HARP Winter Workshop 2017/18 - Neumühle, Bad Camberg, Germany

HARP Winter Workshop 2017/18 “Generation of Greatness” Neumühle, Bad Camberg, Germany, December 28 – January 4, 2018 By Josephine Jensen that our burdens often block us from opportunity to present their seeing what a blessing it is to be a part contributions - amusing and exciting

T his year‘s winter workshop of this movement. videos that the regions had prepared attracted 86 participants from all On the first evening, the teams shared before the workshop - and of course, over Germany, and along with about an activity that had been the long New Year’s Eve. The young the staff, about 120 people filled the introduced: „cross the line “. In this people took the time this evening to Seminarhaus Neumühle, in Bad exercise, the whole workshop stood in deeply reflect and pray and those who Camberg. two rows in front of marked lines, and were to participate the following day in In this intense time, we had morning were then challenged to: „cross the line the purity ring ceremony, burnt their lectures on the topics of: „original when you “. This sounds simple, but it letters of confession. The New Year value “, „what prevents me from being is usually anything but, when for was welcomed joyfully with a prayer, great?“, „the victorious path of True example the sentence is „…if you have unison ‘OK manses!’, and a firework Parents‘‘, and „the development of our a problem with your appearance “or display that for a long time brightly lit movement“ from Dominik Schmitt, „…when you have ever had a problem up the night sky. Hyo Man Noguchi, Karl-Christian with alcohol or drugs “. Here, and in After a short sleep, the first day of the Hausmann and Dieter Schmidt, as well the subsequent team sharing’s, the year was celebrated with the traditional as a short presentation about the newly participants showed amazing honesty. New Year worship service, Dieter founded European and Middle East Additionally, there was a purity talk, Schmidt giving the sermon. And as in Hyo Jeong Arts & Culture Department testimonies, a relaxed family evening previous years, a moving purity ring by Kazuha Canak. when each of the regions had the ceremony was a part of the service. Each afternoon, various activities such as team-building, working groups (theatre, singing, poetry slam, dance etc.) or the traditional New Year’s Yute competition, were offered. Of special note this year was the „internal challenge day “, when each of the participants could choose one of three different paths: easy, challenge or unknown. Thus, each one could decide how much he/she wished to challenge him/herself, and had to then motivate him/herself to see it through to the end. A few days later came the classic challenge day when each team had to carry a heavy box around the whole day. When evening came, the box was opened, and each person found a beautiful new HARP sweater embossed with the symbol of the Unification movement – symbolizing

This extraordinary week was brought expended at the rock-out which ceremonially to an end: after an elegant continued into the early hours of the gala-feast - for which the kitchen staff following day. had once more conjured up numerous And thus, the HARP-year „I’m telling tasty dishes - came a long evening the world: this is me” came to an end, festival full of amusing sketches, with a week in which the participants impressive musical contributions, could show and express themselves in dance, poem and much more. And the all their glory! very last ounces of energy were