- Introduction to Cross-cultural Adjustment: A Quick Overview
- Pre-stage: Preparing to Go
- Stage 1: Honeymoon
- Stage 2: The Shock
- Stage 3: Adjustment
- Stage 4: Well-adjusted
- Stage 5: ?
- A Case Study
- Wrap Up
This is a free course as a beginning for three other courses I'm currently planning and producing.
1. Cross-cultural Adjustment - For Expats (Level 1)
2. Cross-cultural Adjustment - For Expats (Level 2)
3. Understanding Cross-cultural Adjustment
The initial 2 are for people with actual experience abroad and the idea is to provide a pocket guide throughout their journey.
The 3rd one is designed specifically for people with no actual experience abroad yet want to understand what it is like to interact with another culture intimately.
I plan to release these soon, keep a look out!
This series contains hands-on, systematic, comprehensive, and interactive content on the cross-cultural adjustment process, making it a fun and credible source of learning on the topic. There's no other resources like it.
I speak from 12 years of personal experience along with resources I've collected over the years, conversations with tons other "cross-cultural adults" from all walks of life, and ample research to ground my teaching.
Everything I teach in this course is close to my heart. Being cross-culture presented some of the hardest challenges I’ve ever had to face, and I’ve had to come through tears and sweat to have learnt skills that not only allowed me to survive, but also to thrive.
Now, it's your turn to shine!
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I'm Jing Sproule from mainland China.
My profile picture was taken in 2015 when I stayed in Nepal for a month.
My hometown is roughly of the same size and population as Shanghai - in fact, you can lift the whole Shanghai up and travel along the biggest river in China, and put it down roughly in the middle of China; there you'll have my hometown, Chongqing.
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My cross-cultural journey can be summarised as mainly 3 stages for 3 different purposes:
1. China to Scandinavia - Study
2. China to the World - Work
3. China to Northern Ireland - Marriage / Settlement
It began when I travelled from my hometown to Sweden for college on 27th August 2009 where I experienced being abroad as an international student for 4 years.
Then I worked in an international charity organisation for 3 years. The work took me to Australia, remote parts of China, Thailand, Nepal, and the Philippines. I became roommates with people from 40+ nations including all continents, which further expanded my first and second hand experience of the world.
Then I met Tim, a handsome Northern Irish lad. We got married in 2020 and I am currently making this place my home.
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Being cross-cultural is an integral part of my identity. It is probably the most challenging part of my life but at the same time, the most rewarding.
I've learnt by making loads of silly and sometimes serious mistakes what it means to be "cross-cultural".
In the series of courses I'm going to provide in Udemy I will share with you all that I've learnt about cross-cultural adjustment process, the secrets that turns it into a beautiful and successful one, so that you can learn from my 12 years of mistakes, experience, reflection and research, and share my joy and passion of being cross-cultural.
Hop on!