EDUCATIONAL LEAVE

Dates

• February 15 – 19, 2027 @AYRF
• April 5 – 9, 2027 @Hollerhöfe
• September 20 – 24 , @Hollerhöfe
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speaker: Silke Döpgen

• Participant information brochure

• Employees from all industries and fields of activity who want to clarify their professional situation in a world of work that is changing rapidly due to digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence.
• The seminar is aimed in particular at employees, specialists and managers as well as people with a high level of communication and action responsibility, who analyze their individual skills and values, reflect on their team and organizational role and want to proactively shape their professional future viability. Previous knowledge are not required.

Objectives of the event

• Participants use the structured personal map to determine their well-founded professional location. They develop a differentiated profile of their intrinsic values, transferable skills, preferred team roles and unconscious work patterns in order to derive a tailor-made professional direction with verifiable action steps.

• In the sense of Hesse’s educational leave law, the event goes far beyond pure individual support: it critically examines the socio-political and structural change in the world of work (e.g. Performance norms, economization, technological change through generative AI) and enables participants to reflect on their role in the field of tension between individual needs, operational expectations and social responsibility.

Individual learning objectives

• Value orientation: Development of a structured profile of professional values and examination of their fit in current professional life.
• Resources & Sovereignty: Awareness of performance conditions and Activation of individual sources of strength (e.g. via the Zurich Resources model).
• Competence and role clarification: Systematic inventory of knowledge, interests and transferable competencies as well as comparison of self-image and external image with regard to team roles according to Belbin.
• Pattern recognition & de-escalation: Identification of obstructive work patterns, inner drivers (transactional analysis) and limiting beliefs as well as testing of change strategies.
• Technological maturity: Critical examination of the consequences of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for job profiles, job content and human judgement as well as classification in the legal framework of the EU AI Regulation.
• Socio-political discourse: Reflection on social performance norms, participation structures in organisations and one’s own responsibility for democratic and solidary cooperation in the workplace.
• Transfer competence: Translation of the knowledge gained into a concrete, realistic action plan for everyday working life.

Cost

@AYRF

• 540€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

@Hollerhöfe

• Seminar fee: 540€ per person
• Accommodation: 690€ p.p. in a single room / 437€ p.p. in a double room*
  • Book separately at Hollerhöfe Bavaria
    
  • Mention “AYRF Voucher”
• Tip: Arrival Sunday, Departure Saturday
  • However, according to personal preference
• *To couples or friends also as a double room
  • Double beds with 2.00m x 2.00m
  • On request extra bed

Notices & Forms

• Recognition of the provider for the employer: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:

  • Hamburg: coming soon

  • Hesse: Download
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Dates

• 22 – 26 February 2027 @AYRF
• 27 September – 1 October 2027 @AYRF
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speaker: Grandmaster Kai Uwe Jettkandt

Target group

• Employees from all sectors and fields of activity who are professionally confronted with public access, customer contact, field service, conflict-ridden situations or potential assaults (e.g. employees in social and health care, in public authorities, in the public sector, in customer service, in public transport or in social work).
• The seminar is aimed at employees, specialists and managers who want to increase their verbal and non-verbal confidence, strengthen de-escalation skills and prepare themselves physically for critical situations.

Objectives of the event

• Participants acquire sound skills for early detection, de-escalation and coping with critical, verbally and physically escalating situations in everyday working life.
• They strengthen their personal presence, learn to regulate stress reactions in their own bodies and learn effective techniques of verbal self-assertion and physical self-defense.

Individual learning objectives

• Sensitization for the emergence of conflicts and the recognition of dangerous situations in advance (danger radar).
• Acquisition of verbal skills, de-escalation strategies and targeted use of one’s own tone of voice for conflict resolution.
• Training of self-perception: What causes stress in me and in the other person? How does body language change during stress?
• Differentiation between a relaxed and a stressed posture as well as non-verbal signaling effect.
• Practical learning of liberation techniques (of handles, clasps, on the collar, front and back).
• Defense against physical attacks (slaps, fist attacks, shoving) and the practice of punch combinations against resistance (mitt work).
• Development of reliable everyday tools for critical zones (rail, road, multi-storey car park, entrance areas, duty rooms).

