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

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

Gabriele Kapp is a speaker on modern matriarchy research, has been a naturopath in her own practice since 1996 and has been a lecturer for over 20 years,  4 children.

• Ambassador #worldf®amilynetwork
• Modern Family Coach, Therapist
• Sustainable violence prevention for groups and organizations

Modern family between gender jungle and climate crisis – chaos or opportunity?
In this workshop we dare to address the pink elephants of our society, which hardly anyone even dares to think about, and ride them!
After the keynote speech with questions and answers, we will develop exciting visions for «the time after …»

www.gabrielekapp.com

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

Alina Jenssen works independently as a coach, therapist and trainer and enjoys her life with her little daughter. «My mother’s work as a home birth midwife has had a big impact on my life since I was a child. My journey began with an NLP practitioner training course.»

A world with restorative practices – workshop by mother and daughter
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
www.alina-jenssen.com

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/

Joan Marler grew up in the redwood forests overlooking the Pacific in Northern California, where the primary population was made up of loggers and fishermen.

She studied music and art, earning a BA in dance and liberal arts from Mills University (1965-1969), a women’s college near San Francisco. During this time, Joan taught modern, folk and ethnic dance for 30 years while also working as a radio producer and journalist, focusing primarily on feminist issues and women’s spirituality.

In 1987, she met Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas and worked as her personal editor until Dr. Gimbutas’ death in 1994. During these years, she edited Marija Gimbutas’ The Civilization of the Goddess in 1991 and earned a master’s degree in archaeomythology from Sonoma University in 1997. Also in 1997, she published From the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas, which earned her a lecture at the Smithsonian Museum that same year.

She has lectured internationally on the life and work of Dr. Gimbutas. In 1998, Joan founded the interdisciplinary and international Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM), which publishes the online Journal of Archaeomythology and produces the international journal in collaboration with archaeologists, particularly from Eastern Europe, for museums, archaeological organizations and the institute she directs.

She holds a PhD in Philosophy and Religion from the Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California, where she taught for several years at various institutions and universities. She has published more than 50 articles in archaeology journals. Her long-term goal is to complete the biography of Marija Gimbutas.

Remembering a great woman of science: Marija Gimbutas’ pioneering development of Archaeomythology and the centrality of women in the nonpatriarchal societies of Old Europe

Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) was born and raised in Lithuania, the last European country to be Christianized. Her ancestors, the ancient Balts, venerated the entire living world as sacred. As a child she absorbed hundreds of folk songs and stories still transmitted by village women and saw farmers kissing the earth every morning and evening. After emigrating to the US in 1949, her multidisciplinary knowledge of Eastern European prehistory informed her pioneering scholarship. This presentation discusses Gimbutas’s development of Archaeomythology to adequately investigate the extensive iconography of female imagery and the centrality of women in the nonpatriarchal societies of Old Europe.

www.archaeomythology.org

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

Of clans, culture and consensus on a living planet: archaeomythology and citizen initiatives

A current joint initiative between the International Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM) led by Dr. Joan Marler, the Institute of Marine Citizen Science (INMAR Caribe) led by mestiza Maria Suarez Toro and the Ambassadors of the Sea Diving Center (CCMEM) is currently contributing to the life experiences that arise from the connection between the discipline of archaeomythology, created by Marija Gimbutas and promoted by the IAM, and citizen science. Also participating in the conversation is Heidi Cristina Mayorga Escalante, the President (Mayor) of the Bribri people of the Talamanca region (ADITIBRI, Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de la Reserva Indígena Talamanca Bribrí). The experiences of Costa Rican Afro and Bribri youth in underwater archaeology led her to call her findings «community archaeomythology.»

