Meetings Matter! Karen shares articles for Conference Event Planners and Meeting Professionals based on her expereince speaking at live events. Example:
The Chocolate Pour, Advice Tag, and Rubber Ducks: 15 Ideas for Interaction. People support events they help create. How are you inviting people in?
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Logistics that helps us feel ready to connect, learn, and bring the room together.
Karen Eddington is a 20 year resilience researcher, keynote speaker, and author, who teaches you connection skills based on her research in The Under Pressure Project. Featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills, founder of a non-profit outreach program in Utah, and street chalk artist, Karen teaches the importance of community at conferences across the country.
Karen’s stage introduction is different than her bio. Karen has a copy of her introduction that day, and at 6 weeks out Karen typically asks if you’d like her to connect with the emcee in advance and can provide you with a custom intro. Here is the link to Karen’s standard introduction.
Results = Loyalty and Repeat Business
What is isolation costing your business? Disconnection is keeping people away. Give people a reason to come back. Learn how you can create a “Come Back Bridge” from a resilience researcher and street artist. Using reverse Q and A, watch the room explore why people leave and what brings them back. Discover together how to create experiences people can’t wait to come back for. Get people involved and bring the room to life.
-Explore a new playbook for building a community.
-Get the “Come Back Bridge” module.
-Know how to create ownership. People support what they help create.
Results = Communication Skill Sets
Learn the new rules of connection. Explore how social expectations have changed and how you can differentiate with connection. We are now working with the safest and most isolated generation. Learn interaction skill sets from a resilience researcher and street artist.
Learn the A.R.T. of Interaction. Ask, Repair, Trust.
ASK Communication Skills to Heal Isolation
REPAIR Recovery Skills to Heal Isolation
TRUST Psychological Safety Skills to Heal Isolation
Lessons Learned from the Under Pressure Project
Fuel up! Rally around community as we talk about what it means to be strong under pressure. Find out what patterns researcher, Karen Eddington noted while interviewing people across the country about stress. Explore how we can uphold excellence while making people feel seen, genuinely cared for, and resilient.
Explore Stress Surfing and be able to recall a series of “life waves.” For example an IMPACT WAVE, explain why morale can go up after something like a natural disaster and what to do when it dips.
Get the S.O.S. Method to stress helping you understand when you are being pushed too far and when you are not being enough.
Learn how to rest and repair when you are tired.
Discover how laughter, community, and creativity can be part of your tool kit to navigate stress.
An alternate title for this program is “Stress Surfing: Get Skills to Ride the Wave.”
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