The blossoms are out and spring is sprung!!
It is a wonderful feeling to know that summer is on the way and I trust that you have all started planning your summer holidays! We are planning to travel to Thailand and I am really enjoying planning the time away!
The year has started to speed up and last week we were kept really busy with some wonderful events!!
The weather was perfect for a hot air balloon ride and on Thursday Rentia and her team finally got to do some flying!
On Friday Anne treated her special clients to a wonderful lunch run on Rovos Rail - what a great way start to a spring weekend!
And today, being Monday morning - I am off to the Vaal to check out some venues for our upcoming Christmas parties -
Have a wonderfully productive and happy week -
With love
The Weekends-Away team.
Corporate
Laughter therapy is a rather unusual activity to introduce to the work place. However, having experienced two sessions I can honestly say it is great. That coming from somebody who is inherently shy in crowds and has great difficulty expressing emotions!
Laughter therapy is the perfect way to start a difficult meeting or a great way to end one -
From first impressions to the so-called daily grind, professionals are finding that the use of humor can perform workplace wonders. It may aid communication, establish empathy, diffuse tough situations and even build the bottom line.
Studies show that humor may increase productivity on the job. Research by Lee Berk, a medical researcher in humor and laughter, shows that good-natured or mirthful laughter can:
- Increase the immune system’s activity;
- Decrease stress hormones, which constrict blood vessels and suppress immune activity; and
- Increase the antibody immunoglobulin A, which protects the upper-respiratory tract.
“Who wouldn’t want that kind of benefit?”
Email me to book a session before your next budget meeting! jenny@weekends-away.com
Team-Building Activity of the Week:
BAVARIAN OLYMPIC GAMES
GREAT FUN FOR YOUR TEAM EVENT
An unforgettable event for your guests: the Bavarian Olympic Games offer competitions you have never heard of before! You need skills and a lot of humor.
Maßkrugstemmen - Stein holding Maßkrugschieben - Stein curling
Baumsägen - Tree sawing Wettnageln - Nail hammering
Fingerhakeln - Finger hooking German Beer:
German Food:
Oompah Band:
Email jenny@weekends-away.com to book for your next function!
Conference Speakers International
Conference Speakers International
Speaker of the Month - Tselane Tambo
Tselane Tambo
“Image and Etiquette”
Tselane is an actress, a public speaker, a writer and an image consultant.
For many years Tselane has hosted seminars teaching young women about image and etiquette issues. These seminars were hugely popular and travelled to all the major cities and centres in South Africa. She is an experienced public speaker who always keeps her audience entertained with her talent for theatre and her unrelenting sense of humour. Tselane is currently launching The Oestorgen Channel, a TV channel aimed at Women. Click here to view Tselane’s CV - http://www.conferencespeakers.co.za/speakers/tselaneTambo.htm
To book Tselane, please call Lynne or Robyn on 0861SPEAKERS
Book of the Month - The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.
In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life — money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers — men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible. To purchase this book, click on:
Annual Year End Breakfast - 25th October 2007
Our year end breakfast this year will be held at Midrand Conference Centre where CSI will be launching Dr Graeme Codrington’s new talk “Hannah’s Rules” - the book will be launched shortly afterwards. We are extremely excited about this talk and believe that it is going to take South Africa by storm! There is no charge for this breakfast and talk, however seats are limited and we will work on a first come first serve basis!
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At CSI we are committed to giving you, the client, the very best service. Please visit our website for a comprehensive list of Speakers, Trainers, Celebrities and Entertainers. We look forward to being of service to you!
Lynne and Robyn
0861SPEAKERS
Incentive
One of my goals in life has been to attend the Olympics and I cannot think of a better place to see them than China!
At 8pm on 8th August 2008, the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be officially opened in Beijing in front of a global audience from over 140 countries.
With 35 sports, over 400 events, a TV audience of nearly 4 billion people and over 5000 athletes competing, the Olympics has become the greatest sporting event in the world.
From the track and field to the swimming, from the tennis to the beach volleyball, the Olympics really does offer you the opportunity to watch any number of sports over a short period of time, and this is an exclusive opportunity to be there to witness the greatest sporting spectacle on the planet.
Start planning your incentive trip for next year now in order to avoid disappointment!
Email jenny@weekends-away.com for more info
Adventure News
THE LONGEST ONE-DAY MTB EVENT IN THE WORLD!!
