Our values

Love is our highest value. It connects us with all people in the world and with all of creation. As universal love, it can embrace everything, accept, forgive and integrate what has gone before. And it makes us strive for "higher things", for the good of the whole and for more clarity and light in the world. In community we learn to choose love again and again. Love reduces separation and fears. For us, erotic love belongs to a life-affirming culture alongside self-love and love of neighbour.

Consciousness is our true nature. For us, spiritual consciousness means understanding ourselves and others as part of a higher order, a greater whole. We are more than the body-mind-feelings complex.

Meditation practice and transformation of individual and collective shadow parts enable deeper awareness.

Feedback culture, forum and mindfulness in everyday life are important tools among us to uncover ego structures and find compassionate presence.

We face our responsibility for the future of life. It is about ecology and sustainability for the next generations.

We work to promote life in a deeply understood sense of Earth Care - People Care - Fair Share. In cooperation with others, we implement creative, proven and effective solutions for the challenges of the present.

Community is a flexible vessel for trust and care throughout the arc of life. We foster social interaction and feedback to promote potential development and human growth.

In this process, the abilities of individuals can unfold as well as collective intelligence and synergy. We make relevant decisions together. Living and loving communally is the starting point for experimentation, spiritual growth, effectiveness and for networking within the global community.

ZEGG, the Centre for Experimental Social Design, sees itself as a transformatory. Experimentation fertilises all areas of our lives and enables the development of consciousness at all levels. This includes embedding and reflection, alignment with direction or core values, flow back into the community, integration and sharing with the world.

For experimentation, we are willing to take risks, accept mistakes and break open our everyday life. Experimentation is about creating aliveness, awareness and social warmth.

Effectiveness for us means creating meaningful and effective impulses for more love, awareness and sustainability. It is important to us that our values guide our actions and gain strength in ZEGG and beyond.

As a community we develop personal and cultural conditions for trust and cooperation. This is the basis for our educational and counselling services and other projects with which we contribute to changing values. We cooperate with people, initiatives, communities and companies locally and in the world.

Our seventh guiding value is the promotion of wealth for the benefit of all. Wealth is an expression of abundance and freedom and encompasses the material, the intellectual and the spiritual. We look back proudly and gratefully on decades of communal experience.

We have created an unusual, beautiful, ecological place and continue to develop it. We are rich in competence, deep consciousness and material resources. Through this wealth we can give effectively, receive further wealth in return and contribute to a more loving world.