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SOAR: Creating a Culture of Welcome – Beyond Inclusion

Watching a new initiative take flight is always exciting and on November 12th, Deepika Bhoolabai presented her new venture “SOAR, School of Awakening and Re-Creating ”, at SIETAR Barcelona’s in-person...

SOAR

Dec 15, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

How our Spanish Cultural Workshops are helping to bridge cultural divides

I’ve been working with people in transition between countries for over 20 years. So it was a huge honor to use my experience to co-host a couple of Spanish Cultural Workshops with a group of displaced...

Spanish Cultural Workshops

Nov 9, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

The 23 Inner Development Goals and how Intercultural Understanding supports them

Sometimes the pressures of modern living can make us feel that we, as individuals, are helpless. That we are incapable of effecting change around us. Which is why the concept behind Inner Development ...

Development Goals

Oct 10, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

The importance of belonging and showing up as yourself

Who do you think you are? Is your identity tied up with your nationality? Your sexuality? Do you find yourself shifting in terms of your sense of belonging over time? The concept of belonging and iden...

Belonging

Sep 21, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

System Two Thinking For Mental Health Month

“The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 ...

Mental Health

May 10, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

IU & APUNE partnership – the perfect match to support study abroad students, staff and faculty in cross-cultural situations

I am delighted to announce that Intercultural Understanding is now a proud sponsor of The Association of American Programs in Spain (APUNE) ! I personally have a long connection with the association, ...

Higher Education Internships

Apr 27, 2022

Almendra Staffa-Healey

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.Coach, 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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