Andrea Lötscher is an ethnologist and filmmaker. She was born in Basel in 1974. She spent her childhood in Switzerland and Canada. She has lived in Germany since 1989.
1994 – 2001 Studied ethnology at the WWU Münster, degree: Master
2001 Edited a first documentary film project
2001-2004 Worked as an assistant director and editor in a Cologne film production company
2007 Founded Mondrosen – Documentary Films. Since then she has worked as a freelance filmmaker in the field of documentary film, image film, and documentation. Over 120 short films and two long documentaries have been produced.

Since the beginning of 2024 she has been studying “Modern Matriarchy Research” at the HAGIA Academy.

BALTIC HEALING. A documentary film followed by a film discussion
In the Latvian Pirts (traditional sauna/steam bath), an ancient European healing tradition has survived to the present day. It is based on herbal medicine and is connected to nature and the festivals of the year.

BALTIC HEALING was filmed in June 2023 during the summer solstice celebrations. The documentary portrays four healers who work in the Pirts. The Pirts ritual is compared to returning to the womb and subsequent rebirth. During the ritual, the healers use flowers, medicinal herbs, bundles of birch branches, herbal body scrubs, massages, ancient chants… and fly agarics (Amanita muscaria)… to reconnect their patients with their body and soul.

Because that is healing: returning to our true self.

www.mondrosen.com

Anne Wiebelitz-Saillard, (M.A.), *1987, transformation in natura® coach and ritual designer, vision quest leader (forest time), trainer & process facilitator for conflict transformation, wilderness educator and mother.

I design development spaces for individuals and organizations that help you to connect with yourself, others and nature in conflict processes and other transitions. For a soulful landscape, organizations & people. For liveliness and a culture of balance. For connection to nature, yourself and other people.

Serving life: Transformation for social change – the political dimension of matriarchal life.
Workshop together with Walle Gairing. Matriarchal ways of life and forms of society offer an idea of ​​how differently we could live, do business, love…. Fairy tales that have been critically analyzed and reformulated tell us how transformation processes can succeed today: contrary to the ever higher-faster-further trend of capitalist patriarchal societies, we invite you to engage in a process of devotion to Mother Nature. In the Wheel of Transformation (Ursula and David Seghezzi, Uma Institute), a cyclical structure is drawn showing how we can follow the call, overcome barriers, trust in emptiness and helplessness, and open ourselves to the beings of nature in order to receive the gifts of «Holle» as «Goldmaries».

We want to explore this life-serving process and transfer what it can mean for the individual, the group, the organization, and our society in overcoming prevailing crises.

www.umainstitut.net
www.wald-seele-raum.net
www.anne-wiebelitz-saillard.de

Barbara Elisabeth Graf Irisdotter, born on Lake Constance at the May Festival in 1968 – mother, architect, professor of permaculture. Together with her partner, she has been building a motherland as a mature permaculture system since 2007 and heads «AUTarcaMatricultura», Autonomous Academy for Permaculture, Tinizara, La Palma. She inspires global research on topics such as «healthy bees», «forest garden systems» and «weather work». Her work enjoys international recognition.

The everyday life of a naturopath for the whole world

Lecture
I would like to briefly introduce permaculture as an earth-cosmos-spiritual way of living, working, researching and doing business and show why the knowledge from modern matriarchy research is essential in building mature, healthy systems.

It is also very important to me to explain 1. why awareness of natural cycles as a very concrete integration into everyday life is an indispensable basis for social change and 2. how this permacultural awareness makes decision-making in electoral communities easier in order to then support these by consensus in the long term.

Workshop
I will introduce very specific tools and methods for different lifestyles and all climate zones on earth, which enable us to reconnect with the «universal world» in our «everyday life» and thus support your recovery. It is also about cultivating healthy images again!

www.matricultura.org

Cécile Keller was born in Switzerland in 1948 and is a doctor. She attended further training courses at the “Quetzalcoatl” Centre for Shamanic Knowledge in Ronco, Ticino (Switzerland). She also specialises in body-soul therapy and phytotherapy (herbal medicine). She has been working as a doctor and healing counsellor in her own practice in Germany since 2005.

