ShinrinYoku forest bathing
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Meetings, events and seminars in an inspiring marine location
The 4-star Brombachsee Floating Village (as classified by the German Tourism Association) offers the perfect opportunity to sit down with employees, colleagues, customers or business partners in order to, for example, define milestones for a collaboration or work out an annual plan, while also enjoying a relaxing time. Here, you can enjoy a unique location that offers a great deal of comfort and which inspires and releases creative potential.
In the Ramsberg Marina near Pleinfeld, the largest inland sailboat marina in Germany, 19 sustainable and modern water villas have been built to meet your requirements. The Floating Village at Lake Brombach is open to its guests 365 days a year. It is even comfortable on Lake Brombach in the cold season, because all but two of the water villas are equipped with a gas fireplace.
Each of the 19 water villas contains two double rooms, and there is the possibility of holding team meetings with up to 10 people. The trimaran “MS Brombachsee” and the Ellingen Residence can be used as locations for larger conferences. Business coaches, hosts or speakers can be organised.
Eating and cooking together is a wonderful experience that brings a team closer together. For this, we offer you different selections of food and drinks depending on the occasion, to be consumed in your water villa. Of course, we also offer catering – served, for example, on the front or roof terrace. Our Grill & Chill pitmaster can prepare, for example, grilled fish on a stick, as well as meat or vegetarian dishes for you directly on the jetty. To get the day off to a good start, we will deliver an abundant breakfast to you by boat in a vintage box in the morning.
The well thought-out service concept of the cordial Eco Lodges team offers much more than just meetings on water and accommodation and meals.
The resort
There are 19 water villas available with 38 double rooms and 76 beds. You can either stay in the homes on a single-occupancy basis, share a villa with 2 double rooms and a bathroom, or occupy each of the four beds.
- 67 m² of living space each, including a water terrace and panoramic terrace on the roof
- 2 double rooms with double beds
- Light-flooded living, dining and cooking area
- 1 bathroom and separate toilet
- 17 water villas have a gas fireplace
- Golf cart shuttle service for luggage on arrival and departure
- Digital concierge service
- Delivery of breakfast and drinks to the house, as well as other services
- One parking space available per house
- Easily accessible from the metropolises of Nuremberg, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Würzburg
There is also the possibility of using an entire water villa for your catering function or your event.
Equipment for your business event
- Wi-Fi: high speed surfing and data transfer
- Flat-screen TV
- Sound system
- Flipchart, including pens
- Technical support with setting up additional equipment
Technical facilities for your water villa
- Digital concierge service
- Electric table-top grill
- Filter coffee machine
- Kettle
- Toaster
- Dishwasher
- Microwave, oven
- Fridge with freezer compartment
- Hairdryer
Food and catering
- Breakfast box
- Bavarian starter
- Summer special
- Winter special
- New Year’s Eve special
- Birthday package
- All kinds of catering
- Grill & Chill
- Vegetarian grilled dishes
- Fish grilled on a stick
- Raclette
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Conferences, seminars and business trips do not have to be joyless and boring – in the Brombachsee Floating Village, you offer your guests a unique and unforgettable event, because your functions with employees, customers or business partners can be perfectly combined with tours and activities in the surrounding region.
Accompanying programme in the Floating Village
- Mindfulness training
- Soft skills training
- Motivational lectures from competitive athletes
- Meet and greet BBQ
- Geocaching (GPS tours with surprise element)
- Corporate treasure hunt
- Longco tours, Segway tours
- Themed evenings
- Mobile casino
- Wine, whiskey or beer sommelier evenings
- Yoga
- Ayurvedic treatments
Excursion and adventure offers
Climbing park, summer toboggan run with chill-out area, water sports, such as sailing, canoeing, surfing, wakeboarding, SUP, vintage car meetings, numerous events on the “MS Brombachsee”, guided tours in the Ellingen Residence and tastings in the associated palace brewery, golf events, Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt (Christmas market), and much more.
Floating Floating Village – Seminars on the water
Seminars
ShinrinYoku forest bathing
Tour Limes
Seminars
About the events on offer:
Resilience is the art of dealing well not only with the pressure of daily work, but also with crises. Resilient people can process life’s challenges much better and turn them into something good for their own benefit.
