14th Swiss Educational Festival
This year, the 14th Swiss Education Festival in Weggis is dedicated to the important topic of sexuality during adolescence and for young adults.
On the topic of adolescence and sexuality
How do young people get their knowledge about sexuality and where does it take them when they start acting?
This is an open question in many places, but during these festival days on the beautiful Lake Lucerne it should now be given full focus. A wide range of knowledge from various studies and other sources will be presented by international experts Ann-Marlene Henning, Marianne Bentzen and Peter A. Levine.
The range of information and perspectives is supplemented by contributions from younger adults who also deal intensively with this topic. The 14th edition of this unique festival will once again offer an exciting mix of learning potential. Teenagers and young adults up to 25 can participate at half the festival price this time.
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Program Overview for the Festival Thursday, August 13th- Sunday, August 16th, 2020
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Festival Program
Thursday, August 13, 2020
10.30
Opening with Dr. Urs Honauer (CH)
Host and initiator of the Bildungsfestival10.45 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm
Intimate moments and playful fun
What teenagers should know before their first date
Ann-Marlene Henning (DK/DE)8 pm - 9.30 pm
Identity and Sexuality - How the Process of Socialisation Shapes Us
Nuria Honauer (CH) und Florence Vögeli (CH)Friday, August 14, 2020
8.00 am - 9.00 a.m.
Trauma Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)10.45 - 13.00 and 15.00 - 18.15 Uhr
Adolescence, Identity, Life Path and Trauma
Marianne Bentzen (DK)8 pm - 9.30 pm
Sexual Practices in Taoism
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)Saturday, August 15, 2020
8.00 - 9.00 a.m.
Trauma Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)
10.45 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm
Ad Trauma
Dr. Peter A. Levine (USA)Sunday, August 16, 2020
8.00 am - 9.00 am
Yoga - Inner Mindfulness and Sexuality
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)
10.00 - 1 pm and 2 pm - 3.30 pm
Panel with all Speakers and Open Space
with Marianne Bentzen, Ann-Marlene Henning and Dr. Peter A. Levine
Facilitator: Dr. Urs Honauer -
1st Festival Day - Program Thursday, August 13th, 2020
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Program for the 1st festival day
10.30 am
Opening mit Dr. Urs Honauer (CH),
Host and initiator of the Bildungsfestival10.45 am to 1 pm and 3 pm to 6.15 pm
Intimate Moments and Playful Fun
What teenagers should know before the first date
Ann-Marlene Henning (DK/DE)
"It's amazing how little people know about sex."Coming from this insight, Ann-Helene Henning urgently recommends an open, conscious and understandable approach to the topics of intimacy and sexuality from an early age. No one has more questions about their own body and the sexuality associated with it than young people who are just beginning to explore both. To discover and develop an "erotic profile" at an early age, to get to know one's own desires in a natural way, to sense whether there are homo-, hetero- or bisexual tendencies, to recognise which parts of the body make moments of stimulation possible - this and much more is basic for a self-confident sexuality in adolescence. In the course of the first day at this year's education festival, the successful author will give an insight into essential aspects of early competence building in this personally and collectively very important area of our existence. This important insight into sexual self-competence can also be very interesting for older adults, because many of them were not allowed to have these experience in a playful way during their own adolescence.
8 pm - 9.30 pm
Identity and Sexuality - How the Process of Socialisation Shapes Us
Nuria Honauer (CH) und Florence Vögeli (CH)
Can you separate the concepts of identity and sexuality? In this evening workshop, the two presenters will explore the question of how our society shapes people in adolescence. In the course of the workshop, they will discuss with the participants the scope for action that gender roles create and how patterns of behaviour manifest themselves.
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2nd Festival Day - Program Friday, August 14th, 2020
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Program for the 2nd festival day
8.00 am - 9.00 am
Trauma Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)10.45 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm
Feeling, Relating and Being Intimate
Marianne Bentzen (DK)There's a popular saying: Our most important sex organ is the brain ... During adolescence, the brain is in complete turmoil as it is rebuilt. The big question is: Who am I, and where do I belong in this world? - At the same time sexual maturity unfolds and mixes with so many other things: Who am I sexually? How does my sexuality work in terms of group membership, personal status, attachment patterns and gender identity? We will show why teenagers are so difficult to reach and how to find the doors to change.8 pm - 9.30 pm
Sexual Practices in Taoism
Paki E. Heisserer (CH) -
3rd Festival Day - Program Saturday, August 15th, 2020
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Program for the 3rd festival day
8.00 - 9.00 am
Trauma Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)10 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm
Sexuality and Attachment Patterns
Dr. Peter A.Levine (USA)
Young people in the western world unfortunately learn mostly via the Internet - ...especially via pornography. Girls and young women have then the misguided belief that they do all these terrible things have to make them liked or loved by boys. And the boys... learning on this wrong track - excuse this expression - hard Birding, which often comes very close to a version of rape. Nothing of tenderness, no emotional connection, nothing of what makes intimacy and sexuality so beautiful and unique. It needs a strong self-confidence to withstand anything - therefore this topic is ultimately about optimal development of the child, and not only of pubescent or young adults. A strong self with good self-contact and social skills builds from a young age until adolescence. -
4th Festival Day - Program Sunday, August 16th, 2020
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Program for the 4th day of the festival
8.00 - 9.00 am
Tao Yoga - Inner Mindfulness and Sexuality
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)10 am - 1 pm and 2 pm - 3.30 pm
Panel and Open Space
with Marianne Bentzen, Ann-Marlene Henning and Dr. Peter A. Levine
Facilitator: Dr. Urs Honauer
On the fourth day we will look at how the different approaches and perspectives of the three speakers can be combined with each other. This happens in the spirit of the Open Space idea with complementary ideas and also by means of practical and playful discovery between the lecturers and the audience. The fourth day of the festival is always a day of surprise and integration - and an important completion of the three approaches to the title theme. The aim is to network knowledge that has already been presented or brought in in order to pass it on with a visionary attitude.
The Education Festival is part of the culture of the summer festivals, which have enriched the music, film and theatre sectors enormously since the 1970s. Education was long forgotten and continued to take place in a rather joyless environment. This is where the idea of the education festival as a supplement to the festival culture and the field of learning comes in. First and foremost, education should be fun and be characterized by motivation, curiosity and the spirit of discovery. Voilà!
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