SO WHAT KEEPS INTERCULTURAL TRAINERS AWAKE AT NIGHT?
What do they worry about? What are their big concerns? Well, here are some of the issues raised by staff facilitating intercultural learning in UK universities at the Intercultural Training Clinic we ran at the UKCISA conference 2019...
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“Languages in a modernising China” – a great chapter by Ping Chen
I decided to buy a copy of Kam Louie's "The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture" recently even though it was published in 2008 (and, of course, because of the date would need to be read with the necessary caution). But the titles of the...
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10 tips for travelling with children (ie. travelling with kids not just holidaying with them!)
Plan ahead much more than if you didn't have kids! Kids' patience (well, at least mine) for this kind of thing can be rather limited. At first, I had romantic ideas of us all sitting down with a map and making a plan together but...
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Andy Molinsky’s “Global Dexterity”
The Japanese, I am told, have a word for buying books that you want to read but never quite get around to - Tsundoku. Well, I finally pulled out Andy Molinsky's "Global Dexterity" from that towering pile and it's a useful read, packed with real-life...
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Know about WeChat
If you are working with Chinese partners, colleagues or customers you need to know about the superapp WeChat, or Weixin as it is known back in China. Created by tech giant Tencent, WeChat now has a billion monthly users (that includes me by the way)...
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Kynfolk logo
So now for the logo. I knew I wanted layering in the Kynfolk logo to represent the diversity yet connectedness of the human experience and I knew I wanted a fresh, unpredictable colour palette but was unable to articulate this into a vision of a...
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So Kynfolk is born!
So Kynfolk is born. The new incarnation of my ongoing passion to support others' intercultural learning. Kynfolk will build on the 20+ years experience I've had as a facilitator of intercultural learning, both with VSO and as a partner of thinkingpeople, but will allow more...
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