ZEGG – a place for living and learning

Spring Action in ZEGG

From the 3th to the 10th of march about 30 people from 5 different countries were guests at the ZEGG Spring Activity. This time it was led by Roger Balmer, Kathrin Beyer and Bill Nickl. As always it was a nice mixture of working and living together. In the garden we have spread large amounts of compost to keep the garden fertile. We made our own firewood and stored it, cleaned the windows, swept the streets and cut back the reeds in the sewage plant so that the plant would work well again this year.

We cleaned up the heating house and the children's house, oiled the doors, dug out a big tree stump, painted the windows, renewed the border fences, prepared our flower beds for spring, dismantled an old oil heating system, tidied up the...

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The ZEGG FORUM - a description of one of our brasilian friends

The ZEGG FORUM is a place for research and collective inquiry about everything regarding human beings. For 5 years we are offering now Forum Trainings in Brasil. And the possibilities to try it out are starting to appear. Here is a description of one of our brasilian friends

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One Billion Rising

The Valentisday, 14 February 2019 at ZEGG - dedicated to love for all living things. Around 50 people stood up together at 7:30 a.m. to rise up with the worldwide protest action "One Billion Rising" taking place on this day. The appeal is addressed to all those who speak out against violence against women and in particular for their physical integrity, freedom and self-determination. No to abuse, sexual violence, torture, slander & betrayal. The goal is to win 1 billion people to dance together on this day. More information and opportunities to join in, on the action website:

https://www.onebillionrising.org/

Dressed in red & white, the dancers from...

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I'm learning how to be naked

Felipe Chammas from Brazil visited the ZEGG Summercamp 2018. Here is his report:

 Physically and emotionally, I'm in a cool process of learning how to undress myself to be more confident and connected - with myself and with others.Between July 25th and August 5th I was at ZEGG, in Bad Belzig, a small German town located an hour away from Berlin by train, experiencing their summercamp, of which the theme was From Ego To Compassion.

The name ZEGG is an acronym to Zentrum für Experimentelle GesellschaftsGestaltung (freely translated by me as Center for Experiments in Social and Cultural Design) and the community was created in 1991 by a group of...

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