Host an Event

Why Host Brain Gym® Training?

• Brain Gym® is an internationally recognized and award-winning modality that supports learning, living and leadership success!  
• As the Host you can bring fun and effective new skills to yourself, your team - students, colleagues, peers. 
• As well, hosting a Brain Gym® Course can be a great fundraising activity for your preferred charity as well it’s a great way to promote your own organization in the community.
• The Host receives money, free training, and gifts for their efforts. 
• Best of all, it’s easy and fun to do! 

Benefits of Hosting

• Receive recruitment fees (minimum numbers apply depending on selected course)
• Course fees are waived for the host (Brain Gym® 101 Certificate $425 Value)
• More Gifts
• A set of Movement Activity Cards ($20 value)
• Brain Gym® DVD ($20 – value) – You can use this to orient yourself on the Brain Gym® program in preparation for introducing the event to your target market.

How Can We Successfully Support Your Event?

We provide turn-key program support to make sure your event is successful.

• We walk you through a easy step by step implementation plan to ensure a successful and realistic weekly time commitments for a successful event
• Help you clarify your target market
• Provide marketing pieces you can customize for your target group
• Offer incentives to your target market that support early registration
• We handle all the registrations (on line or by mail),inquires,  payments and training
• We will promote all community events multiple times to our data base and post on Brain Works Global Website as well as Brain Gym® 101 Certificate course will be posted on Brain Gym® International Website.
• We ensure a Student : Instructor/Assistant ratio if 15 :1

What Skills Do I Need?

The primary skills we look for in a Host is a passion and desire to share Brain Gym® within your organization, group or community. 
Tips for hosting;

• Do something you will enjoy: If you are not enthusiastic and interested in your own event, how can you expect others to be? Find something you really want to do and put it on at a time which is good and convenient for you.

• Give yourself plenty of time: Plan well in advance and make sure you have most things in place in plenty of time e.g. date selection, contract finalization, facility coordination, technology booking (if required), flyers (electronic and paper), weekly implementation plan. This saves a lot of last minute stress.

• Talk about your event at meetings you are already attending:  Ask if you can have 5 minutes on the agenda to share your event and distribute some flyers. 

• Discuss your up and coming event with people and point out the reasons you think it will be interesting and beneficial.
• Talk it up positively and your enthusiasm will most likely rub off on others. 
• Find out how many people are genuinely interested and if they will be free at the time you plan to put it on. (An event is unlikely to be successful if nobody is interested in the subject or if everyone who is interested already has previous plans.)

• Create a VIP list and personally invite those people:  People are much more likely to respond to a personal invitation; even more so if they feel special and wanted. If they are on the fence about going, a personal invitation could easily encourage them.

• Remind everyone:  Remind everyone when your event is coming up and remind them again when it's imminent. People don't memorize a flyer or bulletin and if you remind them in a timely fashion then your event will stick in their memory. They will then be more likely and able, to register.

What Is My Role In A Successful Event?

• Commit to hosting agreement to ensure mutual understanding of roles and responsibilities and to ensure that they are clear and mutually defined.
• Meet and/or exceed minimum numbers based on the selected course
• Brain Gym® 101 Certificate - Once you have achieved your 12th registrations you will receive $300 towards your recruitment fees, each registration thereafter for the 3 day workshop you will receive an additional $25 per registration. 
• Recruitment fees will be paid and mailed out at the end of the event once all course fees and expenses have been processed and cleared through the bank. 
• In the event of cancellation by host, the sponsor agrees to pay a $10 administrative charge for each processed registrations.
• Provide facility, plenty of drinking water and light snacks for above dates
• Provide easel and white board and/or appropriate technology and screen to support a PowerPoint presentation on memory stick or overhead projector if available.
• Participants will need to be spaced at elbows length in order to effectively participate in movements.
• Work with set up of 12 week implementation plan and then participate in three “check in” calls to ensure both parties are on track and review further brainstorming if required.
• We request if you are satisfied with our training, complete a simple one page feedback/testimonial questionnaire which will be emailed to all participants within 2 weeks of completion of the workshop.

As a point of reference, here is our basic template for our Community Workshops:

Introduction to Brain Gym® (4hours) - $75 per person - materials included (min.35)
Brain Gym® for Beginners (8 hours) - $200 per person - materials included (min. 25)
Brain Gym® Basics (14 hours) - $250 per person - materials included (min. 17)
Brain Gym® 101 Certification (24 hours) - $425 per person - manuals included (min. 12) 

Note – Courses require minimum numbers to ensure course cost effectiveness.

Brain Gym® is a registered trademark of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, Ventura, CA