Claude-Hélène Mayer ist Professorin für Industrial and
Organisational Psychology am Department for Industrial Psychology
and People Management, University of Johannesburg, Südafrika. Sie
ist zudem Privatdozentin am Institut für Sprachgebrauch und
Therapeutische Kommunikation an der Europa Universität Viadrina,
Frankfurt (Oder), in Deutschland und Senior Research Associate an
der Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Südafrika. International
arbeitet sie als Mediatorin und Ausbilderin für Mediation (BM), als
interkulturelle Trainerin, systemische Beraterin, Therapeutin und
Lehrtherapeutin (SG, DGSF). Weiterhin ist sie weltweit in der
internationalen Unternehmensberatung tätig. Ihre Forschung schließt
Themen wie Frauen in Führung, interkulturelle Mediation und
Konfliktmanagement, Gesundheit in Organisationen und Scham ein.
Mayer, Claude-Hélène, (Dr. habil., PhD, PhD) is a Professor in
Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Department of
Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of
Johannesburg, an Adjunct Professor at the European University
Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and a Senior Research
Associate at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She
holds a Ph.D. in psychology (University of Pretoria, South Africa),
a Ph.D. in management (Rhodes University, South Africa), a
doctorate (Georg-August University, Germany) in political sciences
(socio-cultural anthropology and intercultural didactics), and a
habilitation (European University Viadrina, Germany) in psychology
with focus on work, organizational, and cultural psychology. She
has published several monographs, text collections, accredited
journal articles, and special issues on transcultural mental
health, sense of coherence, shame, culture and health,
transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in
leadership in culturally diverse work contexts, constellation work,
coaching, and psychobiography. Prof. Dr. Wolting holds a chair in
intercultural communication at the Institute of Applied Linguistics
at the University of Poznan in Poland. The focus of his work is on
intercultural trainings, creative and autobiographic writing.
Blandine Bizy was born in 1956 into a French-Polish family and
spent her childhood between Burgundy and northern France where the
Polish community had clustered. These stays in Mazingarbe
(département du Nord) were like a trip to the Polish traditions
deeply rooted in this region of France where Polish immigrants used
to work in the coal mining industry. At present, Blandine Bizy is a
medical assistant in Paris. Gregory Bond was born 1963 in
Manchester, UK. He went to school in south Manchester and studied
German and French language and literature at various universities
in the UK and Germany. George worked as a teacher of English in
Germany for many years and is a trained and practising mediator and
facilitator. Today he teaches Communication and Mediation at the
University of Applied Sciences, Wildau, Berlin. He has worked on
international projects across Europe, in China and Russia and has
published eclectically on German and English literature, and on
mediation. Dr. Christian Boness ist Lehrbeauftragter am
Pädagogischen Seminar der Universität Göttingen, Oberstudienrat,
Diplom-Theologe und Mediator. Er war mehrere Jahre in der
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Tansania tätig und arbeitet heute im
Auftrag des Instituts für Interkulturelle Praxis und
Konfliktmanagement (IIPK) als Berater deutscher Organisationen, die
mit Partnern in Ostafrika kooperieren.
Christian Boness is Lecturer at the Pedagogical Seminar of the
University of Göttingen, Germany. He holds Master’s degrees in
theology and political sciences and a Doctorate in intercultural
education. He already has several years of experience as an
international consultant at the Institute for Cross-cultural
Practice and Conflict Management in Germany, working with
organisations cooperating with East Africa. He has published
several articles and books on cross-cultural communication and
mediation in European and African contexts.
Orna Braun-Lewensohn is a senior lecturer and the head of the
Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management programme at the Ben
Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). She received her PhD at
the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije
Universiteit, Brussels. Her major research interests include mental
health outcomes and coping during or following exposure to violent
political events. Orna focused in her research on personal as well
as communal coping resources in different cultural groups. Based on
her research she has published in various journals. David Castleton
is a novelist, teacher and academic who was born in the UK in 1974.
After growing up in the rural north of England, his first
experience of culture shock and intercultural communication perhaps
came with a move to London at the age of 18. Altogether he has
spent twelve years in that city, gaining there a BA in history, an
MA in cultural history and two specialist teaching qualifications.
