Our group of 29 busi­ness part­ners from Ger­many and Switzer­land, has returned from an unfor­get­table incen­tive trip to Thai­land. All par­tic­i­pants are still enthu­si­as­tic and deeply moved by this very spe­cial time.

Tuk tuks, tai chi and street food.

From 18 — 24 May, the colour­ful ENERGETIX „troop“ immersed them­selves in the cul­ture and diver­si­ty of Thai­land. An excit­ing and at the same time pro­found pro­gramme with unbe­liev­able high­lights await­ed them, where the con­trast­ing expe­ri­ences thrilled every­one and touched the soul.

Whether brunch on the beach, adven­tures on a cata­ma­ran, a vis­it to a tem­ple, or a street tour with a tuk tuk: lux­u­ri­ous expe­ri­ences alter­nat­ed with authen­tic insights into Thai life. 

Emotional moments at the orphanage.

All of us at ENERGETIX are involved with our hearts. For us and our group, it was there­fore out of the ques­tion to com­bine this great adven­ture trip with social com­mit­ment. Pay­ing atten­tion to oth­ers, meet­ing every­one at eye lev­el and doing some­thing for oth­ers. Because it is human­i­ty that defines us at ENERGETIX!

As a result, the vis­it to the largest orphan­age in Thai­land was a high­light of the pro­gramme. At a joint lunch with 1,500 chil­dren (!), every­one was vis­i­bly moved — and also lent a hand. Food was served, win­dows were cleaned, there was laugh­ter, tears of emo­tion, smiles and, of course, gifts.

Here, the chil­dren are giv­en prospects for the future through school edu­ca­tion. We had ENERGETIX prod­ucts in our lug­gage, which are intend­ed as moti­va­tion­al gifts to encour­age dili­gent learn­ing, as well as writ­ing mate­ri­als and toys.

Doing good together. And celebrate.

Bring­ing peo­ple togeth­er, net­work­ing, cul­ti­vat­ing friend­ships: We suc­ceed­ed in doing that again on this breath­tak­ing trip. Of course, the fun fac­tor should not be neglect­ed either. Great food, good drinks and a ride on the dis­co bus — it was a mega trip full of enjoy­ment, new dis­cov­er­ies and price­less moments for every­one.

At ENERGETIX, we treat out­stand­ing per­for­mance with great appre­ci­a­tion. In addi­tion to income from sales and team build­ing, our busi­ness part­ners receive unique incen­tive trips like this one. They not only ben­e­fit from the exchange with the man­age­ment and each oth­er, but also grow from the expe­ri­ences and adven­tures. ENERGETIX trips are sim­ply some­thing very spe­cial.

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As part of the com­pe­ti­tion „It’s TEAM time!“, the 25-mem­ber win­ning team had a fan­tas­tic time in Por­to in the north of Por­tu­gal from 10 to 13 April: it was fun, in a great mood, with lots of their own and local singing. The pro­gramme includ­ed an intro­duc­tion to the cul­ture of the fado, the song that express­es the Por­tuguese soul in a unique way all over the world and was even includ­ed in the UNESCO list of intan­gi­ble world cul­tur­al her­itage in 2011.

Unique like the atmos­phere of this song were also the atmos­pheres that the ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners were able to expe­ri­ence togeth­er with Roland Förster in the city with a rich his­to­ry: an evening cham­pagne recep­tion on the city’s most beau­ti­ful van­tage point, a vis­it to a fam­i­ly-run win­ery, a guid­ed tour through the secrets of Por­to and — as a final, very emo­tion­al high­light — the trib­utes at a per­fect sun­set. Sounds, atmos­pheres, expe­ri­ences that once again dis­tin­guish ENERGETIX as unique and that show: It’s worth it to be part of this team.

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A trip that took place from 5 to 9 Sep­tem­ber to the Basque Coun­try on the north coast of Spain that was fan­tas­tic in every respect was expe­ri­enced by the 18 par­tic­i­pants, who were also joined by Alexan­der Link from ENERGETIX’s man­age­ment and – as a warm­ly wel­comed guest – Dorothé Förster, the founder’s wife.

