For Families, Friends, Family Businesses, and Organizations
Workshops are spaces for shared reflection, growth, and dialogue. I design workshops for families, groups of friends, family businesses, and organizations that want to face change together—rather than alone.
Each workshop is tailored to the group’s needs: duration, focus, and level of depth are developed collaboratively. Themes may include resilience, communication, emotional regulation, cultural transitions, and meaning-making in times of uncertainty.
If you sense that your group, team, or organization could benefit from a thoughtful and grounded space, I would be glad to explore this with you and design a program that fits your context.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL FLUIDITY FOR GLOBAL TEAMS
Intercultural communication sits at the heart of how global teams function, collaborate, and repair misunderstandings across difference. When language, culture, power, and unspoken norms intersect, even highly skilled professionals can find themselves misaligned or misunderstood.
Objective
To strengthen intercultural communication skills in diverse and international teams, offering concrete tools to improve collaboration, effectiveness, and cohesion in global and multicultural environments.
Workshop Content
• How culture shapes communication
Direct and indirect styles, the role of hierarchy, body language, silence, and differing expectations around authority and autonomy.
• Common breakdowns in cross-cultural communication
How misunderstandings arise, how intentions are misread, and the emotional and organizational costs of unresolved cultural friction.
• Microaggressions and micro-interventions
Recognizing subtle harms in everyday communication and learning how to respond in ways that reduce escalation and restore collaboration.
• Cultural humility and flexibility
Suspending assumptions, learning to ask better questions, adapting communication registers, and developing the capacity to move fluidly across cultural contexts.
• Interactive exercises
Reflective dialogue and role-play to surface invisible dynamics, practice repair, and experiment with more effective communicative strategies.
Format
Interactive 90-minute workshop including a short lecture, guided discussion, and practical simulations. Can be adapted for leadership teams, professional services, academic institutions, or international organizations.
This work supports teams in moving beyond surface-level diversity efforts toward deeper cultural awareness, flexibility, and trust.
This workshop draws on my clinical, anthropological, and teaching work with immigrants, expatriates, and global professionals, as well as themes explored in my book Neither Here Nor There: A Guide for Immigrants and Those Who Walk With Them.
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FLOURISHING AS IMMIGRANTS AND EXPATS
Psychological Adaptation, Identity, and Belonging Across Cultures
Relocating to another country is not a single event, but an ongoing psychological process. Even when a move is chosen and professionally successful, it can involve disorientation, emotional strain, shifts in identity, and unexpected stress within individuals and families.
This workshop is designed for organizations, institutions, and groups supporting immigrants, expatriates, international professionals, students, and globally mobile families. It offers a psychologically informed framework for understanding adaptation over time — and for moving beyond survival toward genuine flourishing.
Focus of the workshop
• The psychological phases of migration and cultural adaptation, from initial excitement to frustration, adjustment, and integration
• Why different family members adapt at different speeds, and how this affects relationships, work, and well-being
• Identity shifts across cultures: how language, norms, and expectations continue to shape daily life long after arrival
• The emotional impact of “living between worlds,” including loss, loyalty conflicts, and the search for belonging
• Practical tools drawn from CBT, reflective practices, and group dialogue to support resilience and integration
Throughout the workshop, participants are invited to reflect on their own experiences and to recognize shared patterns that normalize struggle without pathologizing it.
Why this work matters
When migration-related stress is left unaddressed, it can quietly undermine performance, relationships, and mental health. When it is acknowledged and supported, individuals and families often develop greater resilience, flexibility, and clarity — skills that benefit both personal life and professional environments.
This workshop draws on my clinical, anthropological, and teaching work with immigrants, expatriates, and internationally mobile professionals, as well as themes explored in my book Neither Here Nor There: A Guide for Immigrants and Those Who Walk With Them.
Format
Small-group workshop or institutional session (90 minutes), with an emphasis on dialogue, reflection, and practical takeaways.
Customized versions can be developed for organizations, universities, and community settings.
For inquiries or to explore a tailored offering, please contact me.
RESILIENCE AND STRESS MANAGEMENT
Sustaining Performance Without Sacrificing Well-Being
High-pressure environments demand clarity, endurance, and constant adaptation. Over time, however, chronic stress, sleep disruption, and emotional overload can quietly erode judgment, health, and performance — even among highly capable professionals.
This workshop is designed for organizations, legal teams, corporate professionals, and leadership groups operating in demanding settings. It offers practical, psychologically grounded tools to manage stress, regulate emotions, and sustain performance without burnout.
Focus of the workshop
• Understanding stress in high-pressure professional contexts, including perfectionism, time scarcity, decision fatigue, and emotional load
• Identifying cognitive patterns that amplify stress, such as all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and unrealistic self-expectations
• Evidence-based CBT tools to reframe challenges, set realistic goals, and restore a sense of agency
• Sleep and performance: addressing insomnia and fatigue through science-based strategies, recognizing their direct impact on productivity, safety, and costs
• Practical organization tools for managing overload, prioritization, and work across time zones
• Mind-body practices that can be integrated into the workday, including grounding, breath regulation, and micro-pauses
• Building resilience over time: recovery strategies, boundaries, sustainable habits, and work-life rituals that actually last
Where relevant, the workshop also addresses the organizational cost of unmanaged stress and sleep disruption, drawing on well-established research linking fatigue to reduced productivity, absenteeism, errors, and long-term health risks.
