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Zen Seminars
Zen Seminars
Zen Seminars
Zen Café Workshop Series is produced by Zen Cafes@
The Hub and supported by Flow Internet, Study Direct,
Eco-Campus and EU Helpdesk.
About you
We work with those who are committed to: Fair Trade,
Social Enterprise, Right Livelihood and eco-living.
We welcome those with a compelling and relevant
message to communicate and engage with students,
professional clients and subscribing members in new markets in: Europe, Asia,
Latin America or the English-speaking world
About us
By working with us you can run your own Seminar Series delivering lifestyle
services, personal development, Enterprise Orientation, business and investment
advice and brand management or marketing support.
The opportunity
By working with us you can run your own series of education workshops based on
Master Class management weeks, lifestyle weekends or personal development
and Master Class Networking Events.
Curriculum content
The modular Zen Seminar series over the course of three
semesters covers the following seven areas of specialist
focus:
1. The Business Landscape – How to Read the
Marketplace
2. Leadership and Project Management (EFL)
3. Ecology and Personal Power
4. Multi-cultural understanding – managing diversity
5. Practical workshops – language and culture –
managing people – creative workshops
6. The Open Society – Philosophy, Politics and (New) Economics
7. Marketing made Simple – Management Stripped Bare (What they don’t
teach you at Business School)
The Zen Seminar Series is based around published works from Harvard Business
School Press and others; we work with those with an established track record in
shaping the decisions and actions of executives and students in boardrooms and
campuses across America, Europe, Asia and the English-speaking world.
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
Organisational “De-tox”
Reading the Marketplace
Leadership
Communications
Business mission
Managing diversity – managing creativity
Profit beyond measure (Introduction to Sustainable business models)
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
Do you want access to Grant Aid and resources to enlarge your own sustainable
business in your local area, advising and delivering services to professional and
corporate clients?
You can enrol directly with Study Direct to train for a fresh start or new career
at our location in the UNESCO-listed city of heritage of in Olomouc in the
Czech Republic.
Corporate training
Do you want your own E-Campus to deliver online training and web-based
seminars to deliver ongoing support to all your staff, prospective recruits and
workforce, wherever they may be?
Download our Prospectus and apply to secure territorial rights to courseware and
resources that you can make available for your clients to download
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
The Chateau Business Centre for details of our EU Helpdesk, Marketing Helpdesk
Business Support service.
For those who want to know more – for those who want to secure country-
wide rights, you can apply to join as an individual (Associate) or as an
organisation (Co-venture).
Working with us at Zen Cafes allows you to respond to your clients’ long-term
needs responsibly and on a sustainable basis.
Those who work with us are introduced to organisations that can help you
discover your full potential.
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
Those who work with Zen Cafes and Study Direct are
invited to take a holistic view of students’ and
professionals’ long-term needs and address their
interests.
Corporate sponsorship
On the basis that an educated customer is a good customer we are happy to work
with corporate sponsors who want to set up their own not-for-profit education
network or independent Foundation for sustainable education and eco-learning.
Simply contact Zen Seminars directly to set up your own sustainable education,
Authentic Education project for delivery of human-scale education into each
country that you want to service.
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
All of the above are in addition to the product or service you deliver.
Business Diagnostics
Business Diagnostics show your clients how to organise profitable and effectively.
An informed, responsive client is also a grateful client. Understanding Business
Fitness, is in everyone’s interest for parties to follow the path to prosperity.
Document archiving, web services and company-wide learning all help to enable
you and your clients realise the rewards of being well-connected!
About you
Zen Cafes are designed to serve the needs professionals,
business intermediaries, freelancers or anyone that
charges an hourly rate, who wants to sell their services
into corporate clients.
We invite holistic advisors, coaches, communication
consultants, translators and especially those providing
multi-cultural solutions.
The Business Diagnostics and web seminar courseware are available through the
Associates’ Intranet as soon as you initiate your own Zen Café.
Automatic revenues
You can also earn directly from provision of English as a Foreign Language.
Revenues are payable directly to you; you provide Learning Support as required.
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
This is in addition to the product or service you provide and your hourly rate for
provision of advice or service.
Setting up your Zen Café pays for itself many times over in terms of enabling you
to act as a “one-stop shop” serving the long-term communication needs of your
clients.
Revenue streams
Zen Cafes can ensure you earn revenue streams for you to deliver products or
services in any of the following regions: Europe, Asia, the English-speaking world.
Key cities
Zen Cafes is currently accepting applications for those who want to initiate Zen
Cafes for the following key cities:
Lisbon
Madrid
Prague
Berlin
Warsaw
Krakow
Berlin
Munich
Rome
Milan
London
Cambridge
Oxford
Turin
Athens
Thessaloniki
Bratislava
Vienna
Budapest
Paris
Tallinn
Riga
Stockholm
Vilnius
Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Oslo
Helsinki
Zurich
Enterprise Support
You can offer:
Enterprise Support (IT support and web hosting via Zen Cafes) as well as
Eco-Learning Support (Master Class workshops from Study Direct) and
Broadcast Support (web broadcast technology solutions provided by:
Multi-cultural Solutions
We especially provide support and advice for clients and members who want to
enter new markets, delivering Multicultural Solutions, initiating Multicultural
Projects, and drawing on Multicultural Funding.
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk
Zen Cafes @ The Hub – Marketing Made Simple for next generation entrepreneurs and their clients
Co-ventures
Eco-Campus invites Co-ventures to set up their own
Business School, Language School (online and real-life
centres) delivering lifelong learning, on demand, by
subscription.
Lingua Vista
Study Direct Lingua Vista courseware means Co-ventures
can deliver tutorial support for learning of English as a
Foreign Language. Lingua Vista is available for individual
and corporate learners whose first language is: Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, German, Polish and Czech.
The Lingua Vista study programme is downloaded to the
learner’s own compute and simply printed out directly from
the student’s own desktop printer.
Zen Cafes
Zen Cafes Seminar Series – for Associates and Co-ventures to deliver lifelong learning on demand, by
subscription.
See: www.zencafes.co.uk