Bil­bao kicked off a whole sequence of trav­el high­lights. The city is con­sid­ered an insid­er tip and has devel­oped into a true cul­tur­al hotspot with count­less sights. Among oth­er things, the group expe­ri­enced the Azku­na Zen­troa Cul­tur­al Cen­tre, a for­mer gra­nary with unique Art Nou­veau ele­ments and the – prob­a­bly unique – swim­ming pool with glass bot­tom.

Any fan of wine will be famil­iar with the name of Rio­ja. ENERGETIX’s trav­el group got to learn about ‘ver­ti­cal’ wine-mak­ing – a par­tic­u­lar­ly gen­tle and glob­al­ly unique pro­duc­tion method that pre­serves the grapes’ orig­i­nal flavour – at the Baig­or­ri vine­yard that is locat­ed in this region that is famed through­out the world for the wines that are grown there. There was, of course, also some tast­ing of the wines – accom­pa­nied by a real­ly fine sequence of dish­es!

San Sebas­t­ian will also remain a very fond mem­o­ry. That’s where many Art-Deco details trans­port vis­i­tors to a dif­fer­ent and unique age – some­thing to which the many top restau­rants also make a not incon­sid­er­able con­tri­bu­tion – world city lev­el. But per­haps it’s prefer­able to take a stroll through the pic­turesque cob­bled old town to enjoy some pin­tx­os, i.e. Basque tapas, or to take a dip in the very near­by sea with its dream beach­es? ENERGETIX’s busi­ness part­ners were spoilt for choice.

And then the Guggen­heim Muse­um! A mar­vel of lime­stone and tita­ni­um. Star archi­tect Frank O. Gehry has designed and real­ized a true tem­ple of cul­ture here. And, as an attrac­tion, it has made Bil­bao famous. Peo­ple talk about the ‘Guggen­heim effect’, which our group was priv­i­leged to expe­ri­ence: Frank O. Gehry’s work has giv­en Bil­bao a new face.

And the atmos­phere dur­ing the trip? Well, this is what one of the par­tic­i­pants had to say: “I laughed more on this trip than dur­ing the whole of the last few months!” There were also some very inten­sive exchanges between the par­tic­i­pants, par­tic­u­lar­ly about their expe­ri­ences with online com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Every­one learned from every­one, with IT Man­ag­er Alexan­der Link being par­tic­u­lar­ly sought-after as the per­son to talk to.

What remains is the mem­o­ry of a fan­tas­tic trip, an inten­sive group expe­ri­ence, effec­tive exchange of expe­ri­ences, per­son­al­i­ty build­ing through immer­sion in a neigh­bour­ing and rich cul­ture and thus the incen­tive for every­one of ENERGETIX’s busi­ness part­ners to give their all and qual­i­fy at the next com­pe­ti­tion. After all, the trip is just the ‘icing on the cake’, the ‘cher­ry’, so to speak; the short-term gain is in high­er sales, the long-term gain is in sus­tain­able income from a larg­er team.

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The weath­er couldn’t have been bet­ter and the atmos­phere dur­ing the whole event was sim­ply great. ENERGETIX invit­ed its best to the STARCLUB meet­ing that took place from 28 and 30 June in Zand­voort, the Nether­lands, dur­ing which the city and its sur­round­ings pre­sent­ed them­selves from their best sides. The 51 atten­dees were also sim­ply thrilled and delight­ed to final­ly be able to enjoy each other’s friend­ly com­pa­ny, includ­ing that of Roland Förster, Alexan­der Link and Jes­si­ca Schlick, in per­son.

