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Best practices for organizing a green seminar
Offer your teams a green seminar in a natural setting, with sustainable values and a positive impact on the environment and group cohesion!
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How to organize a company seminar?
Mar. 17, 2025
To organize a successful corporate seminar, it's essential to take into account certain criteria that will guarantee an unforgettable event while strengthening team cohesion. Discover our locations close to nature, perfect for inspiring and energizing your employees.
What is a corporate seminar?
Organizing a company seminar is much more than just a professional gathering. It's an opportunity to show your team that you're investing in their well-being, to reinforce cohesion and to offer them a unique moment. The aim is to bring employees together for a special moment, encouraging exchange, reflection and team cohesion.
The benefits of a seminar for your team
This type of event is a real added value for your team. It offers many benefits, such as :
- Strengthen group cohesion through team-building
- Inform employees about new strategies and provide them with a global vision of the company.
- Motivate and rally around the same values
- Taking stock and preparing for the year ahead
Organizing a corporate retreat means investing in a performance-enhancing event for your teams, while at the same time offering them a rejuvenating, natural setting.
Choice of location
To help you organize your event, Slow Village offers modular seminar rooms that can accommodate up to 400 people in a single space. The advantage of choosing Slow Village? Not only do you benefit from a fully equipped room, but also from an authentic, natural setting, ideal for inspiring your teams.
In addition to the seminar room, we offer quality accommodation and on-site catering, enabling you to enjoy local, convivial meals.
If you're an event agency, offer your customers our spaces available for all budgets. We have the infrastructure to host any type of event. To help you communicate our offers to your customers, have a look at our brochures.
Slow Village is an all-inclusive solution. If you're short of time, or if you've never organized an event before, our simplified website makes it easy for you. With our booking form available on our website, you can organize your seminar in just a few clicks.
Values and commitments
What's important in choosing a venue is its commitment. When you choose a venue for a seminar, you're also choosing the values and commitment that go with it. Slow Village offers 4 European Ecolabel-certified establishments. Our goal is to have all our destinations ecolabeled by 2030. We are eco-positioned, implementing eco-responsible practices and gestures. Situated in territories with exceptional natural surroundings, our establishments benefit from great natural and cultural diversity. Authentic and respectful of the environment, we are committed to preserving our surroundings as much as possible and limiting our ecological impact. how to organize a green seminar.
New trends
A current trend that is attracting more and more companies is to hold seminars in soothing, natural settings. Welcome to the phenomenon that promotes well-being and eco-responsible values. A return to basics is now essential, and impersonal seminars are a thing of the past.
Discover warm and authentic places, offering a professional but above all friendly atmosphere. Stay in wooden accommodation, enjoy unique moments around the fire and savor meals prepared with local, seasonal produce. Experience a different kind of corporate seminar with Slow Village.
Essential services and equipment for a company seminar
To organize a successful corporate seminar, it's essential to take into account the equipment and infrastructure needed to accommodate your entire team. During your seminar, themes specific to your company will be addressed, such as year-end reviews, corporate strategy and culture, general organizational transformation, as well as training workshops.
It's essential to have the right infrastructure and the right tools to convey your messages effectively.
Equipment available for your seminar
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A video projector
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Microphones
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A high-performance Wi-Fi connection
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A quality speaker
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A flipchart
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A mixer
This equipment is essential if you want to organize a seminar seamlessly, without having to bring your own equipment. All these facilities are available in our specialized Slow Villages. You can discover them in our brochures on Biscarrosse and Île de Ré.
If you want to accommodate a larger number of participants, it's entirely possible to set up temporary spaces and equip them to guarantee a comfortable seminar tailored to your needs.
Team-building with our partners
More and more companies like to organize workshops in the morning and team-building activities in the afternoon. And why not take advantage of the opportunity to tackle a challenge together, or try out an original activity?
To organize this type of event, we help you choose and contact one of our trusted partners, who will take care of everything. We carefully select reliable, local service providers committed to providing you with a memorable experience.
Our spaces are modular. Our team is at your disposal to help you organize your seminar, your activities and any other type of event.
Immerse your teams in a unique experience
Day 1
- Meeting and aperitif on the panoramic terrace overlooking the lake
- Dinner with local flavours
Day 2
- Morning yoga and healthy breakfast
- Morning work in a fully equipped room or in our amphitheatre
- Paddle challenge on the lake
- Brazier evening with acoustic concert
Day 1
- Arrival and installation in the fisherman's wooden huts
- A convivial dinner featuring local seafood
Day 2
- Healthy & local breakfast
- Bike ride to discover the island's salt marshes and ecosystem
- Zero-waste cooking workshop and dinner followed by a relaxing evening in a guinguette atmosphere.
Seminar in the heart of the Cévennes
For a small-scale seminar with a breathtaking view of the Cévennes, opt for our Slow Village in Anduze, located in the heart of a Natura 2000 area. With its 30 hectares, explore all the possibilities for a seminar close to nature.
Get inspired between nature and the ocean
Our Slow Village in Pornic invites you to a rejuvenating seminar in a natural setting. Take advantage of our flexible spaces to combine work and relaxation in the heart of nature. With its swimming pool, delicious cuisine and friendly atmosphere, every moment becomes a unique experience. A unique setting in the heart of nature, close to the ocean and the charming village of Pornic, is the perfect place to inspire your teams.
Authentic oceanfront seminar
If you're looking for a small-group setting close to theocean, organize your seminar on the Ile d'Oléron, in our village of Marennes-Oléron, an exceptional destination for a rejuvenating seminar.
The benefits of eco-responsible corporate seminars
Slow Village offers you atypical venues to organize a unique seminar. All our spaces are modular and can be adapted to your specific needs. By choosing Slow Village, you are making a commitment in line with your company's CSR values. You can offer your teams a seminar in a natural, rejuvenating and inspiring setting.
Our approach also emphasizes healthy eating based on local and seasonal produce, contributing to an eco-responsible experience at every stage of your seminar. Thanks to this choice, your seminar will have a positive impact on the motivation and commitment of your teams. You'll have chosen a venue that respects the environment and is true to authentic eco-responsible values.
We invite you to discover our many facilities on our website, where you can choose the venue that best suits your needs and expectations for a tailor-made seminar.
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