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When you find a service you like, click the link and you will either be sent straight to a booking page or an email will be sent to the organiser who will get back to you as soon as possib le to discuss your needs, pricing, next scheduled or how to create a bespoke service for your needs.

Service sections are as follows:

1. Courses for Business Growth and Professional Development

2. Courses for schools and educational organisations

3. Courses for individuals and families

4. Live tours, guided by Geographers of Emotions and designed to develop teamwork and communication skills

5. Virtual journeys for storytelling, collaboration, team work and fun

6. Games to enhance your communication skills

A COMPASS FOR WHEN YOU GET LOST IN BRUSSELS

with Marco Bertagni

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in growing and developing trade relationships and business in the EU.

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one or two day workshop. Available in Italian, English or French

The world of lobbying is rapidly changing, and you must embrace this change in order to thrive. Successful representative organisations are less elephantine and costly than in the past: lobbying nowadays is less about formal aspects and more and more about focusing on key-issues to represent vis-à-vis EU institutions and about matching key-services demanded by clients. Your workshop leads, who have 30 years of experience in national and international lobbying organisations, offer a course of orientation in the new world of lobbying, starting from an internal decisional processes to get to the importance of believing in what has to be represented.

During the workshop we examine building effective relationships with companies/subjects of the Associations: they should not be seen as competitors, but as companions working towards a common goal. In addition, attendants will become familiar with the European Union Institutions, the way they work and their funding policies. Participants will be asked to map the Association/Organization they work for, in an innovative and non-conventional way, then use this map as a starting point to develop their own organisation.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

FULL ENGINEERING OF AN EXIBITION

with Marco Bertagni & Marco Barozzi

For Event Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, Organisers and their Teams

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one- or two-day workshop, available in English, Italian, French & Spanish

Business is emotional when it comes to customer experience strategies. The traditional rational consumer model has been challenged by a more intuitive consumer model. Rather than viewing customers as essentially rational in their decision making, the role of emotions in their decision making has received an increasing amount of attention and consideration. It is also a key component of building employee’s and customer’s trust.

The collaboration of fields and disciplines such as marketing, psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience have opened this view of consumer behavior understanding. Humans are largely emotional beings and customer behaviour is emotionally driven, almost entirely. We have the science to back it up.

We will go through the latest languages of communication by mapping the values your business wishes to share with potential clients during your exhibition and we will have an overview of how to design an effective booth, while still keeping in mind the main commercial and organizational rules of how to set up a fair, as well as post-exhibition management. We will also update Companies on the latest post-Covid-19 trends in exhibition management.

HOW TO PUT AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY IN PLACE

with Marco Bertagni & Laurent Peters

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers and their Teams

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered in a one- or two-day workshop, available in French and English

A COMPASS FOR WHEN YOU GET LOST IN BRUSSELS

with Marco Bertagni

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in growing and developing trade relationships and business in the EU.

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one or two day workshop. Available in Italian, English or French

The world of lobbying is rapidly changing, and you must embrace this change in order to thrive. Successful representative organisations are less elephantine and costly than in the past: lobbying nowadays is less about formal aspects and more and more about focusing on key-issues to represent vis-à-vis EU institutions and about matching key-services demanded by clients. Your workshop leads, who have 30 years of experience in national and international lobbying organisations, offer a course of orientation in the new world of lobbying, starting from an internal decisional processes to get to the importance of believing in what has to be represented.

During the workshop we examine building effective relationships with companies/subjects of the Associations: they should not be seen as competitors, but as companions working towards a common goal. In addition, attendants will become familiar with the European Union Institutions, the way they work and their funding policies. Participants will be asked to map the Association/Organization they work for, in an innovative and non-conventional way, then use this map as a starting point to develop their own organisation.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT SO THAT YOU CAN CONCENTRATE ON WHAT MAKES YOUR BUSINESS GROW AND THRIVE

with Ali Bagley

For new and challenged Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and Leaders

8 hours in total designed to be delivered in four x 2 hour interactive weekly sessions, or you can purchase as a modular online course to follow in your own time. Available in English

Running your own business is an amazing thing to be doing, helping people and businesses through your business is incredibly satisfying. But there is more to running a business than just what you do or sell.