The event includ­ed unusu­al activ­i­ties to help the par­tic­i­pants exchange expe­ri­ences and to deep­en per­son­al and friend­ly bonds. One of these activ­i­ties saw par­tic­i­pants tak­ing charge of boats with eight pas­sen­gers on board to tour the canals of neigh­bour­ing Haar­lem. Sim­ply the per­fect activ­i­ty for lit­tle adven­tures. Every­thing turned out well, of course, so every­one was able to ful­ly enjoy the evening bar­be­cue buf­fet at a beach club that was locat­ed right at the beach. Chill­ing out togeth­er while watch­ing the sun­set – sim­ply love­ly.

The sec­ond day revolved around a few sports activ­i­ties: the STARS were able to expe­ri­ence the Zand­voort Nature Park on e-bikes and enjoy a rein­vig­o­rat­ing pic­nic in the shade by a lake after which they were refreshed and ready for the next adven­ture: beach sail­ing on blokarts. The ris­ing wind ensured that the sandy beach soon became a gen­uine rac­ing track. The STARS real­ly enjoyed them­selves. A menu with sev­er­al cours­es and a glass of good wine in an award-win­ning restau­rant await­ed the mem­bers of the STARCLUB who then end­ed the evening with a great par­ty atmos­phere.

The fol­low­ing day was ded­i­cat­ed to a guid­ed tour of the city that also took the par­tic­i­pants to some of Haarlem’s less­er-known places and loca­tions. The day end­ed with a meal in a rus­tic restau­rant that con­sti­tut­ed the per­fect con­clu­sion to an expe­ri­ence that was high­ly moti­vat­ing for all those who took part as well as for all oth­er busi­ness part­ners: the effort required to join the STARCLUB is worth­while – for busi­ness and there­fore for income because the abil­i­ty to dis­cuss expe­ri­ences with both the best and the man­age­ment is worth its weight in gold as are the oppor­tu­ni­ties to devel­op per­son­al­ly through social and friend­ly get-togeth­ers – par­tic­u­lar­ly in these dif­fi­cult times.

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New collection, new catalogue with a new concept

On 18 June and in a great atmos­phere, ENERGETIX launched into its new 2022 / 2023 sea­son with an all-round inspir­ing Col­lec­tion Pre­miere. This year’s online event was streamed from Joey Kelly’s farm. Roland Förster wel­comed sev­er­al guests as well as many busi­ness part­ners and cus­tomers who were present at the venue with an opti­mistic and pos­i­tive look into the future.

But there actu­al­ly wasn’t just one Col­lec­tion Pre­miere – there were more than 30 – because many busi­ness part­ners had tak­en up the idea of indi­vid­u­al­ly orga­niz­ing their own per­son­al pub­lic screen­ings of the event.

As the live links to these indi­vid­ual events repeat­ed­ly demon­strat­ed: the atmos­phere there was just as fan­tas­tic – and char­ac­ter­ized by just as much enthu­si­asm about the new prod­ucts, which the busi­ness part­ners and cus­tomers there were able to expe­ri­ence direct­ly in the orga­niz­ers’ gar­dens and on their premis­es at the same time they were being pre­sent­ed on the Kel­ly farm.

This year’s cat­a­logue fea­tures sev­er­al inno­va­tions, as intro­duced by Alexan­der Link. It show­cas­es jew­ellery and well­ness arti­cles that will sim­ply make peo­ple want more. QR codes will then direct the prospec­tive cus­tomers to ENERGETIX’s online world as well as to more infor­ma­tion and reports about styling, well­ness and so on – areas where cus­tomer inter­est is already tan­gi­ble. It’s set­ting a new dynam­ic in motion that will take advan­tage of the new chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion while adapt­ing to cus­tomers’ chang­ing pur­chas­ing behav­iour.

Andrea Hön­ne­mann explained how the new com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools may be suc­cess­ful­ly employed to book par­ties and build teams. In dis­cus­sions with busi­ness part­ners who shared their recent suc­cess­es and with new­com­ers who were from the start able to suc­cess­ful­ly take advan­tage of the new com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools, the sales expert pre­sent­ed the new way of com­mu­ni­cat­ing with cus­tomers and prospects in a clear and com­pre­hen­si­ble fash­ion.

