Intercultural Understanding Blog

Effective communication across cultures to advance in an interconnected world

Why it’s brave to face up to your unconscious biases and support the LGBTQ+ community

May 17 marks The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia . The reason it’s marked then is because that was the day – only back in 1990 – when the World Health Organisation decid...

LGBTQ+

Mar 17, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

Spotlight on new courses for parents or educators who want to help cross culture kids navigate the modern world

Growing up between different cultures can be extremely tricky for young people, especially bearing in mind that they are already navigating the road of adolescence in a complex digital, pandemic-era w...

Cross Culture Kids

Mar 13, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

Achieve an outstanding result on your intercultural training with these three essential factors from Self-Determination Theory

Intercultural communication and diversity trainers strive to make a lasting impact through their programs. However trying to get people to intrinsically take on board diversity trainings can often fee...

Diversity Training

Jan 24, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

How Gen Z could become an incredible force for change

Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z appear to be the most diverse, open-minded and compassionate generation to date. In the US they are set to be the last generation of a mainly Caucasian ethnici...

Gen Z Higher Education

Jan 3, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

World Science Day – ‘Building climate-ready communities’ while supporting developing countries

When I was growing up, my aunt Dr Darcy B. Kelley was a huge influence. A published neurobiologist and now a lauded HHMI professor at Columbia University, she instilled the importance of science in me...

Climate Crisis

Nov 9, 2021

Almendra Staffa-Healey

The Horizon Académique Program That Aims To Fight Exclusion

The Swiss federal government invests millions of dollars each year into the assimilation of refugees and asylum seekers into their country. Not only focusing on helping them get into the workforce but...

Higher Education Horizon Académique Program

Oct 29, 2021

Almendra Staffa-Healey

Founder of Intercultural Understanding. Intercultural Trainer, DEIB Facilitator and Belonging Work Champion & International and Experiential Learning Educator.

Suzanne McCullagh

Writer, communicator and a member of SIETAR Europa and SIETAR España.

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