Life is constantly changing. Adapt or get left behind!
Warning: Side effects of this training may include a strong desire and improved ability to achieve personal and professional success, while enjoying life.
If any of this hits home, then this training is for you:
- Master the art of staying cool when life doesn’t;
- Stand up for yourself, stop playing small and start choosing like you mean it;
- Treat your energy like your budget — spend it where it pays off, and manage it like a pro;
- Build healthy relationships & get better at handling complex social dynamics and challenging situations;
- Create and sustain a resilient mental attitude, no matter what hits you.
Course details & Training method
Event Wise is a 7-day immersive training held at the Olde Vechte Foundation in Ommen — a quiet town nestled in the Dutch countryside. It’s a place where time slows down just enough for real transformation to kick in.
Here, you’re in the driver’s seat. You set your own learning goals, challenge your own edges, and choose how far you want to go in developing new perspectives and skills.
We use experiential learning — aka learning by doing — because it sticks deeper and goes beyond theory. Through hands-on experiences, thought-provoking activities, and creative group challenges, indoors and outdoors, you’ll engage with yourself and others in ways that lead to real, personal insight.
Every process is designed to support your individual journey. There’s no one-size-fits-all here — just meaningful, memorable learning shaped by your own, unique experience.
What will you get out of this training?
- Reach the best performance levels you are capable of;
- Overcome your limiting beliefs, patterns and self-images that no longer serve you;
- Work with your weaknesses and play with your strengths;
- Communicate with more clarity and persuasiveness;
- Create and sustain a resilient mental attitude, especially during hard times;
- Rediscover the joy of play and spontaneity.
The 7-day program
- The three roles in life and their daily impact
- How to bring awareness in our relationships
- Stop, look, correct and take action as a leading principle
- Acknowledging where you are standing in regard with your life vision
- How your concepts and beliefs influence your judgments and actions
- Cooperation as a biological process
- How new behaviors create new opportunities
- Sources of success and how you can learn from them
- How to realize your patterns and change them according to your will
- Energy management and how acknowledgement can lead to change
- How to create win-win situations
- Self reflection as a tool for correction
- Counterproductive games people play and how to avoid them
- How to keep your intentions and values in the madness of the day
- How to bring the abstract concept of trust into a concrete operating system
- How to realise your vision
- How motion can create results
- Circle of creativity as an action plan
- Defining your most important priorities
- Prioritising information: how clear questions bring clear answers
- How personal leadership has nothing to do with someone following
- How to find the balance between when to compromise and when not
- How to tackle unexpected events and use them to your advantage
- How to turn obstacles into opportunities that help you achieve your goals and your vision
- How inclusion leads to results
- How to create working concepts rather than sticking to old ones that are not working
- How to apply the knowledge you have got in the training room in real life
- How to unlock your personal resourcefulness
- How to consciously choose your state and influence your mood
- How to use your support system
- The realization that you are complete
- How to become the source of your own fulfilment
- The difference between stopping, giving up and closing
- How to gain the willing cooperation of others and inspire them
Testimonials
The best way to learn about this training is to speak with people who've already been through it.
If you know people who were in this training then ask them what are their take-aways.
You better hear it from ex-participants, than from us.
This is how 90% of the people end up in the training, because they hear it from someone else.
Arrival & Departure
The Event Wise lasts for 7 days, and you’re expected to participate in the whole duration of the program.
Olde Vechte Foundation has a tight schedule of projects, and to make everything happen in time, we kindly ask you to plan your trip according to the official arrival and departure times. More precise timing will be sent to all confirmed participants.
Participation fee
€480 - general participation fee
As an organization, we have a mission to stimulate personal growth in order to contribute to a better world. The foundation is using its resources to support the personal development of people and financially is contributing to these trainings. This is the reason why participation fees are this low, although we understand that even this amount can still be significant for some.
We would like to make personal development accessible by offering multiple discounts:
€350 for people without paid jobs and students residing in the neighboring countries (eg. Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, UK, Denmark).
€350 for people residing in Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, non-EU countries.
€250 for people without paid jobs and students from the above-mentioned countries.
