Meeting Support Institute

Want to see real results from your conferences? Try making your delegates use their hands to creatively solve problems. Katherine Simmons explains

In recent months we’ve been exploring how to get the best out of conferences by creating a multi-sensory experience for our delegates. So far, we’ve looked at how sight, sound and smell can be used to positively enhance participants’ experience. We’ve also considered that people have different preferences for how they learn best, their best methods might be any of or a combination of the following modalities: audial, visual, reading and writing; or kinesthetic – a hands on experience-based approach.

Delegates are rarely given the chance to engage their hands in a traditional meeting set up. And it seems meeting organisers make a common mistake of separating the mind from the body when it comes to helping their delegates to learn.

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