North Seattle Satellite
May 16, 2016
Shoreline Conference Center
18560 1st Ave NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
Navigating Relocation - Cultural Transition as a Coaching Challenge
Presented by
Janet Livingstone
What does it mean to relocate and find yourself in a new culture? How does it affect your identity, relationships and professional success? What we are used to calling "culture shock" is actually a long and complex process that everyone experiences differently. In our May session, Janet will talk with us about those who relocate for work or accompany their partners to a new place and what they go through as they adjust to their new surroundings. International cultural transition can be profound and coaching those who are going through it is a unique challenge.
The challenges are numerous and have to do mainly with gaining trust. Janet will present a methodology that comprises 4 stages of cultural transition to help us as coaches establish trust listen very actively to determine at what stage of transition the client is experiencing. Then the coach can work on helping the client create awareness of the effects of this transition inside them and begin to process them
BIO
Janet Livingstone is a coach and communication skills trainer specializing in transitions and cross-cultural issues. Janet has lived and worked on four continents, including 15 years in Central Europe. She holds degrees from McGill University and Georgetown University, and has extensive experience consulting on organizational development issues to NGOs, corporations and startups. In Europe, her clients include: IBM, O2, ING Bank, the Slovak Ministry of Finance in Bratislava and Brussels, Open Society Foundation, and individual nonprofit managers. During her ten years in global health, Janet had the opportunity to work in Bolivia, Cote d'Ivoire, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Kenya, Madagascar, Nepal, Poland and Zambia. In 2013, she completed the executive coaching program at the Academy of Coaching Excellence in Prague and hasn't looked back. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Slovak and some German, and has a sense of humor in almost all of them.
For more information, see: www.cultureiskey.coach
