The largest market place in Thuringia is at Stadtilm. The size of 10,635 sqm was confirmed when the MDR-Thüringen did a survey in public on 1 November 2011.
Every year on the last weekend in August, the Stadtilm festival takes place on this market square.
The market and its adjacent streets become the cultural centre for a summer weekend every year. Jointly organised by clubs and tradesmen of the city, this festival is a highlight for the Stadtilm people and their guests. There is a vast variety of food, drink and entertaining stage shows as well as fun and games for the children. In addition to the well proven programme there is something new to hear or to see every year.
The city is at the meeting of the former trade routes between Ilmenau and Weimar as well as Erfurt and Rudolstadt.
Leaving Ilmenau cycle through floodplain forest along the banks of the Ilm River. Along the route are Griesheim and Stadtilm. Enjoy a cool draft beer in the brewery museum in Singen. Past the Mustard & Arts Mill in Kleinhettstedt you reach Kranichfeld and its two castles.
Ilm Valley Cycling Route: The most popular cycling route in Thuringia and a 4 star quality trail.
Nature, history and culture:
See the varying landscape of Thuringia on a cycling tour of more than 123 km length. Start at the source of the Ilm River and follow it to its flowing into the Saale River.
Explore castles, palaces, manor houses, World Heritage Sites and enjoy the savoury Thuringian cuisine at your leisure.
The Ilm Valley Cycling Route was the first to be recognised with 4 stars for being a quality cycling trail by the ADFC (German Cyclist’s Association). Cyclists enjoy a picturesque landscape and also a high standard in terms of sign posting, safety and service.
Kleinhettstedt Mustard & Arts Mill
This historic building complex, including a half timbered house from the 16th century, is located directly on the Ilm. You can taste and buy high quality mustards from on site production.
Nearby Barchfeld there is a picnic area with a roofed table and a barbeque hut right next to the cycling route.
“I look forward to an exciting, eventful year 2016 with highlights of many, many, many opportunities for beautiful, valuable encounters and plenty of opportunities to celebrate.”
The oldest Franconian wine city is first recorded in 18 April 716, when the fortress of Hamulo Castellum was documented as a ducal possession above a ford of strategic importance on the Franconian Saale. Martinskirche was the responsibility of the Bishop of Wurzburg. Charlemagne gave vineyards at Hammelburg to the Abbey of Fulda in 777. Bishops of Fulda ruled the town until municipal rights were granted in 1303, when Marienkirche was built near the cattle market.
Hammelburg changed very early to the Lutheran teachings. Only by menace did 120 Lutheran families leave their hometown in 1604.
Hammelburg surrounded by walls with three gate towers and eleven military towers.
Ich freue mich auf ein spannendes, ereignisreiches Jahr 2016 mit vielen, vielen Höhepunkten, zahlreichen Gelegenheiten für schöne, wertvolle Begegnungen und jede Menge Möglichkeiten, mitzufeiern.
Celebrate the jubilee festival for “1300 years Hammelburg” with events, concerts, exhibitions and other creative activities.
Empathy isn’t just taking another perspective. Con men can do that. In order to be empathic, children need to know how to value, respect and understand another person’s points of view, even when they don’t agree.
A classroom full of empathic children runs more smoothly than one filled with even the happiest group of self serving children.
Family life is more harmonious when siblings are able feel for each other and put the needs of others ahead of individual happiness.
If a classroom or a family full of caring children makes for a more peaceful and cooperative learning environment, just imagine what we could accomplish in a world populated by such children.
Empathy is a combination of both compassion and of seeing from another person’s perspective. It is the key to preventing bullying and other forms of cruelty.
1. Empathize with your child and model how to feel compassion for others.
A child develops these qualities by watching us and experiencing our empathy for them. When we show that we truly know our children by understanding and reacting to their emotional needs, exhibiting interest and involvement in their lives, and respecting their personalities, they feel valued. Children who feel valued are more likely to value others and demonstrate respect for their needs. When we treat other people like they matter, our child notices, and is more likely to emulate our acts of caring and compassion.