Costs & Forms

• 540€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

• Recognition of the provider for the employer:
  • Hesse: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:

  • Hamburg: coming soon

  • Hesse: Download
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Date

• March 1 – 5, 2027 @AYRF
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speaker: Anna Rossow

Target group

• Employees from all industries, managers and self-employed people who want to develop preventive strategies against work-related incorrect strain and chronic stress in everyday working life.
• Persons with predominantly sitting, standing or one-sided physical activities who specifically want to prevent ergonomic posture and strengthen their physical resilience and mobility.
• Interested in scientifically based methods of cognitive and autonomous self-regulation, mental stress reduction and evidence-based health promotion in the workplace.

Objectives of the event

• The participants deal with the practical and philosophical foundations of yoga and reflect on their significance for the modern world of work.
• You will acquire scientifically sound knowledge about the development of stress and Stress management in a professional context. Essentially, it is about the fact that the participants develop strategies to acquire competencies for the independent prevention of work-related stress and to derive impulses for a health-promoting work and life design in a social context.
• A special focus here is on the ability to actively democratic participation. Participants learn to understand the ethical principles of ancient Indian philosophy (Yamas/Niyamas) as normative guardrails for civil society engagement, unprejudiced discourse in a pluralistic space and the preservation of democratic institutions in a changing society.

Individual learning objectives

• Basic understanding of the autonomic nervous system
• Basic understanding of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
• Recognizing connections between stress, breathing and health
• Getting to know the anatomy of functional movement
• Neurobiological effects of yoga and meditation in relation to stress
• Developing strategies for stress management (resilience strategies)
• Improve body awareness and self-regulation
• Learn breathing techniques for regulating stressful situations
• Developing individual health strategies for everyday working life
• Helping people to help themselves
• Reflection of one’s own stress patterns
• Strengthening concentration and resilience

Costs & Forms

• 600€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

• Recognition of the provider for the employer:
  • Hesse: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:

  • Hamburg: coming soon

  • Hesse: Download
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Date

• March 8 – 12, 2027 @AYRF
• August 30 – September 3, @extern (coming soon)
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speakers: Andrea Germer & Anja Kylius-Kremper

Target group

• Employees from all sectors and fields of activity who are exposed to high mental or physical stress, work intensification, time and deadline pressure in their everyday work.
• The seminar is aimed in particular at employees, specialists and managers as well as people with a high level of communication and presentation responsibility who would like to strengthen their stress tolerance, performance skills and self-regulation in the long term.

Objectives of the event

• The participants deal with the theoretical and practical basics of breath regulation (functional breathing training, breath-assisted self-regulation) as well as perception training and reflect on their significance for the modern world of work.
• You will acquire scientifically sound knowledge about stress development, autonomic nervous system regulation, self-regulation when performing in front of groups and effective communication in a professional context.
• Essentially, the aim is for the participants to develop strategies to make their daily professional and private activities health-promoting, to maintain their performance and to ensure their ability to act and make decisions under constant stress. A special focus is on strengthening the ability to engage in dialogue, the perception of others and oneself as well as appreciative cooperation as a contribution to democratic coexistence.

Individual learning objectives

• Sensitization for individual stress reactions and their targeted influence
• Basic understanding of the autonomic nervous system during stress and recovery
• Learning effective breathing techniques for acute and self-regulation
• Strengthening concentration, emotional self-regulation and mental clarity in everyday (professional) life
• Confidence in presentations, moderations and appearances in front of teams / groups
• Methods for the prevention of burn-out in the case of continuous stress and work intensification
• Perception training: Differentiated observation of body language and facial expressions to reflect on communication styles and personalities
• Deepening the ability to engage in dialogue and work in a team as well as recognizing and promoting talents in the team
• Building a personal toolbox for self-efficacy in challenging work and conflict situations
• Strengthening of values for constructive and democratic cooperation in the working environment

