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Senior Mentors and Personal Coaches

If you want a new environment to feel like you're used to, there's always experience involved. Our Senior Experts are entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. Some of them are still active in their professional lives, some of them are retired. They all have personally experienced many challenges on their way through life and are eager to share their learnings.

For more than 30 years, we have been providing support in a professional context as mentors and coaches in coping with personal developments. Our more than 180 senior experts have a diverse network, which we are happy to make available to members of CIC.

If we aroused your interest, please contact us; following your needs we will connect you with an expert and offer a 30 min talk for free.

Ferdinand Sereinig, Austrian Senior Experts Pool – Teamlead Carinthia

Tel: +43 664 1936398, f.sereinig@asep.at

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Learning a new language can be a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be impossible.

Hi, I’m Simone Pols. I’m a language coach and project manager based in Austria. I’ve studied more than 10 languages, and I’m fluent in 7, that I use on a daily-basis to negotiate with my clients as a project manager.

As a language coach, I work with professionals like yourself to learn the local language while managing a busy schedule. I have more than 2 years of experience as a coach and over 10 years of learning languages personally, and I’ve seen many individuals go from struggling to thriving quickly. 

It’s true: learning a new language has lots of difficulties and obstacles. But I’m here to let you know once you understand how to do it, you’re capable of mastering any foreign language at any age!

My coaching programs are designed to take your studies to the next level by giving you the keys to unlock your language learning potential. With pronunciation training, accountability, study plans, and learning strategies, you’ll take a massive leap toward your language goals sooner than you imagined possible!

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Hello there! Whether you are a guest in Klagenfurt, you recently moved here or you just enjoy Yoga classes in English - you've come to the right place at the Hearthfire!

We welcome everybody and invite you to practice and build a community with us. Emily is an American who has been living and working in Austria for twentysomething years. She loves teaching in English, because it helps her to speak from the heart. And this is what we feel in her Vinyasa and Yoga for everybody - classes!

In time you will learn that you can also try out our German-led classes, because many terms are being taught in Sanskrit (an old language from the Indian subcontinent) or English anyways - and once you get used to them, you'll explore your own Yoga experience in any class.

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My name is Klaus Alber. From a young age, I found myself entranced by the majesty of the mountains, a fascination that has become a defining passion in my life. This love for high peaks, coupled with an innate calling to the hospitality sector, led me back to Mallnitz after completing my education and gathering real-world experience in hotel management. It was here that I chose to continue the parental hotel businessy "Ferienhotel Alber".

In addition to this, I have successfully earned my certification as a mountain guide. My mission ever since has been to create an enriching, revitalizing, and above all, joyful holiday experience for all our guests at the hotel. Beyond providing a pleasant stay, I also have the privilege of guiding the more adventurous guests on their unique journeys up the mountain, tailoring each expedition to their personal desires and fitness levels.

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"I am Anita Pinagli, a qualified Carinthian wander mountain guide (Bergwanderführer) and  I would like to share my knowledge with you. Networking Between the Mountains is a project which allows people to acquire basic knowledge about how to approach the local mountains, which rules to follow and what are the hidden dangers you can encounter along your hike. Let’s network between our mountains together! The area around Villach offers many different mountain peaks to conquer!  The inconvenient point is that mountains are not always accessible to everybody. Mountains are an entity with their own will: you need to know their language and you need to learn to respect it! So it will respect you!" 

Registration by mail to: admin@cic-network.at

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The CIC - member Helen Doron offers Early English Course "Fun with Flupe"  for  3-5 year olds.  “Fun with Flupe” takes place at 3pm on Tuesday afternoons in a lovely garden house  in central Klagenfurt. Children can do a free-of-charge trial lesson (and parents can watch) before signing up.

The course has already started, but it is still early days. It is possible to attend on  18 or 25 October to try out a lesson and join the course by the end of October though of course it is a case of - the earlier the better. Anna can be contacted directly on 0650/9637906 or at  anna.koeberl@helendoron.at

Helen Doron Early English courses are taught worldwide and are especially well-known and popular in Eastern Europe, South Korea and South America. Classes are taught in small groups of maximally 8 children and are very interactive, full of movement, singing and games and lots of speaking. Details are available on the Helen Doron Austria website.