Tamera’s Winter Community Intensive

A report from a season of depth and reorientation

by Uri Ayalon & Rui Braga, March 2026

Winter in Tamera is not a time of hibernation. It is a season for tending to the bonds that hold us together, locating ourselves within our vision and the wider movements of the world, and carrying out deeper changes that require more continuity than the busy guest season allows.

Over the past 2 months, the community gathered in an intensive field of reflection, transformation and restructuring. Through retreats, study spaces, dialogue and collective decision-making, we turned toward some of the deeper questions of our life together: Who are we? What holds us? How do we share responsibility? And how can Tamera continue to serve its purpose in a time of global crisis?

This winter included the Kairos Retreat with Johannes Michels and Juliane Paul, a 7-day immersion into the question “Who am I?” through paired inquiry, breathing practices and a monastic lifestyle. It also included our School of Change, where we revisited core questions of Tamera’s theory of change, consciousness work in love and sexuality, decentralised governance and the spiritual-political foundations of the project.

A central focus was our ongoing internal restructuring process around ring co-creation and ring autonomy. This work aims to restore clarity and reciprocity between Tamera and its members, while making visible the different ways people participate in community life. In earlier years, a more cohesive social fabric allowed responsibility to be shared more organically. As this fabric became less clear, imbalances, pressure and overgiving emerged. The new framework seeks to create clearer agreements where they are needed, while protecting the deeper social process through which responsibility can arise naturally from trust, proximity and shared purpose.

The process was complex and at times exhausting, because it was shaped through community participation and the integration of many needs and concerns. But as the saying goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Our hope is that decisions of this depth can be genuinely held by the community itself, not only by a governing body.

With gratitude for this winter, and with openness toward the coming seasons and years.