They count among the best in the com­pa­ny in sales, team-build­ing and over­all per­for­mance. That’s why they deserve very spe­cial recog­ni­tion: the mem­bers of the STARCLUB and the ONE YEAR STARCLUB. Jes­si­ca Schlick praised the out­stand­ing achieve­ments of the STARS, who are role mod­els for ENERGETIX’s entire fam­i­ly. 

ENERGETIX was again this year able to present a check for € 50,000.00 to Hugo and Lies­je Tem­pel­man and so con­tin­ue its sup­port for the Dutch couple’s extra­or­di­nary work in South Africa. The dona­tion came from the sale of ENERGETIX’s best-sell­er – Mag­net­Heart – and a top-up by sole share­hold­er and CEO Roland Förster. The funds will help run a cen­tre for the dis­abled and, as Hugo Tem­pel­man said in a very emo­tion­al speech, is a par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant help in the coun­try.

‘An Angel’ was the song per­formed togeth­er by Kathy and Joey Kel­ly and pre­sen­ter Men­na Muluge­ta and it also went straight to the heart. Men­na lived up to her fans’ expec­ta­tions through­out the entire event and was once again the per­fect host.

A very spe­cial thank-you goes to ENERGETIX’s brand ambas­sador Joey Kel­ly, who gen­er­ous­ly put his family’s farm at our dis­pos­al for the Col­lec­tion Pre­miere – a per­fect loca­tion, also for the con­clud­ing fan­tas­tic and almost roman­tic time spent around the camp fire, which guests enjoyed very much.

The mag­nif­i­cent atmos­phere at the Kel­ly farm and the great enthu­si­asm at the many indi­vid­ual events around the coun­try sent a clear sig­nal: ENERGETIX is ready for the future and is launch­ing into the new sea­son with lots of pos­i­tive ener­gy.

You’ll find more impres­sions of the event here.

We’ve pro­duced a short video of the event’s high­lights for you. Enjoy watch­ing!

The train­ing trip to Mon­tene­gro, which took place from 18 to 21 May, was char­ac­ter­ized by a fan­tas­tic atmos­phere. A total of 24 trav­ellers were just hap­py to final­ly be able to enjoy an ENERGETIX trip, which qual­i­fi­ca­tion in the ‘BAM – BE A MENTOR!’ com­pe­ti­tion had made pos­si­ble, again after the long inter­rup­tion.

The men­tors enjoyed excel­lent weath­er as they became acquaint­ed with a coun­try in the Balka­ns that, with its Mediter­ranean flair and charm, delight­ed even those already real­ly famil­iar with Adri­at­ic and Mediter­ranean. They also enjoyed the beau­ti­ful green out­doors with spec­tac­u­lar adven­ture worlds and cli­mate zones that range across the entire band­width to be expe­ri­enced in Europe – from Mediter­ranean to con­ti­nen­tal to alpine.

The pro­gramme was accord­ing­ly var­ied: hik­ing through the moun­tain land­scape at the Lov­cen Nation­al Park with its vil­lages steeped in his­to­ry, trav­el­ling by boat to the fjords in the Bay of Boka and vis­it­ing the Kon­avle Val­ley close to the bor­der where the three coun­tries of Mon­tene­gro, Bosnia, and Herze­gov­ina meet – an area famous for its culi­nary spe­cial­i­ties and excel­lent wines.

The expe­ri­ence was one thing – the oth­er was the long-missed oppor­tu­ni­ty to enjoy swap­ping notes in per­son with each oth­er and with Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Alexan­der Link. All the men­tors had qual­i­fied on the basis of their spe­cial achieve­ments and were able to share their expe­ri­ences with high­ly inter­est­ed lis­ten­ers. The train­ing trip was nat­u­ral­ly also the ide­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to prop­er­ly hon­our and per­son­al­ly rec­og­nize the par­tic­i­pants’ spe­cial achieve­ments.

