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Work & Study Autumn 2009
10-Days-Intensive

Program Overview

The participants of this program will be living, studying and working together.
Duration: 10 days
Time: 26th October – 04th November
Focus of the program: Personal goals & intuition in relation with yourself and the world around you
Registration period: closure 3rd October 2009

Study program

The study part will consist of daily body exercises (like Yoga and Qi Gong) and meditation in the late afternoon, each day 1-2 seminar units (each 2 hours) on personal growth, communication and creativity.

In our seminars we instruct alternative, energetic approaches which serve a deeper understanding as well as instruments for applying them in daily life.
We are dealing with basics of human existence such as relationships, communication and nourishment. You can learn more and more about the wonderful gift of your own human body on different levels - to understand mental and emotional mechanisms and to use this knowledge in your daily life.

There will be individual coachings at the beginning and at the end of the program:

  • Introductory interview with focus on your current life situation and
    your personal goals
  • Concluding Interview with focus on your further individual steps

Work

The working part consists of about 2-3 hours of work per day on seven days.

Working together is an integral component of our concept and provides the student with the possibility of self discovery during the day to day work situation at Centro d'Ompio; for example in the kitchen, during the dish washing or the outdoor cleaning.

Evening activities

We will also be holding some evening activities such as a night walk, sauna or a selected movie.

Your input

Come with an open mind and heart and let transformation within yourself begin on its own. Feeling youthful in spirit, your age won't matter.

You should be able to communicate in English, as the program is held in English and it is also the principal language spoken in the house. (The two other languages spoken here are German and Italian).

The Costs

640 € will cover your room and board, classes and personal coaching.

Price-Reductions are possible for:

  • 20% for Students: 512 €
  • 10% für low-income earner (monthly income < 800 €): 576 €
    A price-reduction is possible on request.

 

The contribution includes:

  • all seminar units
  • 2 personal coaching-sessions
  • work-hours as an opportunity to immediately apply that which you have learned
  • evening activites
  • full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner; vegetarian – mostly organic)
  • use of the full infrastructure (incl. sauna)
  • 10 hectars of woods with many walking paths
  • accomodation in comfortable double rooms
  • a lot of fun

 

Additional individual sessions (like coachings and massages) are available with surcharge.

 

The normal Work & study Program

overview

  • 5 days per week meditation and body practices in the morning (1 hour)
  • 3 seminar units per week (each 2 hours long) – see seminar-calender
  • Additional assignments aimed at deepening your understanding and integrating the content of the seminars on your off days.
  • Additional seminar units with guest teachers possible (flexible)
  • monthly Introductory interview with focus on your current life situation and your personal goals
  • Concluding Interview with focus on your further individual steps
  • Feedback round with the group three times per week (1/2 hour)
  • If you are participating for more than one month: individual coaching with assignments for deepening understanding depending on the progress and wishes of the participant

Seminar-Program

  • seminar pyramid 2009:
    the contents of the seminars build upon each other:
    • from block to block (from physical to subtle)
    • from week to week (from inside to outside)
      > read more
  • each month is dedicated to a certain topic:
    • May/June: Body (> details)
    • June/July: Being in relation (> details)
    • August: Intuition I + II (> details)
    • September: Goals I + II (> details)
    • October: Being in relation I + II (> details)
  • twelve seminar units per month, each three units dedicated to following three topics:
    • Creativity + Joy
    • Consciousness + Self-awareness
    • Communication
  • the seminar units are interrelated and build upon each other
  • each seminar unit is two hours long
  • seminar units start with a short meditation and a feedback round

Collaboration (WOrk)

5 days per week working in the seminar house or on special projects (24h per week).

Work is essential to the concept of self awareness and development
of one's full potential. Work offers many opportunities to be self aware and to discover one's partially automatic thought and behavior processes with which we often make things more difficult for ourselves. Having made these discoveries we can go about remedying them and make our tasks both easier and more joyful.

You will be taking part in the daily activities necessary to run the seminar house. Some additional projects might take place (such as renovation of our forrest paths, construction of a summer pavilion,…).

>read more

Free Time

  • 2 days per week off (no work, seminar units, or feedback rounds)
  • once per month: excursion in the surroundings, a hike together or a special event
  • communal evening activites (e.g.: bonfire, sauna, sweatlodge, dancing,...)

General information

  • english is the main language; (depending on the constellation of the group the seminars could also happen in german or italian)
  • translation of the seminar units is possible upon agreement
  • the program has a fixed start and end date per month
  • bookable per block

Example of a typical Work & Study day

7:30            Morning Excercies (Tai Chi, Yoga, Chi-Gong,…) and Silent Meditation
8:30            Breakfast
9:30            Workshop (2 hours) or Feedback Round (1/2 hour)
12:00          work time (1,5 hours)
13:30          lunch
14:30          work time (3,5 hours)
18:00          time for yourself
19:30          dinner
21:00          evening activites

 

notes:

  • this is an example for a work & study day
  • the work hours may vary depending on the type of work
  • usually you will work in the dishwashing one to two days per week – this means that you have a shorter lunch + dinner break and work immiately after the food hours.
  • Three days per week you will be working on a specific work + study project
  • Every participant gets a weekly schedule with the workshops and your work hours

 

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dancing

 

 

 

 

embrace

 

 

 

 

bonfire

 

 

 

 

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