PDCYES

For Everyone Interested in Personal Development
in the Playa Del Carmen area

Speakers for PDCYES, Playa Del Carmen

PDC YES Events: Guidelines for the Speakers

OUR VISION

Our vision is simply to continue growing, learning, sharing and loving the abundance of life...

We have so many talented individuals here in Playa, and so every month, we aim to introduce another gifted individual who is happy to share their wealth of life skills, education, knowledge, and experiences.

We want you to bring your joy along with you too, and share the delicious high vibrations with like-minded friends.

SPEAKER SELECTION GUIDELINES

Every event has a theme.

Within that theme, we are looking to host two different speakers with contrasting but often complementing topics

for example, one speech that is focused on “material wellbeing” and another one focused on “spiritual growth”.

Material: health & fitness, intellect, relationships, business, finance, travel

Spiritual: consciousness, emotions, meditation, working with energy, chakras, etc

Experienced speakers always have priority, as we need to assure certain quality and success of those events in order to attract and grow the audience to deliver great value to as many participants as possible.

We like to end every event with a short meditation, gratitude exercise, or a similar activity that would leave the audience in positive energy.

Your interaction/engagement with the audience is highly encouraged.

When you are selected as a speaker, you have up to 30 minutes to present including Q&A if you like.

AUDIENCE & VENUE

Our events tends to attract a mostly English-speaking audience who are focused on personal development (physical & mental wellbeing, relationships, career & business, finance, lifestyle, spiritual growth).

Many of them are digital nomads and expats.

The number of attendees is usually around 40 enthusiastic souls (often depending upon the topic & time of year), and of course their other distractions and priorities for the day.

At the end of every event, we like to encourage the audience to stay and network with other like-minded people and their new peer group, for those who would like to use this opportunity.

Venue:

We have mostly been using Buzos Restaurant, c26, Av25y30, Playa Del Carmen

This may change from time to time.

Buzos kindly offers the venue to us at no charge.

They are happy to serve us with their own food and drink, and they only ask that the audience do not blatantly drink their own water at the tables (put your bottles on the floor please)

Buzos has a big screen TV and wireless mics.

If you wish to use the big screen in your presentation;

We recommend that you bring your own laptop and ensure that your PC has HDMI facility in order to connect with the TV.

WHAT WE HOPE TO SEE / HEAR / EXPERIENCE FROM YOU AS A SPEAKER

What counts for us is pure giving and sharing of your knowledge and experience, education and entertainment.

What we do as organizers is completely non-profit, and we do not receive any financial profits.

Any donations we may receive are going to cover the cost of the venue and support charitable institutions, local communities and initiatives in Playa del Carmen.

This is our way of giving back to the local community and being involved as its valuable members (and we're not just here as tourists).

We are always looking for local charitable projects / institutions to support and encourage the attendees to get involved too.

Given the non-profit character of this venture, we need to draw boundaries in terms of self-promotion.

What is not allowed:

NO blatant selling from the stage by advertising specific products, courses and services, naming prices, etc.

We are keen to ensure the PDCYES group events do not turn into a pitch-fest.

What is allowed:

it is perfectly fine to encourage your audience to visit your website and connect with you on social media if they would like to learn more about what you do.

In case you are planning to do a digital presentation, feel free to include the address of your website and links to your social media.

If you are open to it, you can also invite the audience to speak with you personally after your speech.

There will be a block of time for socializing and networking at the end of each event.

We have an effective traffic light system for the speakers to give you a visual notice to help with your timing.

If you would like extra support such as audio/lighting/big-screen/assistants on stage etc, please let us know in advance and we will do all we can to assist.

NEXT STEPS

We want to learn more about you
in order to provide you with speaking opportunities that are suited in the best way possible for your field of expertise. We have a shortlist of speakers and every month we will reach out to selected individuals depending on the theme of an event and several other factors.

This data (such as your profile picture) will be used to advertise the event, as well as internally to communicate with you about speaking engagements.

We will never share your contact details with any third party person or organization.