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That we can share our own work experiences with other people and coach them! During the first lockdown in Spring 2020, I had a conversation with a colleague. His problem was that he was feeling lonely in home office. I said to him: “think about what would help you and develop a team training from this!” He did just that – and further developed our offer in a unique way.

HAKA – it means to overcome yourself, to just scream and allow the mimes to play out, stamp, try out threatening gestures. Sense yourself in a new way, perceive the positive energy and allow it to flow. This was an aha-experience for me!

The soap box building and the race that follows. The classic one of the team events. It has all of the components which a team needs: building, creativity, fun, speed and action.

Online Criminal Dinner with cooking – because this event is so exciting and fun, the communication works amazingly well amongst the participants also online, and I love to cook and eat well. This event promotes the us-feeling in the team, even though everyone is at home and the event takes place online, it is a great, joint team experience.

Up until recently, I could use my handy manual skills in our workshop. Now, holding out and stamina are required instead, until we reach normality in the event industry again. This reminds me of my week-long hike in the Himalajas with the many ups and downs.

Online Crime Time – because it gives you such joy and enables people, despite the distance, to do something with each other and to strengthen the team spirit. The Crime Time is unbelievably amusing and the participants really get into the roles of trying to solve the crime.

My first own team event. The feedback from the participants reinforced my belief that I am in the right profession!

At BITOU? Bosseln. As a northerner, I can boast that I taught southern Germany how to play boßeln. However, I didn’t invent the East Frisian national sport. For that, I would have had to be born a couple of decades earlier.

For me, supporting and accompanying the teams, and witnessing exciting developments are the nicest experiences in my profession. Special moments always arise when people surpass themselves, really confront themselves and establish that we aren’t so different to each other, despite the demanding situation. For this reason, Seneca’s statement has become my motto: “everything truly big materialises through a slow and almost unnoticeable growth”.

Adventure Everest – the event inspires me anew every time. This strategic business game triggers a wide variety of impulses in the participants, which make it possible to refer specifically to parallels to everyday life and professional life. You can feel that something is happening in the minds of the mountaineers! This is the kind of feeling you like to come home with.

For my family I like to organize scavenger hunts with lots of little puzzles. Of course, I’m also benefiting from my fiddling and designing at work now. And it’s fun on top of that.

Rocket Science because there is so much interaction during the building of a rocket and you tinker and tinker together, which I personally totally like. After the rocket is finished, you still have the excitement of seeing whether the rocket actually flies. You just have a lot of fun.

Our 24 hour hike a number of years ago: feel your own limits and experience the colleagues in a completely different context, that was a memorable experience.