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Trainers Toolbox#9- How To Close Your Workshop Well & Make Learning LastClosing is not just an end of the session – it’s the moment where insights, connection, and learning can truly land.In this episode, let’s explore how to design your closing with intention and impact. You’ll learn about the 3 essential aspects of closure and how to combine them based on your unique workshop design. I’ll show you how to approach the closure and what to keep in mind based on the specifics of your workshop. I will explore what to do when your workshop didn’t have enough time for reflection earlier on, how to cr...2025-07-2928 min

Trainers Toolbox#8- Building Trust And Connection At The Beginning Of Your WorkshopHow much trust and connection do you actually need at the start of a workshop? And how can you build that? In this episode, I share 7 sharp and practical tips to help you build psychological safety, connection, and trust intentionally - and to an ideal level and depth for your session. I am unpacking how to get it right without wasting time or slipping into superficial fluff.🎧 Check it out - and remember to subscribe, like and share your favorite tips in comments. No need to make notes, though - you can ...2025-07-1533 min

Trainers Toolbox#7- Time Management Tips For Trainers: Simple Ideas To Avoid DisasterTime management is one of the most essential skills in training & facilitation. It ensures that you have the time to shape the participants’ experience in a deep and meaningful way instead of rushing through an agenda. It gives you the power to protect enough time for the most important highlights of your workshop without getting sidetracked. Yet, if you are a trainer who chooses to give a lot of ownership to participants and to engage them actively, it is impossible to have a full control over the time. How can you merge the two: allowing ownership, but al...2025-07-0139 min

Trainers Toolbox#6-(For Trainers) Effectively Manage Your Energy In Workshops & LifeWhat if the way you manage your energy is the one factor silently shaping your impact - not just in workshops, but in life?In this episode, I am unpacking one of the most powerful (yet often overlooked) frameworks for managing your energy - and explore how to actually apply it in four key areas:-your daily life in this very moment-your long-term habits and “bigger picture” of life-managing your energy as a facilitator in your workshops -maintaining high energy levels of your participants in workshops Which of the 4 are you most curious about? Di...2025-06-1734 min

Trainers Toolbox#5-How To Kickstart & Advance Your Career As A Freelance TrainerThinking about stepping into training - or taking your training career to the next level? In this episode, I am exploring the 3 pillars every trainer needs to build: your skills, your story, and your network. Tips, I am sharing are based on 18 years of my experience as a trainer. Whether you're pivoting into training or refining your existing practice, you’ll find practical ideas, reflection prompts, and personal insights to guide your next steps.📥 Download the short SUMMARY of main topics covered: https://www.trainers-toolbox.com/podcast-episodes-how-to-kickstart-your-career-as-a-freelance-trainer/ 📬 Join the Trai...2025-06-0331 min

Trainers Toolbox# 1-Creating Meaningful & Memorable Moments in Workshops & EventsWhat makes certain moments in a workshop unforgettable? The most powerful learning experiences aren’t just about content - they’re about the emotions and meaning we attach to them. In this episode, we explore how to design workshops that create defining, memorable, and meaningful moments that participants will remember and act on long after the session ends.In this episode, inspired by the book The Power of Moments and powered by real tips and strategies from my own facilitation work, we’ll explore how to build defining moments that stick.You’ll learn: 2025-05-2028 min

Trainers Toolbox#2-Seven Dimensions Of Facilitation To Balance In Your WorkshopsGreat facilitation is all about constantly balancing between competing needs: goal vs. process, individual participant’s needs vs. energy of the group, between your plan and ability to be flexible. In this episode, I’ll introduce you to one of my favorite frameworks to reflect on your facilitation: the 7 Dimensions of Facilitation. It’s simple, practical, and powerful in helping you identify blind spots and become more adaptable as a facilitator.We’ll explore: ✅ What the 7 dimensions are ✅ How to recognize your natural tendencies ✅ Practical tips...2025-05-2034 min