Do you know what you need? Do you have the resilience to face challenges? Are you prepared for all the ‘stuff’ that you will have to have in place and manage every day?

This course will provide you with the solid foundation you need to run the business side of things, as well as the ability to remain positive, enthused and motivated even when things get tough.

By getting your business foundation in place you will have more time to do what you love, less stress and overwhelm from the actual day to day admin and the emotional resilience to be at your best every single day.

This is for you. the business owner who understands the need to properly manage your time, priorities, finance management and other practical issues along with the emotional coaching you need to develop your resilience, your confidence and your determination to succeed.

HOW TO APPEAR AUTHENTIC AND CONFIDENT ON CAMERA

with Ailsa Tulloch, TV & Film Director & Producer

For anyone intent on showing their best side in every online situation

4 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a two-session interactive workshop, or can be purchased as a modular online course to follow in your own time. Available in English

with Bernd Gibson

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in growing and developing effective intercultural relationships

6 hours in total designed to be delivered as a one or two session workshop. Available in English and French

GROW YOUR TRIBE, ENGAGE WITH CLIENTS, DEMONSTRATE YOUR VALUE

with Ali Bagley

For Coaches and Small Business Owners wanting to develop their writing skills to grow their business

6 hours in total designed to be delivered as three x 2 hour weekly interactive sessions or can be purchased as a modular online course to follow in your own time. Available in English

A step by step course of lessons you can take when you want, where you want, developed by an expert in online course creation, Ali Bagley, to help you to create YOUR online course

with Ali Bagley

for anyone wanting to create effective courses for their business

Modular course to buy now and follow in your own time.

Available in English

with Marco Bertagni & team

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers and their Teams involved in urban planning and transformation

4 hours in total designed to be delivered as a single workshop. Available in English, Italian, Spanish and French

In urban and territorial planning, of any scale, it is appropriate to compose different professional profiles representing many visions of the world. Through an approach balancing classical quantitative elements with the more recent qualitative ones, it may be possible to really add value to the spatial assets on which we plan to intervene and, above all, to generate benefits to the human community living there. Geography - understood as a science that has as its object the study, description and distribution of the various phenomena of Earth, in the configuration of its surface and their spatial distribution as connected with human life - lends itself to act as a pivot around which aggregating other sciences, to approach an integrated knowledge of phenomena to not only reduce the margins of error, but to create the conditions for the new social dynamics. The territorial planner, the show runner in cinematography, is no longer a dictator: he must pay attention to architects, engineers, geographers, geologists, philosophers, psychologists and many other professionals, compose their visions and identify preventive reading tools of the territory on which they are about to intervene. Thus, going beyond the quantitative, measurable, zenithal and detached vision that is often the dominant one in environmental and economic impact studies and to welcome qualitative research. We must strongly pursue an ethic of encountering and listening, which allows us to grasp life stories, but also the genius loci, the genius faber, the common and emotional "feeling" of human beings who will experience the consequences of intervention on their space. 

LOOSENING UP THE TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES OF GEOGRAPHY

with Marco Bertagni

For Professionals and Teams looking to expand their knowledge and understanding of the world

8 hours in total designed to be delivered in a one or two session workshop. Available in English, Italian and French

The project Bertagni Geography (www.bertagnigeography.com) is a journey into the world of Geography, which is looked at as a riverbed that takes shape and content when sprayed by the waters of other fields of science.

We have committed ourselves to intercept the various sources of knowledge that are complementary to geography so that water from various tributaries can flow into the main riverbed of a fully comprehensive and harmonized knowledge. With this new cross-cultural character and role, Geography has been placed in functional relation to the knowledge and the representation of the world, to the study of the dynamics of man and populations, to the analysis of the environment and the territory, to the understanding of economic activities.

