Julia Kosegarten
Diversity & Inclusion
These important topics were given a lot of space and time at the IHK Berlin's Education X Business festival. I was also very encouraged by the positive reactions when talking about mental health, and I am pleased about the valuable exchange - many participants and speakers encouraged me and I was able to take this motivation directly into the new week!
The topic of neurodiversity plays an equally important role in the field of education & business, precisely because we are all individuals and there are also neurodivergent people, we have a larger catalog of ideas and strengths at our disposal and this brings us forward together - sometimes very quickly and sometimes we also have the feeling that the tempo is slowing down - but that is also the case in music and deliberately composed in this way ... so important subtleties come to light and new effects can emerge.
As an opera singer, I was not only trained to sing the libretto set to music, but also to create changing dynamics in conjunction with different tempi together with the orchestra. It was important for us to grow together as a team through rehearsals beforehand and then pay attention to each other during the performance, as the many instruments and musicians all have their own individual sound and character, and this is exactly what ultimately leads to this overwhelming effect that reaches and connects people.
Diversity therefore means that we gain strength, possibilities and opportunities - if we give ourselves the time to listen to each other and tune into each other.
Many thanks to the IHK Berlin for inviting me to the education festival!