Costs & Forms

• 540€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

• Recognition of the provider for the employer:
  • Hesse: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:

  • Hamburg: coming soon

  • Hesse: to follow
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Dates

• 15 – 19 March 2027 @AYRF
• November 15 – 19, 2027 @AYRF
• Monday to Friday,
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speaker: David Train

Target group

• Professionals who want to strengthen their self-regulation skills through prolonged workload, high responsibility or frequent stressful situations
• Persons in management and advisory functions as well as in social and nursing professions with high emotional stress
• Employees who want to link individual resilience strategies with an understanding of societal stress factors and collective forms of coping

Objectives of the event

• The participants deal with the physiological and psychological foundations of stress regulation, heart coherence and resilience according to the HeartMath® method and reflect on their significance for the modern world of work and society.
• You will acquire scientifically sound knowledge of the autonomic nervous system, heart rate variability (HRV) and body-oriented self-regulation techniques. Essentially, the aim is for the participants to develop practical strategies to maintain their personal performance and recovery capacity under constant stress and to make their professional and private actions health-promoting.
• A special focus is on the critical examination of the connection between individual mental health, social security systems and collective, democratic coping strategies in times of crisis.

Individual learning objectives

• Understanding the physiological basis of stress, recovery and heart coherence as well as the four areas of resilience (body, mind, emotions, spirituality)
• Safe use of central HeartMath® techniques (Heart-Focused Breathing, Quick Coherence®, Notice & Ease™, Inner-Ease™, Heart Lock-In®, Freeze Frame®)
• Classification of heart rate variability (HRV) as a marker of resilience and self-perception of emotional patterns
• Learning complementary breathing techniques (coherent breathing, alternate breathing, bee breathing) for targeted nervous system regulation
• Development of a resilience practice suitable for everyday use and transfer to professional stress situations
• Critical Classification of the Relationship between Individual Health and Social Security Systems
• Reflection on solidarity and social responsibility as factors of collective resilience
• Analysis of the influence of social crisis phenomena (climate change, digitalization, polarization) on individual burdens
• Development of individual and collective, especially democratic, options for action to overcome the crisis

Costs & Forms

• 540€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

• Recognition of the provider for the employer:
  • Hesse: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:

  • Hamburg: coming soon

  • Hesse: to follow
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Date

• April 12 – 16, 2027 @AYRF
• 25 – 29 October 2027 @Hollerhöfe
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speaker: Kerstin Huber

Target group

• Employees from all industries and fields of activity who are exposed to high mental or physical stress, work intensification, time and deadline pressure as well as digital sensory overload in their everyday work.
• The seminar is aimed in particular at employees, specialists and managers as well as people with a high level of communication and action responsibility who want to strengthen their stress tolerance, self-regulation and resilience in the long term.

Objectives of the event

• The participants deal with the theoretical and practical basics of mindfulness, self-regulation and resilience promotion and reflect on their significance for the modern world of work. They acquire scientifically sound knowledge about the development of stress, coaching approaches for finding solutions, emotional self-control and effective communication in a professional context. Essentially, the aim is to develop strategies to make daily professional activities health-promoting, to maintain performance and to ensure the ability to act and make decisions under constant stress.
• A special focus is on reflecting on socio-structural working conditions (relationship vs. behavioural prevention), strengthening the ability to engage in dialogue and appreciative cooperation as a contribution to democratic cooperation in the company.

Individual learning objectives

• Sensitization for individual stress reactions, inner drivers and their targeted influence by means of coaching methods and mindfulness.
• Understanding of the autonomic nervous system and psychophysiological relationships during stress and recovery.
• Learning effective mindfulness and breathing techniques for acute and self-regulation in everyday work.
• Strengthening concentration, emotional self-regulation and mental clarity with a high level of work density.
• Sovereignty in professional communication, conversations, presentations and conflict situations.
• Reflection on the responsibility of employees, managers and organisations for prevention, health protection and work culture.
• Methods for the prophylaxis of mental exhaustion (burnout) in the case of permanent stress and constant availability.
• Deepening the ability to engage in dialogue and teamwork, the ability to set boundaries and strengthen the values for constructive, pluralistic and democratic cooperation in the working environment.