The collaboration between the three initiatives has led to the organization of a recent Seminar A Multicultural dialogue of inherited «Knowledge Honoring our Cultural Roots», June 3-6, 2024 in Cahuita in Costa Rica, where Bribri, Cabecar, Ngabe, Afro descendant and mestizo women from the Talamanca county in Southern Costa Rica met with IAM’s Joan Marler and Vicky Noble, sharing scholarly presentations, dialogues, rituals, literary stories in five languages (Afro Creole, Indigenous Bribri, English and Yoruba from Africa and Latin American Spanish), experiences and knowledge about ancestral roots related to women, the waters and the ancestral roots of the connections to all living beings.

In the process, the literary creation of TONA INA (Sea Light in Yoruba) has enhanced the connection between the ancestral roots and their matriarchal origins. S’HE is an ancestral, matriarchal, Yoruba literary character to tell the stories of the Caribbean youth in their search for the identity of sunken slave ships that has led them to re-connect with their ancestral roots in the multiethnic communities of Costa Rica’s Southern Caribbean.

Participants in the discussion: Joan Marler (USA), Maria Suarez (Costa Rica), Heidi Cristina Mayorga Escalante and Layli Morena (Bribri)

Moderation: Juliane Schönau (NL) Mistralma Landscape Mythology Network, Netherlands

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

Sten Linnander grew up in Sweden, Afghanistan and Nepal. He studied physics and geophysics at the University of Stockholm. Today he lives in Konstanz on Lake Constance and is working on a project that aims to give us a new perspective on the earth. He is interested in understanding how we can come into closer contact with the living world around us and fulfill the task that falls to us as conscious participants in its evolution.
«In 2016, I was drawn back to Nepal, where I had spent the happiest years of my childhood. I decided to spend three months there. On my third day, a stranger on the street greeted me with the words: Namaste, sir. This was the beginning of my work with several aid projects for rural Nepal, which are carried out by the Nepalese NGO HEAR Nepal (HEAR stands for Health, Education, Awareness and Rights).»

The Khori Project in Nepal
The project goes back to amazing events that happened eight years ago in the remote village of Khori in western Nepal. In Khori, as in almost all other villages, women had to work hard and give their money to their husbands, who spent it on alcohol. After that, they came home drunk, where they usually beat their wives and children. A woman from Khori: «Violence broke out: in almost every house in the village you could hear the women and children crying when their drunken husbands came home in the evening.»

One day the women had had enough! They got together, banned the production and consumption of alcohol and fined anyone found drunk in the village. They invested the money in improving the infrastructure of their village and started to set up income-generating projects. Little by little they also received a little support from the communities. Today the village is thriving.

HEAR Nepal commissioned two women and two men from Khori to go to ten other villages to tell their story with the aim of encouraging the women to realise their power and do the same as the women from Khori. The men from Khori told the men in the villages what had happened to them and how important it was to support the women in taking on their responsibilities.

The result was overwhelming. Perhaps most importantly: in all ten villages, the position of women changed and they were gradually treated with equality and respect by men for the first time. In nine of the ten villages, the women banned alcohol and gambling, which made a big difference. Virtually all forms of domestic violence stopped. The health-damaging tradition of Chhaupadi, in which women and girls have to live in dirty, unheated small huts for days during their period, also declined sharply. Today, practically no women in these villages have to live in the so-called Chhau huts.

Despite initial protests, women have been able to persuade men in the villages to help with farming, business, housework and other tasks, which has improved the socio-economic status in the villages. They have initiated various income-generating projects and are well on their way to taking over a large part of the decision-making in the villages.

There are plans to implement the project in other villages, which could gradually lead to a «wildfire» of women’s empowerment in the rural villages of Nepal.

https://hearnepal.de
https://stenlinnander.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.

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….

Serving life: Transformation for social change – the political dimension of matriarchal life.
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

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

Gunnel Hinrichsen, born shortly after the Second World War and raised as an evangelical Christian. Politicized by the student movement and became a Marxist she taught social sciences and French. Having become a feminist, she learned about modern matriarchal research. In her final thesis at the HAGIA Academy under Heide Göttner-Abendroth, she asked herself whether Rosa Luxemburg’s work had any connection to matriarchal research.

Was Rosa Luxemburg not only a convinced communist, but also a supporter of matriarchal societies?

