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Intercultural Intelligence — Connect Across Cultures, Views and Generations

Joseph Avakian

Diversity is richness, unity is wealth.

Cultural and generational disconnect is real. Learn to Connect and communicate.

We all have been there — in a meeting, or a hang out, everyone is talking, but few are truly heard. Words are shared, but meaning is lost. We speak the same language, and still we miss each other.

This happens across cultures, and it happens across generations too. A team can have five nationalities and still feel disconnected. A family can share one language and still not understand each other. Communication is not the same as connection.

Intercultural intelligence is not a soft skill on the side — it's what holds diverse teams, families and communities together. It moves us from simply exchanging words, to truly understanding people: their values, their journey, and what matters to them.

In this course we will cover a few topics such as:

  • The Basic Human Need for Connection

  • The Trap of Tribalism

  • Values that Challenge, yet Connect

  • The Art of Observation — Reading Behaviour, not just Language

  • From Tolerance to True Unity

  • Leading and Belonging Across Generations

If you find yourself leading, working, or living among different cultures and generations, this course will equip you to move from communication to true connection.

What you’ll learn

Intercultural Intelligence is knowing the values beneath the culture, so we can bridge people, not just languages.

  • We all want to be seen and understood, not just heard. Connection is a basic human need, across every culture and generation.

  • Communication can happen without connection. Intercultural intelligence is what closes that gap.

  • Diverse teams don't unite by accident — they unite when someone leads with intercultural intelligence.

  • Knowing the values underneath a culture, not just its customs. Every culture is shaped by values like family, time, honor and community.

  • The art of observation. Language is key to a culture, but so is behaviour — what is culturally appropriate is key to know.

  • Finding what we have in common, not just naming our differences. Humans are more alike than we believe.

  • Learn from every culture's journey — understand it, then connect with it.

  • Move from tolerance to real unity — not just coping with difference, but building bridges through it.

  • Practice re-thinking and re-evaluating your own lens. Willingness to adapt is what bears fruit.

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Who this course is for

  • Anyone who is part of an intercultural team, and or is in an environments where intercultural understanding is necessary.

  • Students who are studying any topic, that entails the importance of intercultural communication and dialogue

  • Leaders who have diverse cultures represented. Need key tools to nurture and cultivate the diversity into unity.

Prerequisites

  • Time and passion to see a truly connected world.

    To connect with diversity and lead into unity, is something that you need to carry and value. Seeing Humans behind the culture is necessary

  • Readiness to re-think and re-evaluate.

    To connect well with the other, the willingness to change and to adopt is what will bear fruit. So come ready to let go, and to embrace.

  • English Proficiency

    As this course will be in English, it's necessary that you are fluent in English in written as well as in spoken.

What's included

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Live sessions

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Lifetime access

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Community of peers

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Aug 11—Aug 16

    Aug

    11

    🚀 Welcome introductions + know your co-hort + Course intro

    Tue 8/111:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

    Aug

    13

    🖖🏽 Basic Human Need - Connection

    Thu 8/131:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Aug 17—Aug 23

    Aug

    18

    🫆 The trap of tribalism

    Tue 8/181:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

    Aug

    20

    🤚🏽 The values that challenge, 👌🏽 and yet connect

    Thu 8/201:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

2-3 hrs / week

Two hours live for our 2 sessions, and one hour one on one.

    • Tue, Aug 11

      1:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Aug 13

      1:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Aug 18

      1:00 PM—2:00 PM (UTC)

Projects*

1-3 hrs / week

Optional* This means you have a project at hand that you would work on to practice what you are learning. Included are 2 extra one-on-one sessions to be mentored, and advised about your project.

Async content

2-3 hrs / week

For One-to-One meetings.

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