Workshop for international students: Bridging the Gap: communicating appropriately and effectiviely in a culturally diverse campus, Mon, Oct 6, 6 p.

[Narasinga Rao]

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From: Klaartje Proesmans <klaartje....@int.kuleuven.be>
Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Subject: Workshop for international students: Bridging the Gap: communicating appropriately and effectiviely in a culturally diverse campus, Mon, Oct 6, 6 p.
To: Klaartje Proesmans <klaartje....@int.kuleuven.be>
Cc: Chinese Associatie Leuven <leuve...@gmail.com>, Indian Students Association <in...@isal.be>, chun...@imec.be, dua...@hotmail.com

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this workshop is free, but places are limited. Please tell it to your friends and communicate it to your members.

 

Workshop for international students:
Bridging the gap: communicating appropriately and effectively in a culturally diverse campus

Monday, October 6 at 6 - 9 p.m., International Office, Naamsestraat 96 Participation is free, but there is a limit! Please confirm your participation by sending a message to ve...@kuleuven.be Culture shapes our way of thinking and behaving. When the communication goes beyond our cultural boundaries, we often experience feelings of uncertainty and anxiety about how to communicate appropriately and effectively with people from another culture. Although the day-to-day experience of international students varies, they have many perplexities in common. For instance, what constitutes socially appropriate behaviour in the new cultural context? How to open a conversation, build trust and make friends (intimate rather than casual contact) with students from different cultures? How to collaborate effectively with team members for the group-based assignments? And if our ways of thinking and behaving differ from each other, how to manage the differences or conflicts? Intercultural competence is a life-long learning process that enables an individual to generate appropriate and effective behaviour in a given context. It comprises three components: knowledge, attitudes and skills. And among them, knowledge is the basis. The acquisition of necessary knowledge about intercultural communication can help us to re-shape our attitudes towards people from different cultures, and further help us to manage the intercultural conflicts, and to facilitate the cross-cultural transition process, thus makes our living and studying in the host country joyfully and fruitfully. In this workshop, we will offer you the knowledge: about culture and how culture shapes our way of thinking and behaving; about the factors that contribute to in-group/ out-group mindsets and how these mindsets affect our perceptual lenses in an intercultural encounter; about mindful intercultural verbal communication styles and nonverbal communication regulations. Trainers Drs Miao Zhao, Ph.D.Candidate K.U.Leuven, Centre of Research on Life-long Learning and Participation Lutgart Dusar, Project Manager, Living Stone Centre for Intercultural Entrepreneurship.

 

 

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With Regards,
Narasinga Rao, Miniskar,
Web master, ISAL