Short Bio:
👋 Name: Justa Hopma
🎓 Education: BA International Relations + Human Geography (Joint Honours BA, 1st Class, Aberystwyth University); Master of Philosophy in Migration Studies, Anthropology faculty, University of Oxford; PhD International Relations + Human Geography, Aberystwyth University
🧳 Experience: University sector; Commercial sector (project + partnership management); Language Teaching
🗣️ Languages: Arabic (A2), Dutch (fluent), French (C1), Spanish (C1)
Three years ago I moved back to the Netherlands after having lived abroad for 15 years. The country had changed, I had changed, but funnily enough I was little aware of this. I had spent my formative years in Britain and abroad and discovered that my experience had been very different from what was common in the Netherlands.
And even though I am a fluent Dutch speaker and consider myself very much Dutch, I really struggled settling back in! I didn't understand why I found certain experiences at work upsetting and I didn't realise that I should be way more direct and assertive in order to be effective here. I wish someone had given me a map or unlocked the code!
In my workshop De CultuurSpiegel I aim to do precisely this. I hope you'll join, you are very welcome. Hesitating whether this is for you? Drop me a line.