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)
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Pyramid:
Mai/June: Topic BODY
-> foundation, basis, earth, incarnation
June/July: Topic RELATIONS
–> with yourself, with others, with the world around you
August: Topic INTUITION I+II
-> listening to the inner voice and following her
September: Topic GOALS I+II
–> Where am I? Where do I want to go? What do I really want? How can I reach it?
October: Topic RELATIONS I+II
–>with yourself, with others, with the world around you
- each month is dedicated to a certain topic:
- May/June: Body (> details)
BODY: foundation, basis, earth, incarnation
- Creativity + Joy
- week 1: the true voice
- week 2: sculpture
- week 3: dance – body awareness in improvisational dance
- week 4: theatre improvisation
- Consciousness + Self-awareness
- week 1: the power of your senses - feeling
- week 2: conscious eating
- week 3: borderwalk – expanding your limits
- week 4: explore your emotions
- Communication
- week 1: non-verbal comunication
- week 2: closeness and distance
- week 3: contact improvisation
- week 4: wrestle + brawl
grounding ritual (earth/forests)
- June/July: Being in relation (> details)
BEING IN RELATION: with yourself, with others, with the world around you
- Creativity + Joy
- week 1: painting
- week 2: voice – role playing
- week 3: dance – 5 rhythms - connecting
- week 4: impulse theatre
- Consciousness + Self-awareness
- week 1: inner journey
- week 2: the power of your senses - tasting
- week 3: nature walk – basic trust and fears
- week 4: emotions in relation
- Communication
- week 1: the holy word – the power of thoughts and words
- week 2: the world is your mirror
- week 3: connecting
- week 4: nourish yourself
merging ritual (water)
- August: Intuition I + II (> details)
INTUITION: listening to the inner voice and following her
- Creativity + Joy
- week 1: intuitive writing
- week 2: dance your inner light
- week 3: in nature: following your path
- week 4: voice - toning
- Consciousness + Self-awareness
- week 1: the power of your senses - seeing
- week 2: holy nutrition
- week 3: manifesting – The Secret (techniques and paths)
- week 4: energywork – healing power
- Communication
- week 1: being in contact
- week 2: reading the world
- week 3: theater of the soul
- week 4: group-energies and the living field
ritual: activating the connection to the source (air)
- September: Goals I + II (> details)
GOALS: Where am I? Where do I want to go? What do I really want? How can I reach it?
- Creativity + Joy
- week 1: dance your yearning
- week 2: voice of the heart
- week 3: intuitive drawing
- week 4: the picture of your life
- Consciousness + Self-awareness
- week 1: silence retreat
- week 2: visionwalk in nature
- week 3: inner forces (challenge and support)
- week 4: integration into the now
- Communication
- week 1: vision theatre
- week 2: my aims – your aims
- week 3: the power of making decisions
- week 4: being in the flow
purifying ritual (fire)
- October: Being in relation I + II (> details)
BEING IN RELATION: with yourself, with others, with the world around you
- Creativity + Joy
- week 1: painting
- week 2: voice – role playing
- week 3: dance – 5 rhythms - connecting
- week 4: impulse theatre
- Consciousness + Self-awareness
- week 1: inner journey
- week 2: the power of your senses - tasting
- week 3: nature walk – basic trust and fears
- week 4: emotions in relation
- Communication
- week 1: the holy word – the power of thoughts and words
- week 2: the world is your mirror
- week 3: connecting
- week 4: nourish yourself
merging ritual (water)
- 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,…).
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The work is done side by side with Centro d'Ompio collaborators.
Collaboration occurs in one work area of the seminar house, which will be defined individually with each participant and in a Work & Study Project and in the dishwashing area.
The assignments are specially chosen in accordance with the needs of the Program. They are chosen with respect to the needs of the seminar house.
The number of required individuals per work area can vary. The areas are as following: garden, kitchen, maintenance, and housecleaning. Working hours are 5h per day (for 4 days) and 4h on the 5th day.
During the phases of work we discover to what extent one's feelings and experiences are determined by the type of work and to what extent by the own attitude, perception and focus of attention.
We want to free ourselves from outdated notions, concepts, and work attitudes. We explore our relationship with the external world and connect to our internal experience. This leads to a new attitude to life and understanding of ourselves.
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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