Our Scholarship Fund supports peaceworkers from around the world in their education towards Healing Biotopes through funding their participation in events of the Global Campus, the Tamera Love School, ecological and technological trainings and other seminars in Tamera and other places. We empower people who are natural multipliers in their context, stress continuity and thus support the emergence of a core group for the planetary community.
In 2016 the Scholarship Fund supported individuals with a total sum of $6,7K.
We want to highlight one student from the US who wrote a report about his education at Tamera, Healing Biotope 1.
“In April of this year, I received a scholarship of $800 from the Grace Foundation in order to continue my education and research in the field education and accompaniment for children and youth within Tamera. Tamera is a project and Healing Biotope in-process devoted to researching and enacting within the essential parameters for a truly sustainable way of life where we humans find again our place in the bigger picture of life on planet Earth and including within our fellow human community. A Healing Biotope is a life system, a humane human settlement, a biosphere including animals and other living beings where the issue of trust is put to the forefront in all areas of life.
For my practical education I spent a lot of time in the classrooms teaching mathematics, English, ecology and technology. Parallel to this I have held responsibilities caring for the school’s many and varied needs and been part of other projects and educations concerning children and youth. One such education has been the so-called Parent’s School of Tamera, which is occurs once every month to two months. This is a time where the parent’s of the children of community, those wishing to become parents and those who wish to examine the issues of child development come together to look more closely at the current issues faced by our children and youth, thus making it a lively and relevant study-space. This often turns into a rich education space, offering deeper insight into the inner reality of our children, their needs and how we as adults, teachers and parents can support and accompany them in their development. Besides Parent’s School, I have also been studying on a weekly basis a much wider variety of topics, such as ecology, love and human relations and the current global political situation. Such content along with the inspiration these kinds of study spaces bring somehow find their way into the learning environments we offer our children and youth. I have enjoyed immensely working with the youth and widening their perspective of life. It becomes evermore clear that if we want a true peace culture to arise, it begins with our children and youth. Finding ways to accompany them and support them with their individual needs for development, including their need to find and express their of expression of compassion, means stepping out of a kind of old programming. An important part of my education has been to take off the foggy lens of my own conditioning in regards to school and education, and to step into a more comprehensive picture of school life. I have found the staff of the school here in Tamera to be my teachers in this regard. For me a teacher is not someone who simply comes as a book filled with knowledge, but someone who is carries a certain energy of enthusiasm and curiosity for life.
Something that has given me much enthusiasm and insight in my own life has my participation in the Love School, which concerns itself with the core of human relationships and what it means to live a meaningful and enriched life through building up human relationships based on truth and trust. I was an assistant to leading team of the Global Love School in May. This was an education time for learning how to hold study spaces and healing spaces for the participants who came with their questions and wounds in the vulnerable areas of love, sexuality and partnership. To relate this topic to my work in the school, I hold the questions: What is our role as adults to accompany, protect, guide, and encourage the healthy and free sexual and loving development of our children and youth? What kinds of trust spaces with adults do they need where they can freely ask their questions in these core areas of life?
I give thanks for the opportunity to have been working here at the Place of the Children in Tamera and will continue to work and educate myself here. I equally give my gratitude to the Grace Foundation for enabling me to do so through its contribution. I will continue with my training and work at both.”
Benjamin Bogosian
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