This project is above all a tribute to geography that we have investigated from multiple angles, with the intent of offering a modern, flexible and effective perception; we would never want geography to be regarded as a closed and self-referential system or a strictly notional, mnemonic and austere knowledge.

LET’S SWIM IN THE WATERS OF THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GEOGRAPHY RIVER TO FEEL THE FLOW OF THE UNIVERSE

HOW TO CREATE A MAGIC ENVIRONMENT

with Marco Bertagni

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, Trainers and their Teams involved in sports and team building

10 hours in total designed to be delivered as two or three individual workshops. Available in Italian, English, French and Spanish

A GEOGRAPHICAL READING OF THE CONTEMPORARY CITY

with Marco Bertagni and Anna Preti

For Leaders, Managers, Decision Makers, and their Teams involved in urban planning and transformation

6 hours in total designed to be delivered as a one or two session workshop. Available in English and Italian

Critical urban geography (close to human and emotional geography) has pioneered the structuring of interdisciplinary debates within urban studies, developing the more systematic analysis of the relationships existing between contemporary political processes and the reconfiguration of urban space. Critical urban geography, through the development of 'the right to the city' first, and the one of post-politics recently, has highlighted the need to reflect on the rift between the policies and projects of many European cities investing urban spaces and urban natures. This is characterized by the neoliberal and post-political, post-ideological paradigm, and the grassroots demands for different urban paths. In the context of that segment of critical urban geography that deals with the study of political ecology, a rich literature is developing at the international level. Such literature is focusing on governance mechanisms and practices of use of urban natures studied in the relationship to the social claims that take position against these transformations (as it is in the case of many urban forests), and institutional narrations that support urban regeneration processes. The methodological approach of critical urban geography combined with the use of emotional geography during fieldwork could trigger innovative models for studying these conflicting urban realities. Many European cities are already using neighborhood workshops, Bologna being an example, within which emotional geography and semiotic analysis are used to experiment new modes of participatory processes of citizenships (see for example "Progetto Pilastro 2016 - maps as medium for territorial knowledge"). This use of emotional mapping is interesting when integrated with a genuine political interest to citizens participation in the future of urban natures. The theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches of critical urban geography and the post-political theory are fundamental tools for critically analyzing the limits and the potentials of such political practices of inclusive governance, suggesting, eventually, alternative uses of emotional geography.

For more information about booking this course for your business, either as a stand-alone or as part of a bespoke training package, please contact marco@bertagniconsulting.com

THE INS AND OUTS OF THE IDIOSYNCRACIES OF THE LANGUAGE DIVIDE

Coming in mid 2022

with Marco Bertagni and Ali Bagley

For Italians who want to use English more confidently

designed to be delivered as a single session live interactive workshop or available as a modular course for you to follow in your own time. Available in English

A fun and interactive course for Italians for whom English is not their first language. Through an investigation of the weird and wonderful composition of the English language to help you to grow your confidence and ability to communicate effectively and comfortably in English. Delivered in on-line modules and live interactive sessions.

This is learning made fun. A sideways approach to growing your language skills whilst getting to see the slightly whacky way in which the English use their language.

This is going to be a great course for you if you want to learn the language, grow your confidence in communicating in it, as well as using it in a practical way when travelling in the English speaking countries of the world.

TOOLS FOR STUDENTS A WITH FUTURE IN INTERCULTURAL CAREERS

with Elia Rodriguez Saavedra and Marco Bertagni

For Students and young people looking to work in intercultural teams and other countries as part of their professional growth

8 hours in total designed to be delivered as 4 individual sessions. Available in English, German and Spanish

HOW TO ELICIT EMOTIONS THROUGH TABLE SETTING

with Lucia Lamonarca and Marco Bertagni

For creative individuals who want to wow, for hospitality who go the extra for their clients and for business owners looking to impress in a novel and memorable way

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as one- or two-session workshop. Available in English, Italian and French

Lucia and Marco will start with an overview on table setting and cinema. Many famous movie scenes are centered on table setting and table itself will certainly elicit values, emotions and moods.

