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Trip to the Future · New Year Edition

Start the new year with everyone seeing the same future

The full Trip to the Future, dressed up for the festive season: an immersive team game. You travel together to the moment where everything has worked out, and if you like, you bring a real team challenge on board.

Ideal as a team day or as the kick-off for next year's strategic plan. You go home with a route map.

4 to 12 people3 to 4 hours on locationRoute map within 24 hoursDecember or January
Imagine this

Ask your team today where you will be in a few years. Four different answers, three shades of certainty, one shared awkwardness.

Your plans are fine. The picture simply has not landed the same way with everyone yet.

The New Year Edition solves that in half a day, right as the new year begins. At your own office, with your own team, guided by someone who has been doing this for 17 years.

It is the full Trip to the Future, dressed up for the festive season. You can count on spectacle and a few hilarious moments. At the same time, the trip has a serious core. Want to bring a concrete team challenge, such as next year's strategic plan? This trip is ideally suited to it.

And once you can see the future, you start to long for it.

What does a Trip look like?

Three moments from the trip


An immersive team game in which you experience your future together.

An office with Christmas decorations turns into a launch room under golden lights
At the start

The launch room

Your own meeting room has been turned into a launch room, this time with Christmas lights. A personal travel case is ready for every team member. We count down, and you are launched together into your future.

The team in Christmas jumpers in the cabin of the time shuttle
Halfway

The red button

Someone presses the red button, and you watch the most sceptical colleague burst out laughing. Points for the fastest group, points for the most creative. This is where the ideas emerge that later prove to be the most valuable discoveries.

A golden route map from today to the future
The last hour

The route maps

In smaller groups you create the route maps: the picture of the future you saw together, the steps back to today, and what each team member will actually do tomorrow. A result everyone can explain in their own words.

What the Trip is, and what it is not

The session that makes all the others unnecessary.


What it is

  • An immersive team game. 3 to 4 hours at your own office, at a location of your choice or with us in Velden.
  • A shared picture of the future you can almost touch. In words, images, sounds and moments.
  • A route map that works. In your inbox within 24 hours.
  • A festive end to the year. With a team-building effect no ordinary team day can match.

What it is not

  • Not a strategy session. No flip charts, no Post-its, no quadrant models.
  • Not a Christmas do. We work on your future, and the fun is a bonus rather than the goal.
  • Not coaching or therapy. No sitting in a circle. Real work, with a sharp focus.
Your place or ours

Where you work every day, or a step away


Your own location

At your own office

Most Trips take place where you work every day. No travel time, no diary juggling. The picture of the future takes root right where it needs to live tomorrow. Prefer to get away for a while? Choose a venue or a country estate yourself, and I will come to you.

HQ Holland Future Center

With us in Velden

Sometimes it helps to step out of the organisation for a while. At our headquarters in Velden (North Limburg, the Netherlands), with space and fresh air around you. The same Trip, with the office baggage literally left behind.

What it gives you

Half a day of work, tangible results


On location

3 to 4 hours of guided travel

With your team or board, 4 to 12 people. Guided by me, as more than a thousand travellers have been before you.

For every team member

A personal travel case

With materials we use during the Trip. Want Christmas extras in it? Just tick the box when you book the intake.

Within 24 hours

The route map

A visual document that captures your shared picture of the future. A map you can grasp in under a minute.

By post

The travel report

The visual record of your day. Free when booked before 31 December.

Beforehand

A free intake

We go through the tone, the goals and the sensitivities. On the day itself, all you have to do is get your team into a room.

Experience

17 years as a guide

Since 2008 with teams and boards, from leading brands to public organisations and family businesses.

What teams say after their Trip

Others have gone before you


"In the weeks that followed, I heard people around the office using my own words."
Edwin · Director, Evite
"An immersive team game in which even the most sceptical colleagues were joining in enthusiastically by halfway through."
Bas · Communications, Municipality of The Hague
29 yearsof experience in business and government
17 yearsTrip to the Future
1000+travellers, dozens of teams and boards
The offer

Your New Year Edition


The full Trip to the Future, dressed up for the festive season. You first book a free intake, after which I confirm the date and price.

  • 3 to 4 hours of guided travel, at a location of your choice
  • Free intake beforehand
  • Personal travel case for every team member, optionally with Christmas extras
  • Route map within 24 hours
  • Printed travel report, free when booked before 31 December
  • For teams of 4 to 12 people, in December or January
Book the free intake

Or WhatsApp or call Corné directly: +31 6 13 11 45 42

Corné van Mechelen
Your guide

I am Corné van Mechelen. For 17 years I have been taking people and teams into the future, at organisations such as Efteling, ING and ABN AMRO. It works because people only truly want a future once they have seen it.

Questions

Good to know


How is this different from a strategy session?

A strategy session produces a document. A Trip produces a shared picture. A document wears thin after the first deadline. A picture stays with the whole team as an anchor.

What if our team already has a plan for next year?

Then the Trip confirms and sharpens it, or a clearer picture emerges than the one you had. The biggest gain lies in how it comes about: because the team imagines it together, everyone becomes a co-owner.

How much preparation does it take on my part?

One intake. In it, we go through the tone, the goals and the sensitivities. After that I put together a tailored programme.

What are the Christmas extras?

Festive extras in everyone's travel case that we use during the Trip. You tick the box when you book the intake.

Can't make it in December?

Then come along in January. The New Year Edition is designed precisely for starting the new year together with a sharp focus.

Can it be done in Dutch?

Yes, the Trip is also available in Dutch, as the Reis naar de Toekomst.

In short: start the new year with everyone seeing the same future. Not next quarter. Tomorrow.

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