The Shift

Trisha speaks with Sarah Black, a global communications consultant, trainer and podcaster with over thirty years of communications experience - who has also recently completed her CQ Facilitator training.

Sarah brings a Northern Irish perspective to Shifts, mixed with influences from Norway, the USA and the UK - all places where she has lived and worked for some years.

We talk about how good Communications can create Shifts within people and why she believes all Communications professionals need Cultural Intelligence (CQ).

To learn more connect with Sarah on LinkedIn Sign up for her Newsletter and listen to her podcast - A Quick Dip.

In this episode, Trisha speaks with Dr Mark Williams, a neuroscientist with over 25 years of experience conducting behavioural and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills. 

What makes us form in-groups and out-groups? How can we shift out of those biases?

Mark's knowledge, ability to put complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand language, and optimism and hope for us as people will inspire and encourage us. To learn more about his work check out his website, and his book and follow him on LinkedIn

In this episode, Trisha is practising what each of her guests has suggested in different ways. She reflects on the learning so far, drawing threads from David Livermore's Episode 4 CQ Strategy Where Shifts Happen and taking those threads through Mariette Rups-Donnelley's Episode 5 An Actor's Perspective and then again seeing those threads show up in Cath's Episode 6 Can the Body Help us Shift?

Despite real differences in their approaches, there are also similar lessons we can learn from these episodes in how to increase our CQ Strategy - our Cultural Awareness. If you have noticed repeated themes we'd love to hear your thoughts. Please reach out on LinkedIn to discuss this further. You can follow or connect with Trisha here

In this episode, Trisha speaks with Cath Brew, a global LGBTQ+ consultant and coach who also works as a shamanic practitioner to help people become more aware of pain points in their lives. They speak about shifts she has made and how she helps people to become aware of their emotional state through becoming more aware of their physical sensations. Is this another technique that we can use to help us make mental shifts?

Connect with Cath on LinkedIn and ask her to send her free resource to help guide your physical and emotional observations. You can learn about Cath's work as an LGBTQ+ Consultant and Coach here and about her work helping people heal from emotional pain here

And connect with Trisha here to continue the conversation about cultural intelligence, cultural metacognition and making mental shifts.

In this episode, Trisha speaks with Mariette Rups Donnelly. Mariette is a 'triple threat' actor, singer and dancer who now works as a presentation coach helping clients in the corporate world to increase their presence and make their presentations more effective.

As an actor, she had to constantly make shifts into the mindsets of different characters. As a coach of actors, she needed to help others do the same.

This episode looks at supporting shifts in our thinking from a very different perspective. We hope the difference sparks new thinking for you.

You can follow or connect with Mariette on LinkedIn here

And if you want to make some comments or give feedback connect with Trisha here

If you haven't listened to Part 1 with David you may like to check it out.

In this episode David and Trisha discuss how we can increase CQ Strategy by gaining metacognitive awareness. They discuss some ways of doing that touching on reflection and journaling. They talk about unhelpful dogmas and instead trying to find a way to reflect that suits you and your styles. 

Cultural interpreters, the importance of awareness of your own culture and how it shapes your gut responses, mindfulness – all ways mentioned to increase our awareness. Experiencing another culture – through travel or through growing up in a different culture – can also enable us to have heightened awareness.

Using tools such as IAT or a values inventory and checking the results with others around us can increase our awareness of self and how we come across to others. The Five Whys is a proven strategy for increasing awareness.

Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Five Whys

David also describes a perspective taking exercise and refers to the work of Adam Galinsky

Trisha’s Guided Journal for Adapting to Life Overseas – Finding Home Abroad – ebook here

Once again discussing a personal shift for David enhances our understanding of how we grow our metacognitive awareness in real life situations.

This is a holiday reflection episode. Trisha takes us through some patterns that can be seen between David Livermore's episode and the introductory episode where Trisha shares her own story of shift. Listen in to pick up some critical learning to increase your cultural intelligence

In this episode, Trisha interviews David Livermore, a true expert in the field of cultural intelligence (CQ). They discuss cultural intelligence - what it is and how it relates to the Shift. On the way, they talk about Dave's experiences of a culture he loves and a moment of shift he has experienced.

You can follow or connect with Dave on LinkedIn here, or explore his website here. You can find links to all the books he has written here, and the book Trisha quoted from - Leading with Cultural Intelligence is featured here where you can download a sample chapter.

To learn more about Cultural Intelligence, you can explore the CQ Centre resources here or the research here.

Please connect with Trisha via LinkedIn.

In this episode, Trisha discusses Moments of Shift and why they are important for developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ). She describes an example in her life when she experienced a mental shift.

Part of her mental shift was an awareness of her cultural value of individualism and how that value and her practices related to that value might appear selfish to someone from a collective culture.

You can learn more about individualism and collectivism here

In this teaser episode, Trisha introduces the idea of mental 'shifts', those moments when our perception changes and we are able to see things differently. This podcast series will discuss cultural metacognition - a key part of Cultural Intelligence - how we can increase it and help others in that process.