For culturally mixed participants.
The question addressed in this workshop is: does life in the Netherlands disturb your ‘default’ self-understanding and if so, how does this affect your self-confidence and well-being state?
If you come from ‘another’ culture you may have different and even conflicting expectations of your relationships compared to those Dutch have.
by Dr. Katerina Pouliasi
Programme:
The most reliable ways to identify key cultural differences is to think on how people see their ‘Self’ in relation to others. That is an established conclusion of cross-cultural comparative research of more than forty years. The programme lasts 3 hours and includes:
- Learning about key aspects of Self-Understandings through theory based on cross-cultural comparative research including our research with the Dutch as reference culture at Utrecht University
- Identify your Self-understanding through case studies from ‘Dutch’ or other multi-cultural situations,
- Analysis and discussion of a questionnaire submitted beforehand by registered participants
For whom:
This workshop is designed for those:
- who consider relationships with close-others important in personal life and want to balance these beliefs with life in the Netherlands.
- who may feel uncomfortable with, lost in or in conflict with aspects of the Dutch culture, but are looking for insight into and control over these feelings
- Who want to communicate with and avoid rejection from individuals in their relationships with different cultural background
Participation in this workshop will help you to:
- realize which aspects of yourself are important to you and whether and how they are:
- related to your own culture
- compatible with key aspects of the ‘Dutch’ Self-understanding
- increase your sensitivity to recognize culturally different Self-understanding
- improve your insight and ability to handle culture-arisen conflict situations
Format
- Small group (min: 4, max.14 people)
- Emphasis on interactivity in a structured discussion.
Date, Location, Contribution
Maximum number of participants: 14
When: Evenings working days. Exact dates in co-operation with the participants in interest
Where: Usually In Amsterdam but in other cities too (Exact location is sent by e-mail
Participation Fee: 90 €,
For student’s in groups of 4 and special fees please contact us first.
In Interest?
Please feel free to contact us
Workshop as presented by IamExpat for the expats in Amsterdam,