Since 1997 she has been running the HAGIA Academy together with Heide Göttner-Abendroth. Here she leads the Matriarchal Mystery Festivals and the Spiritual Healing Circles. She co-organised the three major congresses on matriarchal research/matriarchal politics.

She conducts her own research on Matriarchal Medicine and presented it at the two World Congresses in Luxembourg (2003) and in San Marcos, Texas (2005).

Matriarchal medicine
In matriarchal societies, medicine is holistic and based on experiential knowledge. It has its origins in a female world view in which mother goddesses are worshipped in healing ceremonies.

The central role played by women in the healing ceremonies is shown.

Some principles are presented, in particular the different concepts of health and illness.

Finally, it is shown that all forms of matriarchal medicine are practised in a spiritual context.

www.hagia.de

Christiane van Schie, born in 1959 on the Havel, is a qualified designer, author and dance therapist. She founded elemental dance in 2009 and has been running women’s camps on the island of Rügen for 16 years on the topics of courage, mother/daughter, female sexuality, relationships, peace and self-esteem. Her heart’s desire is to empower and encourage women to pursue their own path in life in a self-determined and independent manner.
For her, a society in which men and women live together as equals is the basis for peace.
While working on her book “In the lap of the earth mother” she sought and found answers to the following questions: What are menstrual taboos based on? Are there sweat lodge traditions in European culture? What influence did Christianization have on Native American ceremonies?
Since 1990 she and her partner have been looking after a two-hectare landscape park, which she regularly opens for women’s camps and dance workshops.

Lecture and discussion with pictures from the book: In the lap of the earth mother

The sweat lodge ceremony is an ancient female healing method.
This ceremony has not only been handed down to us from North America, but it also existed in Europe 2800 years ago, as archaeological excavations have shown.
What is original about sweat lodge ceremonies and what has been reshaped and distorted by patriarchal thinking? The degradation of women in patriarchal society also comes to us in the form of menstrual taboos, which are still used in some sweat lodge ceremonies today.
The lecture provides some food for thought on the questions: What are menstrual taboos based on? What influence did and does Christianization have on the ceremonies of the Native Americans? How can we free ourselves from patriarchal thinking and reflect on our own, ancient, female knowledge?

Dance workshop mother-daughter relationship

The basis for a matrilineal society is peace in the maternal line.
The relationship between mothers and daughters is usually disturbed from the beginning. What woman wants to be like her mother? If you reject your mother, you reject half of yourself.
The dance workshop offers the opportunity to take part in a forgiveness ceremony to go a little further on the path to a peaceful relationship with your mother. This is also possible if your mother is no longer alive.

www.frauenheilweise.de

Claudio Harder (*1955). Organisational developer, coach, process worker. Founder and managing director of social economy companies. He is committed to healing the consequences of patriarchy, matriarchal awareness and women’s projects. He is fascinated by co-operative, empathic and life-friendly interaction.

www.n-b.ch

The Council of European Grandmothers was founded in 2005 by a group of women in Merano (Italy). The idea was inspired by the “Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers”, which some women had attended.

Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim from the Indigenous Grandmothers was present as a guest and a bridge was built.

It was time to re-establish and revitalise the knowledge of the interconnectedness of all life for the next generations.

We do not use the term grandmothers in the biological sense, but rather to refer to all older women with their experiences and broader view of life.

As a council, we do not see ourselves as an organisation, but rather as an organism that is alive and can change and react to life’s situations with openness.

We meet every nine months and each organiser chooses a topic for the meeting, which spans a weekend. We exchange ideas with each other, we invite the public to these different topics and we celebrate the earth with rituals.

More information: www.councileugrandmothers.eu

Susan Gönner and Simon Weiland
As musicians, we are connected by the idea of ​​making a contribution together beyond patriarchal structures and as a couple we found each other in an open and questioning encounter with individual gray areas of our own gender. Being allowed to be human. We are happy that our path has led us to this festival.

