
Youth IN Change
Yes we (c)are 2025
18th August to 1th September 2025
ZEGG Ecovillage, Germany
A Youth Exchange for young people dedicated to becoming agents of positive change in the world. Are you committed to co-create a life-affirming culture based on trust, authenticity and love?
The Youth IN Change offers you a wide range of powerful tools that support you on your quest.
Table of contents
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
“Youth IN change: yes we (c)are” is a project of “Yes to Sustainability”, an international network aiming at bringing together young people from different regions of Europe by organizing Youth Exchanges and training in various ecovillages and rural projects.
THE YOUTH EXCHANGE
This Youth Exchange invites participants to dive into inner work, self-exploration, and the cultivation of sustainable and authentic relationships, including themes of love and sexuality.
WHO IS IT FOR?
- Individuals willing to work on self-development and relationships.
- People interested in ecovillages lifestyle.
- People willing to grow as change-makers in the field of social and environmental transformation.
- people willing to engage in challenging inner and group processes on the edge of their comfort zone
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
The contents of the training could be modified in progress according to the group’s needs and interests.
CONTENTS
Inner Work
- Engage in emotional process work and self-transformation.
- Embrace vulnerability and grow from the power of its disclosure .
- Embodiment practices
Relationships, love and sexuality
- Explore personal and group dynamics using Forum ZEGG and other methodologies
- Learn to communicate your feelings, needs, desires and boundaries.
- Question conventional relationship patterns and learn to safely explore alternatives in harmony with your desires
Social Awareness and Collective Healing
- Raise awareness about social conditioning.
- Address and heal collective trauma through group processes.
- Learn about ranks, power structure and political issues within groups.
Ecovillage lifestyle
- Learn about sustainable practices in community living settings.
- Experience group dynamics emerging within the group and work with them.
- Support ZEGG community with garden, Terra Preta and kitchen experiences, working together with ZEGG members (4 hours/day in the mornings, for 10 days out of 15 )
THE TOOLS
- ZEGG Forum
- Possibility Management
- Playfight
- Deep Ecology
- Deep Listening
- Process Work
- Loop of Understanding
- Wheel of Consent
- Feeling Compass
- Nature Walk
- Social Permaculture
- Bodywork
- Group facilitation skills
- Power, Rank & Privileges
THE VENUE
TERMS
- Age: Participants must be between 20 and 30 years old.
- Language: Basic English is required for participation.
- Residents in : Spain, Germany, France, Italy
CONSCIOUS CONTRIBUTION
2. TRAVEL INFORMATION
WHEN
From 18th of August to 1th of September 2025
- Arrival: 28th of August, between 15:00 - 18:00
- Departure: 9th of September, in the morning

TRAVEL RULES
TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT
- 23€ (0-99 km)
- 210€ (100-490km)
- 320€ (500-1999km)
- 410€ (2000-2999km) only for Spanish participants possible
HOW TO GET THERE
- Remember to keep all your original travel documents (invoices, electronic tickets, train tickets, fuel bills etc.) and give them to your Group Leader. Please print your electronic tickets beforehand and bring them to the Youth Exchange!
In addition send all your electronic tickets to: - No planes or taxi fares will be reimbursed, if you decide to take a taxi, it will be at your own expense. First class tickets are not accepted.
- Travel documents can be submitted until 14.09.2025 at the latest. After this deadline, all received documents will be collected and forwarded to the host organisation. Only then can the reimbursement process begin. The reimbursement will be made via bank transfer to your account and may take up to four months.
- The work of the organizers and facilitators is not explicitly covered by the funding. Money left over from travel costs is used to fund the organisational costs, so we are happy when you take the extra effort to research affordable travelling possibilities.
3. WHAT TO BRING
- Flashlight
- Sleeping bag, camping mat and your own tent
- Workwear
- Raincoat and warm clothes (the weather can quickly change)
- Comfortable shoes for working, walking and being outside
- Musical instruments and games if you like
- Ecological and biodegradable shampoo, toothpaste and soap
- Diary/ notebook
- Towel for the sauna
- Your European health insurance card or international health insurance
- Mosquito spray
- Your special needs (the nearest shop is 20 minutes to walk)
INSURANCE
4. FOOD & ACCOMODATION
Food
Accomodation
5. FACILITATORS
Ena Rivière Feder: is a Group Facilitator trained by IIFACE, ZEGG Forum facilitator since 2018 and Somatic Experiencing Therapist. She has also been trained for 3 years in Process Work. Ena has lived in the ZEGG community for the past 8 years and facilitates & coordinates ZEGG Forum facilitation training. She is also a yoga and dance teacher. Her approach to dance aims to expand movement possibilities through increased body awareness. She follows the same approach in individual and group facilitation: gaining awareness of processes and patterns to transcend and transform them.
Davide Scotti: is a group facilitator trained according to the IIFACE program, philosophical practitioner and history and philosophy teacher in high school. He has been supporting the work of activist groups and he is now exploring the alternative universe of Ecovillages. In his work with groups , he aims at integrating harmoniously the inner work on emotions and the cognitive work on rationality.
Luis Álvarez: is Group Facilitator in the field of permaculture and regenerative cultures, with more than 8 years facilitating groups, specially in the ecovillages he has been part of: Molino de Guadalmesí (Spain), ZEGG (Germany) and Fuchsmühle (Germany), always gesturing toward a new decolonized culture of love, authenticity, reciprocity, responsibility and entanglement. He has finished the Forum ZEGG facilitation course and the Group Facilitation Basic Course form IIFACe.
6. CONTACT DETAILS
To apply for the training, please fill out this form. Your registration will be confirmed after completing the form.
Dates and registration
Facilitator

Elena Rivière Feder
Ena Rivière Feder Gómez, 1989 in Brüssel geboren, ist halb Deutsche, halb Spanierin –
ist Tänzerin, Group Facilitator, Yoga Lehrerin, Sozialarbeiterin, Shiatsu Therapeutin, Konflikt Transformatior und in Ausbildung zur Somatic-Experiencing Therapeutin.
Sie hat vor allem in Spanien in verschiedenen intentionalen Gemeinschaften gelebt und mitgearbeitet und lebt und arbeitet seit ca. 5 Jahren im ZEGG.
Sie hat verschiedene formelle und nicht-formellen Ausbildungen absolviert, darunter dramatische Künste (Zirkus, Theater und Clown), Tanz (Afrokubanisch, Zeitgenössich und Contact Improvisation), Therapien (Shiatsu, Somatic-Experiencing), Gruppenprozesse (Gruppenmoderation, Aktives Zuhören, Prozessarbeit nach Arnold Mindell, Forum, Traumasensible Konflikt-Transformation nach Daniel auf der Mauer), Naturrituale (Schwitzhütte, Visionssuche, Tiefenökologie), Gender-Arbeit und verschiedene Yogastile. Sie hat auch einen BA-Abschluss in Sozialarbeit.
Heute arbeitet sie vor allem als Forumsleiterin/-ausbilderin in Frankreich und Spanien, als Gruppenleitung im ZEGG, als Yoga Lehrerin/ Ausbilderin und Tanzlehrerin. Ihr Ansatz im Tanz ist es, durch mehr Körperbewusstsein die Möglichkeiten des Bewegungsspielraums zu erweitern. Den gleichen Ansatz verfolgt sie in der Einzel- und Gruppenbegleitung: Bewusstsein erlangen über Prozesse und Muster, um diese zu transzendieren und transformieren.