„I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
Marianna Kozsánné Tóth – Talent-Development Teacher
I have been a practicing educator for 24 years and a mother for 20 years. According to my colleagues, I’m an “energy bomb.” I have worked as a teacher and counselor of Hungarian language and literature and Finnish language and literature, as a kindergarten teacher, a talent-development teacher, and a mentor teacher supervising practice teaching. I am known as the creator of the Kozsán TalentWorkshop and as the driving force behind its educational activities. My life has always been guided by faith in the strength of family and in children and students. I believe that with the right support, my students can get closer to their dreams, find their own goals, and recognize what they need to do to achieve them. My eldest son’s successful path in life confirmed for me that the right strategy, learning methods, and conscious decisions can lead any young person to self-realization. This is how the Playful Stepping Stones (I-II) came into being as a coherent system — an interactive “learning self-awareness workbook” whose theoretical background was written for the 10-15 age group.
The following lines have become my motto:
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”- Brian Herbert
“Sport teaches you to win honestly, or to lose with your head held high. So sport teaches you everything.” – Ernest Hemingway
Balázs Kozsán – Elite Athlete
Sport and learning are equally important to me. I love reading and learning. My passion is Wado-kai karate. In this sport I truly find harmony — I focus inward and act outward. I love to win, but I enjoy every stage of the journey there, and I grow from my defeats too. Within five years, I would like to showcase my skills at the karate world championships and qualify for the next Olympic Games.- 2016
Note: Since then, in 2018, the first half of my dream came true: I became world champion in the Wado-kai style, as well as a multiple European and Hungarian Champion!
“Everything is possible. It’s just that the impossible takes longer.” – Dan Brown
“Everyone knows that certain things are impossible, until someone comes along who doesn’t know that and does it.” – Albert Einstein
György Kozsán – Games Coordinator
I have been a programmer-mathematician for 23 years. Despite the many exciting adventures of development work, the defining adventure of my life is still my family. Knowing many ways to spend quality time, I believe that playing together, board games, are an essential milestone for children’s future. Traditional, luck-based board games for small children are important at the start for developing delayed gratification and attention, and for learning colors, numbers, and following rules. Still, I cast my vote for modern board games when I decided to reinterpret this activity for the expectations of the 21st century, by playing and having my family play the nearly one hundred games in our cupboard. I gladly share what I’ve learned through these games with anyone interested, since for years I have taken on the roles of game master and advisor among my acquaintances.
My goal, staying true to the mission of the Kozsán TalentWorkshop that bears my name, is to help the growing generation build relationships and communication skills, to open the gates to developing emotional intelligence alongside online games, and to turn them toward each other in the offline world as well.
My motto: “Be offline, so you can be online with us!”
„The real question is not whether you have failed, but whether you have resigned yourself to failure.” – Abraham Lincoln
Henriett Horváth – Art Therapist
I have been working as an educator for 28 years. This time has given me professional experience I can rely on. My most recent qualification is as an educator leading art therapy sessions, so I am happy to take part in sessions with gifted children. In this process, I came to know a complex activity that combines everything I otherwise use separately in my work. It is a complex form of personal development that is built exclusively on the individual’s own emotional and relationship experiences. It helps one understand inner psychological processes. I myself draw and sing, combining the interacting processes of music and creation as emotional complexity. Art gives the soul a gift, at a place and moment, that cannot be replaced by anything else.
„If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be.” – Linda Dillow
