050 How to become a Cultural Relativist; Sundae Bean

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About This Week’s Guest: Sundae Bean

Sundae Bean is an executive coach, intercultural specialist, and trainer.

She supports organizations by helping their employees and the accompanying families live well and work successfully across cultures – without losing their sense of adventure.

She is American by birth, Swiss by marriage, and an expat in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso by choice.

Her three tips to become more culturally competent are:

1. Understand what your own cultural values are. You need to understand them first to make sense of what the “other” is doing.
2. Get curious about the other culture(s). Ask yourself if it is really true what you think, feel, see, and/or experience.
3. Make sure you are well-balanced. What I mean by this is that you need to be physically healthy and well rested, because experiencing intense cultural differences can take not only a mental toll but also a physical toll.

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Website: http://sundaebean.com/

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Chris Smit

Chris is passionate about Cultural Differences. He has been helping organizations save time and money when they work Internationally for the last 20+ years. While doing this he had the fortunate opportunity to hold lectures, workshops, and consulting projects on this subject World Wide. It has made him understand his own culture much better and appreciate the differences around the world.
His education is in Organisational Psychology and he has lived in the USA, the Netherlands, and currently lives in Belgium.

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