According to the way you decide to set your table you can somehow address the event and the atmosphere. Relations, family, friendship, tradition, roots, culture, style, design, respect, business, people, taking care: there are so many elements to take into account when setting a table.

We will play some games on this subject with attendees asking them to guess who’s coming for dinner and also by asking you to draw a map of an event with different targets and to design a table setting accordingly.

For more information about including this course in a bespoke training package for your team / business, please contact Marco via the button below.

COUPLES THERAPY BASED ON TRADITIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND IN EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHY

with Lesslie Fernandez

This is couples therapy, made to measure, using emotional geography as a tool to advance with strength and understanding.

5 hours in total designed to your bespoke needs as a client. Available only in Spanish at this time

A preliminary meeting with the couple will be helpful in understanding whether the couple really wants to embark on a journey of personal growth.

Once on board, Lesslie, psychologist specializing in couples therapy and Marco, geographer of emotions, will ask the couple to draw 2 different types of emotional maps using the methodology THE RIVER OF LIFE: A MAP OF LOVE that is an overview of how each person has been living their relationship with love and feelings, and a COUPLE MAP where, each couple will draw the emotions they have experienced throughout this "journey".

Next, the couple will share their maps and this will be the beginning of a therapeutic path based on the classic tools of psychology and the most innovative tools of emotional mapping and interpretations of geographical archetypes. At the end of the experience, attendees will be asked to draw a new map, about their past, their present and their future.

Optional additional sessions can be arranged for traditional couples therapy with Lesslie.

HELPING PEOPLE TO TRANSFORM THEIR IDEAS INTO BOOKS, ART, VIDEOS, SCREENPLAYS & MOVIES

with Ailsa Tulloch and Marco Bertagni

For creatives who want to learn from a movie industry professional how to make their ideas into a reality

8 hours in total designed to be delivered as three individual workshops or can be purchased as a modular online course to follow in your own time. Available in English

with Aisha Chaudhry

For individuals who have experienced any kind of loss that is impacting on their ability to move forward with strength and positivity

6 hours in total, designed to be delivered as 3 individual sessions or can be purchased as an online modular course to follow in your own time as either a lite or full version. Available in English.

You don’t have to manage your loss or grief alone when you can do it here with me, part of a group or online in your own time. One life skill people wish they had been taught how to handle is exactly this - how to manage a loss.

Sharing the skills and techniques to do this will arm you so that you can learn to live with your experience in a helpful and positive way.

This course will provide you with an introduction to the topic of loss and why it is difficult, a grief reset protocol, a step by step on how to draw two emotional maps: your own River of Losses and your own Memory Lane of the loss itself. You will benefit from some Mindset Tips for a positive mindset and listen to an Affirmation Meditation to reframe your mindset.

with Marcia Hylton

For anyone struggling to move forward from an abusive or narcissistic relationship

8 hours in total, designed to be delivered as 8 weekly sessions. Available in English

This comprehensive course, brought to you by Marcia Hylton, an experienced NHS mental trauma specialist and survivor of domestic abuse, will help you to move forward after suffering abuse to a new and positive way of living for you and your family.

Over the course of 8 weeks Marcia, in a safe and supportive space, will take you through the steps you need to take to go from your place of pain and confusion into a future full of confidence and hope. You will learn how releasing the pain from the past is more complicated than 'Just getting over it’, especially after emotional abuse inflicted by a toxic or narcissistic person. There are emotional, physical and mental reasons why letting go of the past is so difficult.

Using the patented methodology of Geo-emotional mapping you will discover amazing things about yourself that will enable you to move forward with positivity and strength.

with Ivy Barreto and Ali Bagley

For survivors of emotional and physical abuse who are unable to physically move away from the site of their trauma

4 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a one-day workshop. Available in English and Portuguese