Tony and Wickus win the Trans Baviaans in new record time - herewith a report from McCain Adventure Addicts
Thursday, 23 August 2007
McCain Adventure Addicts report from Trans Baviaans MTB Race
The McCain Adventure Addicts headed down to the Eastern Cape in late August for the annual Trans Baviaans Mountain Bike Marathon. The Trans Baviaans is considered to be the longest one day mountain bike race in the world and it delivers big time. Basically you hop on your bike in the one horse town of Willowmore and head down and through the spectacular Baviaanskloof till you reach Jeffrey’s Bay 230km later and within the 24 hour cut-off time. The route is not marked so the teams consisting of two to four riders are issued with route books and required to pass through various checkpoints along the course. The McCain Adventure Addicts entered two teams for this event. A male trio of Graham “Tweet” Bird, James Lea-Cox and Stuart Rawlinson and a mixed pair of Rob McGloughlin and Alice “Pies” Rawlinson.
The Addicts flew down to PE on the Friday evening and then hired what Tweet claimed to be a Ferrari for a 3 hour drive to a farmhouse just outside Willowmore. After numerous near death encounters with prancing kudu’s and smaller antelope the trio arrived at a typical karoo farmhouse together with quite a few animals trophies adjoining the walls. Nevertheless, we slept well that night except for Rob who was kept awake by a snoring farmer.
The report makes for delightful reading and for the cyclists out there, you can read more on: http://ndorfin.co.za/news/
Competition
Win accommodation and dinner along the Midlands Meander -
Accommodation is on Stocklands Farm - set in 10 acres of garden and pastures, this 150 year-old stone house with original yellowwood ceilings and doors offers luxurious accommodation in either private en-suite bedrooms or in self-catering cottages. www.stocklandsfarm.co.za
Dinner is at Yellow Wood Café - www.yellowwood.co.za
In order to win 1 night’s accommodation and dinner for two send your email address to Tamara (tamara@weekends-away.com)
Please also refer to a friend - for each referral, you receive an additional entry -
Training
On 6 May 1954 Roger Bannister achieved the “impossible” and broke the 4-minute mile barrier… 46 days later, Landy ran 3:57.9. And Bannister now reckons about 2,000 runners have broken four minutes since his race.
The belief that “sub 4 minutes” was impossible had been shattered and all of a sudden the “Impossible” becomes the “Achievable.”
Beliefs are the driving force behind everything you do, think, and feel. They shape how you see the world and how you see yourself. Beliefs can massively help or hinder the realisation of your full potential
SI Group’s “Power of Belief” eradicates the beliefs that limit performance and unleashes the vast potential inside every individual. Individuals learn how to create helpful and reinforcing beliefs in themselves and their capabilities, resulting in confidence, gravitas and increased personal impact.
We would like to invite you to the BREAKFAST presentation on “POWER OF BELIEF”
Date: Thursday, 20 September 2007
Time: 7:30am for 8:00am
Venue: The Johannesburg Country Club, Woodmead
Fee: R250 excluding VAT
As Archimedes said, “Give me one firm spot to stand on and I will move the Earth.”
For more information, contact: Rebone or Terje 011 453 0555 or
E-mail:hrpractice@hrpractice.co.za
Activist Issues
Do a little - care a little
One simple hour of support, playing games, talking about friends, going for ice-cream, helping with home work and most importantly just being there. An hour may not mean much to us? But an hour can make a lifetime’s worth of difference to some people.
BBBSSA is a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping children and youth at risk between the ages of 6 -18 years. It is a mentoring programme that matches youth in need with carefully selected and trained adult volunteers in one- to-one relationships that help them maximize their potential.
BBBSSA operates in Cape Town , Gauteng, Pretoria and Kwa -Zulu Natal . We run the following Programmes at each branch: Schools, Children’s Homes , Diversion Programme for youth in conflict with the law and a Programme in support of those affected and/or infected by HIV/AIDS.
By volunteering just one hour of your week for one year, you can forever influence the life of one of these children. By helping them maximise their potential, you will be giving them hope for a better future.
If you would like to become a Big or require more information about BBBSSA, please contact us at Tel: 021- 551 6996 , 011 -673 3088 , 031- 461 5657 or 033-3456929
Email: makeadifference@bbbssa.org.za , bbbsgauteng@bbbssa.org.za , bbbskzn@bbbssa.org.za or Visit our website: www.bbbssa.org.za
Thought for the week
Transform Obstacles
Is life an obstacle course? Sometimes it may feel like it. If you join the military you will be sent around an obstacle course of increasing degrees of difficulty. Why? To increase your strength and stamina and expand your creative capacity under strain. So it is on the course called ‘life’ - you can choose to perceive people, situations or events as obstacles, or you can choose to use these things to strengthen and expand your capacity to be creative and to find ways round, under, over. The choice lies in your perception. Obstacles are never ever ‘out there’, they are always in our own minds.
Help keep our country and it’s cities tidy
A tidy city is the sign of a civilized society
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