An expand­ed team, top-class exchanges and a unique trav­el expe­ri­ence: BAM was worth­while and again showed all busi­ness part­ners what’s pos­si­ble with ENERGETIX.

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They’re on the best way towards a suc­cess­ful liveli­hood with mag­net­ic jew­ellery and well­ness prod­ucts: ENERGETIX’s NEW STARS. Fifty-five guests from Ger­many, France and Switzer­land attend­ed the NEW STARS event in Bin­gen on 28 and 29 April 2022.

The get-togeth­er was con­ceived as part of ENERGETIX’s com­pre­hen­sive moti­va­tion­al pro­gramme and was the first of its kind. Part­ners who are active in team-build­ing and are bring­ing new busi­ness part­ners into the fold were invit­ed to Bin­gen to expe­ri­ence direct­ly what, among oth­er things, the com­pa­ny is all about:

Man­age­ment up close

Roland Förster and Jes­si­ca Schlick wel­comed their guests at the NH Hotel on the banks of the Rhine. The two talked about how opti­misti­cal­ly they saw the future for those attend­ing. And they’re plan­ning to wel­come twice the num­ber of guests at the next NEW STARS get-togeth­er.

Effi­cient train­ing with moti­va­tion­al boost

The train­ing ses­sion with sales spe­cial­ist Andrea Hön­ne­mann, who out­lined her strat­e­gy for ‘grow­ing suc­cess­ful­ly with ENERGETIX’, was a step towards achiev­ing that goal. The day was more focused on team-build­ing because the prod­ucts vir­tu­al­ly sell them­selves.

Strength­en­ing the per­son­al­i­ty and rein­forc­ing the team as well as very con­crete tips for win­ning busi­ness part­ners that could be put into prac­tice right away – these were the top­ics that were explored from a vari­ety of per­spec­tives, where­by the expe­ri­ences that the NEW STARS had already gained were made an impor­tant point in the dia­logue.

The par­tic­i­pants were able to get to know each oth­er and ben­e­fit from the mutu­al exchange.

Celebri­ty con­tact with Joey Kel­ly – up close and ‘with­out bounds’

As always, full of ener­gy, like­able and inspir­ing! That’s how ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners love THEIR Joey, who vis­i­bly felt at home in the com­pa­ny of the NEW STARS. It’s pos­si­ble to apply the prin­ci­ples of his ‘no lim­its’ approach, which allows him to keep on achiev­ing new goals as an extreme sports per­son­al­i­ty, to the busi­ness of ENERGETIX and is always invalu­able to part­ners. 

A spir­it that unites all

On their tour of the depart­ments at the company’s build­ing, the NEW STARS were also able to see a com­pa­ny that’s per­fect­ly set up to sup­port them. But, more impor­tant­ly, although most of the employ­ees are still cur­rent­ly work­ing from home, the vis­i­tors were able to meet some of the enthu­si­as­tic staff, who are ded­i­cat­ed to help­ing THEIR busi­ness part­ners and who show every day that every­one can always be approached and that they’re also there for every­one else. 

Opti­mism, moti­va­tion and a great atmos­phere char­ac­ter­ized the mood at this first NEW STARS event, which reached its social cli­max on Thurs­day evening with a sparkling-wine recep­tion, ster­ling food, awards and a great par­ty – a clear sig­nal that net­work mar­ket­ing is well on the road to recov­ery.

ENERGETIX is already look­ing for­ward to the next NEW STARS. 

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ENERGETIX’s pro­pri­etor Roland Förster drew atten­tion to a spe­cial anniver­sary at the event to kick off the year on 15 Jan­u­ary 2022: the company’s 20^th anniver­sary! The mot­to of the year sets the agen­da and goal for how we intend to con­tin­ue: ‘WE WILL RISE!’

