Tamera

Online Course

“Introduction to Love School: Learning to End War”

In this series of webinars, Sabine Lichtenfels and Benjamin von Mendelssohn, co-founders of Tamera’s Global Love School, will explore the foundations for a cultural shift in love and sexuality. 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? What do I love when I love? 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?

Our introduction video gives you an overview of the course:

Sign Up: October 27–November 5, 2023

Registration Deadline

October 26, 2023

Language

English

Cost

We’ll experiment with radical trust, using a gift economy model for this course. Please fill out the following questionnaire which will guide you through a process of choosing how much you want to offer.

Sign Up: October 27–November 5, 2023

Program Details

Through interactive question and answer sessions, as well as spaces for deep sharing, we’ll experience the healing potential of community building.

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?

Time Commitment

The webinars will be held interactively via Zoom on:

  • Friday October 27, 17:00-19:00 (UTC+1/WEST)
  • Saturday October 28, 17:00-19:00 (UTC+1/WEST)
  • Sunday October 29, 17:00-19:00 (UTC/WET)
  • Friday November 3, 17:00-19:00 (UTC/WET)
  • Saturday November 4, 17:00-19:00 (UTC/WET)
  • Sunday November 5, 17:00-19:00 (UTC/WET)

The webinars will be recorded and available on the study platform to watch after they have finished. Each webinar will include a lecture and interactive elements: Q&A, conversation, exercises and breakout rooms.

Speakers

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.

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.

Sign Up: October 27–November 5, 2023

Sign Up: October 27–November 5, 2023

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