Family Hippocampus

⚠️Big News: Introducing Family Hippocampus Club - Business Family members only!👨👩👧👦 Remember the last huge conflict in your family?⛈️ Remember the hurt and ripples from it? The worst?! You are not allowed to talk about it with outsiders and no one would understand it anyways!🙈 As members of business families that was and partially is our reality. But we did not want to accept that it has to be that hard, so everyone of us individually started reading research, researching about it ourself and opening up to members our families or similar families and that very much helped us to normalize the experience😅 We want to offer the same opportunity to other members of business families by creating a club for family members only where we discuss these matters in a safe space for peer-development, speak about the latest research, conduct research and create collective intelligence in a safe environment - all generations welcome!🤗 #familybusiness #club #familymembers #familyresearch . . . 👉Feel free to follow Family Hippocampus and it’s Directors to learn more: Dominik v. Eynern, Octavian Graf Pilati, Sasha (Alexandra) Lund and Dr. Priscilla Schelp

Omertà - an oppressive social norm for members of enterprise families that kills their #mentalhealth Speaking about the unspoken is important for individual family members and consequently, for the entire family system! What happens to the individuals in 'oppressive regimes' to the family members and how to alleviate the internal pressures is discussed in the fireside chat at the Prestel & Partner FAMILY OFFICE FORUM - ZURICH EDITION by Dominik v. Eynern, founding member and director of Family Hippocampus with Stephan E. Knobloch and Piet Jansen, director of Yes We Can Clinics, where family members find help with resulting and severe anxiety and depression issues or/and when they alleviate their internal pressures by extreme consumptions of alcohol and drugs. How do you manage through oppressive social norms and what do you do to alleviate the pressure? #familyhippocampusclub #familyoffices #familyoffice #familybusiness #familybusinesses #succession #nextgen #legacy #familylegacy

Join us for this highly relevant discussion on #familydynamics at the Prestel & Partner FAMILY OFFICE FORUM - ZURICH Edition! Family Hippocampus Founding Member and Director Dominik v. Eynern will discuss the subject of Omertà with family member Stephan E. Knobloch and trauma generalist Piet Jansen- director of Yes We Can Clinics Omertà, the implicit family NDA: -What are typical social & moral dilemmas family members face and don't talk about? -What are the implications of oppressive silence for family members and the family system? -How can we deal with the various dilemmas and associated emotions constructively? Please come and join the discussion! #familyoffice #familyoffices #familybusiness #familybusinesses #nextgen #succsessionplanning #legacy #familylegacy #fambiz #familienunternehmen

Family Hippocampus founding member and director Dominik v. Eynern with Family Advisory Board Member of the Family Hippocampus Club ToonLee Ng discuss the fall outs from Omertà in a family enterprise context with Oliver Neubert at the Prestel & Partner Family Office Forum - Cayman edition. The combination of the privilege of money without the privilege of having nurturing relationships with parents can lead to psychological deficiencies, traumas and cognitive resp. emotional dissonance. Coping mechanisms of #nextgen can entail dysfunctional behaviours such as numbing with alcohol, drugs and other addictive behaviour everyone is prone to. It risks the health of the individual, has negative impacts on family dynamics, risks the good reputation of the family and tarnsishes the #familylegacy Clinical therapy can be an effective response but the best option is to prevent people from going down this rabbit hole 🕳️. The Family Hippocampus Club provides a platform for paradigm shifts and change through normalisation processes with peers. Why is this important ? Because true power for change comes from understanding and contextual awareness! After all, what we are aware of we can manage - what we are not aware of …..manages us! What are your awareness deficits and how does it affect you? #familyoffice #familyoffices #familybusiness #famiybusinesses #fambiz #legacy