Why this work matters
Stress is often treated as an individual weakness rather than a predictable outcome of high-demand systems. When organizations acknowledge and address it directly, they protect not only individual well-being but also judgment, collaboration, and long-term effectiveness.
This workshop integrates clinical psychology, CBT, mindfulness-based tools, and a culturally informed perspective shaped by years of work with professionals navigating complex, high-stakes environments.
Format
Interactive workshop (90 minutes), combining brief presentation, guided exercises, and structured group dialogue.
Optional follow-up sessions or tailored versions can be developed for specific teams or professional contexts.
For inquiries or to explore a customized workshop, please contact me.
GRIEF AND LOSS
Supporting Individuals, Families, and Organizations Through Times of Change.
Grief is not limited to the loss of a loved one. It can emerge after illness, separation, migration, professional setbacks, collective trauma, or profound life transitions. When grief is unacknowledged or rushed, it often resurfaces as burnout, conflict, withdrawal, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion — in families, communities, and workplaces alike.
This workshop offers a thoughtful, psychologically informed space to recognize, contain, and work with loss in its many forms. It is designed for organizations, teams, families, and groups seeking to respond to grief with clarity, compassion, and structure rather than silence or avoidance.
Focus of the workshop
• Recognizing different forms of grief, including personal, collective, migratory, and symbolic loss
• Understanding how unprocessed grief affects emotional regulation, relationships, communication, and performance
• Creating safe containers for expression without forcing disclosure or emotional exposure
• Guided exercises to support containment, meaning-making, and respectful expression of loss
• Practical tools such as reflective writing, grounding practices, and structured dialogue
• The collective dimension of grief: how shared acknowledgment strengthens trust, continuity, and resilience within groups
• Supporting others without becoming overwhelmed, fixing, or shutting down
This workshop draws from clinical psychology, psychodynamic thinking, mindfulness-based approaches, and anthropological perspectives on mourning and collective meaning.
Why this work matters
In many professional and social environments, grief is treated as a private issue to be managed quietly. Yet unresolved loss often shapes morale, cohesion, and emotional climate in powerful ways. When individuals and groups are given language, structure, and permission to acknowledge loss, they are better able to recover, adapt, and move forward together.
Addressing grief does not weaken organizations or families — it strengthens them.
Format
Interactive workshop (90 minutes), combining brief theoretical framing, guided reflection, and facilitated group dialogue.
The format can be adapted for workplaces, community groups, families, or professional settings, with sensitivity to cultural and contextual differences.
Family Business Support
Psychological and Intercultural Guidance for Families Who Work Together
Families who work together face challenges that go far beyond finances, strategy, or governance. Decisions made at work affect relationships, identity, loyalty, and emotional well-being. When professional roles overlap with family ties, unspoken expectations, old wounds, and cultural assumptions can quietly shape communication and conflict.
Many Italian, Italian-American, and international families operate across two or more cultures. Some members remain closely connected to values and communication styles rooted in their country of origin, while others feel more aligned with American or global business cultures. These differences can be a source of richness—or, if left unaddressed, a source of tension, misunderstanding, and emotional distance.
Intergenerational dynamics often add another layer. Parents and children may hold different ideas about authority, responsibility, success, and sacrifice. Without a shared language to discuss these differences, family businesses can become arenas of unspoken resentment rather than collaboration.
I offer a neutral, structured space where family members can slow down and speak honestly—without escalating conflict or collapsing into old roles. My work helps families:
· clarify individual and collective goals
· express emotions and needs without blame or rupture
· develop clearer, more respectful communication
· recognize cultural and generational differences as resources rather than obstacles
My role is that of a facilitator and translator—helping family members find a shared language across roles, generations, and cultures. Drawing on psychoanalytic insight, CBT tools, and an anthropological understanding of family systems, I support families in transforming tension into dialogue and complexity into coherence.
The goal is not to eliminate differences, but to help families work together in a way that feels sustainable, respectful, and aligned—so that shared work becomes a source of strength rather than strain.
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“When I arrived in New York, I faced obstacles that felt overwhelming. With Leide’s support, I learned how to find my bearings and, more importantly, to understand the deeper reasons behind my decision to leave and what I was truly searching for. Today I feel more confident, grounded, and in charge of my life.”
— G. C.
I work with adult families who wish to engage with one another thoughtfully and intentionally, both in family life and in shared professional or business contexts. My goal is to help create clear boundaries alongside meaningful spaces for dialogue, understanding, and growth, so that relationships can support rather than hinder individual and collective well-being.
Leide Porcu, PhD, LP
CONTACT ME
Feel free to reach out.
We can explore together whether to begin with a consultation or a first session. I look forward to connecting with you.
212-929-7724