Duo 2 Sam – Poetry & Music
We are a duo with sensitive music and poetry in German on the topics of people, nature and society. How can utopias become reality? Susan writes the songs and sings. Simon accompanies on the guitar. Delicate and powerful vibrations arise that naturally evoke resonance. The music wants a silent presence. Interior spaces are allowed to grow.

Duo 2 Sam

Francesca Rosati Freeman, Teacher, writer, documentarist, lives in France.

Books: Benvenuti nel paese delle donne. 2010 ; Sur les rives du lac Mère. 2015;

Films: Nu Guo. In The Name of The Mother, awarded in France, 2015.
Gammu. Montagna, Dea, Madre. 2016, a short film about Moso women and Nature.

Since 2021 she has been running Matricomunità, a group of 410 members, with the aim of informing and training women interested in matriarchal values and how to apply them in daily life.

www.francescarosatifreeman.com

Genevieve Vaughan, b. Texas 1939, is an independent researcher author and editor of several books, founder of the multicultural all-woman Foundation for a Compassionate Society (1988-2005) a temple to Ancient Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet in the Nevada desert near the nuclear test site (1992 – present), and the International Feminists for a Gift Economy network (2001 -present). She lives part time in Italy, part in the USA. On her website www.MaternalGiftEconomyMovement.org you can sign up for free bi-weekly Zoom salons on all aspects of the gift paradigm as an alternative to Patriarchal Capitalism.

The Maternal Gift Economy as the deep Alternative to Patriarchal Capitalism
The unilateral giving by motherers to children is the first economy but has not been recognized as such by the economy of quid pro quo exchange, which contradicts it. Yet ‘free’ giving, from breathing to communicating and provisioning is a much wider way of satisfying needs than exchange. I believe that the original maternal giving-receiving interaction with the human infant lays down the basic blueprint of our lives, but that it is contradicted in two ways, by the socialization of the boy in opposition to the primary maternal identification, and by the market contradiction of the gift by exchange. These are two abstractions from gifting that cause Patriarchal Capitalism and its extraction of the gifts of humans and the planet. By recognizing our original unilateral gift blueprint, we can return to its corresponding mindset and maternal model and priorities, which are expressed in the values of matriarchy.

www.gift-economy.com

Dr Heide Goettner-Abendroth (*1941) taught philosophy and theory of science at the University of Munich. Co-founder of women’s studies from 1976. Through her lifelong research work and her series «Das Matriarchat» (Kohlhammer-Verlag), she became the founder of modern matriarchal research.

Since 1986 she has founded and directed the “International Academy HAGIA”. Lecturer at various universities, visiting professor in Montreal and Innsbruck. Lectures and tours at home and abroad. She has chaired three world congresses for matriarchal research in Europe and the USA. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Swiss organisation and in 2007 by a Finnish initiative.

Matriarchal politics and the vision of a new society

Matriarchal politics is based on modern matriarchal research and its aim is to create an egalitarian, peaceful society. How this can be achieved is shown to us by living matriarchal societies whose traditions go back centuries/ millennia.

Their economy, politics, social organisation and spirituality show extremely interesting patterns of how societies can be created and maintained without violence and based on balance and reciprocity. This applies to the microstructures of family, clan and village as well as to the macrostructure of city, region and interconnection of regions.

My lecture will explain how this rich treasure of human experience can be utilised today for the development of a new society without violence and wars.

www.hagia.de

Heidrun Fiedler is a trainer, coach, therapist and home birth midwife as well as producer and author of the film Restorative Circles.

A world with restorative practices
Restorative practices open up a space that supports us in tackling conflicts constructively and learning from them.

