation and representing the cycles of life. more...

Tamera´s Animal Defenders have resumed their work

„Animals have a soul“

After a long and wet winter in which the streets have been impassable the work of the Animal Defenders has resumed. Some years ago the Animal Defenders group has been founded as a reaction to the situation of the animals in the neighborhood. Sometimes dogs are chained much too short. Often water, food and shadow or rain shields are missing. Over and over again injured sheeps and goats are found. more...

Water is Life: How to Make South Europe Fertile Again.

Open Saturday in Tamera

On Saturday, about 150 visitors from all over Portugal came to get to know Tamera, his water landscape and the solar technology of the test field. The next Open Saturday will be on July, 31st, during our Summer University. more...

Beyond 2012

Opening of the School 2012

In order to strengthen the power of vision for a future without war, Dieter Duhm founded the „School of the Future“. The school works worldwide with all groups who wish to join. All those who participate in the school study in the same rhythm the same thoughts and texts which are sent out once a month. We invite everybody to participate in this school and work with the texts. The first study text, written by Dieter Duhm, is titled „Beyond 2012“. Here you can read it in several languages and watch the video. more...

The next lake is to be developed in Summer in the south valley

The construction of the water landscape continues

The next step for this is planned for this summer: the building of a retention basin on a higher altitude, in the south valley. Around this new lake new agricultural areas will be established on terraces and large high beds will be built. On these high beds, plants can be sown already in autumn. Therefore they are an important next step toward food self-sufficiency of Tamera. more...

Success for the Tent of Nations

Update from June 3rd

Due to international protests the Supreme Court reacted surprisingly fast: Daoud Nassar, owner of the Tent of Nations, one of the most important meeting places for peace in the Westbank, had a first success: The Israeli Court accepted his protest against the demolition of the Tent of Nations. Now the military has six weeks time to justify their plans. Read Daoud´s letter here. more...

Peace education - Global Campus in Tamera

For the EDE course (Ecovillage Design Education) and the following months of peace education, we expect participants from Guatemala, Ecuador, Columbia, Mexico, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Palestine, Portugal and other countries. For many of them, the relevant, profound and complex education and training offer the possibility not only of a change in perspective for their own lives, but also very real solutions for their families, neighbourhoods, communities and organisations. Knowledge and training is empowerment, and for those who experience the very daily reality of conflict and violence it is also a matter of survival. We thank all those peace workers who have committed themselves already to completing the Monte Cerro peace education. 
To support more and more peace workers from crisis areas to take part in this education we need financial support. The study fund is managed by Kate Bunney. more...

An experimental biogas plant

for the SolarVillage-Field Test in Tamera

Eight months after the opening of the SolarVillage-test field in Tamera a new module is built, which will enable a self-sufficient energy supply for a village year round: a biogas plant. It will run the kitchen in the winter rainy season in the months where direct solar power often is not sufficient. more...

Nature Cathedrale

New Project of Sabine Lichtenfels

In Tamera, a special place for the connection with Mother Earth is being built. A core project of Sabine Lichtenfels and her team is the foundation of a spiritual core in Tamera, a place for consciousness, for the purpose of bringing into expression the spiritual connection between human beings, nature and all its creatures. more...

The Permaculture waterlandscape grows – Living drinking water through a ringduct

June 2010

During this year the waterlandscape, which the Tamera ecologists are realizing together with Sepp Holzer, will be further established. Several water retention basins and a ringduct are being planned. This idea of the supply of clear and living drinking water came to Sepp Holzer in a dream. „Water is a living being. A living being which does not move, dies. Water that has been kept for too long in bottles and pipes and cannot accumulate new information, loses all vital powers.” more...

Peace in the Middle-East: Palestines open up for the trauma of the Holocaust.

Christ at Checkpoint

For reconciliation, sometimes it is needed to look deeply into the soul of the so-called enemy or occupier in order to comprehend and understand his pain. Sami Awad, peace-worker and teacher for non-violent resistance in Bethlehem and founder of the Holy Land Trust, spoke on the occasion of the conference „Christ at Checkpoint“ about his observation of the extermination of the Jews. more...

“Favela Da Paz” - Future Sounds from São Paulo

Support the Global Campus education for the peace band “Poesia Samba Soul” in Tamera

“Many of my friends don't exist any more. I'm searching for something more attractive than violence, so that the youth no longer takes part in the drug war”, says Claudio Miranda about the reason for his work. He comes from Jardim Ângela, one of the favelas (Slums) of São Paulo, which the UN declared in the 90's as one of the most brutal neighbourhoods of the world. More than twenty years ago he began to gather friends to make music with cans; at this time real instruments were unreachable.
Photo: Elias Barrasch more...

