About
Dr. Christina Merl creates hybrid hyper-spaces for learning, sharing, and innovating. She has been designing, implementing, and facilitating cross-cultural transformation processes and learning experiences for over 15 years. Her internationally recognised and tool-supported 2CG® (content and context) method combines social collaborative learning in communities of practice with action research and ethnographic methods. Inspirational input from the arts serves as disruptive element. Christina's focus are 21st century skills.
"My purpose and my passion is to create experiential, transdisciplinary, and art-inspired spaces where leaders and their teams, teachers and students, youth, and open-minded individuals can improve their (professional) practice and develop future skills while exploring new ways of thinking and doing. My science-based and practice proven approach is courageous, cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, aesthetic, sensual, and sensitive. I enjoy reflecting on my professional insights in my personal blog and I enjoy sketching and visualising my own learning journey."
Services
"The future of work and education is interactive, human, and hybrid. I support leaders, teams, and individuals in rethinking the way they learn, work, and recreate. I am convinced that both, people and organisations need to leverage their power of imagination to effect real change. All we need to do is put human qualities at the heart of business - technology will support us."
Research Topics
21st Century Skills, Social Collaborative Learning in Communities of Practice, Ethnographic Methods and Action Research
Christina Merl has a background in translation science, social collaborative learning in communities of practice, and journalism. Her doctoral thesis on the role of communities of practice in a hybrid cross-cultural business and learning setting was published as a book in 2009. Her master thesis, the first terminology work on the metabolism of the antroposphere, was translated into many languages. Her academic papers and press articles have been published in peer-reviewed, national and international journals and magazines. Christina Merl implements experiential/experimental case studies in the field of didactics, organisational development, and cultural transformation processes together with transdisciplinary teams across industries and cultures. She regularly presents at academic conferences, is a reviewer for IELA and iJAC, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Learning Ideas Conference, NYC.