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Courses for Business Growth and Professional Development

Courses for schools and educational organisations

Courses for individuals and families

Live tours, guided by Geographers of Emotions and designed to develop teamwork and personal relationship skills

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Games to enhance your interpersonal relationship skills

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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

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

with Michael Connolly and Everita Strelca

For Aviation Professionals looking to provide the best possible service to travelers of all abilities, through their terminals

4 hours in total, designed as a one session workshop. Available in English

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

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.

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. 

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

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

with Guilty Mohammadi & Marco Bertagni

For anyone who has difficulty maintaining self-confidence in theor personal or professional life

6 hours in total designed to be delivered in a one or two session workshop, available in Italian

In mapping our emotions through The River of Life methodology, each of us relives beautiful moments but also dark moments in which we had to face difficult situations.

It is precisely in the representation of these complex situations – some imaginary places that you have certainly drawn in your maps – that our greatest resource is hidden: Resilience.

In a person's life, resilience is the ability to experience a shocking event, to face it, to explore it, to process it and to live it fully, to overcome it and to arrive at a rebirth. It is a path that implies self-confidence, in the possibility of positively reorganizing ONE's life and becoming directly responsible after having spontaneously and consciously decided to continue the journey and to resume the reins of ONE'S destiny.

with Marco Bertagni and Enzo Sallustro

For individuals searching for answers from their past to enable them to move forward with clarity, confidence and strength

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

There can be no depth without a surface, there is no conflict between the two "measures", since in all of us there is a surface and a depth. Here we want to bring out the emotional meanings settled in our depth (layers), giving it a new shape in the extension of the surface (area). Temporally the surface represents our present, the here and now, the depth our past, the there and then. The perception we have of the depth navigates on the surface, everything, basically, lives on the surface: it is here that we can (re) know the submerged aspects and it is always here that we connect with the other, what lives on the surface is what we share and bring into social relationships. The surface has its own depth and, to paraphrase the poet Hugo Von Hoffmannsthal, we can poetically say that "the depth is hidden in the surface". Each player will draw a map and each place they will draw is referred to an event of their lives. This event will be placed in the center of the globe and starting from there, they will try to remember the different emotions they felt from the occurrence of the event to the current situation. The Course Leaders - a Geographer of Emotions and a Philosopher-Counselor – will then examine each map from different disciplinary perspectives and through sharing processes, they will make a metaphorical drilling from the imaginary places to the heart of the event. After having examined the self drillings and the coring maps, we will give some advice on how to better understand the thoughts and behaviours that followed the events in the participants’ lives. It’s a path of growth, resilience and awareness, in which participants are using a meta-language to re-focus their memories of events which affected their lives.

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.

IS YOUR TEAM MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR PARTNER?

With Marco Bertagni & Mattia Bertagni

For all football fans looking for a fun way to understand more about the emotional relationship you have with your team and how that impacts on your life

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

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.

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 Sarah-Jayne Juniper

For individuals looking for the self-awareness they need to move forward with strength, confidence and positivity

2 hours in total, designed to be delivered as a 2hr intense interactive workshop. Available in English

As you come to the realisation that there is a need for change in your current reality for personal growth and development it is common to face the barriers of what needs to change, and how can it be achieved.

Explorer’s Of Emotional Awareness encourages you; through a virtual journey of exploration, to connect, visualise, discover and express your emotions in a safe and supportive community. It is a journey of success’s, barriers and life desires carving the route to what is holding you back and what is going to support you to move forward. It is personal and unique to all involved.

Sarah is a holistic, Mind Coach with a Masters in Psychology, who will work with you to:

Gain awareness of your current reality;

Break through barriers which have been, and still are, holding you back; and

Make a determined step forward in a direction that serves you powerfully in achieving the life you desire.

The workshops are delivered online and provide a safe space for attendees to share and to support each other.

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.

THE JOURNEY TO FREEDOM FROM EMOTIONAL EATING

with Angela Roth

For individuals wanting to move forward healthier, slimmer and more confident but has struggled in the past with conventional dieting

8 hours in total, designed to be delivered as 4 weekly workshops. Available in English

TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING IN A FUN AND INSPIRATIONAL WAY

with Ali Bagley, Ailsa Tulloch, Lucia Lamonarca and supported by Pam Mpishi (Exercise) and Molly Sykes (Nutrition)

For women forty plus with multiple personal and professional responsibilities which have impacted on their health and wellbeing

A a modular online course you take at your own pace and keep forever

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