Rosa Luxemburg, internationalist from Poland, student in Switzerland, leading member of the German Social Democrats and later of the Communist Party of Germany. She was convinced that the masses would free themselves. She recognized that even in her time (the beginning of the 20th century) there were societies all over the world without class struggles and with shared property. She called these primal communist. These were exactly the societies that are considered matriarchal today. What does this mean for the understanding of matriarchal and communist societies?

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

Kathrin Schmitz is board member of the Sociocracy Centre Germany and also works with non-violent communication in sociocratic consulting.

She supports organisations in the introduction of efficient meeting and decision-making structures based on sociocracy and keeps 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

Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti, 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. Since the 1970s she has been involved with feminist and matriarchal theories, literature, activities and various workshops (including with Jutta Voss). She has also been involved in various women’s groups such as ecofeminism, the feminist party development organization, women for peace and feminist theology.
In 2024, she was named one of the BBC’s 100 most influential women in the world.

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

Stephanie’s primary profession is as a social worker and educator. For 10 years she has been working as a facilitator/moderator of transformative participation processes (e.g. learning trips, citizens’ councils, community building, large group events, team building) in the areas of democracy, regional and community work as well as integration, eco-social sustainability and education.

What excites Stephanie about the “Participatory Regions” initiative?

Through the participation of many, strengthening fields are created as a basis for a socially and ecologically necessary transformation in the regions, which produce a wonderful harvest and effective activities. What can result from cooperation and co-creation leaves me joyfully amazed.

Get involved regionally for social-ecological change
How can we contribute to a good life for everyone on a healthy planet locally? The workshop will help you find out what your next steps in shaping and contributing could be.

You will also get an insight into the “Participatory Regions Initiative: Building bridges for social-ecological solutions in regions” and you will learn how you can set up a participatory region in your region.

www.mitmach-region.org

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

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being

We vegetable heroes use the approach of urban agriculture to bring people in cities back into contact with nature. This promotes awareness of food and nourishing togetherness and people are accompanied through their feelings and intuition into change. Respect for nature as mother and sister, getting to know and respecting the needs of soil, soil organisms and plants is the basis of permaculture and part of our low-threshold community activities. Everyone is welcome and can take part, regardless of age, gender, language or educational background.

We offer space and rooms to awaken and develop curiosity and positive imagination, sow hopeful images of the future in the minds of those taking part and strengthen confidence and joy through connecting community experiences.

www.gemueseheldinnen.de

Layli Moreno Vargas is a young Bribri woman from the Kólkuak clan. It is the clan of seed sowers and seed guardians, a clan that she inherited from her Bribri mother. Perhaps that is why she has a degree in organic agriculture and, together with her mother Mauricia and her sister Fravia, runs and produces the Loroco educational farm in Volio, Talamanca. «In our farm, the worldview and ancestral practices of the Bribri culture are lived in harmony with the environment, always aware that we must use the environment and adapt to it.»

Mujer Bribri guardiana de semillas – Alakolpa ditso ajkonuk: Bribri woman as protector of seeds

The farm has the largest local seed bank in the region. It is a family business dedicated to organic cultivation, knowledge recovery, advice and sale of organic cocoa, local seeds and organic fertilizers.

We share and know that all of us have the skills and abilities to do the same at different levels and we respect each other. We all know how it works because it is our way of life and we have our own way of living and transmitting experiences, culture and practices in organic farming. We are committed to the autonomy of women as guardians of the seeds and to respect for Mother Earth, who in the Bribri culture is the goddess Iriria, Mother Earth.

