The Art of Being and Acting
+ Explore who you are + Co-create what matters + Live what you believe +
… for 8 weeks from May 6th to July 1st 2026 …
An EVS (European Voluntary Service) activity
near Berlin in Germany
www.unavision.eu
Embark on a eight week transformative journey of un-learning and learning
an immersion into the Art of Being and Acting and the essence of Synergetic Living.
This unique experience invites you to explore self-discovery, embodied synergy, deep presence, collective creativity, and eco-social transformation.
Together with a vibrant community of like-minded individuals, you will explore what it truly means to live and act in harmony with yourself, others in the community, and nature.
Co-create your purposeful entrepreneurship in a community
The Journey happens from May 6th – July 1st 2026 at Gut Herzershof, 15328 Küstriner Vorland, Brandenburg, Germany. This is more than a voluntary service or a training, it's a way of life. You will learn by doing: building, gardening, cooking, creating art, and experimenting with your own entrepreneurial ideas. This program opens the door to a grounded, value-driven entrepreneurial community — a space to grow, create, and co-evolve. Through peer learning, project-based learning and collaboration, and community-driven innovation, we'll dive into essential questions:
Who am I and how do I want to be?
What do I really, really want to do with my life?
How can we lead a resilient life as communities?
The journey doesn't end after two months — it's just the beginning wherever you are. For those who wish to continue, it becomes part of an ongoing transformative learning path — a living process of action research, rooted in real-life contexts and intercultural collaboration. Together, we'll explore personal and collective inquiries, implementing conscious entrepreneurship through value-based ventures, projects, products, and services that foster both personal growth and community transformation. With an integrated peer-learning approach, the UnaVersity community supports one another through every phase of development — from inspiration and realization to growth, and even through moments of individual or collective challenge.
This immersive experience is supported by the European Union's European Solidarity Corps (EVS) for residents in European EVS partner countries, and brings together participants from across Europe and beyond to learn, create, and live in an intentional rural community.
🔹 Develop eco-social entrepreneurship ideas
🔹 Experience collaborative learning and decision-making
🔹 Grow within a diverse, intercultural group
🔹 Live close to nature while shaping real-world impact
Are you ready to take the next step – together?
When: from May 6th to July 1st 2026 Where: Gut Herzershof, Herzershof 10, 15328 Küstriner Vorland, Germany
www.unavision.eu
Ready to join the ecosystem?
Register now on our platform and become part of the UnaVersity ecosystem network:
https://unavision-network.mn.co/share/Mn-pGHYiPwyT4ODW?utm_source=manual
Discover what's possible – when we learn, live, and create together.pose, and joy!
Here is a detailed description in PDF for downloading.
Transportation – Accommodation – Food
The activity will take place at Gut Herzershof:
Herzershof 10, 15328 Küstriner Vorland, Germany.
The accommodation will be with shared rooms and shared bathrooms and toilets. Have a look at our pictures:
Photos Herzershof – UnaVision
Gut Herzershof located 90 km east of Berlin is a learning location about resilient living. We are co-creating a living ecosystem, where learning and un-learning becomes an agile, flexible, and self-organized system with a flat, non-hierarchical structure coordinated through sociocratic principles and shared ownership. Everyone contributes to maintaining the ecosystem through small, fair contributions, making it sustainable and inclusive.
At the moment, the Gut Herzershof community consists of 8 people.
Dates
* Arrival at Gut Herzershof: Wednesday May 6th 2026, afternoon
* Program: from Thursday May 7th to Tuesday June 30th 2026
* Departure: Wednesday July 1st after breakfast
In case your connections are not good, you are welcome to come a day earlier or stay a day longer at no additional cost.
Group Chat and UnaVision Platform
UnaVision Platform: https://unavision-network.mn.co/share/Mn-pGHYiPwyT4ODW?utm_source=manual
Please register yourself, fill out your profile and upload a photo. Then register at the 2025 EVS Pop-up village event.