2. Make caring for others a priority and set high ethical expectations.
A child needs to know that we are not simply paying lip service to empathy, that we show caring and compassion in our everyday lives. Rather than say, “The most important thing is that you are happy,” try: “The most important thing is that you’re kind and that you are happy.” Prioritize caring when you talk about others, and help your child understand that the world does not revolve around them or their needs.
3. Provide opportunities for a child to practice.
Empathy, like other emotional skills, requires repitition to become second nature. Hold family meetings and involve each child by challenging them to listen to and respect others’ perspectives. Ask children about conflicts at school and help them reflect on their classmates’ experiences. If another child is unpopular or having social problems, talk about how that child may be feeling about the situation, and ask your child how he or she may be able help.
4. Expand your child’s circle of concern.
It’s not hard for a child to empathize with their immediate family and close friends, but it can be a real challenge to understand and feel for people outside of that circle. You can help your child expand their circle by “zooming in and zooming out”; listening carefully to a particular person and then pulling back to take in multiple perspectives. Encourage your child to talk about and speculate on the feelings of people who are particularly vulnerable or in need. Talk about how those people could be helped and comforted.
5. Help a child develop self control and manage feelings effectively.
Even when a child feels empathy for others, societal pressures and prejudices can block their ability to express their concern. Angry over a perceived slight can be a real challenge for a child to engage their sense of empathy. Encourage children to name those stereotypes and prejudices, and to talk about their anger, envy, shame and other negative emotions. Model conflict resolution and anger management in your own actions, and let your child see you work through challenging feelings in your own life.
The old view that we are essentially self interested creatures is being nudged firmly to one side by evidence that we are wired for empathy, social cooperation, and mutual aid. Over the last decade, neuroscientists have identified an “empathy circuit” in our brain.
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The Art of Role: TAO of Tavistock
Being authentic in role is an art. It requires an understanding of your gifts, your blind spots and the capacity to mobilise new strategies in changing contexts.
Group Relations methodology has been incorporated into the programmes of the world’s leading Business Schools. This is an invitation to come to the Mothership and truly learn from your experience.
‘A child’s play is his work’ said Friedrich Froebel. A firm believer in guided play as the most important learning tool for young children, Froebel was the inventor of the Kindergarten and the founder of the first teacher training college for women.
A Child’s Work: Freedom and Guidance in Froebel’s Educational Theory and Practice considers the work and ideas of Friedrich Froebel in the light of the continuing debate over methods of primary education and the role of teacher in the classroom. To Froebel, play provided the means for a child’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical development. Froebel believed that the education of a child began at birth, and that parents and teachers played a crucial role in helping children in this activity. “Play is a mirror of life”, he wrote, leading to self discipline and respect for law and order.
The Duchess of Cambridge shared her photos of Prince George’s first day at Westacre Montessori School near Anmer Hall, the Norfolk home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The two year old Prince is expected to attend, when Prince William and Catherine are staying at their Norfolk home, but not when they reside at Kensington Palace in London.
Montessori came to realise that children placed in an environment, where activities were designed to support their natural development had the power to educate themselves.
“I did not invent a method of education, I simply gave some little children a chance to live”.
An illustrated guide to enhance understanding of these tried and true methods and the systematic order, which is important to achieve success. Over stimulating the imagination of a child can hinder natural development.
The first child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, became Princess Royal of Britain, and then patroness of the Froebel Educational Institute in London, when it commenced in 1892 with plans for a free kindergarten.
Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) founded ‘Kindergarten’ for young children and pioneered the idea, that women should be highly educated and trained to support each child to develop abstract imaginative, symbolic and creative thinking through play. Froebel valued close partnership with parents and open community schools.
In 1991, as the United States was emerging from a recession, Edward C. Johnson III, the chairman of Fidelity Investments, introduced what at the time was an unorthodox possibility: What if his company could facilitate charitable donations for its clients?
The firm could help people get a tax benefit while making it easier for them to give to charities.
