2. Awareness
Physiological Impact
Culture Shock
Psychological Impact
Adjustment
Fears and Threats
Resilience
Increase Effectiveness
Best
Strategic Solutions Practices
3. When you think about your experiences
living or traveling in a different culture, what
do you think might be taken away, given
up or lost?
What do you think we will be added?
4. How does this relate to your experiences
abroad when you have had to adapt your
behavior or make a lot changes quickly or
over an extended period?
5. “People are different around the world.
Their needs, however, are the same. How
they satisfy their needs is different, and that
is what we mean by CULTURE.”
Jack Condon
6. “Culture is …the learned and shared
values, beliefs, and behaviors of a
group of interacting people.”
7. Honeymoon Adjust and Adapt
Adjustment
Recovery Recovery
Crisis Crisis
8. Daily dilemmas
Stress of the unfamiliar
Difficulty letting go of old ways
Old behaviors do not produce
same results
Excitement and anxiety
combined
Being stereotyped or
judged
New relationships
9. It is common
Accept that it is a real problem
There are ways to minimize the effects
Learn to recognize its signs
Understand it can result in serious reactions to continuing tension;
anxiety; possible severe physical/mental manifestations)
11. Stimulus
Physiological
arousal
Fight or
Adrenaline
Flight Amygdala Production
, Freeze Activation
Response Executive Function
inhibition
12. Awareness of
physiological self
Owning response
Identifying/analyzing origin of threat
Amygdala management
Restore executive functioning
Increase resilience, learn to cope and adapt
Reframe experience
13. High Partner Attractiveness
Integration Assimilation
High Cultural Low Cultural
Preservation Preservation
Separation Marginalization
Low Partner Attractiveness
14. Open-minded
Sense of humor
Ability to cope with failure
Communicativeness
Flexibility and adaptability
Curiosity
Positive and realistic
expectations
Tolerance for difference
and ambiguity
Positive regard for others
A strong sense of self
Cultural knowledge
15. How can your institution support your
international learners?
What kind of support can you offer?
What do you need to do to ensure
your institution is equipped to provide
them?
