Tamera

Online Course

“Introduction to Love School: Learning to End War”

Developing awareness for the oppressive systematic patterns of patriarchy, while exploring the foundations for a cultural shift in love and sexuality.

Overview

In this upcoming online course, Sabine Lichtenfels and Benjamin von Mendelssohn, co-founders of Tamera’s Global Love School, will be your guides in this learning journey. Today, more and more people are awakening to the need for transformative work, on the personal, social and political levels. Together, we’ll discover the relevance of dissolving jealousy, enlarging the vessels for love and releasing shame around authentic sexual expression.

At the core of the Tamera project stands the insight that there cannot be peace in the world as long as there is war in love. In this course, we’ll ask ourselves: What responsibility do I have for ending war? How do I find balance when experiencing the high voltage of love and sexuality? What tools can I use to free myself when I’m caught by jealousy, possessiveness, and fear? What social structures do we need to rebuild to allow for personal evolution?

 

Read the video transcript

 
Sabine Lichtenfels: Love carries its own logic. Love school will teach us this logic.

Benjamin von Mendelssohn,/a>: Love school is a space where we can explore our own consciousness, where it actually follows the logic and principles and the being of love, and where it follows, let’s say mildly, something else. Actually often a logic of war.

Sabine: For me it’s really exciting to give something, an introduction, to the love school via online and internet, because we are dealing with very intimate questions. And we are aware that dealing with the question of free love or free sexuality, it needs a very held vessel. Introducing free love without introducing the space and the political surrounding, it can be dangerous. aAnd so it’s exciting for me, and we give also our gratitude, that you forward the trust towards us. Thank you.

Benjamin: Giving a love school course online is, I mean everybody thinks about touch and our physical existence as well, when we think about love. And giving that online, after such a Corona time where the whole dimension of courses and learning and contact changed so much, it’s quite a challenge, and it’s a beautiful challenge I hope. It brings this aspect that is beyond the physical, which is almost like a spiritual connection. Not through the internet, but through the “geists” of noosphere of the earth. It brings it very much forward. And I think we will really experiment how to create intimate spaces with an online community. I actually trust that it will be possible, because the change does happen in consciousness and then in body and relationship. But it will be an adventure.

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Registration Deadline

February 22, 2024

Info

Research area: Love and sexuality
Type of learning: Share knowledge
Location: Online
Language: English

Cost

As an experiment with radical trust towards post-capitalist economics, we offer this course on donation. To choose how much you can and want to offer, please fill this questionnaire.

Who is the course for?

  • Anyone unwilling to accept violence and oppression as a part of our culture
  • People who want to combine deep inner peace work in the area of love and sexuality with outer peace work
  • Community Builders
  • Activists & peace workers
  • Lovers

 

What you’ll learn

  • How patriarchy, as a system of oppression, is at the core of political change
  • The political dimension of addressing love and sexuality
  • The healing power of transparency, truth and trust in a group

 

Course content

Through interactive question and answer sessions, as well as spaces for deep sharing, we’ll experience the healing potential of community building. This course will help you develop more contextual awareness and systemic thinking that will help you to find answers and take more effective action. It also offers intimate contact surface with Tamera’s teachers, a unique opportunity to come into personal and beyond personal exchange.

Over six webinars, we’ll enquire:

  • What social architecture is needed to support truth in love and sexuality?
  • How can we move from collective trauma to forgiveness?
  • How can we shift from fear to trust & from jealousy to solidarity?
  • How can intimacy, commitment, and freedom be complimentary, not contradictory?
  • What does it mean to anchor sensual love in the universe?
  • What do queer & Indigenous perspectives bring to the work of healing love in community?

The webinar sessions will be recorded and available to watch afterwards they have finished. Each session will include a lecture and interactive elements: Q&A, conversation, exercises and breakout rooms.

 

Main teachers and facilitators

Sabine Lichtenfels

Sabine Lichtenfels is a peace activist, author and co-founder of Tamera. She heads Tamera’s Global Love School & Tamera’s department for spiritual ecology, Terra Deva. Sabine has been in partnership with co-founder of Tamera, Dieter Duhm, for over 40 years. Through accompanying healing processes in love over decades, she’s deeply touched the truth of how what we think of as “personal” and “private” are global, political, and historical issues.

Benjamin von Mendelssohn

Benjamin von Mendelssohn is a next-generation leader, speaker, global networker, co-leader of the Global Love School and father of 5 children with 3 different mothers. Through building and maintaining a complex love network he has gathered a wealth of insights in healing love. His personal research has explored the role of men in dismantling patriarchy and how to be in service to the feminine.

Guest teachers

We will have one webinar dedicated especially to exploring the intersection of healing love while holding a marginalized identity. For this session our guest speakers will be:

A'ida Shibli

A'ida Shibli is a queer Indigenous Bedouin woman from Palestine who grew up under Israeli occupation; she's a nurse, feminist, ecological & peace activist, long-term member of Tamera & founder of Global Campus Palestine. Since decades she works to end political & sexual repression & violence in her home country & globally, for the liberation of the feminine & for the restoration of community & indigenous knowledge.

Uri Ayalon

Uri Ayalon was born in Israel-Palestine, is a father of 3 and is in a long-term partnership with a man. A committed activist for human and animal rights, he long held the vision for a peace research village in the Middle East. He worked as a journalist, history teacher and gardener. He’s been living in Tamera for 12 years. Uri considers himself queer, usually going by “he” but enjoying to experiment with “she” as well.

After course support

  • Free access to resources for further study
  • Study platform will continue to be open indefinitely and allow you to exchange with fellow students

 

Testimonials

“It’s visible for me to see that Sabine and Benjamin are experienced and have knowledge. When they talked, they brought the essence of things in a few words”.
– Amir Furman

“Shifting from jealousy to solidarity … this webinar spoke to my soul & my heart”.
– Clarisse Daxhelet

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