What is my vision for my present and my next stage of life? 

pecial­ly appro­pri­ate for peo­ple with respon­si­bil­i­ty: For once, not to face even more pres­sure, but to dis­cov­er your own pas­sions, your inner dri­ve. I am ready to change if change takes me fur­ther in life and clos­er to myself.

Con­tent: Usu­al­ly a three to four day sem­i­nar and three fol­low-up indi­vid­ual coach­ing ses­sions with­in an agreed peri­od of time.

Group size: 1 to 5 peo­ple. Ide­al con­di­tions are e.g. two mar­ried cou­ples who are friends, a small team, a work group.

The tes­ti­mo­ni­als are repro­duced with­out names for rea­sons of pri­va­cy. Names and e‑mail address­es will be pro­vid­ed on request.

Through the sem­i­nar “My per­son­al self-dec­la­ra­tion”, I devel­oped my voca­tion sen­tence thanks to pro­fes­sion­al guid­ance from Wolf­gang Küng. This sen­tence has been with me for more than five years now and con­tin­ues to be a clear guide­line for my decisions.

Short­ly before I attend­ed Wolf­gang Küng’s “My per­son­al self-dec­la­ra­tion” sem­i­nar, I start­ed work­ing as a sec­re­tary for a small NGO. Dur­ing the course, I worked out, among oth­er things, how I want­ed my work to con­tribute to the suc­cess of the com­pa­ny, what changes I per­son­al­ly want­ed to make and how I could ful­fill my work along­side my job as a moth­er. Now, after a year and a half, I have achieved almost every point. The course helped me to rec­og­nize how I can incor­po­rate my per­son­al prin­ci­ples into my work and under which cir­cum­stances I achieve my best performance.

Iden­ti­fy­ing my per­son­al core val­ues has helped me a lot with my own self-image. Due to my very strict Chris­t­ian upbring­ing, for exam­ple, it was nev­er pos­si­ble to enjoy myself with­out a guilty con­science. At that point, it was almost a rev­e­la­tion to me that enjoy­ment is a core val­ue and that I can and may cul­ti­vate it.

I was par­tic­u­lar­ly moved at the time by the lib­er­at­ing effect that work­ing out my own direc­tion in life had on me. That has stayed with me to this day: It sim­ply feels good to be able to go your own way. The tan­gi­ble results with the voca­tion sen­tence and basic val­ues have also become impor­tant com­pan­ions for me in all areas of life. I have learned to appre­ci­ate this com­pass, espe­cial­ly in pro­fes­sion­al deci­sions, and would not want to do with­out it. I also have it con­stant­ly in front of me when plan­ning the year and week — and thus have the cer­tain­ty of stay­ing on course from day to day and year to year.

The sem­i­nar “My per­son­al self-dec­la­ra­tion” has had a last­ing impact on my life. In my life and work, I am guid­ed by my core val­ues and expe­ri­ence how my mis­sion state­ment ‘Out of seren­i­ty, I serve and touch to bring about renew­al’ is mak­ing waves. Many of the goals and ideas for the future from the sem­i­nar four years ago are now a real­i­ty. The struc­ture and con­tent of this sem­i­nar ful­ly con­vince me. That is why I am still mov­ing future thoughts and visions for myself with ref­er­ence to my sem­i­nar doc­u­ments and am hap­py to teach the sem­i­nar myself to young peo­ple who want to explore their voca­tion. I have found a per­son­al com­pass of val­ues that I always keep close to my heart. Since then, the four per­son­al val­ues I have iden­ti­fied have come to the fore in every impor­tant pro­fes­sion­al or pri­vate deci­sion and help me to ana­lyze very quick­ly and pre­cise­ly whether a par­tic­u­lar change of direc­tion makes sense or not. The cer­tain­ty of know­ing what is “my thing” and what is not has clear­ly and sus­tain­ably increased thanks to NORD.

My stay at Küngs was a valu­able time for me. Their hos­pi­tal­i­ty and friend­li­ness are impres­sive, but also the pro­fes­sion­al­ism with which Wolf­gang ran the course. He want­ed some­thing from me and I had some­thing to achieve. That made the course effi­cient. Wolf­gang chal­lenged me. That was good for me. The stay was worth­while and I rec­om­mend La Crisalide in every respect.

It was valu­able to reflect on my mis­sion state­ment and my core val­ues. They keep com­ing back to me and it’s good to know that these are my guid­ing prin­ci­ples. I have found a bit more iden­ti­ty. What­ev­er I do after I retire, it will have some­thing to do with my core val­ues. They are very impor­tant to me.

Hard and heart­felt. We have not regret­ted our deci­sion to book a course with Wolf­gang and Eri­ka after spend­ing sev­er­al years abroad. Our expec­ta­tion that a sem­i­nar of this kind would be real­ly tough was con­firmed. We were there­fore all the more delight­ed by the warmth of the two of them and enjoyed it to the full. While we were divid­ing, research­ing, fil­ter­ing, inter­pret­ing and dis­cov­er­ing things in our lives with Wolf­gang, Eri­ka pro­vid­ed the con­trast to the chal­leng­ing sem­i­nar, excel­lent cui­sine and out­stand­ing hos­pi­tal­i­ty. Effort, emo­tion, chal­lenge — enjoy­ment, con­ver­sa­tion. Hospitality.

The sem­i­nar brought out and visu­al­ized the direc­tion of our life togeth­er, our mar­riage, our fam­i­ly, as well as our indi­vid­ual tal­ents, visions and goals in a pre­vi­ous­ly unknown dimen­sion. The val­ues and goals of our path and our work were sub­ject­ed to a kind of “peel­ing” and con­cretized. Con­crete works that we cre­at­ed in the sem­i­nar serve as cur­rent ori­en­ta­tion val­ues. The sem­i­nar is the first step for any­one who wants more from life. Thank you for your work.

I drove to Meride with mixed feel­ings, because I did­n’t know exact­ly what to expect. But the warm wel­come I received there wiped all these feel­ings away in an instant. it was still quite cold out­side, but “inside” I felt a very spe­cial warmth and open­ness. For four days, Wolf­gang took me “under his wing” and I worked out my core val­ues and my vision. Tears flowed again and again and I rec­og­nized some connections.

As a moth­er and house­wife, I enjoyed being spoiled by Erica’s cook­ing skills — and they real­ly are excel­lent! Depend­ing on your mood, you always get a dif­fer­ent espres­so cup, the sight of which is sooth­ing, not to men­tion the con­tents. I left La Crisalide feel­ing invig­o­rat­ed and full of ener­gy and I will cer­tain­ly take my chil­dren there one day. Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

It was snow­ing all around and my heart was cold too. I need­ed the help of four sin­cere and warm eyes. I found them. Erica’s cook­ing is heav­en­ly. The bath­room at Stu­dio Rubi­no is an event, a par­adise for any evening relax­ation. I remem­ber the mighty calm wood­en beams, the firm pil­lars of the court­yard, the sun and the mist that lov­ing­ly enveloped every­thing. The sem­i­nar was exhaust­ing: I thought, real­ized, cried and final­ly rejoiced. Even though I am already 50, even though I own my own busi­ness: here I found peo­ple who can help me get out of my tun­nel of uncer­tain­ty and ambi­gu­i­ty. Warm­ly and pro­fes­sion­al­ly. La Crisalide has spir­i­tu­al life, has love, has com­pas­sion, has pro­fes­sion­al­ism. There is sym­pa­thy here, as it was called in ancient Greek: “sym+pathos”, suf­fer­ing togeth­er. It’s great!