People often hesitate to ask for help if things aren’t clear to them. You can patiently clarify all misunderstandings with the help of some review-questions and avoid conflict by means of rule-based competition. In the previous article we’ve learned about implementing teambuilding activities. To be sure that your team has understood the activity they are [...]

A one-minute introduction can make the difference between the successes of failure of your team… In our previous article we’ve talked about preparing teambuilding activities. It is now time to see how a trainer must conduct the activities he has prepared. People tend to get involved more easily when the reason for which they act [...]

In order to be sure that all participants will benefit from the positive experience your teambuilding program has to offer, you have to prepare all its activities in advance. In our previous article we’ve learned about the pre-requisites of a teambuilding program. What is equally important is that you must go through all activities yourself [...]

Before starting a team building program, you should choose an activity or a set of activities that are suited to the team you will be coordinating. The most successful teambuilding activity can become a very nasty experience if it has no clear objective. Why spend money, time and effort conducting an activity if you cannot [...]

This is an introduction to how motivational training works. The article also provides a short introduction to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Frederick Herzberg’s distinction of motivational factors. In its most simple definition, motivation is the desire to act. Employees are at the heart of all new leadership theories, which adopt the model “advise [...]

This is a case study on ascetic meditation in early Christianity, specifically focused on how it used pain to ascend to a greater state of being. All physical activities that accompany the mystical experience play no other role than acting upon the mind. Catholic theologians conceive physical activities on four different levels: The level of [...]

Let us shortly investigate if the nervous state which occurs during ascetic meditation is a pathological malady or not… Since the 16th century, scientists have been supporting that the nervous state which occurs during ascetic meditation is a pathological malady. It may resemble an ailment, but it is a rather strange one: it is completely [...]

This is a short introduction to mysticism and its current apprehension. Mysticism is the claim of an invisible world that can be accessed through liberation from the apparent world. The process of liberation is called mystical experience. It is commonly thought today that mysticism involves self-banishment, as it primarily evokes a strong urge to deny [...]