They are systemic conflict resolution models in the form of communication circles that acknowledge conflicts. They are accessible to all conflicts, applicable in all areas of life and available to all members of a community. The process begins when we recognize that everything that affects you also affects me.

www.heidrun-fiedler.de
www.restorative-circles.de

Matriarchal societies have a completely different world view. Values such as: Nurturing, care, nourish, integrating and equality are highly respected and apply to all people living in this society.

In this workshop, I would like to focus specifically on love life in matriarchal societies.

Through my work as a couples and sexual counsellor, I can report on the pain that arises from the failure of relationships and the atrophy of sexuality for everyone involved. Our form of society hardly offers adequate opportunities to get out of this relationship dilemma. Often, the result is merely more or less “lazy” compromises.

Matriarchal societies, on the other hand, organise their love lives completely differently to us. I would like to talk about this, because the matriarchal way of life could also be a solution to our relationship dramas

https://institut-matriarchatswissen.de/

Dr. Kaarina Kailo has held positions in women’s studies at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Canada and as Professor of Women’s studies at Oulu University, Finland. She now focuses on publishing books on the bear religion, spiritual healing and the culture of sweats as well as the traces of the Northern goddess past (Terra Feminarum). She also creates textile art of the forgotten Nordic goddesses. As a red-green politician, she will talk about her vision for an ecosocially sustainable matriverse, an egalitarian society of maternal values.

www.kaarinakailo.info

We would like to share the experiences from the Drachinzeit projects – transition support for young people in puberty. On the passage, on learning trips, on initiatory support – a research and experience space of community experiences, equality, nature dialogue, female* constellational leadership, empowerment of girls & women, life transitions of different generations and much more.

What are initiatory structures? What does cultural work mean in this context? What do young people need today? What is the role of older people? What role does the community and the different generations play? What type of leadership do we follow? Why in nature and what does nature dialogue mean?

www.lebensschule-ost.de

Kathrin Schmitz and Stefan Voth are board members of the Sociocracy Centre Germany and also work with non-violent communication in sociocratic consulting.

They support organisations in the introduction of efficient meeting and decision-making structures based on sociocracy and keep an eye on people during change processes.

Workshop
Decisions in groups often cost a lot of energy if everyone is heard empathically. In addition to non-violent communication as a language tool, sociocratic circle facilitation offers helpful structures to promote participation, shared responsibility and empathic connection.

In this workshop, you will learn about sociocratic consensus facilitation and experience the impact of this simple yet effective principle in a very practical way. This will enable us to get to the heart of the matter more quickly by focussing on needs and achieve our common goal more easily.

www.soziokratiezentrum.de

Laura Hirch (*1987) is a conscious filmmaker, journalist, artist and student of ancient herstory and matriarchal research. Her projects, including the independent docu-series “From the Goddess,” focus on themes of women’s wisdom/ herstory, healing, spirituality, and art, aiming to highlight the sacred roles of women in society and to challenge the patriarchal narrative. Based in Munich and Berlin, she blends her spiritual and eco-feminist perspectives into her creative endeavors.

From the Goddess – Docuseries
At our festival, Laura will present one episode of her 6-part docu series FROM THE GODDESS which explores the roles of women and goddess spirituality in both historical and modern contexts. Her project aims to highlight the sacredness of women and their contributions to society, while also addressing the impacts of patriarchy and envisioning a more balanced future.

In this series, magnificent Goddess scholars like Max Dashu, Vicki Noble, Joan Marler, Miriam Robbins Dexter, Hallie Iglehart Austen, Starr Goode, Charlene Spretnak, Starhawk, Arisiak Rasak, Cristina Biaggi, Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth, and many many more are featured.

Film Room
She will also curate a Matriarchy Film Room where you can retreat from the buzzing festival life and watch films about Matriarchy, Female Wisdom and Herstory all day long.

www.womenbodiment.com

Li Shalima is an artist, teacher and mother. Found her way to becoming a cultural consultant for matriarchal studies via the Primal Labyrinth. In 2017, I developed the Needs Plate as a tool for benevolent communication. Today it is for me the most important basis for matriarchal, i.e. needs-orientated living.

