Education for Peace Building

We are a group of 4 people, already working at Tamera, raising money to take part in a 3-month full-time course: the Healing Biotopes Student Program.

This education is for people who want to dedicate themselves to the emergence of a global network of Healing Biotopes.

The course will train us “to develop the vital social, spiritual and intellectual qualities needed to catalyze Healing Biotopes and to serve the world as a peaceworker.” (Tamera Website – Healing Biotopes Student Program )

What is a Healing Biotope?

“The word “biotope” comes from the Greek “bio” (life) and “topos” (place). It’s a habitat where all life forms – humans, animals, plants, waters and other beings – co-exist in united diversity. Healing Biotopes are futuristic centers for humanity to see and embody a new vision for inhabiting this planet. Through lived examples they demonstrate how a network of decentralized, autonomous communities can emerge around the world as the foundation for a new planetary culture.” (Tamera Website: The Healing Biotopes Plan )



What is Tamera?

Tamera is a community centered around peace research and education. Their aim is to enable people around the globe to build a regenerative, nonviolent culture.

Why choose crowdfunding as a funding method?

Through asking for funds, we are asking the world for resonance for our path of becoming peace workers. By asking others to support us, we are also becoming public about our calling in life.

We are taking this crowdfunding process as a spiritual challenge and an education in itself – over the next weeks, we’ll be presenting video updates in which we introduce ourselves and interview members of the Tamera community with questions such as:

- Why do we need a new culture?
- Why is it important to create peace between the genders?
- What is a peaceworker?
- How can you continue to follow an individual path of growth in community?



How we got to the amount

The full fee for each person for the course (including accommodation and board) is €5700. We're 4 people, and we've also added 5% to the total to cover payment processing, currency conversion and platform fees. We've also already added the funds that we have each.

    1. €30 is the daily fee for 3 meals a day with a bed & bedding. The course is 84 days long.
         => €2520 = 84 days x €30

   2. €3180 is the course fee which includes 6 full time educators/facilitators.
         => €5700 = €3180 + €2520

   3. We are 4 students.
         => €22800 = €5700 x 4

   4. €1140 is the 5% added to cover payment processing, currency conversion & platform fees.
         => €23940 = €22800 + €1140

   5. €5412 is the amount which we have put in.



We are:

Jessica: Community kitchen chef – Tamera’s Guest Center

Franziska: Kitchen chef – Tamera’s Solar Test Field

Ruth: Editor & website support for Tamera’s Institute for Global Peacework

Carolyn: Team Member at Blueprint 200 at Tamera – modeling regenerative refugee settlements