Sommerakademie Motten

Seminars, workshops and cultural trips - these and many other offers await you at the Summer Academy Motten 2026.
We are celebrating 25 years of the Motten Summer Academy!

The annual seminars are based on the holistic principle. The mixture of handicrafts, stage and theater forms, psyche, experience, adventure, writing, creativity, dealing with the energy in and around us as well as the group trips and hikes create this unique atmosphere and power that has been attracting seminar participants to Motten near Heidenreichstein in the Waldviertel for 25 years. This year, the Summer Academy will take place from May 9 to September 6, 2026 under the motto "The Good Reason". Looking ahead - diversity and an active summer are the order of the day. It's time for discoveries again.

Our seminars and events take you into nature, art, the stage, creativity, crafts, the psyche, the "underground" and history!

Program highlights

Once again this year, we are delighted to recommend some valuable new offers. The themes of pure nature, art and stage, culture and adventure tours, themed hikes, readings and joie de vivre are on offer this year. Join us on a photo safari with Andreas Biedermann. There will also be a workshop entitled "Primal medicine - nature as a medicine chest" with Eunike Grahofer, which will bring many exciting things with it.

Also new to the program this year is "Living Adventure - Journey to the Center of the Earth" with Dr. Monika Haeseler-Pastner. The lecture "Geomancy - sacred geometry" by Christina Galko is also new. We are particularly looking forward to a three-day excursion "Waldviertel Süd- vom Kulturjuwel Pöggstall ins Yspertal" with Walter Schlager, Alf Krauliz and others.

The opening on June 3, 2026 has it all! The grandiose Harri Stojka Quartet "Acoustic Drive. As fiction, the performance "Der Renaturierte Mensch" - an anniversary event with music, words, satire and entertainment. Performances by Phillip Schaffler, Chabela Poderosa, René Hartenstein, Maja Jakovac, Alf Krauliz, Andrea Fränzel "Sounds of Dea" and Linda Barburek. The keynote speech will be given by DI Harald Bleier.

Off to Motten! Where the trees are upside down and the hammocks swing in the landscape. We are very proud of our seminar leaders, artists and staff and are very grateful to our supporters and sponsors.

We look forward to seeing you there!