The Paphos Seminar and the Venice Seminar
These are the crown jewels of my efforts. The Paphos and Venice seminars are top-of-the-line self-development seminars intended for people who want to extend their thinking and renew their lives. They are inspirational seminars for the benefit of the everyday. Everyone is wellcome irrespective of his or her background or age. The theme is everyone's personal philosophy of life as reflected through my tender and dynamic, philosophical and experiential lecturing approach with encouragement, honesty and gentleness.
The seminars last for several days, allowing the participant to focus and feel the uplift (Paphos is for one week, Venice for an extended weekend). These are contexts of thinking that I love. Intended as top-calibre seminars for self-renewal and re-charge, the uplifting, peaceful, warm and reflective atmosphere of Paphos on Cyprus and the magic of Venice serves as ideal environments for studying the best in one's self and life. The Paphos seminar has been conducted 31 times, the Venice three times, with up to 2500 participants, many of them coming back repeatedly, and including people from all walks of life from Finland's leading business executives to teachers, students, medical doctors, advocates, secretaries, musicians, house-wives and -husbands, newly married couples and seasoned couples, retired people and people in the peak of their careers.
The seminars have been conducted so far only in Finnish but an English Venice seminar is being prepared.
The seminar allows for the participant to calm down and reflect comprehensively on the fundamentals of her life. For me, it gives an opportunity to develop the themes of human flourishment with full force.
Atmosphere in the seminars is welcoming and encouraging. People are kind, attentive and generous towards one another. Thus discussions after my lectures in the afternoon around the pool or by the seashore (in Paphos), at St. Mark's Square in Venice, or in the evening over a dinner, are highly rewarding as people can share their insights and experiences.
Time and again, I have seen in the course of these seminars that self-renewal is the true miracle of life. Growth, insight, change. The key is us as human beings, the tremendous endowments of the mental realm and the human in-between.
"The Most Amazing Seminar Ever". A participant describes his Paphos experience.
Juho Tunkelo's description of the 2007 Venice seminar
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