Invitation to Presenters

I'd like to invite you to a rather unorthodox un-conference called ChangeCamp 2009 that I am running at the end of June in Newcastle. Even further I'd like to invite you to present a session if you were interested. 

ChangeCamp 2009 is designed as a low cost conference event for practitioners of NLP, EFT, Hypnotherapy, Solution Focussed Brief Therapy and coaching, and for members of the public who may be interested in such things.

The themes for ChangeCamp are:

1. Self-change: Using psychological techniques to change our own experience of the world.

2. Other-change: Using psychological techniques in a therapeutic session

3. Group-change: Making groups and organisations more effective through psychological means.

Please note the emphasis on psychological applications. We will be restricting the presentations to a psychological orientation. There wont be any presentations on crystal healing, aromatherapy or other complementary therapies.

Our aim is to have a high quality event that will appeal to professionals and public alike rather than a mind-body-spirit fare. This is not to disparage such events just to make clear that this event is something else entirely.

In a conventional conference attendees pay a large sum of money to sit and listen to acknowledged experts (who are paid an even larger sum) to tell them about the latest findings or how to do things.

In an un-conference that is put to one side, people who are interested in a subject and want to present about it make presentations to other people who are interested. The presentations may be talks, workshops, exercises, question and answer sessions, brainstorming sessions - what ever format best suits the issue in question. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. The event is organised to encourage an informality and cross fertilisation of ideas.

ChangeCamp is arranged to bring together a large number of participants from a variety of fields so they can be exposed to other ways of working and thinking. It's set up to stimulate discussion.

To encourage high attendance the entry fee is set at £10 which is just enough to cover costs. The downside of that is that there are no speakers fees. What speakers may get out of presenting and attending is to make themselves known to other people interested in that area of work. They may just want to explore something that is very important to them to an interested audience.

If you are a trainer or service provider then speaking is a good way of connecting with an interested audience. Although sales pitches during the presentations are discouraged there will be space in the main hall for trainers/coaches/therapists to display information and talk with potential customers if they wish.
 
If you would like to attend just go to www.changecamp.co.uk and sign on to the website. If you would like to present in someway you can either email me with an idea or complete an article about your presentation in the format presented at the bottom of the page which will eventually be posted as a blog article which will become the advert for your presentation. Presentations may be 40 minutes or 1 hour 30 minutes long.

Thank you for your attention so far. I hope you have something you would like the opportunity to present

For more information email me or give me a call on 0191 478 2726

All the best,

Andy