After the Summer University
Global Grace Village – Creating Models for a Future without War

http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=624&L=0 (slideshow and text)

The Summer University of Tamera was a gathering of visionary spirits and peace workers from all around the world. There were moving insights about the situation in the world by authentic reports and experiences of involved people from many countries. Compassion with the fate of other people in the world led to a deeper connection among the participants; the common will arose to help and to “become the change.” We also looked into visions of a different future – a humane society inspired by utopian models of communities who develop a new unified and truthful relationship between humans, toward nature and toward the divine. After the Summer University, 96 people went on a Vision Quest.

Sometimes it seemed that different, parallel lines of pilgrimages crossed each other’s paths in Tamera – under the shade pavilion of the Aonda, in the Stone Circle, in the Aula.
Among the 400 participants of the Summer University, there were people like the musician, Claudio – who heard about Tamera in the slums of Sao Paolo and made the impossible possible, raising the money for the trip and coming for six weeks to Tamera.
And Fernando Quiganas, a young representative of the Nasa tribe from Colombia – a native tribe which fight with nonviolent methods for their land and their culture. Fernando had been fasting for days in the rainforest to prepare for his trip to Europe.
Then there was a group from Mexico who no longer want to stand by and helplessly watch the increasing violence of the state and drug traffic, who followed the hope to find a new perspective in Tamera.
There was also Beyond Boundaries from USA, a small group who for one year will visit different projects in the world and bear witness to the emergence of a new age.
Add to that about 200 interested people from Portugal, including some of our neighbors, who came especially for the Open Weekend.

Dieter Duhm: “The real help for people from indigenous cultures, from the slums, from South America, Tibet and other place is the rising consciousness to belong not only to their local tribes but also to a planetary community. The encounters which took place here, the resonance that was created, made it more and more obvious that this planetary community exists.“

We give thanks…
To Starhawk, from San Francisco, for her deep commitment to nature and social justice, and to her powerful full moon ritual.
To Sami Awad and the team from the Holy Land Trust from Bethlehem in Palestine, who could deepen the human and factual base for the planned Peace Research Village in the Middle East (PRV).
To Lama Thubten Wangchen, who represented the lovable and open soul of Tibet and its strong call for freedom.
To the artist John Devaraj from India, for his work with children and his powerful creative contributions for peace.
To Padre Javier Giraldo and the other important members of the Peace Community San José de Apartadó in Colombia.
To Alfredo Cunhal, the owner of one of the biggest organic farms in Portugal, who gave us a vision of a farmer which has become a caretaker of the Earth.
To Jürgen Kleinwächter and the team of the SolarVillage who inspired many people with their rapidly developing construction site for the Test Field.
To Mara Vollmer and Martin Winiecki for leading a six-week camp on the youth place in which young peace workers could study the main thoughts of a Movement for a Free Earth. To all musicians, artists, ecologists, political activists, and the coworkers of the horse project who, behind the scenes, showed many people a way to trust in Creation again. To the children´s place and many others.
And very special thanks to the founders Tamera, Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels, who, with their spirit and engagement, always set a benchmark for thoughts and actions which really have the power to change.

How can we continue what we have learned here?

During the Summer University many people came in contact with a concrete utopia and a new perspective for their way of living. So some questions were asked many times, like how can we continue what we have learned here? How can Tamera support us in doing so? Where do we learn to create stable communities? What kind of actions can make a change and how can we really help? How does a global movement emerge?
Tamera will work on these questions in the next months. We will think about perspectives and offers for further peace studies and networking on the way to a Global Campus and a network for peace workers worldwide.

Vision Quest

A few days after the Summer University, 96 people – co-workers, students and guests – went on a Vision Quest. For four days and nights, in the heat of the summer, in the dry and dusty land around Tamera, people between 18 and 66 years from many different countries and cultures, all of them alone under a tree only having water and a blanket with them, asked the most important question: Where does Creation want to see me? What is my deepest call?
They were guided and protected by Ofer Israeli, Sabine Lichtenfels, and their teams. Unusual encounters with animals, plants and the elements showed that the all of nature helps when people again start to look for the original connection to the divine. The intensity of the Vision Quest encompassed the whole site and again and again moved it from a place of bustling activity to the frequency of silent awareness.

Tamera Peace Resesarch Center´s work is based on more than 30 years of experience in building community, and in inner and outer peacework.
After 3 years of intensive peace studies, we are inviting visionaries from all over the world for a ten-day think tank to create a future without war.

Solarpowervillage, community, future ecology, peaceeducation, genderpeace, Planet Earth, water.