Costs & Forms

@AYRF

• 540€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

@Hollerhöfe

• Seminar fee: 540€ per person

• Accommodation: 690€ p.p. in a single room / 437€ p.p. in a double room*
  • Book separately at Hollerhöfe Bayern
  • Mention “AYRF Voucher”
• Tip: Arrival Sunday, Departure Saturday
  • However, according to personal preference
• *To couples or friends also as a double room
  • Double beds with 2.00m x 2.00m
  • On request extra bed

Notices & Forms

• Recognition of the provider for the employer: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:
  • Hamburg: coming soon
  • Hesse: to follow
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Dates

• April 26 – 30, 2027 @Hollerhöfe
• 06 – 10 September 2027 @Hollerhöfe
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speaker: David Train

Target group

• Professionals with at least B1 English skills who regularly communicate in English in international teams or with customers and business partners.
• Specialists and executives from internationalized companies who want to professionalize their oral and written business communication.
• Employees who, in addition to technical language skills, would like to deal with the social and labour market policy framework conditions of international cooperation.

Objectives of the event

• The participants deal with the technical and intercultural basics of English-language business communication and reflect on its importance for a globalized working world.
• You will acquire in-depth knowledge of international negotiation and presentation techniques as well as of the socio-political context of Multilingualism, diversity and workers’ rights. Essentially, it is about about the participants developing action and discourse skills in order to shape their professional actions in international contexts in a confident, goal-oriented and socially beneficial way.
• A special focus is on the promotion of critical judgement on questions of social justice, access to the labour market, co-determination and democratic participation in a globalised environment.

Individual learning objectives

• Confidently leading, moderating (chairing) and structuring meetings in English.
• Applying effective negotiation strategies, argumentation techniques and dealing with objections.
• Professional design of presentations including storytelling and confident handling of Q sessions.
• Reflected intercultural communication skills for e-mail correspondence, calls and small talk.
• Critical examination of diversity and multilingualism as a social and economic resource.
• Analysis of language barriers and opportunities in accessing the international labour market.
• Understand proven strategies and criticisms in diversity management as well as the role of co-determination (works councils).
• Comparative classification of workers’ rights standards in global supply chains.
• Development of a personal transfer plan to anchor language and discourse skills in everyday working life.

Cost

• Seminar fee: 540€ per person

• Accommodation: 690€ p.p. in a single room / 437€ p.p. in a double room*

  • Book separately at Hollerhöfe Bayern
  • Mention “AYRF Voucher”
• Tip: Arrival Sunday, Departure Saturday
  • However, according to personal preference
• *To couples or friends also as a double room
  • Double beds with 2.00m x 2.00m
  • On request extra bed

Notices Forms

• Recognition of the provider for the employer: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:

  • Hamburg: coming soon

  • Hesse: Download
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states will follow after the Hessian recognition

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Date

• 7 – 11 June 2027 @AYRF
• September 13 – 17 , @Hollerhöfe
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speakers: Anke Vogel, Christian O. Braun, Kerstin Huber Selime Özbek

Target group

• People who feel the desire to slow down and live more consciously and want to learn everyday practical tools for stress management.
• It also addresses people who want to reflect on their professional and private practice in the field of tension between self-care, democratic responsibility and social diversity.
• People who want to cultivate or deepen a regular Ashtanga Yoga practice.

Objectives of the event

• Cultivating Mindfulness in Everyday Work

• Recognizing and changing stress patterns
• Develop more serenity and presence
• Development of personal resilience strategies

Contents

• Daily Ashtanga Yoga Practice
  • Learning a self-practice to promote body awareness, outer and inner stability
  • You are already well-versed in Ashtanga Mysore style, then you can join our Mysore class in the morning, which takes place from 6-8 pm, instead of taking part in the introduction!

• Yoga philosophy and its relation to the present day
  • The yoga philosophy conveys fundamental values and approaches that offer orientation even in today’s world. It promotes mindfulness, ethical action and a conscious life in harmony with oneself, the (working) environment and the environment.

