Mind Over Gap

cultures. Having dedicated her career to observing human behavior within learning contexts, she noted that background, customs, mentality and even climate, may constitute encircling lines of invisible barriers that prevent most people from successfully fitting into a different environment. These are all ramparts of the unsettling Cultural Gap. And we help people from different countries or backgrounds to bridge them. It goes much further than learning a new language. Sometimes people are fluent in the language of another country, and yet feel hopelessly alien. Being "separated by a common language" is what happens, for instance, between the several countries that speak Portuguese, like Brazil, Angola or Mozambique, where speaking the language does not get you very far unless you learn how people think and act. Mind over Gap endeavors to bring different cultures closer together by teaching, coaching and helping people to understand and deal with their cultural differences. In practical terms, this may mean coaching an entire family on the realities (linguistic and otherwise) of moving to Lisbon or London, for instance. Therefore, it can also mean that we help that family finding an apartment, or the ideal school for the children, or even how to handle simpler everyday hurdles. It's about mobility, and all that it entails.