Conflicts are part of everyday life: without differences of opinion there would only be stagnation. To prevent conflicts from escalating, you need a good way of dealing with them. Constructive solutions are required. The goal is not to win the dispute, but to arouse mutual understanding and find meaningful compromises through good communication.
In addition to a high degree of external pressure to perform, there is also the pressure that we put ourselves under. Both of these together can make stress levels so high that health, relationships and one’s enjoyment of life threaten to fall by the wayside. We have to take very good care of ourselves to prevent this from happening.
Creativity is important: the pressure to bring new products and services to market in order to successfully establish yourself as a company is constantly growing. Particularly in unsteady times, there is an increasing need for innovative solutions – also in order to react within the company to the pressure to change.
Groups that want to work well together long term need to make regular “pit stops” – time out together in order to reflect on and optimise the goals and the quality of the collaboration. George Pennington offers one such pit stop in the Floating Village.
George Pennington
George Pennington is a researcher and educator in the field of psychology who has worked
for many years as a trainer, coach, and consultant in business. He became known as a television psychologist and wrote a number of landmark books.
| Seminar | (SE01) Resilience |
| Content Main areas of focus | Good mental and emotional self-management – knowing and being able to communicate your own values, goals and limits – requires constant mindfulness in everyday life. It also requires knowledge of the most important pitfalls and how to avoid them. That is what this training is about. |
| Objectives | To stay confident, relaxed and healthy, even when under a high degree of stress. To learn to understand “problems” as challenges and to deal with them creatively. |
| Method of working | Interactive lecture on a flip chart (with practical exercises) |
| Event location | Floating Village or MS Brombachsee |
| Participants | |
| Minimum number of participants | 6 – 12 people |
| Duration | Day 1: 9:00 a.m. – approx. 6:00 p.m. in 90-minute blocks, with a 30-minute break between each block Day 2: 9:00 a.m. – approx. 5:00 p.m. |
| 2. Tag: 09:00 Uhr – ca. 17:00 Uhr | |
| Price | EUR 5800,00 |
| Seminar | (SE02) Conflict Management |
| Content Main areas of focus | Essential personal and social know-how: what causes conflicts, and how to avoid or resolve them. Good communication, emotional intelligence and taking time to pause and think are the keys to this. |
| Objectives | Participants will never fear conflict again. On the contrary: conflicts will become interesting challenges. |
| Method of working | Interactive lecture on a flip chart (with practical exercises) |
| Event location | Floating Village or MS Brombachsee |
| Participants | |
| Minimum number of participants | 6 – 12 people |
| Duration | Day 1: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. in 90-minute blocks, with a 30-minute break between each block |
| Day 2: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Price | EUR 5800,00 |
| Seminar | (SE03) Acting with Confidence under Pressure |
| Content Main areas of focus | External and internal stressors are identified, and specific ways of reducing pressure or dealing with it in a relaxed manner are shown. All participants learn a relaxation routine that they can use every day. |
| Objectives | Optimal self-management that is suitable for effectively preventing negative stress and burnout and maintaining a sense of joy in one’s work. |
| Method of working | Interactive lecture on a flip chart (with practical exercises) |
| Event location | Floating Village or MS Brombachsee |
| Participants | |
| Minimum number of participants | 6 – 12 people |
| Duration | Day 1: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. in 90-minute blocks, with a 30-minute break between each block |
| Day 2: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Price | EUR 5800,00 |
| Seminar | (SE04) Creativity for Product Developers |
| Content Main areas of focus | Creativity is not occasional inspiration, but a principle of life. However, there are certain rules that one should know and follow in order to be able to stay creative over the long term. Expertise in these principles and rules is the content of this seminar. |
| Objectives | Theoretical understanding and practical exercises lead participants to their own creativity. The goal is always concrete results |
| Method of working | Interactive lecture on a flip chart (with practical exercises) |
| Event location | Floating Village or MS Brombachsee |
| Participants | |
| Minimum number of participants | 6 – 12 people |
| Duration | Day 1: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. in 90-minute blocks, with a 30-minute break between each block |
| Day 2: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Price | EUR 5800,00 |
| Seminar | (SE05) Pit Stop for Managers |
| Content Main areas of focus | Pit stops are regular meetings of functionally connected groups for mutual self-reflection. Upcoming challenges are discussed, discrepancies and misunderstandings are clarified, and mutual trust is strengthened. The goal is collaboration that is focused on results. |
| Objectives | After pit stops like these, participants treat each other in a more trusting manner and understand each other even without having to use many words. Communication becomes easier, and interactions are less marked by fear: the focus is on the common tasks. |
| Method of working | Facilitated process: the participants themselves determine the content. The facilitator structures the process and ensures that concrete results are achieved. If necessary, he will provide helpful input. |
| Event location | Floating Village or MS Brombachsee |
| Participants | |
| Minimum number of participants | 6 – 12 people |
| Duration | Day 1: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. in 90-minute blocks, with a 30-minute break between each block |
| Day 2: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Price | EUR 5800,00 |
ShinrinYoku forest bathing
Oliver Schmitt
Certified forest health trainer
Certified leader of ShinrinYoku forest therapy
Certified leader of meditations – mindfulness
Coach for soft skills and resilience
“ShinrinYoku forest bathing” was originally a Japanese stress management and relaxation method with a focus on health prevention.
