Dancing Between Cultures: Culturally Intelligent Coaching for Missions and Ministry

by Tina Stoltzfus Horst

Make your cross-cultural conversations count... Great coaching skills aren't enough to achieve great outcomes cross-culturally. Neglecting to adapt to the increasing cultural diversity of those we serve is like refusing to switch from driving on the right side in North America, to driving on the left in unsatisfying outcomes will result! Written by a master coach with a decade of cross-cultural coaching and training experience, Dancing between Cultures is loaded with stories, tips and real life situations designed to help you implement practical faith-based strategies for culturally intelligent coaching. Understanding and adapting to culture is a foundational skill for the twenty-first century coach. Dancing between Cultures is an essential guidebook on your journey to transformational conversations across cultures.

What Others are Saying... Dancing between Cultures is organized around a values model that you can actually put on your desk and use to change the way you coach. Packed with insights on the influence of cultural issues and stories borne out of years of hands on experience, I can feel the perspective shift inside me as I read it. If you are coaching across cultures--whether in different nations or just different subgroups of your own country--I'd highly recommend this book.

--Tony Stoltzfus

Founder, Leadership MetaFormation Institute; Author of Coaching Questions

Dancing between Cultures is an engaging, practical, inspiring tool that takes the theory and research on cultural intelligence and makes it highly accessible to ministry coaches. Tina Stoltzfus Horst brings her extensive, first-hand experience coaching cross-culturally to offer a resource I look forward to recommending broadly.

--Dr. David Livermore

Thought Leader on Cultural Intelligence and Global Leadership

President, Cultural Intelligence Center, Author of Cultural Intelligence

Genres: Leadership, Cultural

281 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 20, 2017

Reviews

[Francis Viscount · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful and insightful, however I wonder what would have been added by having it been written as a collaboration with some non-native English speakers. I think it tends to imply cross cultural interaction can be 'mastered' rather than encouraging the reader to carry on but with a sense there will always be much mystery, even with regard to how anyone being 'coached' can change in how they process the 'coaching experience'.

[Beckie Hinze · Rating 5 out of 5]

Resource book for life

My life is full of cross cultural relationships. I have failed a few times at mentoring in these situations but I feel like now I have a guide book that is full of help.

[Katie Rodriguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book that I’ll definitely reference in the future. It was very practical, helped me to grow in awareness & understanding of my own cultural values, as well as grow in confidence in recognizing & navigating when others have differing values.