Since she was 11 years old, Layli Morena Vargas has been living and producing organically on Finca Loroco with her family and an educational volunteer program, trying to live in harmony with nature by reforesting, planting and caring for native seeds to bring life back to the space, since her family’s farm in Volio was originally only planted with bananas.

https://www.facebook.com/zarin.moreno/
Short portrait on YouTube

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

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

Regina Hunschock
I am an integral philosopher, qualified teacher and writer: sometimes poetic, sometimes academic, on topics such as cultural change, learning organizations, women and money, women and leadership, female wisdom and poems. Politically ambitious for the care revolution and welfare economy, especially for female freedom. Freelance as a coach, systemic constellationist and moderator with Open Space, World Café, Future Workshop and Fishbowl. I serve the Great Divine Mother in everything I do. I also work as the director of a socio-cultural center in North Rhine-Westphalia. Here, among other things, work with girls and young women in the youth welfare office. My personal vision and ambition is to establish a women’s temple with an academy, studio and library by purchasing a church and converting it accordingly.

The gift – the money of the female economy
Money in its entirety is a universal force and language of «giving and giving back (taking)». Basically, the law of love and relationship flows between us when we exchange money, life, wisdom, knowledge, time, gifts and things. We are often far removed from this principle when we use money in the capitalist system only in its basic forms as a means of payment, speculation and storage. Unfortunately, we are all in the middle of it, as our economic existence is dependently tied to patriarchy and capitalism. But: Patriarchal money is a construction, a game and even an illusion and can be changed.

We want to look at this together in this collective constellation. From a patriarchal perspective, in these times of great change, it is waiting for the revival of its originally intended power and dynamic. Money as a gift is in the service of our real, vital life on earth.

What do we need to recognize and change so that money serves the quality potential and healthy growth paths of our human condition, in which female values ​​such as the female principle of the care economy are present overall and matrifocally centered systems can be developed in the future?

We bring the constellation elements together and set them in motion. To the delight of the Divine Mother and her work through us.

www.feminasophie.org

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 Kenawi 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.

Four lectures on monetary theory followed by a discussion
Each lasting 30 minutes for a lecture and 30 minutes for discussion/in-depth discussion

1) Theses on Gender Order and Economics
Over the course of human development, there is evidence of multiple changes in gender relations, which also affected the relationship with the economy. Money did not originate to facilitate exchange. When money emerged around 5,000 years ago, the range of goods was very limited, and bartering was a welcome opportunity for extensive discussions.

2) History of Money and Property
The lecture provides new answers to how money originated and explains how modern credit money emerged from ancient coinage. It also outlines the development of property as a result of poor money distribution.

3) 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 means of exchange for goods? Why is the gap between rich and poor ever widening? Why is today’s monetary system destroying our livelihoods? This lecture deciphers the destructive structure of today’s money.

4) Fair Money – A Vision
Based on a knowledge of history and the destructive functioning of money, a vision of a fair medium of exchange is developed. It will be demonstrated 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 structurally made impossible.

Board Game
A seminar-style board game session for 6 participants. The game makes the changing dynamics of our current credit money system tangible over time and enables collaborative discussion.

www.geldtheorie.net

Dr. Annine van der Meer is a Dutch historian, theologian and expert on symbolism. She is the author of 20 keynote books in English, French, German and Dutch about women and goddess studies; and old and modern egalitarian societies of peace.

Annine has written several authoritative books about the hidden history of the sacred feminine and of women and their forgotten contribution to evolution and civilization. This involves digging Her-Story out from under His-Story in order to write Our-Story. Where necessary, she integrates the established images of woman and man for the purpose of achieving equality, harmony, balance and peace in the world. In 2008, she founded Pansophia Foundation, a school of Wisdom in the 21st century, which she led until 2018. Its mission was to combine the raising of consciousness with spirituality and empowerment of women. In 2015, she founded her own Dutch publishing house Pansophia Press, in which she continues this wisdom work, supported by a large Pansophia community in The Netherlands. In 2010, Annine was one of 33 women to be honoured worldwide for her work about the Divine Feminine.

