Hosted by Event Train Institute 
in Boracay, Philippines, Eco Village Resort & Convention Centre

Annaliza Laximana, Carol Moxam, Iff Kazim

If you question the power of social media, this story will ignite and inspire.  Just six months earlier these two event professional’s were connected on-line in a forum in the community of event professionals "Event Peeps".  This on-line enagement resulted in business between Special Event Boot Camp a Canadian based, global Event Management Training and Development workshop, and collaboration with Event Train Institute and Next Step Events. Inc. who conducted a two day workshop in the beautiful homeland and one of the world’s finest island’s of Boracay in the Philippines on March 30 & 31.

Event Train Institute is a Phillippine SEC-registered company with the primary advocacy of advancing the events industry to a more professional, responsible and responsive practice of  its business and craft. They main focus is to professionalize the event management practice in their country through the facilitation of training and development within the events industry. Indeed, through their partnership with the Special Event Boot Camp team, they are now one step closer to their goal.

In order to arrive at destination Boracay, Carol Moxam, and her partnered associate, Iffy Kazim, Cheif Operating Officer, with RSC Business Group, overcome a 30 hour-long flight, direct from Toronto to Korea, then to Manila airport. On the first day at Boracay, the production overview took place on the exotic private beach shaded by palm trees. This followed a hosted lunch in a hut, where a traditional lunch of rice and chicken with a fresh coconut as our beverage.  An afternoon dip in the ocean completed our production briefing and prepared us all for the opening night ceremony. On opening night guests are sworn in as ‘Privates’ and each given an army dog tag for the duration of Boot Camp. There was a cultural performance of drums and didgerdoo by the "Jungle Boyz" which welcoming guests to Boracay.  A military style roll call commenced at 06:30 hours on Tuesday for Breakfast on the beach and a traditional breakfast served in leaves of rice and fresh fish.

A group of 60 individuals in events management signed up to join the army of event professionals at Special Event Boot Camp Philippines ‘to learn best practices in Events Management trained by First Sergeant, Carol Moxam, CSEP and CEO/Founder of Special Event Boot Camp from Toronto, Canada.  For two days, the guests known as Privates grouped into Platoons and went through a series of learning zones which included four pillars, green zone, venue zone, global zone, technology zone to name a few.  Tasked to research, design and build an event using the methodologies delivered in training.  Each Platoon built a “Boot Camp” event during training. The Boot Camp events that were designed by the platoons who participated  in the workshop included Baby Mama Boot Camp, Photography Boot Camp, Summer Booty Boot Camp, Skim Board Camp to name a few of the events created.

On completion of day two rounded up with the Privates presenting their ‘Boot Camp’ events to the army of officers which included Dr. Leonardo Garcia, Professor, De La Salle University, Annaliza Laximana, President, Event Train Institute, and Iffy Kazim, COO, RSC Business Group and First Sergeant, Carol Moxam Special Event Boot Camp.  With only thirty minutes of prep time, the participants used their unique creativity to deliver key messages from the lessons they’ve learnt. As a result, three of the “Boot Camp” event concepts created at the workshops will become actual events in the near future. With out a doubt our Privates have their mission ahead.  On the final evening of Special Event Boot Camp Philippines’, the Privates are saluted in at Graduation was produced in the auditorium on the same stage as "Ms Earth" just months earlier, this produced by Master Students at De La Salle University,

From West to the East it was an international sharing of knowledge, expertise and kind hospitality.  Proud of our partnership with Event Train Institute together aim to educate and elevate event professionals skills globally.  Special Event Boot Camp returns to Boracay Eco Village Resort to host the second annual Boot Camp in November 2010. On April 28 – April 1, Events Asia is being hosted at Boracay Eco Village and the world is invited to share the experience of both business and pleasure.


Event Train Institute
www.eventtraininstitue.com

Tel: 63-2-448-5396

The Event Train Institute (ETI), Centre for Event Exploration, Learning, and Excellence is a Philippine SEC-registered company with the primary advocacy of advancing the events industry towards a more professional, responsible and responsive practice of its business and craft.  It aims to professionalize the event management practice in the country through the facilitation of training and development in this field.  It is engaged in conceptualizing and producing global-grade short courses, continuing series, seminars and workshops, round table discusssion, conferences and conventions on event exploration and development. 

Events Asia
www.eventsasia.org

Events Asia is a  conference and trade show which annually showcases a list of captivating topics by international event industry experts. For 2010, the theme for Events Asia is " The future is Now!" The future is Wow!" which has attracted over 1500 delegates from around the world. The event will be help on April 28th to 30th, 2010 at the Borocay EcoVillage Resort and Convention Centre.

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