My work is concerned with the question of how we can put the theoretical findings of matriarchal and peace research into practice. I was also driven by the question of what prevents us from achieving our goals. In doing so, I came to some astonishing realisations concerning our imprecise language and the «near enemies» that keep us stuck in an invisible maze. For a needs-orientated open system, however, we need clarity and unity.

www.lishalima.jimdofree.com
www.wertschaetzende-sprache.jimdofree.com

Marisa Schoo is a feminist, mother of two children, nutritionist and agronomist. She has been working at an organic control centre for six years. She also organises events for children and families at Solawi Hopfenhof.

In community-supported agriculture (Solawi), several private households bear the costs of a farm in return for the harvest yield. Each Solawi is unique, just like its people. The structures are manageable and enable personal and trusting cooperation. This creates mutual appreciation, respect and diverse opportunities for consumers to participate.

www.solidarische-landwirtschaft.org

Regina Golke, born in 1952, special needs teacher with a holistic approach, revealing, wise and matriarchal view of female roots. Years of searching for knowledge and experience through various training courses and specialist literature on archaeology, mainly written by female scientists. Travel to archaeologically significant places.
Prehistoric and legendary hiking seminars and trips for women for 28 years, especially in the Swabian Alb to the sites where famous female figurines or legendary places were found and in Switzerland on the Margaretenweg. Inspired by a research trip to the Dolomites with Heide Göttner-Abendroth.
Guided tours of archaeological exhibitions, lectures and workshops on the same topics; the special thing: the female perspective. Various training courses and specialist literature on archaeology, mainly written by female scientists. Travel to archaeologically significant places.

KaraMa Beran, born in 1946, retired teacher, has lived on Lake Constance for almost 60 years, mother and grandmother of several children, graduate of the feminist-matriarchal academy Alma, certified ritual leader, cultural consultant for matriarchal studies, member of the Council of Grandmothers in the Tradition of Old Europe, the Gode Network and the MatriaVal Association.
Areas of interest: Matriarchal research according to Heide Göttner-Abendroth, female-spiritual traditions and places around Lake Constance, the civilization of Old Europe, cultural anthropological research, human history – especially women’s history, Stone Age archaeology.

The ancestral mother wall from the pile dwellings on Lake Constance
What an aesthetically magical and at the same time mysterious painting our ancestors from the Neolithic period left us! It is fortunate that the 6,000-year-old wall painting from a cult house in Ludwigshafen / Lake Constance could be reconstructed! Together with other finds, it is a document of their spiritual, cultural and social way of life.

The speakers Regina Golke and KaraMa Beran will provide exciting insights into the life background of early humans based on the context of the finds and the latest research results. They invite you to meditative singing, dancing and experience-oriented rituals in order to immerse yourself in the spirituality, closeness to nature and social form of our ancestors.

www. reginagolke.de

Renate Fuchs-Haberl, the «wild poppy woman», is a speaker for modern matriarchy research at the Int. Academy Hagia and imparts knowledge about matriarchal cultures that is important for our time. She is a landscape mythologist, ritual woman, author and deals with the spiritual-shamanic women’s traditions of the Alpine region.

The “wild poppy woman” from Salzburg (lecture)
From the «Perchta Academy» to the «Earth Woman»

As the «wild poppy woman», Renate Fuchs-Haberl follows the trail of the matriarchal-shamanic worldview. In her “Perchta Academy”, she imparts matriarchal knowledge, socially critical and women-conscious thinking and action, and an earth-bound spirituality in courses on site and online. She promotes a return to the deeper meaning of spiritual traditions in her landscape mythological hikes and courses. As co-author of the book «Erdenfrau» and ritual woman, she invites you on a journey through the matriarchal year and, as part of this lecture, to a deeper insight into her actions and work.

Women’s traditions throughout the year (workshop)
Preserving the old knowledge and passing it on to our future.

