How to Organize an Eco-Responsible Green Seminar

Although selection criteria are applied at several levels, it is important to choose a location for your event that is eco-responsible! Choose a green area where sustainable development is central to their ideas. For example, in terms of garden maintenance, respect for biodiversity or selective sorting. On your side, you can eliminate plastic from your habits and ask that the decoration of your seminar be made without plastic and only with the use of fabric towels and bags or the use of cardboard cups. Also, favor the local, with a place accessible to all, because if you want to apply this CSR approach, it is not essential to drive several hours to find the right place for your seminar. You should also use public transport or collective transport such as carpooling.

The best thing is to find an ecological place for the organization of your professional event. But if this is not the case, try to find a place that is respectful of the environment and that does not spend too much electricity and water compared to its vital needs. To find a place similar to this one, we are talking about eco-hotels, mountain chalets, refuges or eco-lodges. In reality, the location of your corporate seminar or professional event is particularly strategic to limit the negative impacts on the environment. You can then look at places that are already eco-labeled and ISO certified and that are already guaranteeing a commitment and know-how for eco-responsible events.

The main objective of a team building is to strengthen the cohesion and sympathy between the employees of a company. It is therefore important to address this kind of topic during meetings and especially to organize a seminar that respects the planet. But if in addition to that, you bring with your team a support and a contribution in the fight of the environmental problems which surround us, it is even better. It is through animations, team building activities that you will succeed in setting up this approach. To help you, here are some ideas for eco-responsible team building activities.

For example, you can clean up the nature around your seminar, whether in the forest, in a park, or in a delimited area. You can also create a vegan cooking workshop for the seminar guests. And it is by discovering the vegetable cuisine during a group workshop that they will feel partly useful for the planet. If you want to go even further you can create zero waste cosmetics, 100% natural, with agricultural products and good for health. An awareness of the chemical products contained in our hygiene products in everyday life can also be planned for this purpose. An orienteering race in the middle of nature can also be a good way to raise awareness among a whole team. La Fabrique des Castors also offers eco-responsible team building: eco-cluedos, DIY workshops or Boulgour Quiz!

In any case, you must choose an activity that makes sense, and that interests and captivates your guests so that they keep a very good memory and then want to apply what they have learned during this green seminar. You can also have them visit the artisanal products in a village. The same goes for the cook of your event. You can ask that he be an eco-responsible caterer and make sure that he offers seasonal, local and organic food, because this reduces carbon emissions. For more unusual experiences, you can create a terrarium during a team building activity and learn how to make an indoor garden. There is something for everyone.

It is clear that adopting an eco-responsible seminar is not simple. It requires a real involvement and a real state of mind. It is not just "occasionally" that you have to adopt this ecological thinking. But it is rather a way of life to perpetuate day after day. Organizing a green eco-responsible seminar is an asset to ecology, but it is also through other actions in our lives that we must continue to think like this.

You must federate the guests of your seminar in order to involve them and engage them also in this approach. It is thanks to the awareness and the activities that will be proposed to them that they will change their state of mind. Because yes, it is by taking part in sustainable development that we are interested in it and that we feel like actors of this possible change. But, we must not forget that this state of mind is kept and must be in constant progress. You have to be very patient in your CSR commitments, because they often take quite a long time to be put in place. Despite this, unity is strength and a collective awareness does not hurt anyone and allows to improve a little our world towards a healthier and more ethical approach to the resources we are trying to preserve!