The Intercultural Facilitation Program
In this online course you’ll receive a complete guidance for a successful life in contact with a new culture.
The Intercultural Facilitation Program is designed for everyone who relates to people of another culture through work, cooperation, a foreign partner, a life abroad and who have difficulties with:
- Making contact
- Mutual understanding
- Communication
- Regulating emotions
- Achieving desired goals
Thanks to this course you will:
- Reach mutual understanding
- Make pleasant contact and fruitful relations with others
- Embrace change
- Feel free
- Find your own pathway in the new challenging environment
You’ll learn:
- How each of us mentally organize and represent the world around us
- What culture is (not)
- Which cultural differences you will encounter in the new intercultural setting
- How to process cultural shocks
- How to recognize and regulate your emotions caused by the new situations
- How to determine your own path and achieve your personal goals in the intercultural setting
The Intercultural Facilitation Program consists of fourteen lectures that you can take at your own chosen speed. I do advice you to not take more than one lecture per day, enabling you to really digest the new insights and practice new skills. All lectures take maximum 15 to 30 minutes. The exercises following them can take more time. Yet, they are vital if you want to accelerate your integration process.
Your Instructor
Bio:
Eva Geerts was born and raised in an intercultural Belgian-Dutch family. When she was 17 years Eva participated in a student exchange program: during her year abroad in Costa Rica her parents hosted a Thai student in their family. In the last year of her psychology studies in Brussels she received the offer to do an internship in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. After a challenging adjustment period in Hogar de niños Alalay, a home for street children, she decided to migrate to Santa Cruz.
In 2013 she founded a non-profit association Que Te Vaya Bien in Belgium, an organization that meets the needs of children and their families living in poverty in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. Since her marriage in 2016 with her Bolivian husband, Fernando and the birth of their daughter Halina Eva works independently as a psychotherapist. She’s interested particularly in the human nature, relations, cultural influences and personal freedom.
Education:
+ Exchange student in Costa Rica with AFS Intercultural programs (2005)
+ Master in Psychology at the Free University of Brussels (2006-2011)
+ Certificated by the Belgian Technical Cooperation; the Belgian development cooperation agency (2009)
Experiences:
+ Clinical Psychology, Human Resources and Intercultural Coaching in Hogar de niños Alalay, a home for street children in Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia (2011-2014)
+ President of the Belgian non-profit association Que te vaya bien (2013-until now)
+ Clinical Psychology in 't Pasrel a Reception, Orientation and Observation Center in Brussels, Belgium (2015-2016)
+ Independent psychotherapist in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (2017-until now)
+ Intercultural coaching around the world (2019-until now)
Languages:
Eva is fluent in Dutch, Spanish and English. She speaks and understand French
"In her online course Eva Geerts provides a ladder of both support and opportunity for those of us interested in learning more about cultural awareness. Her mix of theory, advice and powerful storytelling will help prevent you slipping into misguided assumptions about people. The result is an understanding of how the different perspectives and wisdom of other cultures can enrich our lives and invite innovation and success both at home and at work. Anyone like Eva who is prepared to promote our understanding of cultural awareness gets my vote."
- Jim Morris, Intercultural trainer and Senior Consultant at Schouten Global, The Netherlands