[MD1] Meeting Design x Arts

Course Description

Meeting Design uses the senses to guide reason. In this course, we start from the everyday aesthetics of life to uncover the logic of design. From what we see and feel around us, we explore the rationale behind it — and from there, learn the basic principles of Meeting Design.

You will rediscover what meetings can be and how the merging of art and meetings makes people move.

Three Highlights

1. Learn through sight, touch, and spatial awareness, so that theory is not only heard, but directly experienced.
2. Learn Orange Gibbon's unique 3 Es: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Energy.
3. Look at meetings differently and grasp the basic principles of design.

Modules

In this training, we cover:

• Explore beauty and balance through individual and small group creative tasks.
• Analyse the parallels between the artistic design process and Meeting Design: form and purpose, space and setting, and action for change guided by clear objectives.
• Explore cultural differences, emotional flow, and how to design for participants' psychological needs.
• Adjust the meeting space in accordance with a specific purpose, and practice precise interventions in the physical environment.
• Learn about the six reasons for having meetings.

Course Objectives

1. Learn to ask questions: Master the three core questions to ask yourself before designing a meeting, so that meetings do not happen by default.
2. Shape the space: Understand how the environment influences the quality of communications, and learn to use elements of the setting to guide conversations.
3. Intervene in behaviour: Recognise and design the emotional rhythm of participants.

Who is it for? Who is it NOT for?

This course is for: team leaders, managers, consultants, coaches, facilitators, and anyone who regularly runs or attends meetings and suspects something could be different — but isn't sure what.

This course is not for: those looking for a project management course or a meeting planning course focused mainly on execution.

Professional and Organisational Impact

For individuals, this course introduces the impact of the 3 Es in meetings and gives you a design perspective for rearranging the elements of a meeting.

For organisations, it opens up the possibility of seeing meetings not as a cost, but as an asset. Through more precise conversation design, organisations can strengthen decision-making energy and improve execution.

What are we going to do in class?

This course uses Experiential Learning and analogy-based teaching. There are no long PowerPoint presentations. Instead, the room will be filled with materials and a great deal of small group conversation — designed to shift how you think, not just what you know.