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Seattle, WA 98109
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“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a Diaspora of their own….They share with each other, across the nations, common values of humor and understanding. When you are among them you know you will not be mocked or resented, because they will not care about your race, your faith, your sex, or your nationality, and they suffer fools if not gladly, at least sympathetically.”
Workshops For Couples, Families, Schools And Businesses
Consultation And Workshops For Mental Health Professionals
Many couples are together for years before the differences in their cultures and pressure from extended families make honest communication difficult. There is often confusion about how to differentiate when the conflict is about lifestyle differences in your cultures or about other influences on your relationship such as career, extended family pressures, and physical or mental health issues. This is a small seminar for couples to deeply explore the gifts and the complexity of bicultural identity and being multicultural families. You can gain insight and confidence to resolve cultural conflicts in your relationship. This seminar can be arranged as 3 hours at one meeting or two 90 minute meetings. It can also be adapted for a variety of age groups.
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Parents raising multicultural children are continually faced with the challenges of integrating two or more cultures and languages into their child rearing, while honoring the culture and language of each parent. Parents have to negotiate with each other, accept frustrations with the culture in which they are raising the children and face the loss of places and people not available to themselves or their children because of distance or death. Couples are encouraged to bring questions and challenges they encounter with their own children. This workshop can be given to a larger group or adapted to a small seminar style for as few as three couples. This workshop is usually tailored to specific age groups of children; birth to 6 years, 6-11 years and 12-18 years, although other arrangements are possible upon request.
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Moving internationally for business, education, or pleasure can be a philosophical, emotional, and physical shake up to the world as you know it. This workshop will take you through the phases of cultural adjustment with humor and insight. Practical self assessments, questionnaires and experiential exercises are tailored to your specific needs on how to live successfully and minimize the stress of adjustment to living in a new country and culture. This workshop is available for individuals, couples, families and to business or educational travel or tourist groups.
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Many expatriates, former expatriates, and frequent international travelers face challenges in keeping their relationships satisfying. Time and schedule differences, physical travel stress, experiencing cultures and exhaustion due to jet lag, all make communication difficult. This interactive workshop provides resources, collaborative problem solving, and tips for satisfying international relationships from a well-traveled, former expatriate.
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This workshop will give you tools and confidence during the process of repatriation. It will help you manage your life, work, and relationships during re-entry culture shock using practical tips, questionnaires and experiential exercises. This workshop will help you integrate your international experience and use your creativity to take best advantage of your acquired knowledge in both your personal and professional life. This workshop is available to individuals, couples, families, groups of educational and business travelers.
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Consultation is tailored to the needs of the participants and may include but is not limited to; cultural identity, culture and language, conflict resolution, country and cultural grief and loss and the effects of socioeconomic class and social mobility will be addressed. (CEU may be available.)
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Working effectively with multicultural individuals, couples, families, professional work teams and businesses pushes the psychotherapist to look deeply at the self of the therapist. This four hour limited enrollment seminar for 6-8 mental health professionals invites the therapist to examine how his/her philosophical and historical life influences affect the clinical work with bicultural and multicultural clients. Case presentations will be used as content for discussions on bicultural, multicultural identity, cultural universals, socioeconomic and political influences and other needs tailored to the needs of the participants. (CEU may be available.)
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Bicultural and Immigrant parents can have a complicated mourning process for lost country, people, and support which contribute to misunderstanding and feeling misunderstood by their children. The resulting intergenerational conflict can result in withdrawal, triangulation and acting out risky behavior by multicultural children. This workshop presents case studies and techniques for resolution of conflict through the use of story and the meaning of places of the heart. (CEU may be available.)
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