SITE Specialty Certification: Integrating Wellness into Event Planning
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- Non-member - $375
- Member - $249
Location: Virtual
Description: The Integrating Wellness into Event Planning Specialty Certification contains 6 videos and 6 interactive learning modules. Once registered, you will receive immediate access to these resources and the final assessment. You will have 90 days from the registration date to complete the course and assessment. Once the final assessment has been completed with a passing score, learners will receive their downloadable certificate. This course is designed to be self-guided, and no additional support or assistance will be provided.
The Integrating Wellness into Event Planning Specialty Certification is a focused credential for event professionals ready to move beyond wellness as a perk and into wellness as a strategic tool. Taking place at your own pace virtually (as well as a final assessment), professionals will develop a practical, working knowledge of how to design, source, implement, and measure wellness programming across a wide range of event types. Whether you are an emerging planner or a seasoned professional looking to differentiate your practice, this certification provides a frameworks-based approach to one of the fastest-growing expectations in the meetings and events industry. Individuals will learn the difference between wellness as amenity and wellness as strategy, how to match wellness modalities to event types and audiences, how to vet and contract with wellness vendors, how to define and measure success, how to execute activations operationally, and how to design for belonging and community — not just individual self-care.
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish between wellness as an amenity and wellness as a strategic driver of attendee engagement, satisfaction, and re-booking
- Match wellness modalities to specific event types, audiences, and agenda moments for maximum impact
- Evaluate, vet, and contract with wellness vendors using a structured discovery and proposal review process
- Define measurable success metrics before an activation and communicate results to stakeholders in language that builds the case for continued investment
- Execute wellness programming operationally, including vendor briefing, logistics planning, and contingency management
- Design for social wellness and belonging by applying community-care principles to standard wellness activations
Eli Walker
Speaker & Belonging Consultant
The Uplift Center
Eli Walker is a sought-after speaker, performance artist and belonging consultant specializing in helping leaders and facilitators enhance audience engagement and retention through live experiences by leveraging the art of play.
Equipped with a BFA in Theater from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and as the founder and author of the internationally acclaimed wellness brand Drunk Yoga® (now The Uplift Experience), Eli pioneered the wellness entertainment movement to bridge the gap between #selfcare and #communitycare through her social yoga events. Since then, she has used immersive storytelling and mindfulness practices to support tens of thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions across the globe--including NYU & Columbia University, as well as Barclay's, Ebay, Intel, Google, Pinterest and Mastercard--in building meaningful belonging for themselves and their teams in our modern, remote world by leveraging the art of play in live experience design.
Eli has always loved helping people from different backgrounds get on the same page. Bonus points if she can achieve this while inspiring them to live joyfully, empower them with new perspectives, and make them laugh at the same time. When you work with Eli, you can expect to play, move, laugh, and walk away feeling empowered with tools to create a more connected world.
To learn more or connect with Eli, visit www.eliwalkerstories.com and www.theuplift.center.
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