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Charge Up Your Conference
You've curated the agenda. Don't leave the human experience to chance.
"A change is gonna come..."
You know the moment. The room's gone flat after lunch, right before the session that needs everyone switched on. Or a brilliant panel's just ended and two hundred people are sitting there, passive. Or everyone's fired up from a dividing debate, and what's needed now is calm.
Most agendas plan for what people will hear, and what they'll do. Almost none plan for the energy in the room. It's left to chance, or the hope the coffee kicks in.
We call these moments "Charge Up" - though the charge isn't always in the upwards direction.
Sometimes a room needs electricity. Sometimes it needs grounding.
Either way, we can't promise what any one person will feel - nobody can.
What we can guarantee is the shift: the room's energy, moved on purpose, toward what the agenda needs. And however that unfolds, it will be wholeheartedly human.
These shared experiences also tend to unlock curiosity, connection - the room suddenly becomes easier to talk in, because everyone now has something in common.
Choose your moment. Or ask about building all three into one arc across your event.
CHARGE UP
Open the day.
Create an intentional energy before the first session starts.
(Photo: Uspire Conference)
RECHARGE
Save the post-break slump.
Wake the room back up and re-ground for what comes next.
(Photo: Business Girls Network Conference)
FULL CHARGE
Close and celebrate.
Land what's been said. Everyone leaves on a memorable, shared high.
(Photo: Ultimate Power confetti canon!)
What happens in the room?
Something amazing happens when two hundred people sync up - through movement, sound, breath. Individuals who happen to be sitting in the same room, listening to the same speaker, become - briefly - one energy, doing one thing together.
The exact shape and content depends on what your event needs.
It might be a calming, grounding hum______ that brings a hundred people to stillness.
Or notes passed around the room, built into a gentle or rousing chord. This one has been inspired and shaped by an up-close experience of Jacob Collier's expert facilitation of audience choirs (at his Hideaway retreat) - although Tabitha is the first to admit she does not have Jacob's perfect pitch.
The room might build a rhythm, or vocal layers creating a soundscape, or snippet of a song.
Whatever is right for the room, the aim adapts to support what's on the agenda - energy before a big session, reflection ahead of a hard conversation, curiosity going into a workshop.
What stays the same is the connection: to yourself, and to the people around you.
frisson. noun / [friːsɒn] / a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill.
(A fancy word for goosebumps)
This isn't the only way we bring a room together. For something built specifically as a team activity, check out Party Piece - or our Christmas page, if it's that time of year.
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