In many contemporary situations in daily life, we face intercultural situations. These may be experienced as challenging how to deal with or as an opportunity to learn and enrich yourself. It is important to guide learners to be ready to work and live in an intercultural context. But how can you set the right objectives and learning goals for your target group and select the relevant working methods to reach these? In this course, the concept of culture and intercultural communication will be approached, including various hands-on working methods will be experienced, in order to use these in the future through a train-the-trainer approach. At the same time a better understanding of learning (styles) will be introduced too, as intercultural communication cannot be taught through a text book and different learners already have a different level of intercultural experiences.
How to conceptualise your intercultural learning and communication trainings?
Course description
Methodology
A non-formal and experiential learning approach combined with theories will be the approach during this course. This means that the participants will be actively involved in their own learning through engaging working methods. After experiencing specific intercultural communication workshops, the trainers will guide the participants in how they can implement these workshops methods. Furthermore, the context of the participants will be the starting point to analyse what learning goals and objectives the target group of the participants have. Participants will be guided in finding out what approaches are the right ones to reach the learning goals they have developed.
Benefits
A better understanding of
- culture (shock), which emotions can be involved and how to apply intercultural communication in the best way
- the strength and possibilities of intercultural learning
- concrete working methods to facilitate intercultural communication in the context of the participants
- learning process and styles, with a specific focus on non-formal and experiential learning
- how to conceptualise relevant sessions, trainings and activities by the participants for their target groups
Instructors
Dr. Markos Perrakis is a leadership development & process facilitator, psychologist, speaker, consultant and trainer of individuals and teams, founder and Managing Director of the EU Adult training & Counseling Provider Fractality. He designs and implements EU projects in the fields of leadership development and strategic planning, and uses eclectic appreciative approaches in the public and private sector in order to promote effective communication, individual and collective process development. He specializes in coaching, supervision, human capital development, training and assessments. He holds a Ph.D. in Leadership Styles and their efficiency in organisations with publications in the fields of organizational psychology and counseling and a M.A. in clinical Psychology. He is trained in Systemic Consultation, solution focused & cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, Spiritual Intelligence, a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation, utilizing psychometric assessments and coaching tools for teams and individuals in organizational, career and personality issues and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor. He is representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe (ANSE), Member of International Intervision Groups, Scientific Assistant of SOL (Society of Organisational Learning), Scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece, in the fields of Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece who applied the methodology of Appreciative Inquiry, which is used in the UN Summit by UN leaders. In contrast to the traditional management approaches that focus on problems, the appreciative approach makes use of the potential of the human capital of organizations
Verena Fink is an educator, facilitator and artist, based in Thessaloniki.
She has been working for more than 25 years as a freelancer, working with groups in different fields.
She did studies in Drama, German language, Art history and pedagogy and graduated with M.A. (LMU University Munich/Germany). She was trained in theater pedagogy and educational play (LMU Munich and Pedagogical Academy Linz/Austria), could enhance her work with an education in trauma therapy (Institute for Trauma Therapy MIT, Munich) and since 2018 in Sociocracy, a method for decision making and dynamic governance.
Her concept of the human being is the foundation of her educational, intermediary and artistic work. It concerns children, adolescents, adults with special needs, seniors with dementia, adults from the most diverse cultural backgrounds and languages. Her workshops and seminars as well as her facilitation in Sociocracy have this concept as the basis of her work in order to give space for every participant to grow and to learn in the best way.
Verena Fink speaks Greek, German, English and French.
Contact us
Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522.
Cancellation Policy*
Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.