Annine is the author of 20 books in Dutch, English, French and German. In Dutch, English and French, she has published, The Black Madonna from Primal to Final Times, with 289 Illustrations and a list of short descriptions of 450 Black Madonnas in France. In English she has published «The Language of MA the primal mother. The evolution of the female image in 40.000 years of global Venus Art», 2013. The German edition appeared in 2020 titled «Die Sprache unserer Ursprungs-Mutter MA». In 2021, she published a very successful Dutch book, Maria Magdalena Ontsluierd (Mary Magdalene Unveiled), a commentary about The Gospel of the Beloved Companion, written by Mary Magdalene herself, only released in 2010. In 2023, she published the English translation and updated book, «Mary Magdalene Unveiled. Hidden sources restore her broken image». In 2024 she published a second Dutch book on Mary Magdalene. In 2025 The American publisher Bear and Company published the English edition of this book titled Magdalene’s Ascension.

Learn to speak the language of MA, your primal mother
In 2013 Annine wrote a large full-colour book picturing ca. 1300 beauties or 1300 feminine masterpieces from all over the world titled «The Language of MA, the primal mother. The evolution of the female image in 40,000 years of global Venus Art».

In 2020 the German updated edition appeared titled «Die Sprache unsrer Ursprungs-Mutter MA. Die Entwicklung des Frauenbildes in 40.000 Jahren globaler ‘Venus’-Kunst’».

For the first time, this book demonstrates that prehistoric female symbols of astonishing uniformity have been found worldwide – whether in the Middle East, Japan, India, Algeria, the Americas, or from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia. Annine van der Meer makes it clear: These idols neither depict Stone Age pin-ups nor are they solely about fertility. Prehistoric female sculptures or petroglyphs are representations of the primordial mother. She has organized the many archaeological finds not only chronologically and geographically, but also by theme. She explains references to animals, plants, places, and symbols, also the significance of postures, body parts, clothing, hairstyles, and accessories. And she embeds her research in contemporary contexts. A well-founded reference work on human history for interdisciplinary research that demonstrates the fundamental importance of the feminine. Colleagues from the matriarchy network value Annine’s work and wrote that her work is a direct continuation of the work of Marija Gimbutas.

About the lecture:

• Welcome a new art historical approach that definitively maps the contribution of woman to evolution and brings to an end a male history without women.
• Remember the primal mothers, who much later were called ‘Venuses’ and sometimes pin-ups. They are rehabilitated as the first leaders of humanity.
• Learn about a global feminine system of symbols that shows an astonishing consistency and coherency.
• Witness how prehistoric cultures produce  much more feminine art than masculine art.
• Understand why the feminine was pictured so often in old and modern female friendly societies of peace and balance.
• See how a male system of symbols is laid over the older feminine system of symbols; now the female image is devalued and the world is changed in a valley of tears.

Link to the English Book The Language of MA, the primal mother

www.annine-pansophia.nl

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 with pictures from the book: In the lap of the earth mother
The sweat lodge ceremony is an ancient female healing method. The shape of the hut woven from willow symbolizes the womb. Traditionally, these and similar huts were also used for births and the days after. A protected, comfortable place where women were accompanied by their mothers. Sweat lodges are not only known from North America, they existed in Europe 2800 years ago, as archaeological excavations prove.

What is original about sweat lodge ceremonies and what has been distorted due to patriarchal thinking? The degradation of women in patriarchal societies is also visible in menstruation taboos, which still have to be observed in some sweat lodge ceremonies today. The lecture provides food for thought on the following questions:

Are women’s self-determination and self-esteem the basis of matrilineal societies?
What influence did Christianization have on female ceremonies?
How can we free ourselves from patriarchal thinking and behavior and reflect on our ancient knowledge?

Free dance workshop mother-daughter relationship
The basis for a matrilineal society is peace in the maternal line. The relationships between mothers and daughters have been disturbed for generations. There are few women who want to look and become like their mother.

The dance workshop also offers the opportunity for a loving forgiveness ceremony with movement and dance. Forgiveness is a step on the way to inner peace with you and your mother. This is possible at any age, even if your mother is no longer alive.

www.elementartanz.de
www.frauenheilweise.de

The Council of European Grandmothers was founded in 2015 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

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

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