Health Weekend at Steinmühle Boarding School
It was “Health” theme weekend again at the Steinmühle boarding school. Each student had the opportunity to choose two different workshops.
In keeping with the theme, all the workshops were designed to focus on physical or mental health. Topics included community, achieving a sense of accomplishment, moments of self-efficacy, mindfulness, and openness to new experiences.
Another topic: How to deal with news
The program also included the workshop “Journey Through the Five Senses,” in which an example was discussed for each sense: walking barefoot for “touch,” trying different foods for “taste,” and more. Other activities included replanting raised beds with lettuce and herbs, playing baseball, a session on “Women and Menstruation” for female students, and ice bathing.
Other examples included dealing with less-than-positive news, “my year in pictures,” creating a vision board, attending a basketball game, taking a walk in the woods, as well as health exercises and circuit training in the weight room.
On Sunday evening, the individual residential groups reflected on their experiences with the educators. Julia Ploch summed it up on behalf of the educational team: “The young people really enjoyed the weekend. In addition to the great response, we had plenty of sunshine and high spirits over the two days.”
(Heinm/Photo: KI)
