BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ned LEGASPI | Author • Educator • Speaker - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ned LEGASPI | Author • Educator • Speaker X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nedlegaspi.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ned LEGASPI | Author • Educator • Speaker REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Manila BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Tokyo BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 TZNAME:JST DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250921 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250923 DTSTAMP:20260822T195741Z CREATED:20260822T150006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T195741Z UID:39046-1758420000-1758506399@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:TFCN Global News Summit: Culturally Intelligent Newswriting DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Past Event\n\n Healthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n \n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n \n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n \n\n \n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n \n\n \n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n \n\n \n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n \n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n \n \n\n \n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n \n\n \n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n \n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Institution \n\n \n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n \n \n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n \n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n \n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n\n \n View Rankings\n \n \n \n\n \n Institutional Context \n\n \n #1\n \n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n \n \n\n \n 10\n \n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n \n \n\n \n 11\n \n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26\n \n \n\n \n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Session \n\n \n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n \n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Communication Styles\n \n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Authority and Relationships\n \n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Generational Shifts\n \n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Talk of the Hour \n\n \n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n \n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n \n \n Organizational Development\n Liv Behre\n \n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence\n Ned Legaspi\n \n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n \n\n \n Nursing Leadership\n Peachy Hain\n \n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n C3\n \n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n \n\n \n From Stories to People \n\n \n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n \n \n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n \n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n \n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n \n\n \n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n\n \n \n Culture\n \n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n \n \n\n \n Communication\n \n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n \n \n\n \n Connection\n \n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Acknowledgment \n\n \n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n \n \n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n \n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned's work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n \n\n \n \n C3 Bamboo Framework\n \n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\n \n Speaking\n \n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\n \n C3 Journal\n \n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\n \n Events Archive\n \n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n ••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/tfcn-global-news-summit-culturally-intelligent-newswriting/ LOCATION:Virtual Session\, The Netherlands\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tfcn-global-news-summit-netherlands-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T183000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075423Z CREATED:20260822T123800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075423Z UID:38996-1758387600-1758393000@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Restorying Heritage at the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Past Event\n\n Healthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n \n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n \n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n \n\n \n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n \n\n \n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n \n\n \n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n \n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n \n \n\n \n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n \n\n \n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n \n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Institution \n\n \n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n \n \n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n \n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n \n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n\n \n View Rankings\n \n \n \n\n \n Institutional Context \n\n \n #1\n \n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n \n \n\n \n 10\n \n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n \n \n\n \n 11\n \n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26\n \n \n\n \n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Session \n\n \n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n \n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Communication Styles\n \n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Authority and Relationships\n \n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Generational Shifts\n \n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Talk of the Hour \n\n \n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n \n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n \n \n Organizational Development\n Liv Behre\n \n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence\n Ned Legaspi\n \n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n \n\n \n Nursing Leadership\n Peachy Hain\n \n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n C3\n \n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n \n\n \n From Stories to People \n\n \n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n \n \n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n \n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n \n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n \n\n \n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n\n \n \n Culture\n \n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n \n \n\n \n Communication\n \n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n \n \n\n \n Connection\n \n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Acknowledgment \n\n \n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n \n \n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n \n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned's work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n \n\n \n \n C3 Bamboo Framework\n \n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\n \n Speaking\n \n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\n \n C3 Journal\n \n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\n \n Events Archive\n \n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n ••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/restorying-heritage-at-the-soas-philippine-studies-conference/ LOCATION:SOAS University of London\, Khalili Lecture Theatre\, London\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/soas-philippine-studies-conference-restorying-heritage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250830 DTSTAMP:20260823T075402Z CREATED:20260822T143523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075402Z UID:39039-1756346400-1756432799@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Storytelling in Climate Communication at the AUN-EEC Conference DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Past Event\n\n Healthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n \n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n \n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n \n\n \n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n \n\n \n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n \n\n \n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n \n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n \n \n\n \n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n \n\n \n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n \n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Institution \n\n \n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n \n \n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n \n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n \n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n\n \n View Rankings\n \n \n \n\n \n Institutional Context \n\n \n #1\n \n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n \n \n\n \n 10\n \n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n \n \n\n \n 11\n \n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26\n \n \n\n \n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Session \n\n \n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n \n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Communication Styles\n \n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Authority and Relationships\n \n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Generational Shifts\n \n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Talk of the Hour \n\n \n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n \n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n \n \n Organizational Development\n Liv Behre\n \n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence\n Ned Legaspi\n \n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n \n\n \n Nursing Leadership\n Peachy Hain\n \n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n C3\n \n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n \n\n \n From Stories to People \n\n \n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n \n \n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n \n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n \n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n \n\n \n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n\n \n \n Culture\n \n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n \n \n\n \n Communication\n \n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n \n \n\n \n Connection\n \n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Acknowledgment \n\n \n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n \n \n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n \n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned's work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n \n\n \n \n C3 Bamboo Framework\n \n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\n \n Speaking\n \n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\n \n C3 Journal\n \n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\n \n Events Archive\n \n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n ••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/storytelling-in-climate-communication-at-the-aun-eec-conference/ LOCATION:Ateneo de Manila University\, Quezon City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/aun-eec-conference-2025-storytelling-in-climate-communication.