Thoughts To Take Along on the Next Steps

Friday 19 July was the last workshop on the current Hochschule Reutlingen Springboard Programme (the third programme held at the University!). On a gloriously hot sunny day, the women in the group celebrated their last session together with thoughts on how to maintain the momentum initiated by their Springboard experiences.

To help the thinking process along, Amalia came and led a relaxing, mind-cleansing mediation session. She had been our guest speaker in the first workshop, a wonderfully warm and sharing person with a thoroughly touching story to share.

Amalia J.Lorenzo, Artist, Designer, Mediation Leader

And later in the day, this month's guest speaker (and former Springboard participant) Regina shared her highly inspirational life story. As an added-bonus, she stayed a little longer to share a glass of celebratory Sekt and to offer expert voice-coaching feedback.

Regina Toth, Speech Coach, Rhetorik Trainer

Closing the day, I read the following quote from one of my favourite authors, Laura Berman Fortgang. She wrote the wonderful, "The Little Book on Meaning."


"At the core of our discomfort... lies the truth that we don't know ourselves very well. When we feel okay within ourselves, we are less impatient for answers. We can find our center and wait. We can tolerate mystery and maybe even revere it. It's just so different from how we've been trained and conditioned to live.

   We continue to insist that the outside world reflect something at us that tells us who we are. Whether that comes in the form of success or failure is beside the point. To attempt a meaningful life is to embrace that which can measured only within ourselves. The yardstick is not our life picture. It is rather how we feel about the person staring back at us in the mirror and how we feel about life." 

Michelle, Nicole, Susan, Kerstin, Eva & Antje - Hochschule Reutlingen Summer 2013

Special thanks to Jessica for organising the programmes for staff at the university AND for making sure we had wonderful refreshments throughout each workshop. Looking forward to the next programme!