The long list of busi­ness part­ners who’ve been with ENERGETIX from the out­set – many of whom are still among the company’s top busi­ness part­ners – demon­strat­ed right at the start of the event that long and con­tin­u­ous careers are pos­si­ble with ENERGETIX.

Flex­i­bil­i­ty among busi­ness part­ners and com­pa­nies has made an impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion, espe­cial­ly dur­ing the last two years, which have been marked by the chal­lenges that com­mu­ni­cat­ing online presents. “Dig­i­tal­iza­tion has picked up speed and will con­tin­ue,” Roland Förster said.

New­com­ers and new sales expert

The new online busi­ness tools are being uti­lized to their full effect by the suc­cess­ful new­com­ers who were intro­duced by Alexan­der Link. Sales expert Andrea Hön­ne­mann, who joined the com­pa­ny in August 2021, set out how espe­cial­ly impor­tant our mind­set is – and not only for new­com­ers: “Look for like-mind­ed peo­ple and live your enthu­si­asm! Things can only be good when you’re enthu­si­as­tic.” And her tip for online busi­ness: “Be curi­ous and dis­cov­er your poten­tial!”

The awards: high­ly emo­tion­al

The awards with which Jes­si­ca Schlick and Alexan­der Link pro­duced sur­prise and moments full of touch­ing emo­tions not only among the win­ners rep­re­sent­ed a clear indi­ca­tion that ENERGETIX has suc­cess­ful­ly adapt­ed to the changed cir­cum­stances. Such out­stand­ing accom­plish­ments as ‘10 years of ENERGETIX’, goals achieved, per­son­al sales vol­umes, team-build­ing and, of course, STARCLUB mem­ber­ship were rec­og­nized. Two busi­ness part­ners, Biba Marseglia and Wolf­gang Düsen­er, who are always open to new oppor­tu­ni­ties and who, among oth­er things, make par­tic­u­lar­ly exem­plary use of online com­mu­ni­ca­tions, were inter­viewed.

Cre­at­ing a busi­ness by build­ing teams

“He’s pas­sion­ate about what he does,” says coach Tobias Schloss­er of Wolf­gang Düsen­er. “His sub­con­scious com­pe­tence means that he can’t help him­self.” There are no secrets to achiev­ing suc­cess. “The key is deep iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with the sub­ject mat­ter – with the great prod­uct and the great busi­ness.” Where­by Schloss­er nat­u­ral­ly placed the empha­sis on the busi­ness. “Talk­ing about the prod­uct will win you cus­tomers; talk­ing about the system’s ben­e­fits will win you busi­ness part­ners and cre­ate the oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to build up your own busi­ness.”

With fire and pas­sion: Joey Kel­ly

Joey Kel­ly – brand ambas­sador for ENERGETIX – focused both on team spir­it and a men­tal atti­tude that builds on both ‘fire and pas­sion’. “You need a strong team to be suc­cess­ful,” said the artist and extreme sports per­son­al­i­ty, who’ll soon be head­ing off on his big tours again. But he also draws on his expe­ri­ence to remind us that every day is pre­cious. Even more so in the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion. “Use the time now to build up strength!” And nev­er “lose the fire”, just like AC/DC, Joey’s favourite band, who, at the age of 70+, still rock the stage like they did in their 20s.

Heart and sun­shine: the new jew­ellery

Joey’s advice is right in line with the year’s mot­to, ‘WE WILL RISE!’. Two new small spring col­lec­tions with exclu­sive mag­net­ic jew­ellery con­sti­tute the foun­da­tion for ENERGETIX’s launch into its next chap­ter and its sec­ond decade. ‘Fol­low your Heart!’ and ‘Sun­shine on my Mind.’ There are two fly­ers for pre­sen­ta­tions to cus­tomers along with the cor­re­spond­ing online mate­r­i­al that’s avail­able for per­son­al­iza­tion. The mot­to-based com­pe­ti­tion defines var­i­ous­ly weight­ed tar­gets and is intend­ed to help kick-start and devel­op careers.

