What was there for you…? 

The festival featured lectures/workshops, music and more

Several speakers made their presentations and slides available. Further information on the content and speakers, including photos, can be found by clicking on the “Information about the speakers” button.

Iris Baumann: Matriarchy – Love life with a difference (German)
Joan Marler, María Suárez Toro, Hayden Mayorga, Layli Moreno: Revitalizing Our Roots. Sharing Lived Experiences in Archaeomythology and Citizenry Sciences Today. Follow-up discussion as a special event on the Maternal Gift Economy website, with further information, with further Information
Kaarina Kailo: An ecosocially sustainable matriverse (Slides as PDF)
Li Shalima: Keynote speech for the festival: How did the needs panel come about? (German)
Marisa Schoo: Nutritional change and attitude change with solidarity agriculture (German)
Matriarchy Now: Film by Andrea Lötscher about the performance
Regina Hunschock: Three Graces (poem) (German)
Simran Wester: Exercise «If I had experienced what you experienced» (German)

Here we link to some reports about the festival with personal experiences from participants and speakers.

Anne Caroline Liechti: Matriarchy for Future. Blog on the site FREUA, lived female spirituality (German)
Annine van der Meer: Een kort verslag. (A short report, Dutch)
Daniela Annetta: Matriarchy for future. Celebrare l’equilibrio. (Report in Pressenza, Redazione Italia)
Ilona Willms und Julia Rupprecht: Conversation about the festival on the Instagram channel deine_soulsista (German)
Nana Sturm: Festival Matriarchy for Future – Thank you! (Post No. 174 on the Matriwissen channel, German)
Mutterlandbriefe, No. 36, Autumn 2025, with three articles on the festival (German)
Irene Kurock was so enthusiastic that she compiled  festival speakers’ performances through the end of the year. Maybe there’s one near you!

An important part of the program was the regional meetings, with the idea of continuing to cultivate the insights and networks after the festival. Here you can find the names and addresses of the contact persons for the individual regions.

For the lectures and workshops, we have based ourselves on the cornerstones that Heide Göttner-Abendroth has identified as fundamental to a human society: social order, politics, economics, spirituality and, in addition, ecology.

Social order – From the alphabet for a fulfilled life and community, non-violent conflict resolution and a new way of thinking about love
Politics – From sociocracy and decisions in consensus, life-serving social transformation and climate justice
Ecology – From permaculture and solidarity agriculture, urban gardening and subsistence farming
Economy – From the common good and solidarity, gift economy and fair money
Spirituality – From the advice of grandmothers and vision quests, deep ecology and real relationships with the more-than-human world

Social order

There are forms of societies …
… in which everyone is well, mothers and children are at the centre, all generations are important. Where one and one is more than two…

Connected instead of lost

Politics

We know examples…
… everyone is heard and decisions are made by consensus. There is wise counsel and words still apply…

Deciding for life

Ecology

A World in which…
… animals and plants, land and people, forests and rivers, seas and lakes are more than raw materials and resources…

Feeling with the earth

Economy

We know examples…
… of a prudent approach to the earth. Of an honourable harvest that does not take everything, but also gives. Gifts that rotate in circles…

Abundance in motion

Spirituality

We know corporate forms…
… which are fundamentally loving, life-affirming and peaceful, where the feminine principle is sacred to all as the creation of life…

Forward with roots

There are two concerts each on Friday and Saturday evening in the main hall, and on Thursday evening you can get into the festival mood by dancing for two hours. There are also musical performances in the castle courtyard during the day, and disco music can be heard in special rooms at night for anyone who isn’t tired yet.

We were able to book Yaël Deckelbaum, Meera Eilabouni, Lusia Laakmann, Laura Lee & The Jettes, and Schwessi for the concerts, as well as Caroline S’Jegers for the dance evening on Thursday. You can find more information on the Music page.

You still don’t have enough? 

At the festival you will also find offers for body, mind and soul

Performance, musical theater, films and discussions on matriarchal themes, art exhibitions, markets and information stands, circle dances and dance rituals, voice ceremonies, yoga, rituals for the earth and much more are planned. You can already find some of them on the website: