Women's Empowerment for a Sustainable Future: Transcultural and Positive Psychology Perspectives

Claude-Hélène Mayer (Dr. habil., PhD, PhD) is Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Psychology (University of Pretoria, South Africa), a PhD in Management (Rhodes University, South Africa), a doctorate in Political Sciences (Georg-August University, Germany), and a habilitation in Psychology with focus on Work, Organizational, and Cultural Psychology (European University Viadrina, Germany). She has published several monographs, text collections, accredited journal articles, and special issues on transcultural mental health, sense of coherence, shame, transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in leadership, creativity, and psychobiograph and
Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian and intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President of Catholic Adult Education in Germany. Her publishing activities focus on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education, gender issues in education, but also on the challenges of digitalisation. She has also edited books on intercultural and transnational issues. Her most recent publications deal with shame as a resource as well as with mistakes, errors and failures and their hidden potentials in the context of Culture and Positive Psychology 1.0 and 2.0. Current research projects deal with love in transcultural contexts, with life crises as well as humour in the context of Positive Psychology 2.0. Another focus of her work is ikigai in transcultural contexts.
Orna Braun-Lewensohn (PhD) is Associate Professor and the head of the ''Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management'' Program at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). She received her PhD at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 2007. Her major research interests include mental health outcomes and coping during or following stressful events. The focus of her research is personal as well as communal coping resources in different cultural groups. She publishes extensively in journals such as: Current Psychiatry Reports, Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, Community Mental Health Journal, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Positive Psychology, and Social Indicators Research.

Gila Chen (PhD), is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. Her primary research areas are women offenders, male and female inmates, gender differences in crime, substance use, mental health, child abuse, and substanceuse and treatment. She heads the Authority of Research and Publications and is chairperson of the Committee for the Prevention of Sexual Harassment. In addition to her academic roles, Dr. Chen is a short-term psychotherapist. She has published two books on women offenders and recovery from substance use in a therapeutic community (in Hebrew) and several journal articles on female inmates, focusing on issues such as eating disorders, violent crime, suicidal ideation and attempts, gender differences in child abuse and mental health, intergenerational transmission of crime and substance use, natural recovery from substance use, and sense of coherence.

Kiyoko Sueda (PhD), is Dean and Professor at School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and teaches interpersonal and intercultural communication. She serves the Japan Communication Association as a board member, and she served SIETAR Japan as Vice President from 1998-2001 and 2002-2004. Her co-authored book, Komyunikeishon gaku: Sono tenboh to shiten (Communication studies: Perspectives and prospects) (2003, 2011) is a bestselling textbook on communication studies in Japan. Her co-edited book, Komyunikeishon kenkyu hoh (Research methods in communication studies) was nominated by the Japan Communication Association as the most outstanding book published in 2011. Her recent book in English is: Negotiating multiple identities: Shame and pride among Japanese returnees (Springer). Her research interests include face (social), identities, shame and pride in interpersonal and intercultural communication. Her research interests include face (social), identities, shame and pride in interpersonal and intercultural communication.

Brightness Mangolothi is a Director for HERS-SA, which specialises on women leaders' development in higher education. She is also a former Public Relations and Communication Studies expert, Head of Department at Nelson Mandela University and Head of Programme Faculty of Arts IIE - AdvTech. She has more than a decade of experience lecturing and research supervision experience at public and private universities. She is a trained transformational conversation facilitator and has presented and chaired national and international conferences. Brightness has been featured in major South African media outlets. She was a 2015 Standard Bank Rising Star Finalist and recognised by the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC) for her contribution in the communication field. She is African Civic Engagement Academy Fellow at the University of Georgia.

