WHAT EXPATS CAN DO

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FIGT Conference 2017 – What Expats Can Do presentation

This is the presentation Cristina gave at the Families in Global Transition conference in The Hague in March 2017. I will start by sharing my feelings, so that we can...

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Red spades and black hearts?

How much of our knowledge is influenced by our experience? How many times we see only what we think we are seeing? Facing diversity can be tricky: are we aware of...

Linguistic empathy

What is linguistic empathy, and why is it important to practice it?   According to a survey of the Ethnologue, there are 7,099 distinct languages in the world, but only...

Empathy in…a bottle

  An 8-year-old child in Gaza has lived through three rounds of conflict. A year after the summer 2014 hostilities, the children of Gaza are still recovering from the nightmare....

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The Penny Wirton School

The Penny Wirton School is a very special Italian language school for new migrants, founded by writer Eraldo Affinati and his wife Anna Luce Lenzi. The school is special because...

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Art to express empathy

Claudia relates on her visit to Dia.Lo.Gue, and art gallery in Jakarta, and shares a reflection on how art can spread empathy.   I recently visited Dia.Lo.Gue, a beautiful art...

In Danish schools, empathy is taught one hour a week. To have happier adults.

It is called “Klassens tid”: children learn to listen to others, to have a multi approach to problems, and to develop a strong team spirit. All of this while sharing...

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What I saw today – Not Just A Number, International Friends Play&Share

I don’t know if what I saw today matches our current Challenge, but for sure curiosity was what pushed me to jump into my car and go to “International Friends Play&Share”...

Social Fabric – a wonderful way to integrate refugees in Zurich

Deborah is Italian and lives in Zurich. She tells about Social Fabric, a Swiss organization that created a wonderful project to help refugees integrate in the Swiss society.   Despite...

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