Meeting Design Week
Lloret de Mar, Spain
2-3 December 2019
Learn to Design Meetings!
You will learn about the building blocks Meeting Designers use when designing meeting programmes.
Meeting Design Week in Costa Brava
This will be a week of innovation in business and education where Meeting Design is introduced. Lecturers will benefit from Meeting Design Techniques and will be encouraged to identify, educate and foster Meeting Design talent. There will also be a number of networking opportunities between creative talents in businesses, the university and independent professionals.
Your University can cooperate with local Meetings Industry partners to create a program for lecturers, students, meeting professionals and creative talent. At the end of the week, a network of trained professionals can apply the knowledge to business meetings, educational sessions, conferences and day-to-day meetings.
Meeting Design Week in Lloret de Mar
- 2 days
- With Eric de Groot
- 2-3 December 2019
- Evenia Olympic Palace | Lloret de Mar, Spain
Meeting Design
Meeting Design is a relatively new profession. We see Meeting Designers as professionals who work with meetings as a specific means of communication.
Their task is to bring content, objectives and participants’ expectations together, designing a programme that is effective, engaging and conducive towards the organizational objectives.
They work for the Meeting Owner and often partner up with PCO’s, AV Companies, Speakers and Facilitators. Their final consumers are the meeting participants.
Their clients’ desires are the design compass by which they sail.
Meeting Design Week in Lloret de Mar
MD Certified Level 1 Course
- Meeting Design Certified Course Level 1: The Basics of Meeting Design
The Meeting Design Week brings an MD certification Level 1 two-day course to Lloret de Mar. The courses will be open to professionals like meeting planners, trainers, consultants, corporate communication managers, live communication designers. They will have the opportunity to dive deep into the nature of meetings, and how to design them.
Duration: 2 days and 1 evening
- Meeting Design Certified Course Level 1 Day 1 09:30-17:00
- Meeting Design Certified Course Level 1 Day 2 09:30-17:00
- Two lunches and a cocktail networking dinner
- The Book “Into the Heart of Meetings” included.
Why doing this course
The Meeting Design Weeks was inspired by the content in the acclaimed book “Into the Heart of Meetings” by Eric de Groot and Mike van der Vijver. Learn about the building blocks Meeting Designers use when designing meeting programmes. For you if you:
- want to add value to your role as a meeting planner
- are working on a career change from planning/logistics to meeting design
- want to learn the fundamentals of designing meeting programmes
- want to make the meetings in your organization (or for your clients) more effective and efficient
- are looking for professional development involving human dynamics.
Meeting Design Course is for or Meeting & Event and Communication professionals who want to embrace (meeting) design thinking, For anyone who benefits from design meetings better (Leaders, Consultants, Trainers, Teachers, HR people, Conference organizers, PR people, Project leaders)
Waht will you learn?
- start designing!
- define Meeting Design and the role of the Meeting Designer
- the Meeting Design process (i.e.: how does it work?)
- how to create better meeting outcomes
- how do meetings behave and how do people in meetings behave? – create meaningful interaction: from audience to contribience
- recognize the power of experiential formats
- use the meeting space
- gain insight into how people learn
- design exercises – work with the meeting owner
- solve typical meeting headaches, such as poor speakers
Testimonials
The Meeting Design Course, Level 1 was the perfect mix of theory and practice with quite challenging group exercises in real world scenarios which really had an impact on the way we will approach events in future. With Mike we had a very experienced expert and mind-set changer and learned a lot about maximizing meeting effectiveness by better activating the bodies and souls who are present.Head of Meetings
The meeting Design course provides professionals with tools on how to add value to their meetings and how to develop an exceptional meeting concept that meets the expectations of the host.
As expected the course was inspiring and refreshing. Lots of input and exercises to stimulate our brains and think out of the box. And both Eric and Mike are very good trainers. I really enjoyed it, and the group was fun, too!
Attending the Meeting Design Course, Level 1 has really given me a lot of new angles and inspiration on how to improve my own meetings.
The Meeting Design Course, Level 1 is a strong and deep experience! Now I have got new sharp tools to deal with projects, both when designing events form the start and when it comes to give a little powerful tweak to a meeting already structured. Thanks Eric!
The course was really inspiring and productive! I experienced a lot of case histories and shared best practice: very useful in my daily job. Mike & Eric were very nice with us and always ready to suggest one or more solution with their long experience in designing meetings.
Eric de Groot
Eric is one of the first Meeting Designers. His pioneering work started in 1992; now he caters to the national (Dutch) market in De Wet van Thomas and internationally in MindMeeting. Thanks to his background in the drama he takes a broad, human perspective to meetings and meeting processes.
Eric regularly conducts workshops and learning sessions for professionals in the meeting industry as well as in other educational contexts. Eric was also a former member of the MPI task force: “The Future of Meetings”.
He lives in the Netherlands.
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