{"id":2931,"date":"2014-09-05T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2015-10-28T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:38:38","slug":"jerusalem-diversity-icebreaker-svetlana-kurilova-absolutely-intercultural-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem +++ Diversity Icebreaker +++ Svetlana Kurilova +++ Absolutely Intercultural 182 +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2931-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_182.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_182.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_182.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skjermbilde.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skjermbilde-300x192.png\" alt=\"Diversity Icebreaker badges\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skjermbilde-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skjermbilde-1024x657.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skjermbilde-900x577.png 900w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skjermbilde.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> In today&#8217;s show we will be going to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel twice, first with Mitch Weegman who was collaborating with leading edge researchers there for a two week research visit. We\u2019ll be hearing about how just walking through Jerusalem takes you on an intercultural journey and then we\u2019ll be hearing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjornzekelund\" target=\"_blank\">Bj\u00f8rn Zakarius Ekelund<\/a> in Norway who was wondering if his team building tool, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversityicebreaker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diversity Icebreaker<\/a>, could help build bridges between Israelis and Palestinians.\u00a0 And finally thanks to Svetlana Kurilova who contacted us through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AbsolutelyIntercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page to tell us about her travels through Europe with a Spanish friend.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>So you can contact us through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AbsolutelyIntercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page like Svetlana did or through this blog where you can also leave comments. Thank you to Evelyn Sears in Australia who alerted us to a problem with the commenting. That is now fixed thanks to Thomas J\u00f6ckel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolstage.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toolstage <\/a>in Germany. Thomas has also made our podcast accessible through mobile devices so you should now be able to hear us on any mobile device too.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to hear from old friends of the podcast and one such is Shai Reshef who started the <a href=\"http:\/\/uopeople.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of the People<\/a> where you can get a degree online with free tuition. Hear him in shows <a title=\"absolutely Intercultural 94 +++ University of the People +++ Shai Reshef +++ Debbie Swallow +++ 4C International +++\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=652\" target=\"_blank\">94<\/a> and <a title=\"absolutely intercultural 134 +++ University of the People +++ Shai Reshef +++ Haiti +++\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=1422\" target=\"_blank\">134 <\/a>where you can follow how his idea was born. Shai contacted us to tell us about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6kH-uYwt0qs\" target=\"_blank\">TED talk<\/a> he gave in Vancouver recently so I will also embed the video on our Facebook page soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely cutting edge<\/strong><br \/>\nSo on with the show where we talk first with <a href=\"http:\/\/biosciences.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/postgradresearch\/index.php?web_id=Mitchell_Weegman\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Weegman<\/a>, an American PhD student who went for a 2 week visit to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely icebreaking<\/strong><br \/>\nLast May I was fortunate enough to meet Bj\u00f8rn Ekelund, a Norwegian, who has developed a great tool that gets people working together, the Diversity Icebreaker. After a while, Bj\u00f8rn began to wonder if the tool could be used, not just in business situations but also in conflict situations so that brings us back to Israel and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem once again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely together<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd finally, it\u2019s great when we get to know our listeners a little better so I was very happy to talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/svetlana.klimova\" target=\"_blank\">Svetlana Kurilova<\/a> who caught up with us on our Facebook page to tell us about her travels across 12 European countries over the last 8 years with a Spanish friend. Let\u2019s hear more about the new perspectives you get when you are absolutely together:<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t forget to keep liking us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AbsolutelyIntercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a>or you can leave a comment on our blog here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave you with this thought. Did you know that it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efil.afs.org\/projects\/idd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intercultural Dialogue Day<\/a> on September 25th Are you doing anything special for that day? If so let us know. 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We\u2019ll be hearing about how just walking through Jerusalem takes you on an intercultural journey and then we\u2019ll be hearing from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=2931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jerusalem +++ Diversity Icebreaker +++ Svetlana Kurilova +++ Absolutely Intercultural 182 +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,226,919,917,315,251,997,918],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-anne-fox","tag-bjorn-zakarius-ekelund","tag-diversity-icebreaker","tag-dr-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-israel","tag-podcast","tag-svetlana-kurilova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}