By the end of the year, the company had obtained public-charity status for an organization called the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund.
Clients could create an account that would hold their donations to the fund and write off the contribution on their tax returns that year. Eventually, they would have to select one or more charities and direct Fidelity to funnel the money there, but they could do that at their leisure.
Soon, Charles Schwab and the Vanguard Group had introduced similar services, which are known as donor-advised funds.
The donor-advised funds often give to charities far more than the five per cent that foundations are required to disburse.
At Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab, the over-all figures have recently surpassed twenty per cent.
Celebrations in 1840 of the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s invention were influenced by contemporary attitudes to print culture and universal education.
Previous celebrations in 1640 and 1740 at Leipzig had been planned by the printing guild.
Before Gutenberg, printing was practiced but on a very small scale as each page had to be carved on wood.
Gutenberg developed printing by the use of 25 mobile fonts cast in lead and set in a press with a frame operated by a screw.
Gutenberg developed printing by the use of 25 mobile fonts cast in lead and set in a press with a frame operated by a screw.
While Johannes Gutenberg was born and raised in Mainz, he lived to Strasbourg between 1434 and 1444, where he was an apprentice goldsmith. It was in Strasbourg that he invented the printing press that so changed the world.
The statue, sculpted in 1840, by David d’Angers, is of Johannes Gutenberg holding a piece of parchment on which is inscribed the words “Et la lumière fut” (And behold, there was light) from the Book of Genesis. He was the publisher of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455.
In Frankfurt, the sculptor Edward Schmidt von der Launitz (1797-1869) created a group of three figures using galvano-technology. Depicted are Johannes Gutenberg – with book and letters – and his colleagues and financial backers Johannes Fust – with books on his arm – and Peter Schöffer – with stamping hammer.
The four figures seated symbolize theology, poetry, natural sciences and industry. The upper sandstone pedestal bears 14 portraits of renowned European printers of early modern times. The standing figures shown on the pedestal hold the escutcheons of the centres of the early book printing and book trade: Frankfurt, Venice, Strasbourg and Mainz.
“What the world is today, good and bad, it owes to Gutenberg. Everything can be traced to this source, but we are bound to bring him homage, … for the bad that his colossal invention has brought about is overshadowed a thousand times by the good with which mankind has been favored.” Mark Twain
Formal apprenticeships were 7 years, when average life expectancy was around 40 years. By the 20th century, when average life expectancy was around 70 years, up to 16 years of education began at age 6.
Average life expectancy is a measure of prosperity becasue it requires a complex mix of variables: a sustained nutritious food supply, a sanitary and safe environment, relatively little disease, absence of war, and a stable society.
Using life expectancy as a measure of prosperity, the world is far more prosperous than it has ever been. The trajectory of change is an unprecedented rise in prosperity and average life expectancy.
Most of this change occurred when the total world population grew sixfold, from less than 1 billion in 1800 to about 6.6 billion today.
Every corner of the planet has improved and the gap between nations is closing.
Lifespans of 35 years were enough to engage seriously with 1 or 2 life partners and see 1 generation of children grow up.
Lifespans of 70 years or more may include several life partners and potentially see 3 generations of descendants grow up.
What is lifelong learning?
For most of its existence, Homo sapiens lived in far flung hunter and gathering communities, each of which was quite small and barely able to reproduce itself. Life expectancy at birth was hardly twenty five years on average, and those persons who survived childhood often died violently, in combat with other hunters, at relatively young ages.
(Robert William Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, 48)
For much of human history, average life expectancy used to be 20-30 years. By 1900, it had climbed to about 31 years … By 2003 it was 66.8 years.
(Indur Goklany, The Improving State of the World, 31)
considers the work and ideas of Friedrich Froebel in the light of the continuing debate over methods of primary education and the role of teacher in the classroom. To Froebel, play provided the means for a child’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical development. Froebel believed that the education of a child began at birth, and that parents and teachers played a crucial role in helping children in this activity. “Play is a mirror of life”, he wrote, leading to self discipline and respect for law and order.
