01Episode notes
Bennu: In this Chapter One Bennu conversation, Magdalena Szumna and Ben explore intercultural competence: what happens when difference feels strange, and how that moment can become useful information rather than a reason to withdraw or judge. The episode looks at self-awareness, values, norms, directness, language barriers, curiosity, and the practical work of asking for clarity. Magdalena frames intercultural competence not as a checklist of other cultures, but as a way to pause, notice your assumptions, and communicate more intentionally. Read through the Flux Forward Activation lens, this is a Translation episode: unfamiliar behaviour becomes easier to navigate when you learn how to read the context behind it.