Herbst School 2024 – Besser und erfüllter leben

Take 4 days off from your everyday life to enrich your thinking and give your life new impulses

Fall School 2024 in Berlin – Live better and more fulfillingly

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Do you want to give your life new impulses? Are you looking for answers to the important questions in life? Would you like to initiate necessary changes in your life?

Then the 4-day Autumn School in Berlin is just right for you. During the four exciting, insightful days you will receive new, valuable impulses with the best ideas from philosophy, psychology, art and culture on important aspects of your life:

• Who am I?
< li>How do I create fulfilling and vibrant partnerships?
• How do I make good decisions?
• How can I create real connections with other people?
• How do I find meaning in my life?

Guided by our experienced and committed lecturers Dr. Jörg Bernardy, Sarah Bhandari and Maria Scholze, you can think intensively about your life away from everyday life. At the same time, in an appreciative and humorous atmosphere, you will have numerous opportunities to exchange ideas intensively with the other participants, have deep conversations, make new, exciting acquaintances and, last but not least, have a lot of fun.

< p>The thematic units consist of impulse lectures, exercises, group work and discussions. Participation requires no prior knowledge and is open to everyone. The group size varies between approx. 15 and 25 people. The age range is generally wide, which enables a rich exchange of experiences.

The Autumn School includes

• 6 thematic workshop units including handouts
• an introductory evening with finger food and wine
• a confession game evening
• a philosophical walk
• a light lunch with conversation
• soft drinks , fruit and snacks during the workshop times

Contents and process in detail:

Thursday, October 31st with Maria Scholze< /strong>

From 3:30 p.m. arrival at the workshop premises

4:00 p.m. Program begins with welcome and introductions

4:30 p.m. Module 1: Social Skills: Paths to more connectedness

Making the most of encounters and relationships with other people is a core competency for living a fulfilling life. Among other things, we look at how we can communicate better with others, how we can experience real, deep connections and what important role it plays to be able to show ourselves vulnerable.

approx. 7:00 p.m. “Speedating” with finger food and wine

Equipped with interesting and unusual questions, you will talk to the other participants in quickly changing rounds and practice the important skill of turning small talk into a conversation To do deep talk and have conversations that enrich you and make you happy.

Friday, November 1st with Sarah Bhandari and Maria Scholze

09:45 Module 2: Who am I? Develop self-knowledge

The path to a fulfilled life begins with the search for self-knowledge. Because if we don't know our desires, fears, hopes and thoughts well enough, we don't know what we want and need. We make wrong decisions, especially in love and work, and are haunted by repressed and unreflected feelings that strain our emotional balance.⁠

Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to gain self-awareness. On the one hand because there is simply too much bombarding us all the time and on the other hand because we are very skilled at hiding unpleasant truths and disturbing thoughts from ourselves.⁠

1:00 p.m. Lunch break

14.15 Module 3: How to make good decisions

A good, fulfilling life is a series of good decisions. To do this, we need an understanding of the values ​​and norms, conflicts and desires that influence us in decision-making situations. Making wise decisions also means realistically assessing the question of how much control we really have in decision-making situations and becoming aware of various distortions in perception. We examine our often unconscious decision-making styles based on specific personal decision-making difficulties and experiences to get a clearer idea of ​​which unconscious preconceptions can interfere with our ability to make good decisions.

Approx. 6:30 p.m. Break

8:15 p.m. Confession Game Evening

With the help of The School of Life's Confessions Game, we will playfully interact with the other participants in small, changing groups our lives, our successes, our joys, our fears and our longings. The evening - led by our lecturer Sarah Bhandari - encourages you to reveal important aspects of your personality and share secrets with others by answering questions about career, sex, money, relationships and family in an intimate and playful atmosphere. We will look behind other people's facades and realize how normal our worries and secret thoughts are.

