For professionals who support people through geographic or social mobility…
Want to develop your knowledge and practice of helping people
have better social and geographic mobility experiences?
Want to learn new techniques, methods and tools for engaging people
in mobility situations and be able to evaluate the process?
The training is aimed at professionals working in:
1. For-profit sector: coaches, counsellors working with expats, HR professionals, trainers working in multinational companies with a diverse team.
2. Higher education: Erasmus coordinators, mentors and counsellors of international students.
3. NGO sector: social workers, professionals working with migrants, international volunteers, disadvantaged youth, teachers and other staff working in talent and mentoring programs.
During the training you will:
– Gain awareness of what makes successful geographic and social mobility experiences
– Become acquainted with transforming challenges into learning in cross cultural situations
– Develop knowledge of cross cultural situation theories, practises and guidance through these situations
– Develop basic competencies for working with people in mobility situations
– Learn and adapt tools and practises that help people connect with others across cultural borders
– Network with other practitioners and tutors working in similar environments
Our Methodological principles:
The training is based on a combination of different activities and methodologies, relying on non-formal education.
Activities include:
– Structured exercises; role play; simulations to examine the dynamics of the different mobility situations
– Small group tasks, discussions
– Presentations and discussion of the different dimensions of mobility – including a field exercise
– Sessions focusing directly on tools of mobility guidance the MOMAP Survey and the Mobility Pack (our toolbox) which can be used in your guiding and support practice.
Outline of the training:
Day 1: What is mobility?
– What is Mobility? Who is mobile? What is the connection between geographic and social mobility experiences?
– Presentation and discussion about the 4C Project: implementation process; research phase and its results.
– Introduction to the MOMAP Chart.
– Walking Bingo: simple questions and visual answers.
– Experiential exercise on guiding.
– Introduction to MOMAP Guidance Methodology.
Day 2: Mobility and its challenges
– Motivations: How can motivation affect the mobility experiences? How can we guide our participants to develop more intrinsic motivations?
– Field Trip: Get out and experience mobility on your skin! – Simulation of a cultural immersion / mobility situation.
Day 3: Challenges and Resources
– Debriefing the field trip: Evaluation of the mobility experience: its beauty, its challenges, its difficulties and threats.
– Handling cultural transitions – intercultural skills and coping strategies: Get acquainted with the framework and basic concepts of the Transaction Theory of stress and Cognitive Behavioural Theory. How to build and develop new strategies and competences to deal with intercultural situations? Exploring different outcomes of situations through cartoons/storyboards.
– What a person needs what a guide can give?
Discussion on the role of the Guide linked to intercultural skills.
Day 4: Zoom on accompaniment tools of mobility
– Challenges through mobility:
Explore the different types of challenges in mobility. Finding solutions as a guide: how can you support participants to deal with these challenges?
– Who can be a MOMAP Guide?
What does it mean to be a Mobility Guide? What are the skills, attitudes, and techniques that a good Guide must own?
– Multiple identities and mobility:
How does identity orientation influences the mobility experience? Do people 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.
– 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? How to define the next steps towards broader social network?
Day 5: How is it to be a Guide?
– The MOMAP Guiding Process:
Recruitment of participants; preparation of the 1st session; setting up aims with participants; during the guiding process; evaluation and follow up.
– Preparing for the 1st guiding session:
Group work: Learning in practice how to analyse the MOMAP Survey results and how to choose the different areas to work on.
– The 1st guiding session – simulation:
Discovering the aim of guidance in the different phases of mobility.
– Evaluation of the training
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