Human Moment in Event Management in the Philippines
Friday, May 26, 2017
The presence on Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Viber,
Whatsapp, Email, Text, and other social communication app in the corporate or
social setting is pulling us away with one of the basic needs of humans –
face-to-face physical and emotional interaction.
According to Edward Hallowell, psychiatrist and Harvard
Medical School instructor, “as a
psychiatrist who has been treating patients with anxiety disorders for 20
years. Because of where I practice and the nature of my expertise, many of my
patients are senior business executives who—to the outside world—are pictures
of success. But I can tell you without a doubt that virtually everyone I see is
experiencing some deficiency of human contact. Indeed, I am increasingly sought
out because people feel lonely, isolated, or confused at work. The treatment I
provide invariably involves replenishing the human moments in their lives. “
Human
moments are authentic psychological encounter that can happen only when
two people share the same physical space (Hallowell).
He added, “The human moment has two prerequisites: people’s
physical presence and their emotional and intellectual attention. That’s it.
Physical presence alone isn’t enough; you can ride shoulder-to-shoulder with
someone for six hours on an airplane and not have a human moment the entire
ride. And attention alone isn’t enough either. You can pay attention to someone
over the telephone, for instance, but somehow phone conversations lack the
power of true human moments. Human moments require energy.”
Having these valuable insights by Hallowell, we can clearly
see that human moments are becoming a precious commodity that is not only good
for business but for health reasons.
It is in these insights that events and meetings in the
Philippines, a country that is physically and socially connected now slowly being
eroded by digital socialization, are a must in all levels of business and
society.
Human Moment is at the heart of meetings and events. For
event management professionals in the Philippines, it is one of their keys in
convincing the clients to create meetings and events. For business leaders and
professionals it is one of the compelling reasons why they must tap event
management professionals to design an event for them that champion Human
Moments.
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