Helping you thrive in intercultural relationships
Intercultural Mentoring
How will intercultural mentoring help me in distinct ways from coaching?
When you engage a mentor you are hoping for more direction than when you engage a coach.
This does not mean that I would act like a football coach, whistle in hand, order you around to pick up your feet and run harder.
But it means that in addition to eliciting ideas based on your experience, I will more actively bring my experience to bear on your challenges. Based on my experience and studies in intercultural communications, culture and ethnography I will give cautions, where appropriate, and guidance.
It will be up to you whether to embrace my advice, but you won’t be flying blind.
What areas of intercultural mentoring do you offer me?
I have over 30 years of experience living as an American living and working in SE Asia—specifically in the Indo-Malay region.
I help you stay alert to common “cultural landmines” that outsiders often inadvertently set off while striving to relate well interculturally.
Creating effective mutual understanding via positive engagement across broad cultural gaps is a favorite subject and area of practice.
I can help you understand and relate better across differences between direct and indirect communication styles, low and high-power distance styles, individualistic and communal preferences, guilt-shame-fear orientations, high and low risk tolerance and many other contrasting preferences.
I’m pretty certain that once you get into this with a guide to initially show you a path through, these fascinating differences will become one of your favorite passions as well!