The Tamera & ZEGG Festival – From Crisis To Connection

Gerrit Jacobi studied business administration and has been involved in various initiatives such as Studies for Future in Berlin. At the Tamera & ZEGG-Festival, he is responsible for all organizational matters and for weaving together all areas of work within the communities. With his esprit, he brings a fresh breeze to the team!

Since 2022, Gerrit—who has been visiting the ZEGG since his youth—lives in the ZEGG community. Here, he organizes and co-leads festivals as part of the team, such as the Summer Camp in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and Easter in 2025. Since January 2025, he has been one of four managing directors at ZEGG. Previously, he worked for various (start-up) companies in Berlin that contribute to a sustainable transformation of the world.These are research topics that move Gerrit:> Peace
> Connected effectiveness
> Collective (or more collective) leadership “Qualities I like to embody are clarity, flow, and connection.”

Gerrit Jacobi hat Betriebswirtschaft studiert und sich für verschiedene Initiativen wie die Studies for Future in Berlin eingesetzt. Beim Sommercamp ist er für alles Organisatorische und das verweben aller Arbeitsbereiche der Gemeinschaft zuständig. Er bringt mit seinem Esprit Frische ins Team!

Seit 2022 lebt Gerrit, der das ZEGG schon seit seiner Jugend besucht, in der ZEGG-Gemeinschaft. Hier organisiert und leitet er im Team Festivals wie 2023 und 2024 das Sommercamp und 2025 Ostern. Seit Januar 2025 ist er einer von vier Geschäftsführer_innen im ZEGG. Vorher arbeitete er für verschiedene (Start-up)- Unternehmen in Berlin, die zu einem nachhaltigen Wandel auf dieser Welt beitragen.

Das sind Forschungsthemen, die Gerrit bewegen:

Friedenverbundene Wirksamkeit kollektive(re) Führung

„Qualitäten, die ich gerne verkörpere sind Klarheit, Flow und Anbindung.“

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.

Born in 2001, 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.

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.

Jessica Bomball 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.

He lives in Tamera and is a next-generation leader, speaker and global networker, was for 15 years director of The Grace Foundation, is co-founder of the Global Love School and father of 5 children. His passion is to find out how to truly embody humane, futurological and global concepts and thoughts that could bring change to our cultural development.