To reserve your place in the training you’ll be offered 3 possibilities after registration:
- Pay a deposit of 125 euros;
- Send copies of tickets to the Netherlands;
- Pay the full amount of the participation fee.
Note: The participation fee covers the cost of the training, accommodation and meals during the whole duration of the program.
How to register
If you wish to register, click the register button on the left and fill in the registration form.
We’ll review your registration and come back to you with the next steps within 48 hours.
If you’re not sure whether this training is a good fit for you, you can:
- schedule a short 15-mins talk with the Head trainer - Yassar Markos. Please book your time in Calendly.
- write to the organizer, Cristina Pavel ( +31649047937) and set together a 15-minutes call.
If you have any practical questions regarding the training, send us an email to info.oldevechte@gmail.com
Language
The training is delivered in simple and easy-to-understand English.
Satisfaction guarantee
Should you feel the training has not been beneficial for you in any way, you can request a refund of your training fee. The only condition is that you have attended every training session and have participated in every process.
Join Event Wise and bring your life to the next level!
The trainer of this course is Yassar Markos.
Assisting trainer: Erica Bertolacci.
The organizer is Cristina Pavel.
Each edition of this training is supported by an international team that comes back to assist this training.
Assisting Event Wise is for free, it is another opportunity we offer to people, this way they get to go through the training again and look from a different side at it, as Olde Vechte is a place for learning.
Yassar Markos
Trainer & Coach
Yassar has been working with Olde Vechte since 2010. He is an entrepreneur, trainer and coach with more than 13 years of experience in the fields of experiential learning, NLP, strategic influence and psychology based on human needs. In his career he worked with more than 14,000 people from all over the world - from Argentina to Europe to Russia.
Back in Bulgaria he also runs ‘University for personal development and entrepreneurship’, helps young experts in building their business online, and in 2019 he co-organized ‘Big Bang’, the biggest conference of Eastern Europe on entrepreneurship and personal development with over 2,500 participants.
Erica Bertolacci
Somatic trainer
Coming from physical theatre and contact improvisation studies, Erica is our somatic-work junkie. She offers the space to sense, connect deeper with the body and express it fully. Erica is bringing somatic knowledge to the training and activities that stimulate learning through movement. With a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts and currently mentoring youth in Olde Vechte, she has a playful, sharp and sensitive way to connect with the group.
Cristina Pavel
Project manager & Learning Designer
Cristina is deeply committed to social change through education, focusing on research, program design, and facilitation. With a background in psychology, she works with young adults to collaborative learn in large groups, combining academic and nonformal approaches to support their development.
She works with Olde Vechte since 2018, in different roles: Training Coordinator, Team Supervisor, Reinforced Mentor for young people having a vulnerable background & Project Manager. At the moment, she is overviewing the development of Event Wise and Choice trainings, and working with the Director of Olde Vechte (Marko Vlamming) and the Operational manager (Anna Marija Berzina) to bring innovation in education and growth for people through the programs we develop in Olde Vechte.
Accommodation
The training takes place in the Olde Vechte Foundation in Ommen, the Netherlands and is organized in and around the premises of the Olde Vechte.
Olde Vechte supports the personal and professional development of people of all ages from all across the world since 1966. The venue is located within a walking distance from Ommen city center (approx. 500m), easy to reach by train and surrounded by nature.
For the summer edition, it is a beautiful way to start your holiday and visit the Netherlands before or after the training. A visit to Amsterdam, Utrecht or Den Haag cannot be missed.
There are available rooms for 2-3 people with toilets/showers located on every floor. For the summer period, we also have wooden houses available next to the accommodation. There is Wi-Fi available and you will have access to the washing machines and a dryer.
We are providing couple of meals per day, prepared by a professional cook who works with an international cooking team. According to your diet, food intolerances and allergies, our team is preparing in advance.
We will send you further information about how to arrive here and what to bring with you after your application form is approved.
As a foundation, Olde Vechte has its own training centre/community centre which enables us to keep our activities accessible to more people. During our trainings, the participant groups are taking care of the buildings and the cleanliness of their living spaces (such as cleaning their own dishes after meals). Besides the fact that it allows us to keep our participation fees low, it is also supportive for group processes - you have the chance to meet each other in another way, not just during the program.
