Ritual
Cleanse your mind and take some time for yourself. Enjoy spiritual peace and moments of silence or take part in physical exercise to relieve stress and get your daily energy boost.
Rituals on the Schedule 2024
Monday, 19. August
Noon
Road to Alpbach
Road to Alpbach is a photography and art community project. The aim is to bring together scholarship holders and other participants. This is to highlight the incredible diversity of people that the European Forum Alpbach brings together every year.
12:30
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14:30
Road to Alpbach
Food for Thought
“Food for Thought” takes the form of an open space following the concept of a “Speaker’s Corner”, where anyone is invited to suggest a topic of their choice and facilitate a discussion on it. Anyone – seminar chairs, distinguished visitors, scholarship holders, villagers, EFA staff and others – can host a presentation. We look forward to lively discussions!//INFO: Please inform the responsible EFA team member in the morning of the day you’re planning to speak.
13:30
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14:30
Food for Thought
Open Your Mind: Share your EFA story
In this session scholarship holders are invited to co-author a book on the EFA24 annual theme: They will be guided to write their story on the Alpbach Seminars, their personal Moment of Truth and other reflections. For more information, click here.
13:30
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14:30
Open Your Mind: Share your EFA story
Tuesday, 20. August
Noon
Open Your Mind: Inhabit the Future
In an election campaign the EFA24 invites participants to vote on an optimistic, long-term vision of the future, reclaiming their power of imagination and taking a first step towards a better tomorrow. Join this session and get involved.
13:30
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14:30
Open Your Mind: Inhabit the Future
Food for Thought
“Food for Thought” takes the form of an open space following the concept of a “Speaker’s Corner”, where anyone is invited to suggest a topic of their choice and facilitate a discussion on it. Anyone – seminar chairs, distinguished visitors, scholarship holders, villagers, EFA staff and others – can host a presentation. We look forward to lively discussions!//INFO: Please inform the responsible EFA team member in the morning of the day you’re planning to speak.
13:30
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14:30
Food for Thought
Wednesday, 21. August
Noon
Open Your Mind: Managing Yourself: How to Keep Focused in Stressful Situations.
In this practical exercise participants will learn, based on their own capabilities, methods of how to concentrate on the important issues when it is needed most and despite times of manifold distraction.
13:30
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14:30
Open Your Mind: Managing Yourself: How to Keep Focused in Stressful Situations.
Food for Thought
“Food for Thought” takes the form of an open space following the concept of a “Speaker’s Corner”, where anyone is invited to suggest a topic of their choice and facilitate a discussion on it. Anyone – seminar chairs, distinguished visitors, scholarship holders, villagers, EFA staff and others – can host a presentation. We look forward to lively discussions!//INFO: Please inform the responsible EFA team member in the morning of the day you’re planning to speak.
13:30
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14:30
Food for Thought
Thursday, 22. August
Noon
Food for Thought
“Food for Thought” takes the form of an open space following the concept of a “Speaker’s Corner”, where anyone is invited to suggest a topic of their choice and facilitate a discussion on it. Anyone – seminar chairs, distinguished visitors, scholarship holders, villagers, EFA staff and others – can host a presentation. We look forward to lively discussions!//INFO: Please inform the responsible EFA team member in the morning of the day you’re planning to speak.
13:30
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14:30
Food for Thought
Open Your Mind: Meditations for our Moment of Truth – Part 1
Mindfulness and compassion are often associated with wellbeing, but they can also support our sense-making and skillful action in the world. In this session, we will explore practices for resilience in challenging times and aid the process of learning and discernment.
13:30
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14:30
Open Your Mind: Meditations for our Moment of Truth – Part 1
Friday, 23. August
Sunday, 25. August
Monday, 26. August
Early morning
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Start the day with a boost of energy! The trainers of the Austrian Armed Forces will get you sweating with military functional fitness on the forecourt of the CCA - an ideal way to recover from stress and prevent burnout or illness.
07:00
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08:00
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
A place of calm: Spiritual impulses from various religious and philosophical backgrounds invite you to contemplate and reflect. Inspiring initiators tell their stories, take you on a journey of the mind and initiate moments of genuine stillness. // INFO: Into the Silence on the 26th will be in German.
08:00
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08:30
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
Tuesday, 27. August
Early morning
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Start the day with a boost of energy! The trainers of the Austrian Armed Forces will get you sweating with military functional fitness on the forecourt of the CCA - an ideal way to recover from stress and prevent burnout or illness.
07:00
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08:00
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
A place of calm: Spiritual impulses from various religious and philosophical backgrounds invite you to contemplate and reflect. Inspiring initiators tell their stories, take you on a journey of the mind and initiate moments of genuine stillness. // INFO: Into the Silence on the 27th will be in English.
08:00
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08:30
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
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Wednesday, 28. August
Early morning
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Start the day with a boost of energy! The trainers of the Austrian Armed Forces will get you sweating with military functional fitness on the forecourt of the CCA - an ideal way to recover from stress and prevent burnout or illness.
07:00
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08:00
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
A place of calm: Spiritual impulses from various religious and philosophical backgrounds invite you to contemplate and reflect. Inspiring initiators tell their stories, take you on a journey of the mind and initiate moments of genuine stillness. // INFO: Into the Silence on the 28th will be in German.
08:00
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08:30
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
Thursday, 29. August
Friday, 30. August
Early morning
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Start the day with a boost of energy! The trainers of the Austrian Armed Forces will get you sweating with military functional fitness on the forecourt of the CCA - an ideal way to recover from stress and prevent burnout or illness.
07:00
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08:00
Morning Sports: Functional Fitness
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual
A place of calm: Spiritual impulses from various religious and philosophical backgrounds invite you to contemplate and reflect. Inspiring initiators tell their stories, take you on a journey of the mind and initiate moments of genuine stillness.// INFO: Into the Silence on the 30th will be in German.
08:00
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08:30
Into the Silence: Morning Ritual