After working extensively as an English language teacher both in
London and Spain, David moved to Miskolc in Hungary, where he was
employed as a university lecturer. He has since juggled writing
with teaching stints at the University of Miskolc and the
University of Manchester, teaching courses in subjects as diverse
as translation, academic English, text analysis, public speaking
and – of course – intercultural communication. For his many sins,
he has also worked as an academic proofreader, as well as a copy
editor of novels and plays. He has travelled extensively, visiting
locations such as Morocco, Thailand, Albania, Georgia, Macedonia
and many other places. He has recently found more time, in the
beautiful city of Poznań, Poland, to dedicate himself to his
greatest passion – creative writing. Anna Chita's specialist field
concerns German as Foreign Language/German as Second Language,
contrastive linguistics, intercultural communication and test
development. She studied German Philology: German as Foreign
Language/German as Second Language as well as Psychology and School
Pedagogy (1999). Since 1999 she has been a professor and free
coordinator of several courses and integration courses for foreign
young people and adults. Since 2003 she has been scientific
coordinator of the approved testing for foreign languages of the
Greek Ministry of Cultural Affairs for the further education of
examiners. Since 2010 she has been scientific coordinator of the
Higher Technical Institute “Business Administration” of
Igoumenitsa/Greece in Applied Foreign Languages in Trade and
Management. Melisa Choubak is currently at the PhD level of her
studies in the Applied Social Psychology programme at the
University of Guelph, Canada, where she is part of the Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research. Her passion for research stems in part
from her own experiences as a first-generation immigrant. Research
that gives back to marginalised/under-represented communities and
informs community action and policy is very intriguing to her. She
is mostly interested in the intersectionality of multiple oppressed
identities and hard-to-reach populations. Feminist and
anti-oppression research frameworks are integral to her research
and interests. She also holds a degree in education, and her
passions include social justice and humane education for children
to foster compassion and respect for all living beings. A diverse
track record of volunteerism and professional development has
allowed her to gain multiple perspectives for research and life.
Clifford H. Clarke, the founder and CEO of Clarke Consulting Group,
Inc. (1980), a global consulting and training firm that was
headquartered in Redwood City, California, is now retired in Kyoto,
Japan. A founder of the intercultural field who has led the way in
merging the intercultural and business worlds, Clifford’s
geographical area of expertise is Japan. His family has an
extensive history in that country dating back to 1898; he himself
lived in Japan from the age of 7 until he returned to the US to
attend college. His strong academic background in Stanford
University’s Interdisciplinary Studies in the Social Sciences PhD
programme (ABD) is supplemented by his extensive experience in
global business consulting. Clifford taught courses in
Intercultural Communication for eight years at Stanford University
where he founded and directed the Stanford Institute for
Intercultural Communication for ten years. While at Stanford he
also designed and implemented US English teacher selection systems
for two Japanese Ministries for ten years. Following his
eleven-year career as the foreign student counsellor at Cornell and
Stanford Universities, in 1980 Clifford began serving as a
consultant to global corporations by directing corporate culture
research projects and facilitating technology transfers for
numerous American companies with subsidiaries primarily in Japan.
He designed and conducted workshops for senior management teams on
culturally integrated leadership, intercultural team-building and
corporate culture change and development. In 2005 he returned to
academia and taught Intercultural Communication courses for five
years at the University of Hawaii. Clifford is currently focusing
his work on more writing and published his latest article,
Reflections from History: How Shifting Paradigms Created
Intercultural Innovations, in the Journal of Intercultural
Communication, No. 20, 2017 (July). Aden-Paul Flotman was born in
Grahamstown (South Africa), where he matriculated and started his
initial training as an industrial and organisational psychologist
at Rhodes University. He joined the Military Psychological
Institute and Absa Bank in the capacity of organisation development
manager. He is an integral coach and is currently working as a
senior lecturer at the University of South Africa. Aden-Paul is
married to Rosanne. They have three children, Landreth, Shanaaz and
an adorable Pekingese called Levi. Aden-Paul sees himself as a
community activist and a keen follower of advances in the medical
field, open distance, e-learning, and leadership authorisation.
Jammal, Elias, born in 1954, is Palestinian German. He studied
Philosophy, History of Arts and Physics at the University of
Heidelberg, afterwards obtaining his PhD at the University of
Kaiserslautern and an MBA in England. For 15 years he was the
managing director of the Institute for Development Aid (IEZ)
working in the fields of development aid and economic development,
especially in Middle Eastern countries. Since 1998 he has been a
professor in intercultural studies and intercultural communication
at the University of Heilbronn. Dominika Krysztofowicz was born in
Poznań, Poland in 1991. She graduated from law and applied
linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. At present
she works as a lawyer. She took part in various international
projects, collaborating with i.a. Philipps-Universität Marburg,
Technische Universität Darmstadt and Freie Universität Berlin. She
participated in the programme of European Master in Intercultural
Communication at INALCO, Sorbonne Paris-Cité in Paris in 2014.