A large number of serious scientific studies have proven positive effects on physical and mental health, such as:
- An increase in natural killer cells or a decrease in blood pressure
- Improved quality of sleep
- Improved cognitive performance
- Improved mood and well-being
- Faster recovery from stress
- Increased self-confidence
- Decreased aggressiveness
By (re)activating all our senses in the world of the forest, we leave our tunnel of thoughts and simply enjoy being.
In addition to suggestions for mindfulness and uncomplicated meditation, Oliver provides additional exercises and information for increasing one’s “mental defences”.
For our ShinrinYoku forest bathing, Oliver Schmitt will lead you directly to the nearby forest, which is easy to reach from the peninsula near the Floating Village (access to our floating jetty). The meeting point is the village entrance to the jetty.
Duration: ca. 1,5 – 2 hours
Price: 39,- EUR / person
Minimum number of participants: 5
It will be helpful for you to arrange an appointment before your arrival so that you can better plan your precious time during your stay.
Please note:
If you cancel up to 3 days before your allotted date, a 50% cancellation fee will be charged. In the event of cancellations less than three days before the agreed date, or in the event of a no-show, all booked and cancelled services must be paid for in full. Please make sure that you are dressed appropriately for the weather conditions and that you use sturdy shoes.
After bathing in the forest, it is absolutely wonderful to come back to your water villa, sink into the sofa there, for example, and continue to unwind without swiftly losing that relaxing effect.
Email: reception@eco-lodges.de
Tour Limes
In the footsteps of the ancient Romans
Duration, including briefing: approx. 2 hours (depending on the speed) – driving distance: approx. 22 kilometres
After a detailed theoretical and practical briefing, we start at Pfofeld village square and head off in the direction of Theilenhofen.
On the way, we pass the enigmatic ruins of the Chapel of the Holy Cross, which was probably built in the 14th century and which served as a medieval pilgrimage church due to legends about a healing well and a miracle cross. After a short stop, the route continues in the direction of Theilenhofen, to the excavated Roman baths and the Roman fort “Iciniacum”.
The first Romans settled here in as early as 70 AD, during the occupation of the regions north of the Danube around Gunzenhausen and Theilenhofen. The latest research findings, using geomagnetic prospection, have revealed the floor plan of a Gallo-Roman theatre. From the Roman baths, we head for some of the information boards set up by the municipality in 2008 in order to then examine the course of the limes from a viewing platform. The limes watchtowers mostly had direct eye contact with the fort. Our route leads us to the remains of a Roman limes watchtower, from which you get a spectacular view of the landscape. From the watchtower, we then head along the limes towards Lake Brombach, which we can look down on from a vantage point. From there, we return to our starting point.
A communal stop at the Franconian Kleemann Tavern rounds off our Limes Tour.
We will, of course, make stops for photos during the tour. If you like, we will be happy to send you the pictures that are taken by email or CD.
Please note! Due to unforeseeable circumstances, the tour route and its duration may vary.
Price per person: 139,00 EUR
6 people or more: 119,00 EUR (per person)
Min. 4 participants per tour, max. 8 participants per tour
Larger groups possible on request