Global Grace Villlage
July 29th - Aug 7th 2009 in Tamera, Portugal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DFy9Omq_8

Warm welcome !
Peter Koll
Tamera Team
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15th Summeruniversity in Tamera, Portugal :

Global Grace Village - Creating Models for a Future without War
Tamera Summer University - 29th July - 07th August 09

Survival is no longer a private matter, it has become a global issue.
This is an invitation to take part in a think tank and to build a vision for a future without war.

Planet Earth was meant to be Paradise. However, people seem to have forgotten it. Today we live in a time where extensive parts of humanity live in misery and destruction and ever more beings experience comparable fate on an every day basis, so it has become a question of survival to remember the grand original dream of a healthy planet, home to everything that lives.
Do we know our true power? Do we know what a small group of people following a clear vision of the future can change? Those who want to end war need a vision for peace.

After three years of peace research of the Monte Cerro Peace Experiment, Tamera Peace Research Center invites to a summer of vision building.

The vision of a Global Grace Village
How do future societies that are not based on fear, domination, and violence, but instead built on trust look like? Which kind of technological, ecological, architectural, and social structures will societies, resonating with the cosmic order of life, display? How will future societies, where children fully trust their parents again and where lovers never have to leave each other ever again, come into being? Which professions will they have and how will young people learn how to invest their strength for peace?
We call this vision of peace Global Grace Village. We assume that when the first planetary peace model is fully realized in all its depths, it will be a decisive contribution to a future without war.

Next steps of realization: Peace Research Village Middle East
Currently a group of Israelis, Palestinians, and Internationals are preparing the concrete construction of the first peace model. They will present themselves and their project. After the Summer University they will head off to the Middle East and check if the first Peace Research Village can be built there. We will also host representatives from the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó, Colombia, as well as many other guests.

Visionaries, scientists, youth activists, love adventurers:
With global crises overlapping, it is becoming evident that we are close to facing a paradigm shift; so let´s get together and learn to SEE!

Please note: You can stay longer!

Youth Future Village - Global youth summer with Mara Vollmer - July 18th to August 31st
How does a Movement for a Free Earth arise? Tamera International Youth Center invites young leaders for a 6-week intensive workshop. We also invited people from crisis areas like San José de Apartadó, a peace community in Colombia, young representatives of indigenous cultures, and people from Dharamsalla, a Tibetan exile haven in India. The gathering will serve to establish and deepen contact between cultures and religions, to awaken towards a global thinking, loving, and acting. Let's have a new love affair for a future without war.

Following the Tamera Summer University: Vision Quest with Ofer Israeli - August 12th to the 17th
A vision quest is a sacred ritual for the healing of people and Earth. The core of it will be to spend four days and nights alone in the wilderness.


Price (including Food and Accommodation): 640,- Euro,
reduced price for people up to 25, students, people from Portugal and poor countries: 320,- Euro

Young people, please note:We invest for a future. Tamera has created a contingent for 30 young people who can take part in the Summer University for the symbolic price of 100,- Euro. This contingent is meant for active and committed young people up to 20. Please apply for it until the 30th of June. Once the 30 places have been taken, you can still register for the reduced price of 320 Euro. Please only apply if you cannot come for the normal price.

For those who are interested in investing for a future: You are invited to increase the number of 30 people with a donation.

Registration: office(at)tamera.org or fon: 00351 -283 635306

register : http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=164
event url : http://summeruniversity.tamera.org/su09/

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Approximately 400 people will go on a Peace Pilgrimage from October 1st to October 5th, 2008.Peace workers from Israel, Palestine and many more countries - including representatives of the “new South American spirit of resurrection” from Mexico, Ecuador and other countries - will be led by Sabine Lichtenfels and Padre Javier Giraldo, together with experienced regional guides. The idea for this pilgrimage grew out of the long standing cooperation between the Peace Research Centre Tamera, Portugal, and the Peace Village San José de Apartadó. Together with the inhabitants of other Colombian Peace Villages, they will show with this peace action their commitment to build up a global peace force which no longer stops at national borders.The pilgrimage will pass through villages and hamlets surrounding San José, where, due to their remoteness, people live near military posts, police headquarters and other significant locations of the rebellion, totally unprotected between the fronts of the civil war. The goal of the pilgrimage is to become familiar with the threat to which Colombian peasants are exposed, to develop peace strategies, and to strengthen the Ring of Power – a confraternity for a future without war!

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Peter Koll
TameraTeam

Warm welcome !
Watch the opening speech of "Be the Change - Youth for a Future without war" here :
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=-t4n_3tBiQ8&watch_response .
And look at reviews, interviews, weblogs and slideshow of the past event :
http://summeruniversity.tamera.org/
We´ve prepared a follow-up event :
4 weeks : Basic Course - Peace Village, Community, Ecology :
http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=474

Peter Koll
Tamera Team