Design Your Cultural Lens - Part 1 Series

Join us for a two-session "Design your Cultural Lens" Part 1 Series, designed to help you explore how identity, language, and culture shape how we see and communicate with one another.

Each session can be attended on its own, but together they form a meaningful starting point for designing your own “cultural lens.”

Session 1- Monday, Dec 8 - 19:00-21:00 | at DAI Heidelberg
🧭 Mapping Your Cultural Self: Identity, Values & Belonging
🌱 “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
✨ Our cultural background, personal history, and experiences of belonging shape the “lens” through which we interpret the world.

In this opening session, we explore how identity, home, and lived experience influence how we communicate and connect; in life, work, and community. Using Learning Experience Design through simple reflective practices, light movement, visual mapping, and guided storytelling, you will begin to identify the elements that shape your cultural lens.

🎭 What to Expect

• Connection and grounding warm-up
• Identity and belonging reflection
• Paired storytelling✋
• “Belonging Map” collaborative wall activity
• Light, accessible movement to support presence
• International Music 🎶 & Art 🎨 to optimize the experience
• Space for group discussion and insights
• Herbal Tea & water & light healthy snacks are shared 🍱

No artistic or movement experience is needed.

Session 2- Monday, Dec 15 - 19:00- 21:00 | at DAI Heidelberg
👂 Intercultural Ears: How to Listen Across Differences
🌾 “The greatest compliment you can give someone is your attention.” - Bryant H. McGill

✨ Listening varies across cultures: timing, silence, emotion, tone, presence, and rhythm all differ. This session helps you practice mindful, adaptive listening across cultural contexts.

🎧 What to Expect

• Intercultural listening insights 🙉
• Gentle partner mirroring (non-touch) 🪞
• Structured mindful listening practice 🧘
• Short sound-awareness reflection 🎧
• Story exchange 🍃
• International Music 🎶 & Art 🎨 to optimize the experience
• Space for group discussion and insights
• Herbal Tea & water & light healthy snacks are shared 🍱

This session benefits anyone working or living across cultures.

🕖 Time: 19:00-21:00 - Arrival from 18:45
📌 Location: DAI Heidelberg - Creative Room (Lower Floor)
💶 €20 per session, €30 for 2 sessions
👤 Capacity: Max 14 participants per session
📝 Pre-session Survey will be emailed to registrants (please submit 3 days in advance for your answers to be included in the experience optimization)
📸 By registering, you agree to be photographed during the session.