• Mindfulness in everyday life and professional life
  • Introduction to the basics, philosophy and effect of mindfulness. Conscious presence as the key to more serenity, clarity and self-leadership. Integration of mindfulness into personal and professional everyday life.

• Meditation
  • How can meditation help to bring more serenity into everyday life, even in challenging situations? Learning different forms of meditation while sitting and walking. Breath observation and body scan.

• Understanding stress and strengthening resources
  • Recognizing stress triggers and stressful factors, reflecting on one’s own patterns and activating personal resources.

• Resilience through self-care and inner balance
  • Development of personal resilience strategies to meet special challenges with mental stability and emerge stronger from them.

• Healthy Work Culture Prevention
  • Political and social causes of stress. Dialogue forum on work culture and prevention.

Cost

@AYRF

• 540€ per person
• Without accommodation, pure seminar fee

@Hollerhöfe

• Seminar fee: 540€ per person

• Accommodation: 690€ p.p. in a single room / 437€ p.p. in a double room*

  • Book separately at Hollerhöfe Bayern
  • Mention “AYRF Voucher”
• Tip: Arrival Sunday, Departure Saturday
  • However, according to personal preference
• *To couples or friends also as a double room
  • Double beds with 2.00m x 2.00m
  • On request extra bed

Notices Forms

• Recognition of the provider for the employer: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:
  • Hamburg: Download
  • Hesse: Download
  • Rhineland-Pfalz: Download
  • Saarland: Download
  • Sachsen-Anhalt: Download
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Download
  • Other federal states in progress

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.

Date

• March 1 – 5, 2027 @Hollerhöfe
• November 1 – 5 , @Hollerhöfe
• Monday to Friday
  • 40 teaching units
  • à 45 minutes on 5 days
• Speakers: Anja Warnecke-Bi

Target group

• Employees from all sectors and areas of activity who want to acquire basic Chinese language skills and expand their intercultural and socio-political skills.
• Employees with existing professional contacts to China as well as people who would like to prepare for possible future international encounters and cooperations or expand their professional competence in the globalized working environment.
• Previous knowledge of the Chinese language is not required.

Objectives of the event

• Teaching basic knowledge of the Chinese language as well as a differentiated understanding of China’s political, economic and social conditions.

• Development of initial language skills for simple everyday and professional situations, promotion of intercultural understanding and critical reflection on the importance of China for Germany and international cooperation.

Individual learning objectives

• Learning the basics of the Chinese phonetic transcription Pinyin and the four tones of Mandarin Chinese.
• Acquisition of basic vocabulary for greetings, personal introductions, simple questions/answers as well as selected everyday and professional situations.
• Conducting simple dialogues (getting to know each other, arranging appointments, restaurant).
• Insight into the structure of Chinese characters and testing basic writing techniques in a calligraphy unit.
• Acquisition of basic knowledge about the political and economic system of China compared to Germany.
• Analysis of the world of work, social security and digitalisation in different political systems.
• Development of intercultural competences, change of perspective and avoidance of stereo formations.

Cost

• Seminar fee: 540€ per person

• Accommodation: 690€ p.p. in a single room / 437€ p.p. in a double room*

  • Book separately at Hollerhöfe Bayern
  • Mention “AYRF Voucher”
• Tip: Arrival Sunday, Departure Saturday
  
  • However, according to personal preference
• *To couples or friends also as a double room
  
  • Double beds with 2.00m x 2.00m
  • On request extra bed

Notices Forms

• Recognition of the provider for the employer: Download

• Event recognition for the employer:
  • Hamburg: coming soon
  • Hesse: to follow
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: to follow
  • Saarland: Download
  • Saxony-Anhalt: to follow
  • Schleswig-Holstein: to follow
  • Other federal states in progress

• Course description incl. course schedule:Download

Cancellation policy

• Up to 3 months before the start of an educational leave, 50% refund.
• After that, no refund is possible.
• It is recommended to take out seminar insurance: HanseMerkur offers something like this (we don’t get any commission!): Link.