Experience in 3.5 days the path to awareness, openness and choice.
Become aware of the things that are happening in your life. How open and honest are you really, both with yourself and with others? Discover what you can choose in your life.
What is
The Weekend?
During this intensive four-day training course, you will make a personal journey with the aim of increasing your self-awareness.
We create a completely safe environment with confrontational exercises that trigger a profound learning process. From within this group process, you explore your personal fears, self-image and defence mechanisms at your own pace.
As a result, you will be able to make more conscious choices and focus your attention on living your life exactly the way you want it. As a group you will create a profound and trustworthy connection with each other.
For whom is The Weekend?
It's for anyone curious about important issues in his or her life.
- You want to experience more fulfilment in your life or work
- You sometimes feel like you are losing control
- You are facing an important choice in your life
- You want to make different choices in your life or work
- You want to experience more happiness in your relationships
- You experience stress but are not so sure how to deal with it
Will you give this as a gift to yourself or a colleague?
The next edition is scheduled for 21 - 24 may 2025
Become self-aware
- Behave more authentically
Because you can be completely open to yourself - Communicate more effectively
Because you know what you need to really be able to listen - Make relationships happier
Because you know what your needs are in them - Embrace your emotions
Because you understand where they come from - Create a happy life
Because you can see what your real options are - Control your stress
Because you know which defence mechanisms you use
5 ways of becoming more aware
- Non-verbal exercises
Physical exercises to bring unconscious feelings and thoughts to the surface - Structured interaction
Interactive exercises to discover unconscious feelings - Visualisation
Guided meditations to expose unconscious feelings - Self-testing
Quantitative investigation into behaviour, feeling and self-image - Feedback rounds
Observations from others to broaden your perspective
What are the costs?
* To make participation possible for everyone, we have a few spots available for private participants and freelancers at a reduced rate. Our belief is that everyone deserves this experience and should be able to participate. Please contact us to learn more about this.
We have a strict satisfaction guarantee. We only want to be paid if we have actually helped you further in your life.
The Weekend is a training with which employers invest sustainably in the talent of their people. Confident employees are more proactive, use more of their potential and above all enjoy their work. There are also opportunities for customized in-company programs in which we combine the power of The Weekend with 1-on-1 coaching.
Price is ex VAT.
€2350 per participant*
Includes
1-on-1 coaching session
Food and beverages
Joint dinner
Satisfaction guarantee
What do participants say?
Achieve sustainable results
- Proven Concept
The Weekend is based on the leading theories of FIRO and Co-active. Our coaches Gerard Kemps and Wim Faassen have facilitated The Weekend more than 50 times. - FIRO Report
The Weekend provides a comprehensive analysis in which the participant quantitatively reveals where his or her attention needs to be focused. This is a valuable starting point for further personal development. - Risk Free
The Weekend has a satisfaction guarantee. There will be no charge if a participant is not satisfied with the experience. This, by the way, has never happened. - Sustainable Result
The Weekend enables participants to work with more confidence, energy and enjoyment. This is the basic constructive attitude that leads to sustainably improved performance.
What do employers say?
Bram Bastiaansen
CEO ACT Commodities Group
In 2011, my business partner and I decided to participate in The Weekend. We thought it would be interesting not only to participate ourselves, but to directly involve the entire company. Since then, The Weekend has become an important part of our culture and training program. Every new employee is offered The Weekend.
I experienced The Weekend as something very special, but also as quite intense; a lot of emotions come to the surface. What I remember most is the open and trusting atmosphere that prevailed during The Weekend. Everyone dared to be really open. It is incredible how close the group became during these four days and what new insights it gave everyone.
The Weekend has left me with quite a bit of self-reflection. I still use the various practical exercises about defence mechanisms in my daily work.
Another thing that has stayed with me enormously is the need to be in balance as a human being. It is about the balance between who I want to be, who I am and how others see me. If this balance is achieved, then you are likely to be happy and successful. Within ACT, we try to focus on this, because there lies the essence for our people. Only when this balance is achieved, we can effectively invest in other training programs.
Gerko Schortemeijer
Commercial Director FleuraMetz
By now, 235 colleagues from FleuraMetz have participated in The Weekend. In a specially set up FleuraMetz Academy, they spent four days together at our office in Hanover. After each training, Gerard coached everyone intensively 1-on-1 to follow up and secure the acquired insights in their daily work.
For us, The Weekend resulted in a new way of interacting with each other and with our customers. We are now more flexible, more effective and above all we get more enjoyment out of dealing with difficult issues.
We see The Weekend as a fundamental contribution to everyone’s personal development. It brings people closer to themselves and, as a result, we point fingers and blame each other much less. It helps everyone to take more personal responsibility, delegate better and above all, to function better on the basis of trust in all relationships.
For our managers, The Weekend is no longer just a ‘must’. It has become something that everyone actually wants to do - not only the managers, but everyone who joins FleuraMetz.
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