Colombia: President Alvaro Uribe has Villages of the Embera Indians in Colombia Bombarded

By Richard Weixler / SOS Rrainforest

In the neighbourhood of the peace community San José de Apartadó, there are living Embera Indigenas. Some of their villages which are spread about North Colombia have been bombarded by helicopters. Our friend Richard Weixler who has been working with Embera for some years and had given them cameras to document the attacks gave a report about the background. We have photographs which show children who have been killed or injured by the attack. more...

Learning Permaculture with Sepp Holzer in Tamera

A two year´s experience

Learning Permaculture – Perceiving the Dream of the Landscape and Healing the Earth on the basis of the practical example of Tamera Two-Year-Training with Sepp Holzer The Austrian Mountain Farmer Sepp Holzer has incomparable knowledge in creating and designing healthy, self-sustainable biotopes in cooperation with nature. His talent is based on knowledge that he has been acquiring ever since he was a child through observation, through daily experience, through and trial and error. Is there a way to learn from such a “natural talent“? Yes, there is: We learn from him by accompanying him, listening to him and above all working with him in the daily challenges of nature. This opportunity is offered by Tamera's Holzer s Permaculture seminars. more...

Claiming the Holy Land

Non-violent action during Palm Sunday

Palestine-Israel are often referred to as the Holy Land – however, the Israeli government decided to make it impossible for Palestinian Christians and Muslims to pray in the sacred sites. For the duration of the Easter celebrations, the whole Westbank has been blocked off. 200 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals connected to the vision of the Holy Land, going on a March for Freedom on Palm Sunday, 28th of March. This is the day when Christians celebrate Jesu´s donkey ride into the city of Jerusalem. Christians from Bethlehem – among them Sami awad and other friends from the Holy Land Trust – together with children, horses and donkeys started to walk towards Jerusalem. more...

Limpar Portugal

March 20th, 2010

On March 20th, more than 40 people from Tamera took part in the countrywide cleaning day in the neighbouring villages Colos and Relíquias. There were part of 100.000 in whole Portugal to clean forests, streets and illegal dumps. more...

Colombia 2010: „Creating Models for the Future“

San José de Apartadó, 21st of February: Commemoration Day of the last massacre five years ago

20 co-workers and students from Tamera are in Colombia. From February 24th to March 5th, 2010 they lead a Peace Training specially for young Colombian peace workers within the framework of the „Global Campus“ (Tamera) and the „Universidad de Resistencia de Colombia“. It will be led by Sabine Lichtenfels and the Universidad de Resistencia of Colombia. This event will continue to deepen the first and successful Peace Education Meeting which was held in October 2008. Before that, on 21st of February, there is the fifth commemoration day of the killing of Luis Eduardo Guerra and other members of the Peace Community.
Here you find the diaries of Sabine Lichtenfels. more...

Basic Peace Education at Global Campus Tamera

New Study Time from May 3rd to August 11th, 2010

The Earth is in transformation. Many initiatives and peace activists are working worldwide on perspectives for a peaceful future, for the survival of humankind on this planet. The next years will be decisive. Whether they succeed or not depends on two things - whether they also make the deep changes that they want to see in the world inside themselves, and whether they can bring together their knowledge for the creation of planetary peace-models which develop a complex solution and a global perspective for a peaceful way of living together for humans, animals and all beings. more...

The Friday Gong in Tamera

A weekly meditation for peace in the Middle East

Every Friday at ten o'clock the peace community in Portugal Tamera, stops the daily work and thoughts for two minutes of sending prayers to Israel-Palestine in order support the peace process in the region. The ritual, which is manifested by a strong gong that can reach the hundreds of people who live in the community, began six years ago, together with a group of peace workers who committed for a weekly peace prayer, every Friday in front of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. more...

Calender of Events for 2010

Seminars and events

In 2010, there will be many seminars and other events to get to know Tamera or to take part in a peace education in different areas.
This calendar is still to be completed. more...

Summer University 2010: „Tamera – Testfield for a New Culture“

From July 26 to August 4, 2010

A Think-tank for global peacework and the worldwide development of peace models. Please read the invitation and forward it to interested people. The Summer University is an international meeting where you can see the full spectrum of Tamera´s peacework and get to know the network partners. more...

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