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2022 Exploring the Culture


Dates: 2nd Wednesday of each month (January - ?)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room

Minimum: 4; Maximum: 12

CCEs: TBA



Culture is part of a human being wherever they are from. It is especially important when we start moving around, such as moving to a different country or simply moving from a hometown to live and work someplace else. It might define how we think, behave, and adjust to a different environment. It is important to be aware of this. We need to know how to open to a different culture and accept it, release judgement and not constantly compare with what we are accustomed to.

Here’s a few topics that might be interesting for us to explore:
- How to define culture; how I am defined by my culture is a starting point.
- Where is home; what has motivated you to leave, and what are you expecting from others as you experience different cultures?
- What are the stages of cultural shock, and how do we deal with reverse culture shock?

 

Key Learning Points & Benefits for Participants:

  • Share and learn how to deal with different/unfamiliar cultures and cultural perspectives.
  • Being able to learn from different cultures without fear and with the ability to give as much as you receive.
  • Helping expats to adjust and live better in their life abroad and helping coaches working with expats to better understand and deal with situations that may arise.
  • Being able to deal with cultural shock in day-to-day situations.
  • Developing awareness of unconscious/underlying biases we might have.

 

Experiential Learning Through:  
- Book and article readings, followed by group discussions.
- Interviewing coaches working in the field and people in a different cultural environment.



Facilitated by:

Beatrice-Dupasquier150x187Beatrice Dupasquier
coach@zestedlife.com

My name is Beatrice (Call me Bea). I am French, 48 years old, and currently living in Barbados. I grew up in a small village of Burgundy, and the gastronomy and celebration around it was an essential part of my life. At the age of 26, I worked as Executive Pastry Chef of one of the best hotels in a country that I was not speaking the language. 3 years later, I was nominated and recognized as the best pastry chef in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was 21 years ago. Since then, I've learned to speak 3 other languages, lived in 6 different countries, opened the first French pastry shop in Lisbon, Portugal, and successfully trained, graduated, and developed my coaching practice. Have you ever heard of a pastry chef, Globetrotter, Ultrarunner, Life Coach before? It is pretty unconventional, I agree, but very serious, I assure you. And if you have a few more minutes to spare, have a glance through my articles https://zestedlife.com/blog/