Diverse customs shape the course of the year. Behind these customs lies a world of belief that is much older than the Christian tradition. In this workshop, we will deal with «Frau Percht» and her «wild women», who will take us on a journey through the year of the earth with its earth-related rituals and seasonal festivals.

We will rediscover the ancient women’s traditions and the “hero of the goddess” in traditional dress and learn to understand the deeper meaning and original significance of these customs.

www.wildmohnfrau.at

Rosmarie Wydler, born in 1950 in Basel, married, 4 children, 8 grandchildren. Kindergarten teacher, adult educator, parent educator and parent group leader, parenting and parent couple counseling. Co-president of KlimaSeniorinnen Switzerland, activist.

KlimaSeniorinnen is an association of over 3000 members, women over 64 years old, living in Switzerland. In 2016 we sued our government because it is not doing enough to combat global warming and thus to protect our health, because we older women are particularly at risk.

www.klimaseniorinnen.ch

Sabine Krink
I am an expert in female self-employment and an author. As the founder of FRAUEN kaufen bei FRAUEN, it is important to me to use the female search portal to create a movement for a better world for women and girls – a world in which we honor Mother Earth every day.

WOMEN buy from WOMEN. More money in women’s hands
I will present how a transformation of money relationships – towards women – can work and how our project “WOMEN buy from WOMEN” works and why it is important to put money in women’s hands and turn it into women’s money: So that we women can (more) take our places with the respective gifts of each individual woman and actively shape this world – for the benefit of all. Money is a means that is still necessary at the moment (even if our big vision would be a money-free world). We are happy to answer questions and talk to you.

www.frauen-kaufen-bei-frauen.de

Samirah Kenavi was born in East Berlin in 1962. As a carpenter and graduate engineer, manual and mental labour are equally important to me. My interest in history led me to set up an archive of the GDR women’s and lesbian movement. My search for a new utopia after the failure of socialism led to years of studying economics and matriarchy. Various gaps in economic theory prompted me to publish the tetralogy “The Squaring of Money”. The four volumes comprise a monetary theory that ranges from the early historical origins of money, the development of today’s credit money and the dynamics of the capitalist crisis to a draft reform.

3-part seminar
History of money and property
Money was not created to facilitate exchange. When money was created around 5000 years ago, the supply of goods was very clear and bartering was a welcome opportunity for extensive discussions. The lecture provides new answers as to how money came into being and explains how modern credit money developed from ancient coinage. It also outlines the development of property as a result of poor money distribution.

Money – from a means of exchange to a means of power
Why do many people always have too little money, while there are a handful of billionaires for whom money is far more than a medium of exchange for goods? Why is the gap between rich and poor widening? Why is today’s monetary economy destroying our livelihoods? The lecture deciphers the destructive structure of today’s money.

Fair money – a vision
Based on the knowledge of history and the destructive functioning of money, a vision of a just means of exchange is outlined. It shows how a financial crisis can be used to create a medium of exchange that is fair to all, because extreme poverty and extreme wealth are made structurally impossible.

Board game
Seminar-style board game round for 6 interested people. The game makes it possible to experience the changing dynamics of our current credit money system over time and to discuss them together.

www.falschgeldsystem.de

Simon Weiland projects in his musical theater fairy tale material into the present day. For this piece, he was inspired by Heide Göttner-Abendroth’s “History of Matriarchal Societies” and Christina Schlatters / Kurt Derungs’ “Sources, Cults, Magic Mountains.” His performances combine word acrobatics, expressive theater and guitar.

«The Magic Lamp»
A magician is determined to pull a magic lamp out of the earth. But the doer / maker / macho reaches his limits. Only a so-called good-for-nothing like Aladdin is able to retrieve the magic lamp: Aladdin has retained the childlike openness to be able to wonder and be enchanted. Aladdin does not encounter the magic of making and machines in the earth (the latter three words are related in terms of etymology), but the magic of being touched and gripped. He learns about love. The genie of the lamp has a lot to say to the modern world.

www.simon-weiland.de

Simran Wester, originally trained as a secondary school teacher (German and geography). Kundalini Yoga teacher and trainer with her own yoga centre for over 40 years. Certified trainer for non-violent communication since 2004. Founder of the Hamburg Institute for Nonviolent Communication. Mother of two grown-up children, one grandchild. My motto: Love your life!