Dominika finished twelve
years of musical education in a public musical school. Ashutosh
Kumar was born in a remote part of North India. For higher studies,
he moved to Delhi and studied at the Department of English, Delhi
University. After completing his studies, he taught in the colleges
of Delhi University for three years. He then moved to Poland with
his wife, a Polish national. Currently he lives in Poznan and
teaches English in a school. Rashelle Litchmore VH is a PhD
candidate at the University of Guelph in Applied Social Psychology.
She obtained her BSc in Psychology at the University of Toronto and
her MA in Applied Social Psychology from the University of Guelph.
Her research interests include race, ethnicity, culture and
identity, particularly among second-generation and youth
populations. She takes a primarily social-constructionist approach
to this work, with an emphasis on examining immediate and broader
social context for an understanding of culture and identity.
Rashelle also conducts research and evaluation work for social
service organisations, with an interest in the implementation and
assessment of social psychological research in community settings.
Mandar Shrikrishna Purandare was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Since childhood he has been connected with theatre, mostly as an
actor. Later he studied Metallurgical Engineering, and worked as a
metallurgist for a few years. After that, he started learning
German and became a translator combining the experience of
engineering and language. He has worked on technical as well as
literary translation. In 2001 he formed a theatre group TG001
together with Dr Manjiri Paranjape. The group undertook many
theatrical adventures –such as ‘Herkules und der Stall des Augias’,
‘Ende des Zeitalters’ (translation of a Marathi Yugaant by Mahesh
Elkunchwar), ‘Kafkaesk’ – a theatrical compilation of short stories
by Franz Kafka. He has been living in Poznań since 2008, working as
a Hindi native speaker in UAM Poznań, and also working on Polish
theatre. Safdar, Saba is an Iranian-born Canadian-educated
associate professor in the Psychology Department at the University
of Guelph in Canada, where she is Director of the Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research. She received her PhD from York University
in Toronto in 2002 and has held a faculty position since
graduation. Additionally, she has been a visiting scholar at
several universities across the globe including the US, the UK,
France, Poland, Colombia, India and Kazakhstan. Professor Safdar’s
research primarily examines the wide range of factors that could
help to understand adaptation processes of newcomers, including
immigrants and international students. She is a member of the
editorial boards of several journals. Her TEDx talk was entitled
“Everything you always wanted to know about culture but were afraid
to ask.” Van der Heyden, Ulrich, Professor, Dr.phil,
Dr.rer.pol.habil. and PhD (Rhodes University Grahamstown/South
Africa) is a historian with special interests in African and
colonial history, as well as a political scientist with the main
emphasis on Africa. He is an associate research professor at a
university in South Africa and senior researcher at the Free
University and the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he teaches
African, Colonial and Mission History. Oliver Spatz was born 1969
in Hamburg, Germany and is the artistic director of Kleist Theatre
in Frankfurt (Oder). He studied theatre science, history of art and
psychology in Munich and Berlin. His work experience is in
experimental and institutional culture contexts. He is the writer
and director of bilingual musical plays. Eva Teshajev, coming from
a mixed background and having lived in several European countries,
considers herself a European. She has always been interested in
languages and is a believer in the saying “the more languages I
speak, the more times I am a human being”. After finishing school,
this attitude led her to study Russian and Polish Translation,
Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of
Mainz. She is now a professional translator and a university
lecturer in the translation field. After finishing her degree, Eva
spent some years in southern Spain and England. She then got a job
as a native-speaker lecturer of German, with the Robert Bosch
Foundation, in Miskolc, Hungary. She spent six years there,
enabling her to deeply acquaint herself with the way of life in the
north-east of that country. Eva currently lives in Poznań, Poland,
where she works on behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD). Though culture shock has been a frequent experience for
Eva, she believes that each country she has spent time in has left
some traces on her personality.
Together with 18 contributing authors Mayer and Wolting have
compiled 19 quite diverse individual transcultural accounts,
perceptions and identity developments. That gives us a pool of
first hand shared experiences with a glimpse into the joys,
challenges and emotions that transcultural individuals encounter
and have to cope with. The unique ways and solutions can encourage
us, serve as role models or lead to deeper insight.
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