Registration for courses in the first half of 2025 is now open.

Educational vacations in the first quarter:

"Get out of the hamster wheel - self-management in harmony with yourself and your environment"

Content: Do as the bamboo does - because it is considered the most resilient plant in the world! It grows extremely quickly and doesn't let barriers stop it from sprouting roots. Its trunk sways in a storm and does not break. Bamboo is evergreen and simply shakes off heavy snow loads.

The participants learn, for example

• to train their own resilience despite stressful events
• to expand their ability to act
• deal more calmly with the challenges of everyday life
• increase their quality of life with energy boosters

In a nutshell: get off the hamster wheel and simply become more resilient.

Information:

The educational leave takes place from Monday, March 24 to Friday, March 28 from 9 am to 4.30 pm at the Kniestedter Herrenhaus in Salzgitter-Bad and costs 213 euros.

Registration deadline for working people using their entitlement to educational leave: 17.02.2025.

"Mental health at work and in everyday life through active brain training!"

Content: Just a few minutes of daily brain training improves mental fitness. People can concentrate better, remember more, react faster and remain more emotionally stable at work and in everyday life.

In this course, participants gain an insight into how the brain works and what influences our ability to think. They will learn what can be done specifically to achieve the best possible input and output of brain power.

Participants apply exercises that have a positive influence on their perception of stress in stressful situations and ensure balance.

Information:

The educational leave takes place from Monday, March 31 to Friday, April 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Volkshochschule in Salzgitter-Bad (Kniestedter Herrenhaus, Braunschweiger Straße 135a) and costs 213 euros.

Registration deadline for working people using their entitlement to educational leave: 24.02.2025

Further educational vacations in the second quarter:

Languages:

• English 1 for "false" beginners (from April 7 to 11)
• Italian for beginners (from April 7 to 11)
• French for "false" beginners (from April 7 to 11)
• Spanish for beginners (from April 7 to 11)
• English 2 A1 (from June 23 to 27)
• French for beginners A2 (from June 23 to 27)

Health prevention:

• Mental training (from May 5 to 9)
• Burn is out! (Ways to more resilience through active stress management) (from May 12 to 16)

Profession:

• Spreadsheet calculation with Exel (from May 12 to 16)
• Business mediation and citizen participation - training to become a mediator (Module 7) (from May 12 to 16)
• Websites - from planning to completion (from June 16 to 20)

Educational leave for part-time employees:

• Staying fit in everyday life and at work, preventive health promotion (May 19-23)
• Mindful at work and in everyday life, a way to cope with stress (June 16-20)

Information:

Detailed information about the new educational vacations can be found on the Volkshochschule website.

Written registrations are also possible there (www.vhs-salzgitter.de).

Anyone with questions about the new (and established) educational vacations can contact the Volkshochschulevhsstadt.salzgitterde, telephone 05341/839-3604.

The courses can also be booked by interested parties who do not wish to take educational leave (please specify when registering). In this case, registration is possible until shortly before the start of the course.

Information on educational leave:

In Lower Saxony, employees are entitled to one week of educational leave per year, which they can use for further education in a variety of subject areas. The courses offered by the Volkshochschule can also be booked as intensive one-week courses by interested parties who do not wish to take educational leave.