Have you noticed how traveling brings you a high sense of awareness? When you travel, you pay much more attention to details. You notice people's gestures and spot more opportunities when everything feels different and new. This feeling makes you more creative and empathic. But once you're back home, the feeling fades. How can we think like a traveler on a day-to-day basis?

As Marcel Proust said, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” In this workshop, you will learn to experience products and services from the perspective of different users. This will allow you to create more fullfilling experiences for your customers and to satisfy their needs better through an empathic approach.

What will you get?

• You will learn a series of skills and principles that will inspire you to create empathy around your products and services. 
• You will receive a set of think like a traveler cards, which will help you to align your offer with different users' needs and test scenarios. 
• A PDF summary of the workshop's concepts. 
• Complimentary coffee & tea. 

About the instructor: I'm a nerd traveler and design consultant from Mexico City. I created @mytraveltoons, an illustrated travel guide where I share my experiences, learnings and travel fails. Professionally, I’ve led design thinking workshops with companies, entrepreneurs and students for almost a decade. After years of telling travel stories, I've combined my passions to help entrepreneurs to visualize their products and services as fullfiling journeys for users they might not have considered.

A 2.5-hour interactive workshop for those ready to take their public speaking to the next level with a TEDx speaker and book author Anastasia Dedyukhina. This workshop is highly interactive combines practical exercises and theory and personal experience from the speaker. We will also have time for 2 short speeches and quick feedback. Oh, and did we say it's fun and you'll have quite a bit of laugh?

You will gain lots of valuable insights into how to connect with an audience as a TEDx speaker and how to prepare for a TED talk, but it will also be useful for you if you don't want to be a TED speaker and simply want to improve your speaking capabilities. We recommend that you already have some public speaking experience to take this workshop, however, it is opened for all levels. Questions we cover: How to build public profile before you apply for a TED talk (or any expert profile) How to build an alliance with your audience Key differences between a regular speaker and a TEDx speaker Choosing a topic: what’s hot, what’s not, and how to "sell" it to people Storytelling and hormones: how to make people fall in love with your stories. What makes a difference when you are telling a story How to connect with the audience Plus, Q&A and secret tips to pass your TEDx selection process and how to behave on the stage (and what to do when things go wrong)

About your trainer: Dr. Anastasia Dedyukhina, TEDx speaker, international coach, author of Homo Distractus, and founder of a London-based tech-life balance consultancy Consciously Digital. Anastasia is a frequent speaker at global conferences and appeared multiple times in the national and international press, including BBC, ITV, Metro, Guardian etc. Full refund is possible 7 days before the event. No refunds after 7 days.

When: Friday, 22nd February 2019

Time: 6.30-9pm

Where: The Thinking Hut Oost (Mauritskade 55C)

Our next exhibition highlights the artworks of Anastasia Beketova. She is an artist from Russia who recently moved to Amsterdam.