Saturday, 2. November with Jörg Bernardy

09:45 Module 4: Love and Partnership

Am On the third day we look at the question of how we can have successful relationships. One of the biggest mistakes we make in relationships is the romantic assumption that we intuitively have to do everything right in love and that we can't get any smarter or better at it. We will explore how our past experiences shape our relationships. We will learn important skills that keep a relationship alive and put our attitudes and expectations of a partnership to the test.

1:30 p.m. Light Lunch with Jörg Bernardy

3:00 p.m. Philosophical walk

After a philosophical keynote speech on the topics of perception and mindfulness, the participants go on a walk through the neighborhood.

Approx. 6:30 p.m. End

Sunday, November 3rd with Jörg Bernardy

09:15 Module 6: The meaning of life

We experience our life as successful when we find it meaningful. The question of what makes life meaningful can only be answered individually. At the end of the Fall School we try to identify the components of such a life and look at the differences between a meaningful life and a happy life.

12:15 Lunch break

13 :30 reflection and feedback

15:00 end

Voices from participants about our multi-day intensives:

"...infinitely many, infinitely valuable and diverse knowledge, inspiration and ideas - and new contacts with incredibly good people!"

"GRANDIOS!"

"High-quality wellness treatment for spirit, mind and heart"

"Great workshop. My expectations were more than exceeded"

"...a lot of inspiration and desire for really good conversations, happiness through a lot of trust and connection between people who truly meet each other for a few days "

"Learned for life."

"A bombardment of great impulses and ideas, an exciting group and inspiring teachers! Thumbs up!"

" Four days of magic. A mixture of knowledge, exchange, humanity, inspiration and connection."

"Food for thought - Food for heart!"

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Dr. Jörg Bernardy is a freelance author and philosopher (“Man, Woman, What Makes Me?”, “Philosophical Leaps of Thought - Think for Yourself!”, Beltz & Gelberg). At the Karlsruhe University of Design, he worked with Peter Sloterdijk, among others, and then worked for DIE ZEIT for several years. Today he works for “Psychologie aktuell” and has his own blog format for news aktuell. He leads seminars at The School of Life Berlin and workshops on the topics of relationships, culture and self-knowledge and moderates discussions with guests. His research focuses on the philosophy of media, culture, society and aesthetics. His illustrated non-fiction books “I think it's hacking in times of breaking taboos” will be published in 2021 & Gelberg) and “The little everyday stoic - 10 rules of serenity for happiness in life” (Gräfe and Unzer).

Sarah Sarita Bhandari is a systemic team coach and facilitator for co-creation and sustainable change on an individual, social and organizational level. She loves to create spaces of true introspection and authentic togetherness, in which humanity can reveal itself in both its fragility and genius and a pulsating flow of shared creation is created. She built her theoretical basis for this as a scientist at the Federal Environment Agency and the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies, where she researched the topics of new work, co-creation, expanding consciousness, the sufficiency society and the post-growth economy. Today, the main subject of her “research” has become her own body and mind and she regularly educates herself through training (e.g. somatic intelligence, resilience, etc.) as well as through intensive self-awareness phases with longer stays in meditation centers.

< p>Maria Scholze is a philosopher and heads the public program at The School of Life Berlin. After studying philosophy and sociology in Dresden and Berlin, she worked, among others, at the German Center for Aging Issues and on the DFG research project “Witnessing”. She also taught courses on philosophical argumentation and academic writing for ethics students at the Free University of Berlin. She is particularly interested in the topics of age, physicality and vulnerability.

Further information:

When: Thursday, October 31st to Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

Where: The School of Life Berlin, Lychener Str. 7, 10437 Berlin

Ticket categories:

Super early bird: €450 including VAT (limited)

Early bird: €590 incl. VAT (limited)

Standard: €650 incl. VAT.

2-person ticket: €990 ( 495 € per person)

Accommodation and meals: Participants are responsible for their arrival/departure and accommodation. Alcoholic drinks and snacks on the 1st and 2nd evening as well as a light lunch on the 3rd day are included in the price. The School of Life provides tea, coffee and drinks throughout the day. Other lunch and dinner meals are not provided, but the neighborhood offers numerous cafes and restaurants for lunch breaks.