VĂ©ronique Schoeffel

I grew up in Alsace, a bilingual region of France. My childhood in that region taught me to navigate between two languages and to develop from early on a multicultural identity. Thus, studying at the School for Translation and Interpretation at the University in Geneva seemed a natural next-step. The five years I spent in South Africa confronted me with the complexity of intercultural communication, and with the difficulty of understanding one another across cultures. I realized then that intercultural competence was a key to the sustainability of my work in international development. Back in Switzerland, I dedicated many years working with organisations active in the field of development, sensitizing them to the importance of intercultural competence in their work. In the past few years, my field of work has expanded beyond international development. It now also reaches the fields of health, education, religious bodies, administration, and corporations. I am deeply convinced that interreligious competence is not only a key to professional and economic success. It is, far more importantly, a contribution to peace in a world that needs it more than ever.

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"Alone you go fast. Together you go far."


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The artist Joel Racine lives in Nods, on the Plateau de Diesse, in the Swiss Jura.

His work painted on a rock in the jura mountains has touched me. It visualizes what is essential for me in my approach to life and to work:

  • Our common humanity, symbolized by the trunk
  • Our diversity, symbolised by the different colours of the foliage
  • Our interactions and interdependance symbolized by the many links between the branches
  • Our hopes, that carry us and towards which we strive, symbolised by the branches that constantly reach higher and further.
  • The beauty of our human, cultural and religious diversity.


Thank you Joel, for allowing me to be inspired by your art.

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Services

Trainings

Conception of training programs

Development of pedagogical materials

Training of trainers

Coaching

Supervision

Facilitated dialoguesdialogue

Main themes of work

Intercultural communication

Approaches to conflict across cultures

Team, teambuilding, multicultural teambuilding

Management in a multicultural setting

Interreligious dialogue

Cultural identity

Multicultural identity

Migration and integration

Participatory approach to community development

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Véronique Schoeffel
Riedmatte 18
CH-2576 Lüscherz / Switzerland
T:
+41 79 462 54 93
Mail:
vero-nobuntu@bluewin.ch

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