Great incen­tive: Men­na Muluge­ta

New jew­ellery, moti­va­tion, train­ing and awards were, of course, the high­lights of the event staged to kick off the year and that was broad­cast online from a stu­dio in Mainz. Men­na Muluge­ta, our singing host, con­tributed enor­mous­ly to the fan­tas­tic atmos­phere on the day. The for­mer ‘Voice of Ger­many’ con­tes­tant is today huge­ly pop­u­lar with a wide audi­ence and was avail­able for our event on Sat­ur­day. Her appear­ance full of pas­sion, pow­er, tem­pera­ment and enthu­si­asm should be an incen­tive to all of us. Thank you, Men­na!

Many busi­ness part­ners were able draw addi­tion­al moti­va­tion from the online col­lage train­ing with Ulrich Lang and Bis­er­ka Marseglia that took place the next day. The visu­al­ized goals make us opti­mistic that ‘WE WILL RISE!’

An excerpt from the feed­back for the event:

Angela S.: That was great 🤩 Joey’s pre­sen­ta­tion was sim­ply fan­tas­tic 💪The ener­gy 🎉great 🥰 A bril­liant day

Mar­ti­na W.: Such a won­der­ful­ly suc­cess­ful start to the year, thank you 🤩 for this moti­va­tion

Uschi A.: A great start with so many fan­tas­tic con­tri­bu­tions 👍👏👏🥂

Elke E.: Such a great start to what is sure to be a real­ly good year.

Renee P.: It was anoth­er won­der­ful event 👍🤩👍🥂👍

What our trav­ellers to the Ama­zon have just expe­ri­enced from 22 Octo­ber to 2 Novem­ber can hard­ly be put into words: “It was inde­scrib­able, an entire­ly dif­fer­ent world, the veg­e­ta­tion, the peo­ple, the sounds! None of us could stop our­selves from fre­quent­ly welling up! By far the best trip I have ever been on!”

We could con­tin­ue with such superla­tives. The group already expe­ri­enced the first high­light on the sec­ond day close to where they had arrived, i.e. in Bogotá: a salt cathe­dral with a nave and two aisles, 180 metres deep in a for­mer salt mine – gigan­tic!

And then it was off to the great Ama­zon adven­ture with Hervé Neukomm. The Swiss nation­al who turned his back on con­ven­tions has been liv­ing the ‘pura vida’ in the jun­gle for many years. On his 240-hectare prop­er­ty, the Resort Habi­tat Sur, he and his wife work on dif­fer­ent envi­ron­men­tal and cul­tur­al projects that are aimed at pro­tect­ing the rain­for­est and its inhab­i­tants. The ide­al guide for ENERGETIX’s trip!

Joey Kel­ly was anoth­er per­son­al­i­ty who shaped this jour­ney. He’s a fan of ENERGETIX and had already made the trip to the Ama­zon region three years ago dur­ing which he was very touched by the unique nature, the peo­ple and Hervé’s desire to pro­tect the Ama­zon rain­for­est. Joey’s trip was the inspi­ra­tion for this prize for ENERGETIX’s com­pe­ti­tion and he was hap­py to seize the oppor­tu­ni­ty to return to this spe­cial place in the com­pa­ny of our busi­ness part­ners.

A jour­ney with­out roads. Dis­tances were cov­ered by speed­boat or canoe. Or on foot! There couldn’t be a more inten­sive way of expe­ri­enc­ing the jun­gle. The routes took the par­tic­i­pants across dif­fi­cult ter­rain, through mud and along paths with many obsta­cles. The trips were inter­rupt­ed with breaks for bathing in the mid­dle of the jun­gle – with spon­ta­neous mud packs.

Spon­ta­neous and unplanned was also the encounter with an old heal­er, who was sum­moned by the inhab­i­tants of a vil­lage as a minor injury had been suf­fered and whose per­son­al­i­ty and her sin­cere inter­ven­tion made a very pro­found impres­sion.

