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� To discuss any questions, queries or themes that are important to you.
This interview is a private session with your mentor. During this session your
mentor will take the opportunity to get to know you a bit better and find out more
about your unique situation. You can discuss any issues that you feel are
important to you. Through these interviews the mentors will have the
opportunity to better work with your unique needs.
Session Three
Balancing Study and Social Life
Goals:
� Air your questions, thoughts and concerns.
� Explore how to balance study with the rest of your life? What
challenges do you face, what opportunities?
� Take a look at how your learning style can influence how
you study.
� Explore ways to structure your studies.
This session focuses on finding the balance between social life and studies.
Time will be dedicated to looking at different people’s preferences and needs
for finding a balance in these two areas.
This session also provides you with an opportunity to explore how your
personal preferences in addition to the educational cultural background from
which you come are affecting your expectations and study habits. Each
individual develops a unique set of preferences with regard to learning and the
more you understand about yours the better your opportunity to balance study
and personal life and to create a study plan that works for you.
Session Four
Insights About Living and Working In IBA’s International Environment
Goals:
• Provide an opportunity to share some of your experience
in this international setting.
• Provide a chance to explore what benefits and challenges
you are getting from this environment, how is it different
than studying in a more mono-cultural environment.
This session gives you a chance to step back and look at what you are learning
about international and intercultural cooperation just by being part of the IBA
Community. While some of you may have lived your whole lives in international
settings, for others this is a new experience, and the unique mix of people,
cultures and experiences on this level is giving you many hidden lessons, about
how you interact and work in intercultural teams, about how you are learning to
thrive with uncertainty, just to name a few. During this session you have a
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