This workshop invites you to quiet down and look at yourself more gently. During the weekend, we will explore our own emotions, self-image, and inner dialogue through exercises and discussions. The culmination of the workshop is when the instructor photographs each participant, creating empowering photos that reflect their inner strength and beauty. The photos are captioned positively, and participants receive the photos on USB sticks. The course does not require prior experience in photography. The most important thing is the desire to face oneself and be seen gently.
The idea of the workshop is to make you pay attention to the things that are good in life. The idea of empowering photography helps you look at yourself gently, bringing out different aspects of yourself. The workshop assignments help you reflect on yourself, your hopes, and your dreams. In the workshop, you are allowed to dream and forget worries and troubles. In the workshop, you can focus peacefully on yourself and your well-being. The course price includes written materials for exercises and empowering photography, empowering photos for all participants beautifully packaged on a USB stick (10 photos/participant), and poems for participants. The workshop instructor is Hannele Räty, an entrepreneur and one who makes people visible, who is a Bachelor of Social Services (UAS) and a practical nurse by profession. She has studied the professional fundamentals of empowering photography.
Friday, August 7. Theme: "Who Am I"
Arrival, meal from Restaurant Trapesa's buffet, rooms available by 4:00 PM at the latest
15:00 Course opening
Introduction through a preliminary assignment
The idea of empowering photography and workshop presentation
Reflecting on different aspects of oneself
Planning empowering photoshoots
18:00 Ninth Hour, Vespers, Small Compline and Akathist
19:30 Evening meal
Relaxation exercise
Saturday, August 8. Theme: "Empowering Photography"
06:00 Midnight and Matins, in the old church
07:30 Breakfast at Restaurant Trapesa cafe-restaurant
09:00 A positive thought for the day
Empowering photoshoots in the monastery surroundings
12:00 Lunch break/ prayer service in the main church at 12:00 PM
13:00 Task: where I am now and in the future
Gratitude exercise
18:00 Vigil in the main church
19:30 Evening meal
Sunday, August 9, Commemoration Day of Saint Herman of Alaska
07:30 Breakfast at Restaurant Trapesa cafe-restaurant
09:00 Third Hour and Liturgy in the main church
10:30 Reviewing the task: where I am now and in the future
Articulating empowering images together through positive things
12:00 Room check-out and lunch break /12:00 small blessing of water at the cemetery chapel
13:00 Celebrating ourselves
Thanks
Room check-out by 12:00 PM on Sunday.