Trainers Toolbox#3-Challenging Not Overwhelming: How to Find The Learning Sweet SpotLearning works best when participants are stretched - but not stressed. In this episode, we explore how to hit the “just right” challenge level in your workshops, where growth happens without overwhelm. You’ll learn how to use flow as a compass, raise challenge without triggering anxiety, and adjust in real time based on learner needs.I am sharing:✅ Practical strategies from learning science & science of positive psychology ✅ Real-life experiences from 17 years as a trainer✅ Tips to keep getting better at navigating this fragile balance 📥 Downlo...2025-05-2028 min

Trainers Toolbox#4-The 8 Play Personalities: A Trainer's Guide To Meaningful PlayAs a trainer, you KNOW - being it from science or from your own experience - that people learn best through active engagement, when they are mentally, emotionally and physically immersed in experiences. Play is such a great way to build that - but it can also be a tricky one, as it is often people might perceive play as a waste of time. But guess what? It only feels like a waste of time if it’s not their preferred type of play!Not everyone engages with play in the same way. In...2025-05-2036 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #32: Breath as a Tool: 5 Short but Powerful Exercises for More Focus, Calm and EnergyLife is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. Looking for more experiences like this, packed in a fun and enjoyable learning experience? Join as at Happiness Academy Getaway this autumn: ⁠https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ 📅 Is you inner Dreamer a...2024-04-1725 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #31: Meditation Practice: Resting in the Flow of EffortlessnessToday, a little bit different episode: I will guide you through a short meditation practice called “Rest in the Flow of Effortlessness”. It is a perfect meditation to do when you are a bit too much “in action mode”, accessing things in life with a sense of struggle and effort. However, it means you will need to listen this episode in a quiet space and focused way, practicing it as a form of short meditation. I hope you will enjoy it, and find the experience insightful. Looking for more experiences like this, pack...2024-03-0612 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #30: Exhausted From Overthinking or Worry? Here is How to Take a Break From Your ThoughtsOh, who hasn’t been there: dragged by our own brain into the place of worry, anxiety, or perhaps overthinking, overanalyzing, attempting to control pretty much everything… The destructive thought patterns tend to sabotage our wellbeing - as well as our focus and efficiency. So how can we deal with them? The answers are in this podcast episode! 🏝️ Join me at the Mindfulness Learning Getaway in Istria for an amazing experience mixed up with building up your mindfulness skills: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ 🧘 Download the free ebook Mindfulness Made Easy for 90 sh...2024-02-2123 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #29: Winter Blues: Positive Psychology Toolbox to Deal with ItWinter blues - that mild feeling of being down with your energy and mood, all due to cold and dark days. How can we deal with the “winter blues” more effectively? To deal with the winter blues (or with any other kind of blues), we have three powerful toolboxes: 🫀emotions, 🤸 body, and 🧠 mind. In this episode, I am sharing 5 practical tips to leverage the 3 to mitigate that “dark winter feeling”. 📅 Is you inner Dreamer a bit stuck and without ideas? Join me at the Life Design online workshop: https://happiness-academy.eu/life-design-create-a-life-you-love-online-workshop/ 💌 Looking for more tools and ideas on how to work on your wel...2024-02-0719 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #28: Life Unscripted: Shattering 4 Myths to Design Your Unique JourneyIn this episode I am exploring what are the beliefs, myths and assumptions that tend to keep is stuck in overthinking and sabotage us in creating an amazing life vision & life plan. I also share an ideas of what to replace these myths with to kickstart your best life plan yet. Would you like me to guide you and support you with your life design? Join me at Life Design workshop, for a structured and effective process to create your clear & inspiring life vision & life plan: https://happiness-academy.eu/application-for-life-design-create-a-life-you-love-on-demand-course/ Happiness Academy newsletter, with weekly dose of...2024-01-2426 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #27: Protect your priorities: How to safeguard your life vision from distractions and obstaclesHaving the best plan and the most inspiring vision won’t mean a lot if we don’t find a way to create space and actions to put that vision in place. And in the world filled with noise and distractions, that is truly an art! How can you get better with protecting your priorities? That is exactly what I am exploring - with many practical tips - in todays podcast episode. I hope you will leave this episode motivated to create more clarity and focus in your life - as well...2023-12-2725 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #26: Year-End Reflection: Embracing Mindful Closure and the new beginning with couple of toolsYear end: what a great opportunity to reflect on your life goals, and on what changes and adjustments would you like to make. In this podcast episode, I am sharing with you: 2 short tools (10 - 20 minutes) for structured and smart reflection on your life that you can apply at any moment in your life when you feel like you need a bit of adjustment 1 super important question to get your life back on track in less than a minute 1 comprehensive yet very valuable and deep tool for year end reflection D...2023-12-2315 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #25: Discovering New Perspectives in Life - Be More Creative & Open Your Eyes to New OptionsTo feel like our life is all that we want it to be, to be able to dream big, but also to choose the best option for ourselves, first we need to have options! And options come from our creative thinking, from ability to generate new perspectives and insights, from being dreamer but also critical thinker. Hey, but noone taught us how to do that, you say? That is why we are exploring it in today’s podcast episode - from broad ideas to practical tips on how to work with your thinking and perspectives....2023-11-2925 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #24: Be Proactive & Live Proactively: 5 Approaches to Live a More Proactive LifeGet ready for a game-changing podcast episode! Building on her TEDx talk insights, Mirna dives into intentional living, focusing on the first key element: proactivity. Join the conversation as she shares five down-to-earth approaches to inject boldness into your life. From vision and identity to small steps, we will explore how to take charge of your life. Don't miss this episode for practical tips on living a proactive and purposeful life! If this podcast episode gave you some great ideas…but you would like to keep on wor...2023-11-1524 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #23: Reigniting Work Passion: Leverage The Power of Flow to Prevent BurnoutEver thought of flow as a great solution to burnout? No? Today you will discover why it is actually one of the best antidotes. Now, keep in mind: when you are in burnout already, that is no longer time to focus on flow. Instead, to deal with burnout, you will need to create time, and space to relax, recharged, disconnect from your stressors. To handle stress that led you there, and to work on healing the consequences. Yet, flow is the great state to look for at a moment when you feel you are...2023-11-0122 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #22: Courage Unleashed: 5 Specific Steps to Live a More Courageous LifeLiving life courageously and to the fullest - who of us is not dreaming of it?! Yet that dream often ends up with looking at motivational quotes and cliches, while we stay in same old routine… It’s time for action! In this video I am giving you clear steps on where to start. This is NOT a motivational video. Instead, it is a practical guide to living a more courageous life - one step at a time, without compromises or wasted time. ...2023-10-1823 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #21: Unlocking Flow: Your Gateway to Focus, Performance, and JoyFlow - the mental state of feeling “in the zone”, immersed, deeply focused and enjoying activity that we are doing in that moment - is one of the most important factors in our wellbeing. Experiencing flow often contributes to the sense that our life is meaningful and it is related to higher performance, deeper focus, faster learning and more positive emotions in life. How can you unlock this productive and enjoyable state and build more of it in your life? Check out this podcast episode and discover practical tips for more flow! To dive in deeper into the flow, lear...2023-10-0422 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #20: Benefits of Wellbeing at Work: A Science-Backed PerspectiveIn this episode, I am exploring what the research says about wellbeing at work. Next to sharing many quick statistics of amazing advantages that investing in wellbeing at work will provide for organizations and individuals, I am diving into5 groups of benefits of wellbeing at work: physical health, psychological, organizational, social and cognitive benefits. While in the podcast I am sharing research-backed insights, I don’t dive deep into references - you will discover those in the ebook: Download the ebook with the list of...2023-09-2021 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #19: Wellbeing at Work: 6 Foundations & Practical Tips How to Strengthen EachHow to ensure sustainable wellbeing at work for your team and organization? In this podcast episode you will find out what are the 6 important foundations of wellbeing at work and how can we approach building these. If you are looking for more insights and suggestions how to strengthen the wellbeing of your organization, do get in touch! Find out more about wellbeing at work: https://happiness-academy.eu/wellbeing-at-work/ To dive deeper into topics of flow or resilience and discover many practical tools, join us for online courses...2023-09-0627 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #18: In the Times of Transition and Change: Honoring the Past while Embracing New BeginningsOur life is full of transitions and new beginnings. Sometimes it’s as simple as a transition of a season and restart after the summer and holidays, while other times it’s bigger than that: a new job, new career, new place to live, new family member… Whichever it is, for transition to be done well, it’s great to do three things: close the past well and honour it, open up towards the future with excitement, and savour that moment of transition and all that it brings into our life. In this episode, I am exploring how can you do a...2023-08-2318 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #17: The 4 Keys to Results & Personal Growth: Discover 4 Key Elements to Unlock Achievement and ProgressTo achieve any deep change or meaningful results, there are 4 crucial elements that we need to align. When these 4 work for us, they propel us forward with power and agility, and create amazing results. Discover in today’s episode what the 4 elements are, and how to make them work for you. To use the 4 elements in working on your wellbeing, join us at Happiness Academy virtual courses on wellbeing, mindset, resilience or flow: https://happiness-academy.eu/virtual-courses/ If you are looking for a program that supports you with all 4 thro...2023-08-0815 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #16: Vipassana 10 Days Retreat PRACTICAL TIPS - What You Deed to Know Before You GoIn this episode I share practical tips for those who are planning to join 10 days silent vipassana retreat - what do you need to bring, how to organize the day before and after, and what to keep in mind when planning your first vipassana experience. To discover more about the vipassana retreat experience itself, check the previous episode. For different side and flavour of mindfulness, one in which we are exploring it more gently and enjoyably, join us at Learning Getaway at Happiness Academy. Immerse yourself for a week in mindfulness from the side of savouring, enjoying life, learning...2023-07-2515 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #15: The Vipassana Experience: How the Reality of 10 Days Silent Vipassana Retreat Looks LikeAs this podcast is being published, I am about to enter my 3rd ten days long vipassana silent retreat. As many of you were curious and asking about how is that experience - in this episode I am sharing how the first two times were. While in this episode I am talking about the experience itself, I am also preparing an episode on practical tips - what to bring and what to keep in mind - for those who decide to join. For different...2023-07-1226 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #14: Finding Balance: Actionable Ideas for Renewing Your Emotional Energy ReservesHow are you doing with recharging your emotional energy? You could do better? If so, this one is for you! In one of the previous episodes I talked about practical tips to recharge, with 7 types of rest in mind. In that one, I shared some tips to recharge all 7 aspects of energy: physical, mental, sensory, creative, emotional, social and spiritual. But each of these seven could be explore so much deeper! So, not to overwhelm you with podcasts on all of these topics, I asked for your preferences which of these...2023-06-2728 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #13: Living with Zest: 5 Ways to Life with More Vitality, Energy and PassionZest is the sense of great enthusiasm and energy, sense of vitality. The sense of feeling alive, and living life like an adventure. One of the most important abilities to live satisfied, fulfilled, inspiring life. “Zest means approaching a situation, or life in general, with excitement and energy, not approaching tasks or activities halfway or halfheartedly” (says VIA Institute on Character) How would it be to have more of zest in life? More of vitality, excitement for living? In this podcast, you will discover how to build more...2023-06-1418 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #12: Recharge Your Mind and Body: A Guide to the 7 Types and How to Make Them Work for YouHave you read an amazing article on TEDx about 7 types of rest? It talks about, to recharge well, we need to pay attention to 7 aspects of our energy, and think how to recharge each of them. In this podcast, I am exploring how can you use this idea in practice - how can you use the 7 types of rest to recharge better? You can find the original article here: https://ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-rest-that-every-person-needs/ Looking for getting better at recharge, self-awareness and mindfulness? Joining