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Make It a Transperience

How to design large-scale events that transform.

4 min readApr 25, 2025

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Most Events Are Forgettable

You’ve been to them. Maybe you’ve hosted them. Big stage. Sharp keynotes. Flashy decks. Some group exercises. A few laughs. A few yawns. And by Monday? It’s gone.

Now picture this:

You enter a candle-lit dome as a quiet heartbeat pulses through the floor.
Someone gently touches your shoulder and hands you a question:
“What do you wish to let go of today?”

You write it down, fold it, and drop it into a spiraling sculpture of paper flames. You are here with your colleagues to change what you do, leaving behind old beliefs and behaviors, diving into new understanding and unknown potentials.

Hours later, you’re dancing barefoot on a nearby beach while a cellist and a DJ layer live sound into the sunset. You feel different, like something opened. Like, this wasn’t just a conference. It was an awakening.

That’s Transperience.

And yes, the dome was a 3D illusion, the candles were electric, and the beach was in an old hangar, but who cares (except the environment).

Experience-based Transformation

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Laust Lauridsen, MD
Laust Lauridsen, MD

Written by Laust Lauridsen, MD

Help leaders and teams go beyond to transform and perform. Writer, speaker and facilitator.

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