
Community of Practitioners (Z seri: Między Nami Praktykami) – SIETAR Polska and SIETAR France
“It has been a dozen or so years since intercultural training stopped being based on comparing cultures. Our clients and colleagues now know that knowledge about other cultures alone is not enough to effectively cooperate with people from other cultures. Intercultural training must therefore take into account the emotional component in the work of intercultural adaptation and cooperation. Are we, as intercultural trainers, ready to psychologically support our clients and colleagues in their cultural adaptation?
One of the tools of intercultural training that supports emotional coping with cultural change is the analysis of the psychological challenges that people working internationally go through. A simple analysis of psychological challenges is included in the Global Dexterity Method, developed 12 years ago by professor Andy Molinski. For 5 years, the “Global Dexterity” course has been conducted based on this method.
We would like to invite the SIETAR Polska and SIETAR France community to explore this part of the Global Dexterity Method, which is devoted to the analysis of the psychological challenges of people working internationally. During the online 1,5 hours workshop we will introduce the Global Dexterity Method, with a focus on Psychological Challenges (step 2).
Participants will be asked to take part in an exercise in which they can analyze their own cultural encounter, through the lenses of the Psychological Challenges framework from Global Dexterity Method. We will also share the practical applications of this part of the Method in training and coaching.”