Thursday, June 14, 2007

Willow Creek Conference: Day Two

This is going to be a short one. Day Two consisted of four breakout sessions, and I chose sessions that were very practical to what I'm doing now. Here's the brief synopsis of each:

Session #1 - Basic Lighting

- I learned a lot about lighting and where to place lights and stuff. This is practical for the new building.

Session #2 - Programming Moving Lighting

- I realized quickly that this session really wasn't for me. So I went and updated my blog, and did some praying and reading.

Session #3 - Advanced Scenery Design

- This was not what I expected, because it was mostly about fabric and stuff, but it was certainly interesting. I got a CD with a lot of pictures of what Willow has done in the past.

Session #4 - More Than The Service: Designing The Guest Experience

- some interesting quotes from this session:

"Research shows that emotions are as twice as important as facts when making a decision. Emotion leads to action; reason leads to conclusions."

"Get everything telling the same story."

"Don't invite them to the experience - begin the experience."

The speaker had some interesting thoughts on color and on using the five senses in order to design a great guest experience.


That was about it. I'm looking forward to hearing what Don Miller and Erwin McManus have to say tomorrow.

1 comment:

Rochelle said...

Your Friday speakers sound like a great way to end the conference...I have a feeling that's purposeful :)