WhatsApp Chat: We will start a WhatsApp group chat as soon as we have your mobile numbers.
European Youth Portal registration
You need to be registered at the European Youth You need to be registered at the European Youth Portal in order to participate. Please do so as soon as possible! Your PRN is required to finalize the technical preparation.
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/young-people/about_en
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/49898_en
Volunteering Agreement
Within the European Solidarity Corps, a volunteering agreement has to be signed. Please provide us with the answers in this form to prepare the agreement as well as some other aspects of your stay. The agreement will then be sent to you for review and signature.
https://forms.office.com/e/2qBW69wF1s
Food
We cook vegetarian, organic food. Most of the food is from regional farms or a bio certified supplier. The cooking team will serve the food on the buffet in the community room. If needed, there is gluten free bread. You can drink the tap water at our location.
All day long you will have access to coffee, tea, syrup and water. If needed, you can purchase other drinks at the local supermarket EDEKA, which is 2 km away.
Planned eating times are mentioned below. Please stick to the times to enable the cooking-kitchen team to participate in the activities.
* Breakfast from 07:15 h to 08:15 h
* Lunch from 13:30 to 14:15 h
* Dinner from 19:00 to 19:45 h
Accommodation, sleeping and hygiene
You will have shared hostel style sleeping rooms with 12, 8, 4 or 3 beds. The rooms are separated for female and male participants. You will find these rooms on the ground and first floor of the former farm building. We provide beddings and towels.
There are male and female showers with toilets on the ground floor and additional toilets on the first floor.
Please bring house shoes or slippers for the indoor activities.
Use of shampoo, soap and detergents
We have a plant based sewage treatment plant. We are not using any chemicals for dishwashing or body cleaning. You will be provided with soap and shampoo for your cleaning purposes. You do not need to bring these.
Washing Cloths
We have a washing machine and a dryer. Please combine the washing with several people (8kg) to wash together. We will explain to you how the machine works.
Smoking – Alcohol
Smoking is not allowed in the buildings. We have smoking areas outside at the veranda of the community building and the terrace of the farm building.
Please do not consume alcoholic beverages during the week. A moderate and conscious consumption during the weekend parties is fine.
Team of EVS program
Manuela of pewobe g GmbH takes care of all financial questions, settlements and reimbursement of travel costs. All technical questions regarding the volunteering agreement, management in the European Youth Portal as well as finances will be handled by pewobe g GmbH.
Johannes and the Gut Herzershof team coordinate the activities at Gut Herzershof.
Activities are conducted by Ana (kitchen, baking), Johannes (individual and team development and topic offerings), Sascha (atelier, art, mosaic, frame printing), Sophie (Yoga, garden) and Uta (atelier and garden)
Manuela Demel, Mail: demel@pewobe-ffo.de, Mobil +49 (173) 425 8016
Johannes Pfister, Mail: johannes.pfister@thinkcamp.eu, Mobil: +49 (172) 862 8947
Location and Transportation
The location of Gut Herzershof is 90 km east of Berlin, Germany. The address is:
Herzershof 10, 15328 Küstriner Vorland
The next bus station is "Herzershof Küstriner Vorland" 500 meter from our location. It is served by bus 969 from Frankfurt (Oder) or from Bahnhof Küstrin Kietz.
The next train station is "Gorgast Bahnhof Küstriner Vorland" at a distance of 3.5 km. Walking time is about 40 minutes.
The EDEKA supermarket is 2 km away in the next village of Manschnow. Next to the EDEKA is also a drug store, post office and Kebab.
Arriving at the Airport Berlin-Brandenburg or Berlin Hauptbahnhof
There are frequent trains from the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport to Berlin Ostkreuz, where you have to change. The duration is about 20 minutes.
From Berlin Hauptbahnhof you can take the S-Bahn to Berlin Ostkreuz (about 15 minutes).
To travel to Gut Herzershof, there are two possibilities.
