For the fifth year, we warmly invite participants to the EDE course in Tamera!
The goal of this international course is to gain the basic knowledge needed for the construction of ecovillages/peace-villages. The course is for people who want to take an active role in the current and necessary transformation on Earth.
The EDE course provides an overview of the essential fields whose redesign is a precondition for successful sustainable models.
The global economic crisis, the consequences of which cannot be completely forseen, shows once more that the contemporary capitalist era is going to end and must end for humankind to have a chance to survive.
But what will come after it?
Will civil wars and chaos be unavoidable after the breakdown of the big systems or are there alternatives? Will we also be able to live safely and well without globalized capitalism, or even better? How can we develop and design a sustainable economy? What will new social and economic structures look like, that are not based on the exploitation of human beings, animals and nature?
For years, communities, Ecovillages and Peace Villages all over the world have been doing research and working on the development of alternatives. Now they offer their social, ecological and spiritual experience and teach a knowledge of survival.
The course will give an overview of the four elementary areas which form the pre-conditions for the development of sustainable models:
1. Worldview:
A new understanding of the natural laws of the world, seeing the world as a whole, understanding why we have an influence on the whole. What does a socially committed spirituality which gives us the power we need to make our contribution look like ?
2. Social Issues:
The emphasis in Tamera is on community knowledge, developed over more than thirty years' experience. The students will learn and experience the basics of communication in community, truth, the creation of trust and conflict resolution: What are meaningful structures for a new co-habitation? How can we develop an understanding/communication which creates truth and trust – also in the core areas of community, in love and sexuality? The world needs models in which people really live together without continually reproducing war on the inner human scale so that a new culture of peace on earth can develop.
3. Economy:
How do we deal with the issue of money in a healing way? How can we direct money into the development of sustainable systems instead of war and consumption? We will study the themes of Spiritual Economy, Barter Systems and Alternative Currencies.
4. Ecology:
The material building blocks for the construction of new models: We will study in practice – based on existing examples for all areas, as well as in theory and get to know the areas of Ecology (Permaculture, particularly according to Sepp Holzer), new Technologies (Solar Technology – particularly according to Jürgen Kleinwächter) and sustainable building (particularly loam construction.)
The EDE education is a program of GAIA Education by GEN - Global Ecovillage Network (www.gaiaeducation.org; www.gen-europe.org), an official contribution to the “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 – 2014” and recognized by UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research).
Directors: Juliane Eckmann and Team
Language: english
Coursefee incl. accomodation & food: 1200,- Euro
portuguese participants: 800,- Euro
youth: 600,- Euro
Accomodation in dormitory and vegan board.
Arrival and departure: On the day before / after the seminar.
Registration: office(at)tamera.org or +351 - 283 635 306
Notice !
The curriculum of the EDE course is the first part of a three months semester of the Basic Education at Global Campus Tamera, which continues from June on and will include the Tamera Summer University from July 26 to August 8.
Further informations about the basic-education:
