Gather Central leverages communications in a virtual world for private clients and to the general public
Do you have content to deliver that you would like to take virtual, but don’t know how? Do you have an organization that needs to keep people informed? Or do you have content ready for a virtual platform and don’t’ want to learn a new system?
Come to Gather Central. Let us do the work for you, so you can shine.
Let’s face it, webinars are boring. Somehow the message has gotten across in the virtual platform that participation doesn’t matter. No wonder we are bored! Our attention span
has diminished so within minutes we are losing focus, hearing pings of new emails, surfing the web or multi-tasking work projects. Retention is low, and the value of training modules or content is lost.
Gather Central brings back the heart, the warmth, and the experience of connection so critical to learning. People learn when they hear stories, talk to each other, and relate to their daily life. – Today it is possible to create such experiences through the power of a phone line.
Our mission is to partner with you to transform your content or message into a creative, fun, and interactive experience. Whether it is a teleconference for the general public, internal company meeting, staff training, non-profit fundraising event, youth conference or women’s summit.
Most of our clients choose to create one of these three options:
- A One Time Event – one hour workshop, interactive promotional event, or as a pre/post call in combination with a live conference event to inform the audience before the event, and keep them connected afterwards.
- Weekly or Monthly Ongoing Group – for a targeted audience or membership
- An In-depth Workshop, Training or Tele-retreat – a multi-speaker event or session series
A One Time Event includes the following:
- One half- hour instructional design meeting with Kari Henley to tailor your program.
- An agenda created by Gather Central outlining the details of the call.
- Free web link on our Gather Central Calendar of events
- Capacity to serve at least 500 callers and 500 webcast listeners simultaneously with two distinct technologies.
- Scheduling of event call with links provided for both callers and web listeners
- One Gather Central host and technician on each one hour call, with a 15 minute pre call review.
- Edited recording of your call.
Ongoing Monthly Program or In-depth Workshop, Training or Tele-retreat with Gather Central:
- One half- hour instructional design meeting with Kari Henley to tailor your program per call.
- An agenda created by Gather Central outlining the details of the call.
- Free web link on our Gather Central Calendar of events
- Capacity to serve at least 500 callers and 500 webcast listeners simultaneously with two distinct technologies.
- Scheduling of event call with links provided for both callers and web listeners
- One Gather Central host and technician on each one hour call, with a 15 minute pre call review.
- Registration management.
- Edited recording of all calls.
- Follow-up to and reminders of calls.
Need Help with marketing, social networking or strategy?
Our team can recommend trusted partners to help create your marketing platform, website or event page, and engage in critical social media updates.
Contact us for a free 30 minute consultation to determine if Gather Central’s services are right for you- and let’s get started!
Creative Consultant – Kari Henley, President of Gather Central
Kari is a professional speaker, published writer and community expert. She has recreated Gather Central to offer all she has learned about the power of delivering experiential workshops into a virtual platform. She loves the energy of positive collaboration, and has a deep seated passion for creating authentic connections with clear open communication. Her background in accelerated and experiential learning gives her a strong instinct in creating content that is accessible, meaningful and inviting. As a contributor to the Huffington Post, her skills as a journalist to help you in hosting your event, and putting you in the spotlight to shine. Using the state of the art technology currently available in conference call platforms, she helps design group calls that include macro learning, coupled with micro level discussions and a playful tone.
Kari has twenty years experience as a professional speaker, consultant, and is weekly featured columnist at the Huffington Post. Our current clients include serving as co-developer and host of Grail Springs Spa & Retreat Center’s “100 Women of Destiny Teleretreat”- one of the most extensive virtual events ever conducted, spanning 31 days and hosting 100 speakers to celebrate International Women’s Day. Kari hosted over 50 calls contiguously through the month of March with top name speakers like Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ricki Lake, Janet Atwood, Marci Shimoff and Jack Canfield.
The Gather Central team is ready to manage all the details of executing your event, including organizing registrations, managing reminders, recording the calls, and providing recordings and transcripts if desired. Let us find out together if our services are right for you. Please contact us for a complimentary thirty minute consultation.
Testimonials: (see our testimonials page for additional comments)
“You are really an excellent interviewer and the way you have been able to sum things up and tie ideas together (really thinking on the fly and on your feet!!) has been exceptional. (And I speak as a long-time journalist who knows how hard that is!!) – Teri Degler, author of ten non-fiction books including her latest, “The Divine Feminine Fire.”
“Hi Kari, first, I need to tell you how incredible you are as a facilitator! I really don’t know how you do it. You are so engaged, listen so intently to respond to speakers with just the right comments and questions, you’re amazing!” – Bari McFarland, participant from “100 Women of Destiny”