Alternative-1 from Berlin Ostkreuz
From Berlin Ostkreuz you can take the train RB-26 towards Kostrzyn (PL). The station stop is "Gorgast Bahnhof". The ride takes 1:10 h. Departures on Saturday or Sunday afternoon are:
* Departure 15:33 h – Arrival 16:43 h
* Departure 17:33 h – Arrival 18:43 h
* Departure 19:33 h – Arrival 20:43 h
To walk from the Gorgast train station to Gut Herzershof is 3.5 km or 40 minutes. We will pick you up at the station.
Alternative-2 from Berlin Ostkreuz (or Hauptbahnhof)
Alternatively you can choose the combination train and bus directly to Herzershof bus stations. In that case you take the train RE-1 from Berlin Ostkreuz to Frankfurt (Oder) at 12:32 h or 16:32 h, change in Frankfurt (Oder) to take the Bus 969 to Herzershof.
Going Home on the last day
Trains for Berlin departing on Sundays are at 06:15h, 08:15h, 10:15h or 12:15h.
Finances, Tickets and reimbursement
Please send you tickets and all related documents to projekte@pewobe-ffo.de
The costs in Germany for accommodation and the activities are covered by the fund of the European Commission. You will also be signed up for the group insurance provided by the European Solidarity Corps. According to the rules within the European Solidarity Corps we will reimburse the travel costs on the basis of the cheapest and safest possibilities, e.g. second class railway tickets, APEX-flights etc., accompanied by the receipt of complete and original tickets, invoices, bills, receipts, boarding cards etc. upon a certain "contribution to the travel costs of participants, from their place of origin to the venue of the activity and return". This contribution is "based on the travel distance per participant. Travel distances must be calculated using the distance calculator supported by the European Commission".
All financial details as well as other obligations from all sides will be clarified in a personal volunteering agreement between pewobe, Herzershof and each volunteer. The draft for this agreement will be sent after you submit your details through the form above.
The team of Manuela will handle the reimbursement and also your pocket money for the stay. You will receive the pocket money during your stay. The reimbursement of travel costs will be done when all necessary documents are submitted. It is important that original documents are collected and submitted during your stay.
Compensation of CO2 emissions while traveling
We suggest that every participant plant one or more trees to compensate for the environmental damage caused by our travels. We will do that together in the future forest garden at our location. The calculation of upsetting for example a one way flight of 2.000 km is planting 2 trees and caring for it during the next 50 years! (Room for discussion). If you like to donate a tree, please do so by offering 10 € to 20 €.
Clothes and climate
Please bring some protective rain clothes, good shoes and jackets for the evenings. During the months of June the average temperature in Brandenburg ranges between 15 and 25 degrees, with a 50% chance of rainy days during the month.
Activities during your stay
We worked out a combination of activities for learning, working and living together. On a weekly basis we will split up in three to four groups for the activities. We also like to conduct short daily and in depth weekly reviews about your perceptions, feelings, thoughts and wishes about the program, participants and hosting. It is a social experiment of intercultural working, learning and living together. Details will be shared during the first day of the activity.
Sharings and offerings of participants
You are welcome to offer your knowledge, talents and ideas to the group during the afternoons or evenings. Please post them on the board in the community house and give a short explanation to the group. The offerings can have a duration of a few moments to two hours. It can be sharing your knowledge and experience (BA, Master Thesis, projects) or music, dancing, games, entrepreneurship ideas, social experiments and so forth. We also have some board games, table tennis, kicker, and music instruments for your use.
Housekeeping
We like to establish a daily routine of housekeeping to clean up the public spaces of showers, toilets, floors and community houses. Please join one group and help keeping a nice environment for all of us.
Weekend activities
Feel free to do an excursion during the weekend. There are some bicycles which can be used.
When going to Berlin, be aware that there are only limited train and bus services during the weekend. You can purchase group day tickets at reduced prices.
Following a graphical overview of the activities. The first and last week will have a different schedule. A public presentation of the results of the pop up village will be done during the last days of the activities.