Non-violent communication: peace in the world of the ego

Non-violent communication according to Marshall Rosenberg describes an inner attitude of connection with our feelings and needs and an empathetic, benevolent view of others. Genuine peace can only be found if we lovingly disempower the reaction patterns of our ego and relate to life in all of us.

www.higfk.de

Association MatriaVal e.V.
The association MatriaVal e.V. is concerned with matriarchal societies and matriarchal values. The Val in the association’s name comes from val=value (value).

Matriarchal societies are societies in balance, they are oriented towards nature, peaceful in all areas, women and men respect each other and old age is highly respected. Mothers are at the centre and the maternal principle of nurturing and caring is the basis for the entire social structure. Numerous matriarchal societies exist worldwide.

Motherland letters
The motherland letters come to women four times a year: in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Reports and stories are told about matriarchies around the world and all the different activities, projects and experiences that bring matriarchal elements into our everyday lives, be it in ourselves, in the family or in public spaces.

Motherland (documentary film)
The home of the Minangkabau is in West Sumatra, Indonesia. With several million members, they form the largest matriarchal society in the world. They live according to Adat, the maternal natural law – in peaceful coexistence with Islam. House, farm and land are in the hands of women. The film tells of everyday life from the perspective of 33-year-old Yelfia Susanti, who knows how to ensure balance and a good life for everyone with her large clan.

A film by Uschi Madeisky, Dagmar Margotsdotter, Yelfia Susanti

Where the free women live (documentary film)
The Mosuo people live in the south of China, around Lake Lugu. The Mosuo are known for their harmonious coexistence. There is no jealousy, no violence and no war. They do not know opposites such as “poor” and “rich”. Striving for power is foreign to them. They are considered to be very content and happy people. The entire social coexistence is based on the living environment of women and children. Men are the caring supporters.

A film about the matriarchy of the Mosuo by Uschi Madeisky, Daniela Parr, Dagmar Margotsdotter

https://matriacon.net/
https://www.tomult.de/

Walle Gairing, graduate social scientist (matriarchal studies), natural cycle process designer according to the transformation in natura approach, mythodramatic ritual leader and vision quest (forest time) leader, coach for teams and organizations.

I accompany people, teams and organizations in change processes as a coach and trainer. My interest is to initiate and accompany transformation processes for social change and to integrate matriarchal knowledge and life in the process. To serve life….

Anne Wiebelitz-Saillard, (M.A.), *1987, transformation in natura® coach and ritual designer, vision quest leader (forest time), trainer & process facilitator for conflict transformation, wilderness educator and mother.

I design development spaces for individuals and organizations that help you to connect with yourself, others and nature in conflict processes and other transitions. For a soulful landscape, organizations & people. For liveliness and a culture of balance. For connection to nature, yourself and other people.

Serving life: Transformation for social change – the political dimension of matriarchal life.
Workshop together with Anne Wiebelitz. Matriarchal ways of life and forms of society offer an idea of ​​how differently we could live, do business, love…. Fairy tales that have been critically analyzed and reformulated tell us how transformation processes can succeed today: contrary to the ever higher-faster-further trend of capitalist patriarchal societies, we invite you to engage in a process of devotion to Mother Nature. In the Wheel of Transformation (Ursula and David Seghezzi, Uma Institute), a cyclical structure is drawn showing how we can follow the call, overcome barriers, trust in emptiness and helplessness, and open ourselves to the beings of nature in order to receive the gifts of «Holle» as «Goldmaries».

We want to explore this life-serving process and transfer what it can mean for the individual, the group, the organization, and our society in overcoming prevailing crises.

www.umainstitut.net
www.wald-seele-raum.net
www.anne-wiebelitz-saillard.de