Moderation is a professional skill you acquire through experience. It’s all about interaction, interviewing, group dynamics, and leading discussions and processes. The best way to learn it is through plenty of practice and by watching the experts.

In a two-day training course with lots of individual attention, you will be trained by two seasoned professionals and you’ll practise every aspect of the profession under their supervision. Because that’s exactly what it is: a profession!

Surveys show that participants highly value relevance, quality and effectiveness of both workshop and trained. They rate ‘Mastering Moderation’with a NetPromoterScore of 80!

In this fast-paced workshop you’ll get tips and immediate feedback from not one, but two seasoned professionals, who’ll be keen to share their knowledge and experience with you. In a select group you’ll gain a wealth of experience. Since there’ll be no more than 12 people in the group, every participant will get plenty of individual attention. By the end of the course you’ll have found out what the profession involves and how capable at it you are, and you’ll have taken a major leap forward.
This workshop is suitable for people who:

• … Have some basic experience in moderating and want to take it to the next level;
• … Are in a management-position and have to facilitate internal meetings;
• … Work for local or national government and have to chair public meetings;
• … Are event-professionals or are used to being on stage in other roles (speaker, entertainer, etc) and want to expand their offer to the market;
• … Work in PR, communications or advertising, with responsibility for client events, which      they want present themselves
• … Have agreed without thinking it through to moderate a future event and are now terrified by the prospect
• … Want to find out how well develloped their skills and talent for this profession are; and who want to build on that.

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Jan-Jaap In der Maur is a meeting-moderator, facilitator and founder of Masters in Moderation.com, as well as keynote-/expert-speaker on the subject of interaction & moderation.

To Jan-Jaap, the question is his most important instrument: the (human) interest question, the awkward question, the stimulating, the critical or the light-hearted question. He helps you choose from a wide range of interview and/or interaction formats and he always finds the right tone of voice.

Convinced that only challenging the status quo will bring new perspective and insights, he gets people to think and reconsider. Straightforward and clear-cut.

Hans Etman is moderator, owner of Dagvoorzitter.nl and creator of concepts such as Kruisvraag© and Coalitiedebat©.

Hans radiates calm, which puts participants at ease instantly. He makes people feel appreciated and involved and, at the same time, he challenges them to achieve the utmost. Meetings are conducted in a kind, but firm manner.

He is sharp, analytical and tactful. His service awareness makes him perfectly capable of putting forward the interests of everybody involved and to find similarities in harmony. Sensitive subjects are in good hands with Hans.

Kim Coppes is a moderator-facilitator, conference host, drama workshop leader, interviewer, presenter at 7ditches.tv and coach in communication.

As a moderator, she is as sharp as she is disarming. Kim’s skills suit a wide range of contexts: her personality allows her to make a genuine connection with any group. She works in a way that is relaxed, alert and witty, all at the same time.

She has wide interests so there is virtually no subject she cannot tackle. Her substantial experience makes her suitable for practically any concept. From a huge conference hall to a small management setting, from a serious debate to a lively awards show, Kim always feels right at home.

Rutger Mollee is moderator, trainer, speakers’ coach at Speak to Inspire, comedian and owner of Mollee Communicatie.

Rutger constantly searches for the real human connection. To him, genuine interest is the most important. His interviews and interactions are always constructive and surprising. Sometimes balancing on the edge, but always open, kind and with complete attention for his guest.

His background in comedy induces him to bring humour to the stage. He believes in the power of humour and creativity. All these elements lead him to be a versatile, flexible and goal-oriented moderator.