us for the Learning Getaway in Istria might...2023-05-3120 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #11: Living Mindfully: 5 Ways To Use Mindfulness For A More Fulfilled And Balanced LifeMindfulness can helps us improve virtually every aspect of our life: from thinking more clearly, to being more resilient, connecting better with other and experiencing more positive emotions. In this podcast episode I am sharing how. To discover new, simple and easy mindfulness practice, grab a free Mindfulness Made Easy ebook with 90 mindfulness exercises: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ For immersive week-long experience exploring mindfulness as a source of living life more fully, join us at Learning Getaway 2023 in Croatia: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ For more insights on the topic of focus...2023-05-1716 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #10: Focus Mastery: 7 Essential Tools To Keep Your Focus High And Unlock Your ConcentrationToday I am sharing with you 7 powerful tools that you can use to build intense, unwavering focus. From keeping your body energetic, to working with mental techniques, they can all be put in practice already today! Discover more: To discover new, simple and easy mindfulness practice, grab a free Mindfulness Made Easy ebook with 90 mindfulness exercises: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ Learn many more powerful tools for mindfulness at Happiness Academy Learning Getaway immersive week long event in Istria in autumn 2023: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ Join us at the Life...2023-05-0321 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #9: How to enjoy life more fullyIt is all too easy to slip into mundane everyday habits: doing same old routines at work, eating without truly enjoying the food, talking without making that conversation meaningful and inspiring, spending evenings with Netflix in lack of better ideas. But is that really how we wanna be spending our lives? If you are looking to make more out of it - to live a life that is exciting and enjoyable - here are three tips to start off. 🧭 Would you like to bring your life vision and your goals to a whole new level of clarity and motivation? Joi...2023-04-1912 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #8: Using Your Strengths Makes You Happier, More Successful And Energized - Here Is A Simple Way To Use Them More🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. 💌 For weekly dose of positive psychology tools and tips in your inbox every Thursday, do join us at http://happiness-academy.eu/newslet 2023-04-0504 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #7: Join Me In This Small Challenge To Strengthen Your Connections With Others🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. 💌 For weekly dose of positive psychology tools and tips in your inbox every Thursday, do join us at http://happiness-academy.eu/newslet 2023-04-0503 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #6: Wanna Feel Better? Here Is The Quickest Tool To Manage Your Emotions In 3 StepsYou can find many more tools like this on our Instagram: https://instagram.com/happinessacademy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Mindfulness Made Easy ebook: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ Learning Getaway 2023 - an immersive week-long event in Croatia on Mindfulness, Savouring and Enjoying Life Fully: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ ---------- 🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a l...2023-04-0504 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #5: How To Experience More Positive Emotions In Life Using This Simple Tool🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. 💌 For weekly dose of positive psychology tools and tips in your inbox every Thursday, do join us at http://happiness-academy.eu/newslet 2023-04-0509 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #4: Be Mentally Strong With This Ultimate Question To Make You More ResilientDiscover more about The Art of Resilience online course: https://happiness-academy.eu/art-of-resilience-online-course/ 🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. 💌 For weekly...2023-04-0505 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #3: Enjoying Life More: 3 Tips For SavouringTo explore many more tools and train your mind into mindfulness and savouring, join us for a week-long Learning Getaway 2023 - an immersive week-long event in Croatia on Enjoying Life Fully: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ ---------- 🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel mot...2023-04-0514 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #2: Feeling Under Pressure? Here Are 3 Quick Ideas To Deal With It BetterTo train your mind for more gratitude, grab this list of Gratitude Prompts: https://happiness-academy.eu/gratitude-prompts/ ---------- 🎙️ What is Happiness Academy Podcast all about? Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. 💌...2023-04-0506 min

