Benjamin was born 1973 into a once-wealthy, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany. In the Third Reich the family survived between the lines as it was “too Jewish” to be ignored by the Nazis and “too influential” to be just taken to concentration camp. After the Berlin Wall fell the family got restituted a fortune. Therefore the issues of reconciliation, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years.

After a radical but frustrating period of political engagement in his youth, Benjamin started to explore holistic approaches to bringing about change. To this end he co-founded the Peace University at Potsdam in 1990 with 16 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates on board. The goal was an interdisciplinary, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue for the betterment of the world. Not fully satisfied with the efficiency of this high-ranking endeavor he later researched into even more holistic approaches to peace, many social experiments and intentional communities. Although he trained as a healer, dancer and choreographer Benjamin retained a focus on new

models for living and a passion for complex synergies and systems theory. Creating syntheses of seemingly opposing forces is important to him – politics and spirituality; vision work and concrete manifestation; Eros and religion; free sexuality and deep, committed partnership; nature and technology and most critically inner and outer peace work.

Benjamin has been living and researching in Tamera since 1998 where he now serves as a next-generation leader. Through leading Political Pilgrimages in crises areas like the Middle East and Colombia he tried to bridge the gap between different movements: political and spiritual, local and international, grassroots and top-down. He has been co-leading the Global Love School since its inauguration in 2012. Now he is traveling as an international speaker, workshop facilitator and consultant to holistic models. Currently he directs the Grace Foundation for Humanizing Money to make it the vessel for the resources needed to realize a global peace plan – the Healing Biotopes Plan of viable cultural models. He is passionate about creating and strengthening a planetary community as a solid alliance to back this plan and see it through.

(Our carriers are those that have pilgrimage ‘in the blood’ and understand the importance of social activism, circle/council practice as ways to restore our relations to water. Each carrier is already responsible for their own projects and communities in various parts of the world and come together through and with Walking Water on walks, mutual networks, fundraising and public relations. Our carriers are ambassadors for the common solidarity within the global community.)