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250709T153000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250709T170000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075551Z CREATED:20260719T233335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075551Z UID:38144-1752075000-1752080400@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Culturally Intelligent Storytelling at the 15th Biennial ACFEA Conference DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Past Event\n\n Healthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n \n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n \n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n \n\n \n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n \n\n \n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n \n\n \n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n \n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n \n \n\n \n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n \n\n \n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n \n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Institution \n\n \n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n \n \n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n \n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n \n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n\n \n View Rankings\n \n \n \n\n \n Institutional Context \n\n \n #1\n \n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n \n \n\n \n 10\n \n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n \n \n\n \n 11\n \n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26\n \n \n\n \n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Session \n\n \n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n \n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Communication Styles\n \n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Authority and Relationships\n \n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Generational Shifts\n \n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Talk of the Hour \n\n \n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n \n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n \n \n Organizational Development\n Liv Behre\n \n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence\n Ned Legaspi\n \n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n \n\n \n Nursing Leadership\n Peachy Hain\n \n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n C3\n \n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n \n\n \n From Stories to People \n\n \n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n \n \n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n \n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n \n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n \n\n \n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n\n \n \n Culture\n \n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n \n \n\n \n Communication\n \n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n \n \n\n \n Connection\n \n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Acknowledgment \n\n \n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n \n \n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n \n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned's work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n \n\n \n \n C3 Bamboo Framework\n \n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\n \n Speaking\n \n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\n \n C3 Journal\n \n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\n \n Events Archive\n \n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n ••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/culturally-intelligent-storytelling-at-the-15th-biennial-acfea-conference/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/acfea-15th-biennial-conference-hanoi-vietnam-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250624 DTSTAMP:20260823T075459Z CREATED:20260822T134620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075459Z UID:39019-1750471200-1750643999@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Reclaiming Filipino Narratives at the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Past Event\n\n Healthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n \n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n \n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n \n\n \n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n \n\n \n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n \n\n \n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n \n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n \n \n\n \n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n \n\n \n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n \n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Institution \n\n \n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n \n \n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n \n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n \n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n\n \n View Rankings\n \n \n \n\n \n Institutional Context \n\n \n #1\n \n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n \n \n\n \n 10\n \n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n \n \n\n \n 11\n \n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26\n \n \n\n \n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Session \n\n \n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n \n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Communication Styles\n \n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Authority and Relationships\n \n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Generational Shifts\n \n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Talk of the Hour \n\n \n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n \n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n \n \n Organizational Development\n Liv Behre\n \n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence\n Ned Legaspi\n \n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n \n\n \n Nursing Leadership\n Peachy Hain\n \n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n C3\n \n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n \n\n \n From Stories to People \n\n \n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n \n \n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n \n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n \n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n \n\n \n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n\n \n \n Culture\n \n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n \n \n\n \n Communication\n \n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n \n \n\n \n Connection\n \n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Acknowledgment \n\n \n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n \n \n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n \n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned's work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n \n\n \n \n C3 Bamboo Framework\n \n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\n \n Speaking\n \n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\n \n C3 Journal\n \n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\n \n Events Archive\n \n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n ••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/reclaiming-filipino-narratives-at-the-philippine-studies-forum-in-japan/ LOCATION:Komaba Campus\, The University of Tokyo\, Meguro\, Tokyo\, Japan CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/apsfj-2025-philippine-studies-forum-japan-reclaiming-filipino-narratives.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250531T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250531T180000 DTSTAMP:20260822T194421Z CREATED:20260822T131405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T194421Z UID:39011-1748678400-1748714400@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Bamboo Against the Current at the UP Asian Center Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Past Event\n\n Healthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n \n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n \n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n \n\n \n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n \n\n \n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n \n\n \n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n \n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n \n \n\n \n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n \n\n \n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n \n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Institution \n\n \n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n \n \n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n \n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n \n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n\n \n View Rankings\n \n \n \n\n \n Institutional Context \n\n \n #1\n \n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n \n \n\n \n 10\n \n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n \n \n\n \n 11\n \n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26\n \n \n\n \n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Session \n\n \n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n \n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Communication Styles\n \n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Authority and Relationships\n \n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Generational Shifts\n \n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Talk of the Hour \n\n \n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n \n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n \n \n Organizational Development\n Liv Behre\n \n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n \n\n \n Cultural Intelligence\n Ned Legaspi\n \n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n \n\n \n Nursing Leadership\n Peachy Hain\n \n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n C3\n \n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n \n\n \n From Stories to People \n\n \n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n \n \n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n \n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n \n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n \n\n \n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n\n \n \n Culture\n \n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n \n \n\n \n Communication\n \n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n \n \n\n \n Connection\n \n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Acknowledgment \n\n \n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n \n \n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n \n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned's work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n \n\n \n \n C3 Bamboo Framework\n \n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\n \n Speaking\n \n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\n \n C3 Journal\n \n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\n \n Events Archive\n \n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n ••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/bamboo-against-the-current-at-the-up-asian-center-graduate-student-conference/ LOCATION:GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium\, UP Diliman\, Quezon City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/up-asian-center-graduate-student-conference-2025.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR