This is a workshop about being free to love, becoming open to life to allow the juice of life to flow unimpeded by shoulds and oughts and beyond arbitrary conventions of how people are supposed to relate.
How can we design our life to be open and juicy? In our experience trust is the glue that keeps lovers together. Trust is created when the inner processes of all involved become transparent and open, and therefore understandable. When every person shares his or her deep motivations in the centre of a group, with the group's full attention, then trust, empowerment and love will grow.
As trust builds, the group becomes a safe space to share our deepest truths, our most intimate longings and to dare be ourselves and be seen. In that context of transparency and openness, we grow into our power to love. This is a growth that means to see and shape our own being, to take responsibility not just for ourselves but for others, our community and our world.
During the workshop sessions we will learn and experience practices and exercises—especially a process called
Forum—that will raise our awareness, trust and transparency. Over the week we will grow together as a community and experience the healing power of a group of trusted people. Love is the flower that grows out of this soil!
Contact Information
Contact Ina Stoll-Meyer and Achim Ecker at
ZEGG Ecovillage
Rosa Luxemburg Str. 89
D-14806 Belzig
Germany
+49 33841 59553 (telephone)
Email:
Web Site: Zegg-forum.org |
The ZEGG Forum
ZEGG-Forum is an awareness and transparency training for groups from 10 to 35 participants. It is an artistic way of personal sharing; a stage for whatever is happening inside us. Here our true motivations, our deep feelings, longings, ideas and emotions become visible. This gentle
focus on sharing, radical feedback and clarifying unsolved situations makes it an invaluable catalyst for ones own growth.
Forum was developed 30 years ago by the Meiga project (the forerunner of the ZEGG community) as a tool to create trust and transparency in committed communities. It integrates individual healing work within the process of building strong community.
The sessions this week will be aimed at supporting the growth of deep awareness and trust in the process of communal communication training. The week will offers you greater clarity, transparency and cohesion about your own and other's relationships. It will foster personal growth, empowerment and healing for individuals.
You are invited in this week to get to know the method of Forum and its underlying ideas/world view, train deep inner listening and awareness and heal relationships through transparency.
What they say about this workshop
“Your humility, presence, ease, love, joy, playfulness, beauty, wisdom,
etc, etc moved and inspired me SO much!” — Collette, USA, 2009
“It gave me countless tools and lots of hope. Profound hope to find
more peace in relationships, friendships and all kinds of human
relations.” — Nena, Brazil, 2009
“Very few people know about the art of communication. You don't just only know, but you know how to make people communicate. An incredible power. Besides that, you have the hunger to create a better world, to care for the planet and the people. You are a powerful gate for the people.” — Marcos Pintobo, Brazil, Bio-Architect, 2009
About the Facilitators
Ina Meyer-Stoll trained originally as a teacher, has been a peace and environmental activist from her youth. She was one of the founding members of the ecovillage ZEGG where she has been active in various ways since 1991. For many years she was executive secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network of Europe, (www.gen-europe.org), which supports
the implementation of sustainable communities in Europe. She has been a communications trainer for almost 20 years, specializing in building community, and creating transparency and trust in group processes.
Achim Ecker studied social work, was active in the 80s social change, environmental and non- violent direct action movement as a trainer for for NV-action. He has organized and focalized international youth camps around Europe. At ZEGG he is the chief landscape designer and eco builder and works with Permaculture principles restoring the fertility of the land. His motivation is a deep caring for the Earth and the people. For the last 15 years he has been teaching Forum and awareness training internationally.
Ina and Achim have lived at ZEGG for 25 years and have long experience with Forum. They have been deeply involved in its development and have trained and supervised others at ZEGG and in communities in Europe, South America and the USA. Since 2006 they entered a deep spiritual training to broaden their communication and training skills. Ina and Achim see themselves as constantly learning to be more authentic in their lives and in their teachings. Living in a community with a strong focus on love, partnership and friendship, gives them a special awareness in these issues. They live in a committed and polyamorous partnership.