Happiness AcademyPodcast #1: Live A More Mindful & Present Life With These 3 Practical, Science-based ToolsIn modern world, we are constantly under attack of all the distractions and stimuli around us. Life is fast and there is always more to do. Are you tired and overwhelmed from all the noise? Do you fall into feeling rushed and busy too easily? Disconnect from how your body feels - not moving enough, eating poorly? Or just sabotage your enjoyment in life by always having too many “to-do’s” and being constantly busy? But what if we can do it differently? How can we live a...2023-04-0524 min

EncouragementologyDirecting and Starring in Your Own Blockbuster, Your Desired LifeSHOW NOTES:On this show…we’ll be writing the script, marking the stage, and preparing for our close-ups as we take charge of directing and starring in our own blockbusters, our desired lives! Picture it…the musical score warms up the scene, opening credits are scrolling, and the viewer is engaged and trying to anticipate the beginning and where it will go. Will they be rocked and soothed with a heartwarming saga or shocked and moved to the edge of their seats with an unpredictable thriller? You choose, because you are in charge of this story and how people...2022-06-2141 min

Science of Business by ValueshipsHappiness @ Work: New research and practice with Mirna SmidtAuthentic happiness consists of 3 elements: 💡 Pleasure 💡 Engagement 💡 Meaning New research by Tandler, Krauss, Proyer and Corso has analysed how these parameters affect the workplace. ❗Spoiler alert: They appear to be essential for performance, work satisfaction and stress reduction. How to implement them in everyday life and workplace? We will search for an answer together with Mirna Smidt: Happiness Academy Founder and Positive Psychology expert in today's episode of Science of Business Podcast. Our website: [https://www.valueships.com/] (https://www.valueships.com/)2022-02-2854 min $The Learning Experience by Trainers\' Forum$ The Learning Experience by Trainers' ForumTransitioning to the online world of training trainers W/ Mirna SmidtThere's a lot of different ways of delivering online workshops. But do you know how to make them super engaging? The trainers talk about the skills and experiences they had while facilitating Train the Trainer conferences/courses. You can also learn about the "Trainers Toolbox" which was founded by Mirna. In this episode, we could not avoid talking about virtual trainings so there is a part in the episode that discusses challenges and advantages of virtual setting. -- Want to join them? Send an email to podcast@trainersforum.org -- The L...2021-06-1744 min $The Learning Experience by Trainers\' Forum$ The Learning Experience by Trainers' ForumThe role of emotions in training - Using and processing data during the session - W/ Mirna SmidtIn this episode, Mladen and Mirna talk about how training can be tailored to bring the appropriate emotions. Mirna is a founder of Happiness Academy and is very passionate about creating emotional reactions in front of other things when it comes to preparing training. They also touch upon using data and discuss how educators can/should use appropriate information from studies and tests. These two outgoing people will definitely bring new information to you. -- Want to join them? Send an email to podcast@trainersforum.org -- The Learning Experience is a...2021-05-2540 min

Beyond BEST#3 - Mirna Smidt: Happiness Academy & Trainer’s toolboxThis is the second part of the interview with Mirna. In this part, we focus on her role as founder of Happiness Academy (www.happiness-academy.eu) and Trainers Toolbox (www.trainers-toolbox.com). If you’ve feedback, suggestions reach us via e-mail on beyond.best@bestalumni.net or leave us a voice message. You can reach out to Aleks on aleksvladimirov.com, on Twitter @TheAleksTweet, or Instagram aleks.vee. You can reach out to Eduardo on eduardoconto@bestalumni.net or on Twitter @eduardoconto. For more information about the BEST Alumni Network (BAN) and other related projects find us on...2020-10-0159 min

Beyond BEST#2 - Mirna Smidt: Becoming a trainerMirna Smidt joined BEST in 2006. She is an interpersonal skills trainer, coach and entrepreneur, specialising in positive psychology training and interventions. In this part we’ll explore how and why she joined BEST, some of the experiences she had as a member and how being a BESTie led her on her path as a trainer. If you’ve feedback, suggestions reach us via e-mail on beyond.best@bestalumni.net or leave us a voice message. You can reach out to Aleks on aleksvladimirov.com. You can reach out to Eduardo on eduardoconto@bestalumni.net or on Twitter @edua...2020-09-1759 min