Feeling 'happily at home between cultures' while keeping your cultural identity intact, is possible to achieve.

Assisting people to find their own way so as to ‘feel at home’ between cultures is my passion. Because I have ‘been there’. As an experienced professional in growing up and living between cultures, ‘sharing what I know to help people grow’ has become my mission.

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New in The Netherlands?

Homesick, lost and lonely? Living between two cultures is challenging, but you don't have to face it alone.

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Leaving for another country?

Being emotionally and mentally prepared will help prevent a possible culture shock and its consequences.

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A multicultural organisation?

Prevent differences and misunderstandings due to cultural differences from emerging in the workplace or business meetings.

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My book: Dutch-ess from the Himalayas

Facing cultural challenges arising in a marriage of an 'East meets West culture'. How does one move about in a Dutch society? What comes easy and what are the trhesholds and why?

"Kirtika has done something astonishing with the two cultures."
E. Logister, deputy-mayor of ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Latest posts

Saving the brides of tomorrow

Child marriage not to a person but to a fruit and again to the Sun is as much a modern day common practice among the Newar ethnic group of Nepal. This is a tradition that has been handed down from generations. Ihi Ihi (pronounced Ehee) in which pre-adolescent girls are married to the Bael fruit, […]

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About Kirtika

More than twenty years ago, I emigrated from Nepal to The Netherlands. In Nepal I worked for an international NGO and then for the Dutch government in The Netherlands. Now I am a cross-cultural trainer and coach, helping people who live in another culture than their own, to find their own pathway between two cultures, while keeping their own cultural identity intact.