A Festival for Our Times
Community - Our Strongest Response
- What are the foundations of a new, peaceful culture?
- How can we open our hearts to the suffering — and the beauty — of the world?
- What is needed to heal eros, love, partnership, and sexuality?
- How can the lived knowledge of communities like Tamera and ZEGG serve the wider world?
- What unique power lives in each of us?
- What is our strongest collective response?
- What is your strongest response?
Team
Vera
She lived in ZEGG before she moved to Tamera in Portugal at the age of 14. Since then, she has taken on different roles within the community, with a passion for creating global alliances with other inspiring front-line projects, especially in the geopolitical South. She is the mother of three children, and sustainable development (SD) has always been a passion of hers.
Gerrit
Since 2022, Gerrit — who has been visiting ZEGG since his youth — has been living in the ZEGG community. Here, he organizes and co-leads festivals, including the Summer Camp in 2023 and 2024, and the Easter gathering in 2025. Since January 2025, he has been one of four managing directors of ZEGG. Before that, he worked for various (start-up) companies in Berlin that contribute to sustainable transformation in the world.
Jessica
Jessica studied theater in Leipzig and worked as a professional actress for many years. She loves to act, perform and improvise, and in these artistic expressions finds a powerful channel for her creative energies. She joined Tamera in 2017, where she finds a place to perform and live these life energies not only “on stage” but in real life. She’s a community builder and socially supports adults, youth and children.
Elias
Lives at ZEGG since 2022. Elias completed his training in the ZEGG garden and works there with great joy as part of a dedicated team. He’s also involved in the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. The question that drives him is: How and where can we be effective in today’s world? Elias is a person full of curiosity and energy who can get excited about many different topics.
Benjamin
He lives in Tamera and is a next-generation leader, speaker and global networker, director of The Grace Foundation, co-leader of the Global Love School and father of 5 children.
Hannah
Hannah Stietenroth studied political science and works in the fields of youth education and group facilitation.
A question that continues to guide her is: How can we strengthen relational competence – with ourselves, with one another, with the earth, and within our social and political systems?
In her educational work, she accompanies groups through processes around mediation, trauma healing, and democratic engagement. She is a certified Yoga Teacher and Holistic Bodywork Practitioner. Since 2016, she has lived and learned in different intentional communities.
A question that continues to guide her is: How can we strengthen relational competence – with ourselves, with one another, with the earth, and within our social and political systems?
In her educational work, she accompanies groups through processes around mediation, trauma healing, and democratic engagement. She is a certified Yoga Teacher and Holistic Bodywork Practitioner. Since 2016, she has lived and learned in different intentional communities.
Mara
Mara is a community builder, a researcher into freeing love from fear and works in the Political Ashram.
She was born in the Black Forest, Germany, into the “Bauhuette” community in 1984. When she was 6 years old, she moved with most of the community to a town near Berlin, where they established ZEGG. She spent her youth in ZEGG and went to Tamera in 2001. Since then she lives in Tamera.
She serves various groups and courses within Tamera as a group facilitator. She is currently involved in the spiritual and social education within the Political Ashram. In this work, she dedicates herself especially to studying the spiritual realms. Throughout her life, learning love has played a crucial role. She continues to learn through the processes she undergoes, deepening her ability to anchor herself in the spiritual world so she can carry out this work.
Rina
A systemic therapist, dancer, and experiential educator born in 1994, she has been living in the ZEGG community since 2023. Rina combines therapeutic sensitivity with a warm, embodied presence. She loves witnessing how groups grow together, how people unfold their potential, and how shared pathways emerge for navigating what feels challenging. What matters most to her is creating a space where mistake-friendliness and mutual support can flourish — a place where people learn to meet themselves and others with openness and compassion. Her experience in community spans from scouting to spiritual groups and group therapies, all the way to communal life at ZEGG.Plus over 15 additional facilitators from ZEGG & Tamera offering workshops, talks, rituals and home groups.
Dolores
Dolores Richter is committed to joint research for a profound cultural transformation. “How can we shape our coexistence among humans and between humans and nature cooperatively? How can we create a life-serving culture?” — she sees the fundamental elements of this in being embedded in communal and spiritual connection, living in accordance with one’s nature, communication, relational skills, and mature sexuality. Through communal and spiritual awareness, the quality of our romantic relationships changes fundamentally. They become more honest, generous, and generate energy for our contribution to the world. Dolores Richter was part of the project group from 1980, out of which the ZEGG emerged in 1991, and she has been active in ZEGG and the community movement ever since. She has held various professional roles and gathered extensive interpersonal experience. She lives in a long-term open partnership, is the mother of a son, a love researcher, and the author of the book Liebe als soziales Kunstwerk.
Plus over 15 additional facilitators from ZEGG & Tamera offering workshops, talks, rituals and home groups.
Beautiful Location
The festival takes place at ZEGG in Bad Belzig, Germany, approximately 80km southwest of Berlin. The campus offers modern facilities and is surrounded by a beautiful forests in the Brandenburg countryside.
Getting There
Berlin airports (BER) serve as main international hubs. Direct trains from Berlin to Bad Belzig take 75 minutes. Parking Spaces available.
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