The qual­i­fiers were able to get up close to the ani­mals at a res­cue sta­tion for injured ani­mals. The encounter with an ana­con­da may well be described as sen­sa­tion­al, even if the staff did say it was ‘tame’.

The adven­tur­ers got some time to relax briefly with music and dance at a typ­i­cal vil­lage in the mid­dle of the jun­gle before return­ing to Bogotá via Leti­cia after a trip to an ani­mal reserve. This is where the group expe­ri­enced why this city of mil­lions is inter­na­tion­al­ly famous for its graf­fi­ti.

The clos­ing high­light was a vis­it to a fam­i­ly-run eco­log­i­cal­ly sus­tain­able cof­fee plan­ta­tion. These were def­i­nite­ly the first cof­fee beans to be har­vest­ed direct­ly by ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners.

‘Pura vida’ — the qual­i­fiers for the ‘Pure Nature’ prize were able to gain a small but inten­sive impres­sion of this spe­cial lifestyle and it cer­tain­ly pro­vid­ed lots of food for thought in regard to their own lifestyles on their return home. A trip that once again empha­sized the spe­cial and exclu­sive nature of ENERGETIX’s com­pe­ti­tions and demon­strat­ed how much the com­pa­ny appre­ci­ates its busi­ness part­ners.

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A total of 39 STARCLUB mem­bers met with ENERGETIX’s man­age­ment on the beau­ti­ful Mediter­ranean island of Mal­ta from 1 to 3 Octo­ber. It was the first trip since the begin­ning of the pan­dem­ic for many of the par­tic­i­pants.

After arriv­ing on the Fri­day, the STARS were tak­en straight to Hotel-Resort Dol­men that’s locat­ed on the beach front. A bus then took the par­tic­i­pants for their evening meal to Val­let­ta, the island’s cap­i­tal. The par­tic­i­pants were giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to take a walk through the his­toric old town and explore its nar­row streets that were dec­o­rat­ed with fairy lights and filled with music and the aro­ma of Mal­tese cui­sine.

The next day was reserved for activ­i­ties, fun and team­work. So the par­tic­i­pants were tak­en by fer­ry to the island of Gozo where a small fleet of old off-road vehi­cles await­ed for a spe­cial island ral­ly. The trav­ellers were divid­ed into eight teams and giv­en a short brief­ing before they set off for their very own island adven­tures with indi­vid­ual sched­ules.

The goal was to find their way across the island by using the sched­ules and solv­ing ques­tions and tasks along the way. Dri­ving on the nar­row, some­times unpaved roads with the old cars was a chal­lenge in itself. So this team chal­lenge wasn’t lack­ing in adren­a­line and fun. A unique expe­ri­ence that none of the par­tic­i­pants will ever for­get so quick­ly.

Every­one was giv­en the chance to recov­er from the excit­ing day and spend some time on the beach or do a bit of shop­ping in the city in the late after­noon before it was time for the exclu­sive evening meal that was being served at Restau­rant Café del Mar. The win­ners of the ral­ly were cel­e­brat­ed in the mod­ern ambi­ence. The exquis­ite meal was com­ple­ment­ed with cake to cel­e­brate the birth­day of one of the par­tic­i­pants. In spite of the coro­na-relat­ed ban on danc­ing, it was a suc­cess­ful evening, which some of the trav­ellers found them­selves bring­ing to close at the beach bar.

The next morn­ing, the last one before depar­ture, pro­vid­ed the time and scope for an inten­sive exchange with the man­age­ment. In the bright sun­shine and with a buf­fet lunch to fol­low, every­one was giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to address impor­tant top­ics that would help shape new devel­op­ments at ENERGETIX.

The inter­na­tion­al STARCLUB meet­ing not only pro­vid­ed the set­ting for a great reunion that was char­ac­ter­ized by lots of fun, good food and long-await­ed per­son­al exchanges, it was also a total suc­cess. 

You will find more pho­tos of this great event on our Flickr chan­nel!