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Prof. Gerald Hüther
Dr. Aline LaPierre
Dr. Peter A. Levine,

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PROGRAM :
Thursday, August 14, 2025

10.30
Opening with Dr. Urs Honauer (CH)
Host and initiator of the Bildungsfestival




10.45 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm

Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther (DE)


8 pm - 9.30 pm


Find Your Voice - A Magical Loving Kindness Healing Experience
Tanja de Jong (AU)

The Sound Bath is a mind-altering singing experience where everyone contributes to a beautiful sound tapestry which bathes those in the centre of the circle in loving kindness and a connected consciousness. It takes participants to a deeper place of relaxation. Sound Baths facilitate a shift in a persons brainwave state creating flow and brain and heart coherence. Through frequency and entrainment with sound it’s possible and simple to move down from our beta state (normal waking consciousness) to alpha (relaxed consciousness), with the majority of people able to reach theta (meditative state) and even delta (where internal healing can occur). Breath, sound and harmony are raising the inner vibration and leading towards a sense of one-ness.

Tanja de Jong is an award-winning social entrepreneur, philanthropist, well known Australian soprano, global speaker, philosopher and creative alchemist. She is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators developing 6 businesses and 4 charities including "Creative Universe", "Creativity Australia", the "With One Voice Program" or "The Song Room". She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia and named one of the 100 Women of Influence. Tania de Jong has released twelve Albums and her TED Talk How Singing Together Changes The Brain has sparked international interest.

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8.00 am - 9.00 am
Trauma-Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)

10 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm
Dr. Aline LaPierre (USA)

8 pm - 9.30 pm

Concert by the Lake at Hotel Rigi

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8.00 am - 9.00 am
Trauma-Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)

10 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 6.15 pm 

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. (USA)
- Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.


8 pm - 9.30 pm

"Tales of In-Between"
with the AION Band -
Christian Berger, Thomas Küng, Jürg Surber, Dominic Doppler
(near the boat landing in Weggis)
at the pavilion by the lake

'Tales of In-Between' is the title of the AION concert at the so-called „Pavillon am See“ („gazebo at the lake“). The creative quartet takes its audiences on a journey into the realms between styles. The music of composer, guitarist and oud player Christian Berger moves between the soundscapes of oriental music, chamber musical ideas and improvised music. The lovingly arranged themes are catchy and are developed and interwoven live with the freedom of improvisation. Individual pieces thus turn into sound journeys. They take the audience out into the world - and back to themselves. The melancholy of the oud, the Arabic lute, characterizes the soundscape, as do the melody lines of Thomas Küng on soprano saxophone or flugelhorn. Dominic Doppler creates a groovy and colorfully rhythmic world on the extended drums, which, together with the bass lines of Jürg Surber on the double bass, form the dynamic foundation of AION's music.

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8.00 am - 9.00 am
Trauma-Sensitive Qi Gong
Paki E. Heisserer (CH)

10 am - 1 pm  and 2 pm - 3.30 pm
Panel and open space
with Gerald Hüther, Aline LaPierre,  Peter A. Levine
Facilitator: Dr. Urs Honauer