Family Hippocampus founding member and director Dominik v. Eynern and ToonLee Ng and Christopher Aw - both family advisory board members of the Family Hippocampus Club in a fireside chat at the Prestel & Partner Family Office Forum - New York are speaking about Omerta, the implicit NDA in enterprise families and its implications for mental health and how to deal with it. Privileged upbringing often comes with traumas, fear, guilt and shame in conjunction with emotion suppression thanks to Omertà which favours dysfunctional behaviours that cause chaos in the family system and can even risk their reputation and #familylegacy Normalisation in a peer group initiates paradigm shifts and loosens the handbrake - this is THE prerequisite to start the healing journey, which is the very purposes of the Family Hippocampus club. However, the real privilege is not only growing up with financial wealth, but with mental health! That is, being brought up in a psychological safe environment with nurturing relationships with the parents and the immediate social environment. This creates abundance instead of deficits and makes individuals resilient resp. antifragile. They are happier, more likely to thrive on adverse impacts and grow instead of being rendered traumatised and paralysed. Sadly, the mental wealth privilege is far from being a ubiquitous.phenomenon in conjunction with financial wealth! Do you think we need to talk more about mental health and mental wealth in family enterprises? David Homan Gaia Marchisio Octavian Graf Pilati Jessica Bodden Friedrich von Wissmann Will Vickers Geraldine H. Alice Ong #familyoffice #familyoffices #familybusiness #familybusiness #fambiz

How to can you improve contextual awareness and communicate better in your enterprise family? Keep these neurological facts in mind: The brain forms new “chapters” based on attention and personal goals, not just environment. MRI scans showed that people segmented stories differently depending on their focus. Expectations ( and Emotions!) influence memory formation These facts help you to explore the mental model of your fellow family members across generations. #familyoffice #familyoffices #familybusiness #familybusinesses #familylegacy #legacy #fambiz

Learn more about the activities of the Family Hippocampus Club- Family Advisory Board Member Christopher Aw

Thank you Matthias Knab for inviting Family Hippocampus members Octavian Graf Pilati and Dominik v. Eynern to contribute to the Opalesque HORIZONS FAMILY OFFICE & INVESTOR MAGAZINE in 3 articles: 1) Mountaineering Legend Reinhold Messner's Inheritance Debacle, a collaborative article by Matthias Knab, Octavian Graf Pilati, Zita Nikoletta Verbényi, Dominik v. Eynern and Markus Schwingshackl - pp 24-28 2) The Effects of Your Childhood Traumas Have on Your Family Business by Octavian Graf Pilati - pp 35-43 3) From Silence to Success: Navigating (implicit) Family NDA's in (Family) Businesses by Dominik v. Eynern - pp 67-67 #familyoffices #familyoffice #familybusiness #familybusinesses #legacy #familylegacy

We are deeply honoured and excited to have Jessica Bodden joining the Family Hippocampus Club- FAMILY ADVISORY BOARD! Jessica Bodden will support the FAMILY HIPPOCAMPUS CLUB with her energetic openness and wealth of experience related to working through family dynamics as a 9th generation family member from the Cayman Islands, where anonymity is not an option. Her transformative journey began with the magic of a peer-normalisation process which is at the heart of the Family Hippocampus Club idea! Jessica Bodden holds a degree in advertising and graphic design as well as in public relations and event management. She’s the founding manager of Bloom Consulting, a fund raising outfit for charities and has many other social impact engagements such as a board membership at CareerMasters fostering Caymanian talent and she’s the founder of the Caymanian Gobal Society. A very warm welcome to you Jessica Bodden😊! #familyoffice #familyoffices #familybusiness #familybusinesses #legacy #familylegacy #nextgen

We are very pleased to have won Christopher Aw as a member of the Family Hippocampus CLUB - FAMILY ADVISORY BOARD. Christopher Aw brings a wealth of experience in moderating family conflicts and working with #nextgen. We are most excited that he introduces a Asian/American cultural perspective to the FAMILY HIPPOCAMPUS CLUB and is supporting our multicultural endeavour. He's a 4th generation member from two SE Asian family businesses in consumer products, media, manufacturing, maritime, and commodities. He has a BA in business, an MS in Information Systems, and an MBA. Chris has worked in technology for over two decades and works with his and other family offices in investment, philanthropy, and legacy planning areas. Welcome Christopher Aw 😀 ! #familyoffices #familyoffice #familybusiness #familybusinesses #familylegacy #legacy #nextgen