Here you will find an overview of my completed further trainings that are relevant for my future life path. I love learning new things.
Contents of the training:
- Self-experience in the role of participant in a series of initiative exercises, cooperative adventure games, and complex learning projects
- Targeted pedagogical use of cooperative adventure games
- History and background of experiential education
- Goals of experiential education
- Models of impact and methodological principles
- Getting to know different reflection methods
Trainers: Hardy Lux and Jens Thomas
- Targeted use of cooperative adventure games and initiative exercises
- Reflection possibilities and transfer into everyday life
- Phases and methodology of game leadership
- Safety in experiential education and cooperative adventure games
- Self-experience in leading cooperative adventure games and moderating reflection rounds
Trainers: Hardy Lux and Jens Thomas
- "Expedition" as a core component of experiential education programs
- Self-experience: two-day trekking tour with group self-management, bivouac under simple conditions, and intensive nature experience
- Considerations on the pedagogical use of the medium "expedition"
- Acquisition of basic outdoor skills
- Nature experience exercises
- Ensuring physical and psychological safety during a tour
Trainers: Hardy Lux and Jens Thomas
- Specialized instruction with an additional 99 hours of completed training
- This training (2011-2014) qualifies to develop and implement experiential education offers and projects for various target groups in one's own field of work.
- Module 1: Introduction to Experiential Education, 3 days
- Module 2: Cooperative Adventure Games - Practical Experiential Education, 4 days
- Module 3: Being and Learning Outdoors, 3 days
Trainers: Hardy Lux, Jens Thomas, and Head of the Social Pedagogy Vocational School Axel Lüttich
Training goals:
- Engagement with personal limits
- Self-experience in challenging group situations
- Acquisition of knowledge and experience with challenges and boundary experiences in a pedagogical context
- Deepening the understanding of the balance between safety and risk perception in experiential education programs
- Impressive nature experience
Contents of the training:
- Three-day hiking and canoe expedition in the wintery Uckermark region
- Tent bivouac and cooking on fire with group self-management
- Canoe navigation on the "Küstrinchen" stream under winter conditions
- Reflections and inputs on the topics: challenge, boundary experience, safety
- Opportunities and limits of pedagogical use of challenging activities
Trainer: Jens Thomas
Further training for pedagogical professionals for the professional guidance and supervision of interns in child and youth welfare institutions as well as in facilities and services for people with disabilities
Module 1: Knowing the basics of educator training and relevant legal frameworks, reflecting on the requirements for practical instructors in different work fields.
Module 2: Planning the training process together with the team and the intern.
Module 3: Shaping relationships and stimulating and supporting educational processes.
Module 4: Conducting reflection discussions, giving feedback, and assessing.
Module 5: Designing learning location cooperation.
Training provider: BildungsBeratung, Monika Hütt
- Effects of calmness and relaxation
- What is stress and what stresses children?
- Autogenic training
- Child-appropriate yoga
- Special perception exercises (How do I feel? What do I need?)
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Playful movement
- Self-experience and group dynamic processes
- Coping aids through activities
Training provider: Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung im Freistaat Sachsen e.V. (LEB), with Nancy Seidel
Contents of the training:
- Expert knowledge about the organs and organ systems of the human body, as well as own research on anatomical and physiological aspects.
- Exchange of experiences on body perception and body knowledge in children aged 3-10 years.
- Impulses for differentiated learning support of children on the topic of the body in exploratory and research activities.
- Co-constructive development of simple structural and functional models and didactic engagement in model-critical dialogue.
- Highlight: Making food items like butter and quark yourself.
The training was conducted by the Leipzig Chamber of Crafts, a local network partner of the "House of Little Researchers" Foundation.
Training provider: Soziale Initiative Camburg e.V., Seminar leader Brigitte Holz-Schöttler
Contents of the training:
- Reflection on the previous highlights of research with children
- Engagement with various light and color phenomena (e.g., natural colors, color mixing, color vision in the dark, etc.) through independent experimenting and researching.
- Getting to know evaluation criteria for good project work
- Joint development of various building blocks from different educational areas for "Light, Colors, Vision" projects.
The training was conducted by the Leipzig Chamber of Crafts, a local network partner of the "House of Little Researchers" Foundation.
- Recognition and differentiation of herbs, including similarities with poisonous plants
- Appearance and collection of herbs in forests and residential environments
- Recognition of healing components in actually poisonous plants (e.g., edible fruits)
- Healing effects and interactions with medications
- Production and application of soaps, ointments, bath additives, and oils
- Development and compilation of herbal recipes for ailments
- Preparation and effects of herbal teas, incense mixtures, and herbal medicines
- Insight that one herb can help with many ailments and that multiple helpful herbs exist for one ailment
- Production of herbal medicines (cough syrup, painkillers, natural antibiotics, etc.)
- Engagement with the detoxifying effects of various herbs on the body and detoxification by herbs in case of acute food poisoning!
- Promotion of health through herbal remedies with gentler effects than synthetic medicines
- Preservation methods for self-made care and/or herbal medicine products (canning, drying, fermentation)
- Research on traditional healing methods and historical applications
- Dealing with herbs for contraception and why many herbs and foods trigger labor or lead to miscarriage and should be avoided
- Engagement with Ayurveda and its benefits for physical and mental well-being
Contents of the training:
- Learning to read and interpret charts
- Learning and understanding the four (or five) types
- Understanding and explaining the meaning of charts and energy centers for the person
- Recognizing strengths and weaknesses
- Learning goals and applications in real life (personal development, relationship counseling, career orientation, child-rearing)
- Learning strategies and centers
- How a person is defined
- Open chakras
- Shadow and development
- Creating a workbook
Wild herb basics
Herbal cooking
Natural pharmacy
Plant-based cosmetics
Wild berries
Green & Clean
Phenological seasons
Plants in the annual cycle
Forest medicine and tree resin
Herb cultivation & products
Tree and bud medicine
Root striking (power of roots)
Family ties (plant families)
Women's herbs
Healing wraps & compresses
Underestimated rituals - the art of smudging
Herbal pedagogy - nature as a workplace
Drugs, poisons, and umbelliferous plants
Stephanie Schwipps - Sound Therapist / Examiner
Workshop contents:
World of tuning forks
Application
Suitable frequencies
Energy points in adults and children
Treating scar disturbances