Supporting migrants
Cultural learning programmes for migrants
I design and deliver cultural learning programmes and workshops for groups of people with diverse migration backgrounds. The focus is on confidence, participation, and practical skills for navigating everyday life, explored through participatory and experiential learning.
I also work with organisations to identify needs and develop programmes for their particular groups and contexts.
Programmes are educational, creative, and group-based, helping participants make sense of new cultural environments while valuing lived experience, agency and peer learning.
Locations:
I work for educational organisations and community projects in London (UK) and the European Union.
What do cultural programmes focus on?
Depending on context and participants, programmes may explore:
- everyday cultural norms and unspoken rules
- communication styles, being understood
- confidence in social situations
- identity, belonging, and self-presentation
- shared reflection on migration experiences
Culture is approached as dynamic, situational, and negotiated — an ongoing process through which people interpret social situations, relationships and expectations.
Approach:
All programmes use participatory and experiential learning, drawing on drama, movement, dance, and other arts-based methods. Activities include simulation, storytelling, group discussion, accessible creative exercises, and integrated ESOL opportunities, supporting interaction, reflection and shared learning.
Formats
I offer flexible formats that can be adapted to organisational needs:
- Short workshops
- Short courses
- Community & social clubs with cultural and creative activities in a relaxed setting
- Project-based programmes, developed in partnership with host organisations
Programmes are designed collaboratively and tailored to each context, participant group, and project aim. They can be delivered in community centres, educational settings or partner spaces.
How can cultural learning be integrated into ESOL programmes?
Cultural learning can be integrated into ESOL programmes where appropriate. ESOL activities can support speaking, listening, writing and reading while connecting language learning with cultural exploration and creative activities.
This allows participants to develop English through interaction and practical use as part of a broader cultural learning process.
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Programme examples
Examples of cultural learning programmes delivered, piloted, or in development.
Programmes are adapted to participant needs, organisational contexts, and funding requirements.
Community cultural learning club for older adults
Aim: Create a welcoming space for social connection, cultural exchange, and confidence-building among older adults with diverse migration histories
Programme: A participatory cultural learning club. Combines creative exploration, visits to museums, and peer interaction.
Format / outcomes: Weekly two-hour sessions over five months. Supports sustained peer connections and greater confidence participating in social and community spaces.
Cultural learning for long-term migrants programme
Aim: Support long-term migrants in reflecting on cultural adaptation, communication and participation in everyday life.
Programme: A participatory programme using discussion, storytelling, role-play and creative activities to explore cultural experiences, expectations and different ways of navigating social situations.
Format / outcomes: A short course or series of workshops supporting greater cultural awareness, confidence in communication and the exchange of experiences and strategies between participants.
Identity and belonging programme
Aim: Create a space for participants to reflect on identity, belonging, and cultural change following migration.
Programme: A creative group programme using storytelling, reflection, discussion and arts-based activities to explore personal and cultural identities, connections to place and experiences of belonging.
Format / outcomes: A short course or workshop series supporting self-expression, reflection and shared understanding across different migration experiences.
Cultural learning programme for an international women's group
Aim: Support social connection, confidence and cultural exchange among women from different migration and cultural backgrounds.
Programme: Participatory sessions combining conversation, creative activities and exploration of everyday cultural experiences, with opportunities for participants to learn from one another.
Format / outcomes: Regular group sessions supporting social interaction, confidence in participation and stronger connections between participants.
Cultural and language learning for an ESOL group
Aim: Support learners in developing spoken English alongside confidence in navigating everyday cultural and social situations.
Programme: An integrated ESOL and cultural learning programme using practical communication activities, role-play, discussion and creative exercises to connect language learning with participants' everyday experiences.
Format / outcomes: A course supporting spoken interaction, practical language use, cultural understanding and confidence communicating in everyday situations.
Note: Programme examples are anonymised for confidentiality.