Our cultural identity helps us to create a sense of belonging, security, satisfaction and makes us feel connected. We all exist on different levels: we may identify with our nation, an ethnic group, a geographic region, social status, faith in a religious belief or ideology etc. Although we all have different types of identities – we […]
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Keep cool and stay bilingual
We can find many suggestions about how to support our children to become bilinguals* when they are toddlers, in preschool or primary school. But what happens when they are teenagers and young adults? Can we still support them with their family languages or other languages they’re learning along the way? If culture was a […]
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Goodbyes are hard for leavers and stayers!
To all those who left, to all those who will leave, and to all those who stay… We can find many advices for people leaving, how to organize a move and how to make it a smooth one for the whole family, children, and friends. – But what about those who stay? I’ve been the […]
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What colour has your mindset: blue or green?
My coaching clients know that the main focus of my coaching is on communication, on the way we talk to others and to ourselves. Why? Because the way we talk to ourselves – our inner talk or internal monologue – reveals a lot about how we perceive ourselves and the way we react to the […]
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Understanding Teenagers…
Understanding Teenagers We all develop our very own patterns of communication with one another and every family uses verbal and non-verbal habits to express themselves. It is very easy to get stuck in unhealthy patterns of communication. Especially when our children become teenagers, many of us feel like they don’t know their […]
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