New Global Normal

So excited to have Seungyoon (Seren) Lee join New Global Normal as our social media manager! Seren is also our first NGN Chapter alum to join the NGN team; Seren served as co-President of the Dulwich College Seoul New Global Normal chapter from August 2022 until May 2024. Welcome aboard Seren! #interculturalunderstanding #newglobalnormal #sdg17 #youth #interculturaldialogue #globalcooperation #unsdgs #nonprofit

We are looking for someone to join our team as a social media volunteer! 🌟 Interested in marketing and looking to add to your portfolio? New Global Normal is looking for a creative volunteer to join our team and help us boost our social media presence! Responsibilities include: 🎨 Designing social media posts   📱 Managing our nonprofit's online presence   📆 Engaging with our online NGN community This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience with marketing for a nonprofit. If you are a high school student, it also will make a great extracurricular / CAS activity. If you are interested in this position, please send us an email at contact@newglobalnormal.com with the subject line 'social media'. #VolunteerOpportunity #SocialMediaVolunteer #Nonprofit #Marketing #NGN #NewGlobalNormal

Read our first ever 'NGN Story', written by Content Manager and Youth Steering Committee member Smrithi Pradeep. 'Walking Together: A Journey of Pride and Solidarity in Edinburgh' is a reflection of Smrithi's experience participating as a March Steward during this year's Edinburgh Pride. NGN Chapter member? Want to share your experience with intercultural understanding? Submit your NGN Story now through the chapter member area! Not apart of an NGN Chapter? Join us today: https://lnkd.in/eu4aYNvT #newglobalnormal

I am happy to share my report on representing New Global Normal at last week's World Youth Development Forum in Beijing and Hangzhou, China. Participating in this conference was an important step in New Global Normal’s journey. Our presence in global discussions is vital as we advocate for the importance of youth-led intercultural understanding informed by cultural humility, cultural curiosity, and cultural awareness. I am immensely grateful for my participation in the #WYDF, and want to extend my gratitude to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for inviting me to attend. Most of all, I am honoured to have represented all the members of our growing nonprofit in advocating for our mission and vision in this global forum.  Read the full report below!

Intercultural understanding is the foundation of #SDG17: Partnership for the Goals. At New Global Normal, we are committed to achieving global change through local action. Importantly, #interculturalunderstanding is a learned skill which we have captured in our unique framework. By empowering young people to be leaders in the promotion of intercultural understanding, our NGN chapters pave the way for a new era of global cooperation. Our framework distills intercultural understanding into three key attributes: 1. #CulturalHumility Cultural humility is when we are conscious of how our own culture and experiences shape the ways we engage with the world. It tasks us to challenge preconceived notions, practice reflexivity (be self-aware), and to be open to engaging with different perspectives. 2. #CulturalCuriosity Cultural curiosity is marked by a desire to learn, understand and expose ourselves to cultural backgrounds, perspectives and experiences that differ from those familiar to us. 3. #CulturalAwareness Cultural awareness is the knowledge we have of different cultures, customs, experiences, histories, values, and perspectives amassed through authentic interaction (either online or offline) with people or materials from these cultures. Cultural awareness tasks us to explore the historical events, traditions, societal norms and ideas that shape a culture. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e_SS49iw

Incredibly honoured to have been in Lisbon these past few days to attend Foundation for Environmental Education’s first international conference of the #EcoCampus and present New Global Normal’s model for active global citizenship and intercultural dialogue with Noura McNelis Mahmoud. Here are three key points our presentation touched on: - Active global citizenship and intercultural dialogue are critical aspects of sustainable development and essential to achieving the United Nations’ #SDGs. - Young people must be empowered as active agents in sustainable development. NGN’s bottom-up approach to global citizenship education achieves this by giving young people the space to, as Noura so articulately puts it, “build the models for change, not simply receive them”. - NGN’s framework for #activeglobalcitizenship and intercultural dialogue — which is founded on cultural humility, cultural curiosity, and cultural awareness — has demonstrated great potential to enrich the #EcoSchools program and #sustainabledevelopment education as a whole. We also had the opportunity to attend Maya Galimidi’s workshop on eco-consciousness and experiential learning. A profound takeaway here was the need to reframe sustainability away from a human-centric focus. Indeed, we are not ‘saving the planet’, we are ‘saving ourselves’ — the planet will thrive long past the human species! Thank you to Foundation for Environmental Education and Associação Bandeira Azul de Ambiente e Educação for organising this conference and fostering a space for these important discussions to take place.

A huge congratulations to our chapter at the University of St Andrews for their language and asylum speaker event last week! In collaboration with SolidariTee St Andrews and Refugee Action St Andrews, NGN StA hosted Dr. Natasha Saunders, Prof. David Herd, and Dr. Uri Horesh for a discussion on the role of language in the UK's asylum system. The panel covered issues of forced migration, human rights, and border control practices in the UK.

Opportunities for young people to engage in governance and participate in decision-making processes depend largely on political, socioeconomic and cultural contexts. At the same time, inclusive political participation is crucial to building stable and peaceful societies. With her not-for-profit organization Gabby Green works to promote #intercultural #communication and active #global #citizenship in youth communities worldwide! 💙 With the vision to unite a divided world, the organization establishes and supports youth-led chapters in schools and universities worldwide with the aim of empowering youth as #leaders in the civic spaces of their local communities, but also to promote intercultural communication. Gabby is the founder and executive director of New Global Normal. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with a degree in economics and international relations in 2023 and will continue her studies with a double master’s degree in the global political economy of China and Europe at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Fundan University 复旦大学 . It is Gabby's mission to change the world for the better by promoting active global citizenship amongst the next generation. Global Solutions Initiative #YGCRecouplingAwards #GSS2024 #YGC24

Enjoyed being a guest speaker at the South China Morning Post’s (SCMP Live) annual DEI Summit today! Here are a few key points that I touched on in my speech. - UN Sustainable Development Goal 17 is the most important goal for ensuring the success of global sustainability and diversity efforts. It is the ability for us to bridge between cultural chasms and meaningfully engage to strengthen our institutions for global cooperation. - Young people are already at the table as the biggest stakeholders in global DEI conversations. We should be empowering youth who are already mobilising to enrich cultural diversity in their local communities and beyond. - Investing in engagement is investing in peace, and intercultural communication represents perhaps the greatest force for peace, stability, prosperity in the 21st century.