Saba Safdar (PhD) is Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Guelph, Canada and Director of Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, where she supervises graduate students and hosts international scholars. Safdar received her PhD in 2002 from York University in Toronto, Canada and has been a full time faculty member since her graduation. Safdar holds annual academic fellowship at the University of Barcelona, Spain since 2016. In addition, she has been Visiting Professor in Russia (2017), U.S. (2015), Kazakhstan (2013 2014), India (2012), France (2009), and U.K. (2008). Safdar is an active researcher with scholarly publications ranging from books, book chapters, textbooks, journal articles, and research reports. Her most recent academic international research book is Proceedings from the 24th Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (2020). Safdar's research is regularly funded by national and international grants. She is currently a grant holder from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is also a collaborator on two international research projects funded by the Polish National Science Foundation and by the Australian Research Council, respectively.
Soyeon Kim (PhD) is Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University, Japan. Her research resides in the field of international human resource management with a particular focus on global and female leadership, employee empowerment, recruiting, and talent development in the Asian context. She served as a reviewer of numerous international scholarly journals and her research has appeared in the internationally renowned journals: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources.

Claude-Hélène Mayer（博士、PhD）是約翰尼斯堡大學工業心理學與人力資源管理系的工業與組織心理學教授，並擔任德國法蘭克福（奧德河）的歐洲大學維亞德里納的兼任教授，以及南非格雷姆斯敦的羅德斯大學的高級研究助理。她擁有南非比勒陀利亞大學的心理學博士學位、南非羅德斯大學的管理學博士學位、德國喬治-奧古斯特大學的政治科學博士學位，以及德國歐洲大學維亞德里納的心理學（專注於工作、組織和文化心理學）資格認證。她已發表多部專著、文本集、經過認證的期刊文章及專題期刊，主題涵蓋跨文化心理健康、連貫感、羞恥、跨文化衝突管理與調解、女性領導力、創造力以及心理傳記。

Elisabeth Vanderheiden是一位教育學家、神學家和跨文化調解人。她是全球跨文化研究所的執行長，也是德國天主教成人教育的會長。她的出版活動專注於教育學，特別是成人教育中教師和培訓者的進修、性別議題以及數位化挑戰。她還編輯過有關跨文化和跨國議題的書籍。她最近的出版物探討了羞恥作為資源，以及在文化和正向心理學1.0和2.0背景下的錯誤、失誤和失敗及其隱藏潛力。當前的研究項目涉及跨文化背景下的愛、生活危機以及在正向心理學2.0背景下的幽默。她工作的另一個重點是跨文化背景下的ikigai。

Orna Braun-Lewensohn（PhD）是以色列內蓋夫本古里安大學「衝突解決與衝突管理」計畫的副教授及負責人。她於2007年在布魯塞爾自由大學心理學與教育科學系獲得博士學位。她的主要研究興趣包括心理健康結果及在壓力事件中或之後的應對。她的研究重點是不同文化群體中的個人及社區應對資源。她在《當前精神病學報告》、《焦慮、壓力與應對》、《社區心理健康期刊》、《青少年期刊》、《正向心理學期刊》和《社會指標研究》等期刊上廣泛發表。

Gila Chen（PhD）是以色列阿什克隆學院犯罪學系的副教授。她的主要研究領域包括女性罪犯、男性和女性囚犯、犯罪中的性別差異、物質使用、心理健康、兒童虐待以及物質使用與治療。她負責研究與出版機構，並擔任防止性騷擾委員會的主席。除了學術角色外，陳博士還是一名短期心理治療師。她已出版兩本有關女性罪犯及在治療社區中從物質使用中恢復的書籍（以希伯來文），並發表了多篇關於女性囚犯的期刊文章，重點探討飲食失調、暴力犯罪、自殺意念與嘗試、兒童虐待和心理健康中的性別差異、犯罪和物質使用的代際傳遞、自然恢復以及連貫感等議題。

Sueda Kiyoko（PhD）是日本青山學院大學國際政治、經濟與傳播學院的院長及教授，教授人際與跨文化溝通。她擔任日本傳播協會的董事會成員，並於1998-2001年及2002-2004年擔任SIETAR Japan的副會長。她合著的書籍《Komyunikeish》...