The training is for you if:
– you live or plan to live and stay abroad at least for 3 months,
– or you have engaged in studies beyond your parents’ level of education,
– you want to learn more about yourself in a new environment,
– you would like to understand more about cultural challenges.
During the training you will:
– Gain skills and strategies for coping with change and challenges
– Develop your intercultural knowledge and competences
– Become aware of how your emotions influence your daily life
– Find ways to increase your social network
– Learn about your own and other people’s cultures and understand how culture affect your life
Our Methodological principles:
– Group coaching: relying on the group and group dynamics to provide participants with the motivation and autonomy to take charge their mobility project
– Intercultural approach: the methods should enhance the awareness of diversity and the inclusion of people coming from different backgrounds.
– The methods should also be able to accommodate to different learning and communication styles.
– The training is closely connected to the MOMAP Survey and its results on the different dimensions: Motivations, Identity Orientation, Intercultural Skills, Challenges, Relational Strategies
– We work with participants own experiences
– We use field trip as a method to create mobility experience
– We use cognitive behavioral theory
Outline of the training:
Day 1:
Introduction exercise on mobility and change.
Motivations: How can motivation affect our experiences? What are our motivations to change? How can we develop more intrinsic motivations?
Day 2:
Identity: How does identity orientation influences the mobility experience? Do we have more of a personal or group identity orientation? How do we value different aspects of our identity? Opening up multiple identities and values attached to different identity positions.
Field Trip: Get out and experience mobility on your skin! – Simulation of a cultural immersion / mobility situation.
Day 3:
Debriefing the field trip: Dealing with challenges and threats. What is the most difficult? Where do difficulties come from? Exploration of culture…
Transforming a cultural shock into a source of learning: What types of intercultural skills do we use to deal with challenges? What strategies can be effective? Drama exercises to explore a variety of strategies…
Day 4:
Intercultural Skills: Get acquainted with the framework and basic concepts of the Transaction Theory of stress and Cognitive Behavioral Theory. Building and developing new strategies and competences to deal with intercultural situations. Exploring different outcomes of situations through cartoons/storyboards.
Relational strategies: The social galaxy: exploring on one’s own social network. To what extent the social network is anchored in the new environment or rather reflect one’s original cultural environment?
Day 5:
Transferring strategies to new situations – Introduction to positive psychology: How can we make transition a source of more pleasure, more engagement (flow) and more meaning in our life?
Action Planning and Evaluation: Reflection on the experiences of the week. Defining participants’ aims concerning their current or future mobility experiences. Preparation of mobility action plans individually.
How to participate:
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