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Cross-Cultural Competence Courses

With Gill

Cultural Specifics, General and Contextual Understanding Decoded.

Gillian Gathoni Mwaura (Edube) is a coach, an Intercultural Communication & program  Consultant with over 13 years of work experience in Non-profit organizations, government agencies, institutions, and churches.  Through her Intercultural competence expertise and experience, she facilitates inter and intrapersonal relationships, organization communication effectiveness, and contextual adjustment to diverse cultures. 

 She Prepares people to function well in the margins where culture collides. She has facilitated workshops and courses in Europe, the USA, and Africa.Strong multicultural consultant with a Masters in Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College Graduate School (USA).

“You are neither "Right" nor "Wrong"; It's just different” is her catch line in matters of cross-cultural competencies.

Her training style is a fusion of her own experiences, theoretical and applied knowledge, and unique, powerful visual and multimedia effects. She likes to take her audience on a visceral journey to understand and engage with their divergent cultural interfaces.

 WHAT TO EXPECT

1.     Identify your cultural competencies and describe how they affect cross-cultural communication in your context. 

2.     Analyze patterns of cross-cultural communications and diversity.

3.      Demonstrate different approaches to cultural differences and dissonance.

4.      Analyze stages of transition for cross-cultural entry and re-entry.  

5.      Develop self-knowledge and cultural intelligence understanding and skills.

6.      Demonstrate knowledge skills and strategies integral to working multiculturally and illustrate through transfer on the course case study.  

7     7.  Function at the margin and interface where culture collides!  Learn how to communicate effectively. 

       8. Insights on overseas short and long-term project deployments for Expatriates, Refugee workers, Cross-cultural marriages, development workers, and missionaries. 

       9. Conflict resolution skills among cross-cultural workers.

      10.  Learn to negotiate Cross-cultural dialogues and collaborations in partnerships and business.

Mission: To continually learn and effectively help others appropriately execute communication patterns that negotiate peoples  identities in  culturally diverse environment.

CLIENTELE

§             NOREC - Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation -Norway

§              Hald International Centre- Norway

§              Global Link Afrika -Uganda

§              I serve Africa -Kenya.

§             Fellowship of Christian Unions (IFES Uganda)

§            Child Voice International -USA

§            Global Issues Program- Intervarsity USA

§             Intervarsity Urbana, 2015 seminar speaker.

Gillian holds an MA in Intercultural Studies and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy  Educational studies. She is in a cross-cultural marriage, has studied and lived in three continents.