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Every month CreativeMornings invites people who we think inspire us.

When we thought about the topic of Pride - we struggled a lot with the term proud for various reasons. A very difficult word for us.

But it was very easy for us to find a speaker to talk about this topic:

Katharina Maun, as an outstanding creative and founder of DODO, one of the most awarded agencies in the country.

At the same time, Katharina has beaten cancer twice and made this public, making her not only a creative role model but also a guiding figure from whom we can still learn something.

Thank you Katharina Maun💚

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July ’s Theme is Treasure

Treasure takes many forms, both physical and intangible. Yours may be a ring that has been passed down to you from your ancestors. A hidden spring of water in a parched land. The budding, implicit trust of a new friend. New photographs of the wider galaxy, full of iridescent swirls of matter and light. The ruins of a people from a faraway time and place.

Our instinct is to clutch them tightly. We seal our treasures in glass cases, to preserve them from time's decay, to display them as testaments to our worth. We fear their loss, yet in this fear, we lose our ability to cherish them. We must soften our grip and magnify our time spent in their presence, precisely because nothing will stay with us. Eventually, even crown jewels will pass into dust.

What happens when we expand what we treasure beyond the rare, the beautiful, and the precious to the ordinary and the unnoticed? Even graffitied poetry on the side of a bus stop is a relic of someone who had passed through there, leaving traces for future archaeologists to excavate. What treasures can only you discern?

That was Markus Salcher about Acceptance at Talent Garden Vienna.

Strong personality with a great vision ❤️

Video Credits: Manuel Hahn

March ’s Theme is Corruption.

Corruption can start innocently, like favoring someone you know over someone you don’t. Or recalling a gift they once sent, and repay them with a project for that sweetness. Corruption is a spectrum, rewarding social connections and financial advantages over the rules of fair play. It exists in every society and every institution.

Some people survive through corruption, the labyrinthine bureaucracies where they live making it literally impossible otherwise. But while they survive, others perish. Rising plumes of toxic chemicals, collapsing buildings not constructed to code, we owe the calamities all around us to those who cared more about profit than people and gain over the greater good.

About our Speaker Ali Mahlodji

Ali was born in Iran in 1981 and came to Europe as a refugee as a child. He started his career as a high school dropout and tried more than 40 jobs.

He launched his first company from a childhood idea: whatchado - the digital handbook of life stories which is the market leader for video employer branding in German-speaking countries today. As the CEO of whatchado he guided the company to market leadership. After dedicated the last years more to accompany the company in times of change. In his role as an expert for work and education, he inspires and accompanies executives and HR teams in the further development of their competencies. He shares his insights as a keynote speaker, trainer and 4-time author.

To date, he has reached over half a million people in more than 30 countries with his 1000+ keynotes. In 2021, he was appointed to the international Forbes Business Council and the EU appointed him as an EU Youth Ambassador for Life as a translator between generations and UNICEF appointed him as an Honorary Representative.

Ali Mahlodji is a studied expert for distributed computer systems and held management positions at Siemens and at the international tech company Sun Microsystems and was elected twice among the Top50 High Potentials of Austria. He counts brain researcher Dr. Gerald Hüther and human high performance expert Dr. Markus Jahn among his mentors and really just wants to save the world.

February ’s Theme is Touch.

Across the years when we had to stay apart to keep one another safe, skin hungered for the sensation of being pressed against another. The longing for touch was deeply felt.

Unlike sight or sound, the senses we primarily rely on for information, touch cannot be conveyed across distance through screens and speakers. Touch invites us to slow down, pay attention, and come closer.

When we open ourselves to the ineffable — what cannot be transmitted through words — touch emerges as a language unto itself. The grit of the soil under our bare feet, the clay slip enrobing a potter’s wheel, the sun-warmed fur of a beloved pet — these sensations can be healing.

LOU PA about ABUNDANCE

Lou Pa is a Vienna based Indie Pop Band founded by the musicians Bettina Eckert, Elisabeth Laa and Katrin Detter.

Gentle vocals flow delicately with profound lyrics and combine to form a musical work of art - the three musicians find their own language in their compositions made of synth and acoustics and let us go on musical journeys with them. Since 2019 the three front woman were joined by  the three musicians Thomas Böck, Raphael Rameis and David Dolezel.

Together they have managed to refine the sound and arrangements - without giving up their own style.

On November 18th 2022 they released their first EP "Little Space" with the Indie Label Blank Spots Records .

We invite you to let  the ABUNDANCE of their music take you on at our special Creative Mornings Session on December 16th 2022 - 8:30 a.m.

at IF DOGS RUN FREE- Gumpendorfer Straße 10, 1060 Wien

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Contact:

LOU PA - [email protected]

IF DOGS RUN FREE

SAVE THE DATE:

Our next Event will be on the:

16th December 2022 - 8:30 a.m.

at this stunning location:

If Dogs Run Free is a neighborhood bar in the 6th district of Vienna, that serves great cocktails and longdrinks.

The dark interior is well designed, with the ceiling being covered with upside-down peaks, inspired by a mountain landscape. The name, like the space itself, is meant to invite fantasy. The bar is owned by architects Chieh-shu Tzou and Gregorio Lubroth, graphic designer Maria Prieto Barea, an actress and a restaurateur, who teamed up to design, build and launch the bar themselves.