REAL WORLD ISSUES COURSE
Using Neuroscience -Mai Nguyen
To foster Personal Leadership, Inclusion & Diversity
OVERVIEW
Applied Neuroscience and Organisational Neuroscience are new disciplines, made possible only with recent technological innovations. Those who embrace this new well of knowledge include professionals and experts from disciplines such as intercultural communication and management, inclusion and diversity, well-being and personal development. One significant upside of applied neuroscience is that it can create a balance with and re-frame the ‘problem-based’ and ‘difference-focused’ approach that is prevalent in mainstream cultural theories.
HOW TO REGISTER
From this page, select the course dates (only one option is available) then simply and easily Register as a new user to complete your registration and pay. The IDD will be in contact once your enrollment has been approved.
NOTE: You'll need to register separately for each course in which you wish to enroll.
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This course examines how rather than relying on fear-based approaches (ref Hofstede’s statement that “Culture is more often a source of conflict than synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.”), workplaces and communities can instead apply neuroscience insights and Positive Organisational Scholarship (POS) to pursue personal leadership, inclusion and diversity efforts in order to reap its moral, social, and economic benefits.
Drawing from the emerging field of applied neuroscience and POS, the course provides fundamental, hands-on, and up-to-date knowledge and skill-building that helps you better understand how the brain works and how you can make it work for you—and help your clients do the same.
In being able to more critically reflect on theories and practices that have been the mainstream and see where they can be enriched or debunked with insights from neuroscience, you and those you work with will be able to create and improve workplace policies and strategies on bias management, diversity & inclusion practices, change management, intercultural communication, work-life balance, and personal development.
In this course, you will learn how to help yourself and those you work with so that you/they can better:
- Critically appreciate neuroscience myths and realities and how the former may be erroneously incorporated into mainstream practices in the workplace and otherwise.
- Articulate the fundamentals of neuroscience, including neuroplasticity, neurogenesis and epigenetics.
- Understand cultural neuroscience connections, i.e. those between culture, cultural values, and acculturalisation with genes and brain using an interdisciplinary approach that fosters the potential of a multicultural mind.
- Understand neuroscience’s role in learning and well-being, including mindfulness, workout, and mind-gut connection.
- Apply insights from neuroscience to understand and work with biases and change management.
This course will blend cognitive discussions about key concepts and frameworks with applied independent learning based on your real-world cases as well as group discussions. You will have an opportunity to consider how you might apply the knowledge and strategies gained in this course with your clients.
This course is for you if are a consultant/trainer/multiplier/educator who helps those who:
- are implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives within their organisations;
- offer training and on-the-job professional development to help colleagues better communicate and collaborate;
- work with those who appreciate “hard science”-based evidence for making system-wide and personal change.
Contact us at info@iddifferences.org if you have questions about the suitability of this course for your circumstances.
COURSE TYPE
Real world issues
DURATION/DATES
3 days/12-14 July 2023
TARGET LEVEL(S)
Senior (20+ years)
Advanced (13-19 years)
Mid (6-12 years)
TUITION FEE
€1495
includes certificate from the University and the Institute
HOW TO REGISTER
From this page, select the course dates (only one option is available) then simply and easily Register as a new user to complete your registration and pay. The IDD will be in contact once your enrollment has been approved.
NOTE: You'll need to register separately for each course in which you wish to enroll.
ENROLL NOW
Mai Nguyen, PhD
Dr. Mai Nguyen is an associate professor at Amsterdam School of International Business where she specialises in cross-cultural management. In addition to PhD in intercultural communication, she has a Master’s degree from King’s College London on Applied Neuroscience and a Master in Educational Science and Curriculum Design from Twente University.
Mai is widely known for bridging intercultural communication and neuroscience in organizational settings, and making these complex concepts accessible to practitioners in academic and corporate settings alike.
In addition to two textbooks that are currently used in universities worldwide, Intercultural Communication: When Neurons, Genes, and Evolution Joined the Discourse (Amsterdam University Press) and Cross-Cultural Management with Insights from Brain Science (Routledge), she is an active researcher.
This is the motto that inspires my work: “If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are” – Noam Chomsky.
Neuroscience is often considered a topic beyond the reach of daily practitioners, many of whom may not have a background in the hard sciences.
While a general understanding of neuroscience is helpful, the core concepts we will address do not require a specialised understanding in this area.
She helps us recognize and understand what neuroscience is revealing about culture and communication. She helps us sort out what is of value, functional and can be recycled in our practice, shows us how to pack it up and take it with us, leaving behind what is no longer relevant and trashing what is useless.






HOW TO REGISTER
From this page, select the course dates (only one option is available) then simply and easily Register as a new user to complete your registration and pay. The IDD will be in contact once your enrollment has been approved.
NOTE: You'll need to register separately for each course in which you wish to enroll.
ENROLL NOW


CONSIDERATIONS
Neuroscience is often considered a topic beyond the reach of daily practitioners, many of whom may not have a background in the hard sciences. While a general understanding of ?human biology and physiology? is helpful, and we will touch on the anatomy and chemistry involved, the core concepts we will address do not require a specialized understanding in this area.
PREQUALIFICATIONS
While this course is open to all practitioners, it is strongly recommended that you have:
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HOW TO REGISTER
To register on or after 6 June, simply email us at enroll@iddifferences.org for instructions.
NB: Official registration happens through the University of Groningen’s enrollment system. We will provide you with details for this.