Speakers :"Welcome program" Monday September 12th & 19th

Dr Benoît ARTAULT
Diplômé de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris - DU Sommeil et Psychiatrie - DIU Sommeil Normal et Pathologique - Attaché à l’Hôpital Ambroise Paré - Registered with the French Social Security - Conventionné honoraires libres.
English Medical Centre
8 bis, rue Quinault
78100 St.Germain-en-Laye
www.englishmedicalcentre.fr

“Health care in France”
Monday September 19th

Dr Artault has been in General Practice for over 25 years in France.
He has worked in N. Ireland, in the Emergency Room of the American Hospital in Neuilly, and created the English Medical Centre in St Germain-en-Laye in September 1994 for the English-speaking expatriate community.
Some 69 nationalities have attended over the last 16 years.
Dr Artault is also a specialist in Sleep Disorders and sees patients both in his own practice and at Ambroise Paré Hospital in Boulogne where he consults on Thursdays.

Annie DIVARET-HEPBURN
Head of primary & primary teacher British section
www.lycee-international.net

“Primary school system ”
Monday September 12th

Yuko MARTIN
Check in to France Committee Member
www.checkin2france.com

“Tourism”
Monday September 19th

Native japonese, she had to discover all the tricks to discover France.
She will share them with you for the best.

Carolyn PENOT
Marketing Consultant

“School Bag - Homework Help"
Monday September 12th

“Daily life made easy"
Monday September 12th

Carolyn has spent her career in brand marketing and marketing consulting at companies such as Pepsi-Cola, L'Oréal, Cadbury Schweppes and Evian.
She has an MBA in Marketing and International Business from New York University.
Born and raised in New York, Carolyn lived in France for three years as a child, where she learned to speak French.
Married to a Frenchman, she moved with her family from the US to France two years ago. She has children in the American Section of the Lycée International."

Muriel Lebbar
Relocation Consultant


“Daily life made easy"
Monday September 12th

Muriel Lebbar is Franco-American. She was born in France and grew up in the United States until the age of 14. When she came back to France she did not speak a word of French.
After obtaining her French Baccalaureate, she worked as a Personal Assistant to VPs within Euro Disneyland, the prestigious Bristol Palace in Paris and was able to understand the international school system after having worked for an international school in the Paris region.
Since 2008 Muriel has become an independent relocation consultant.
She is passionate by international mobility and is well aware of the difficulties and needs that families encounter when they move to France.
She puts all her efforts together to assist and ease the arrival of new families in France before and after they have settled in.
She has two children in the American Section of the Lycée International.

Anne BELGRAM
Psychologue clinicienne-clinical psychologist
annebelgram.com

“Enjoy your new life”
Monday September 19th

Anne Belgram-Perkins is a licensed clinical psychologist with a large practice in Le Vésinet.
Formerly of Richmond, Virginia, Anne Belgram has lived in France since 1984 with her French husband.
Anne has two bicultural, bilingual children who are now respectively 21 and 19.
In her practice, Anne sees children, teens and adults for a variety of problems including anxiety disorders, depression, trauma-related difficulties, abuse, domestic violence, cultural adaptation and acculturation, eating disorders, serious physical illness and bereavement. Anne is also a family and couple’s therapist and is specialized in helping multicultural families and couples. She is an intercultural mediator and trainer for schools, businesses and institutions.
Anne speaks French and English fluently and is versed in both Anglo-Saxon and French cultures.
She has worked many years for various French institutions and has in-depth knowledge of the French public health and social services systems.
She is an active member of the International Counseling Service in Paris.

Catherine Eterstein
Professeur agrégé de Lettres modernes - Lycée International
www.lycee-international.net

“French langage acquisition”
Monday September 12th

Madame Eterstein is a French teacher at the Lycée International, one that we call a "Professeur agrégé de Lettres modernes", which roughly translates to "Accepted Professor of Modern Letters".
You won't find someone with more degrees in the french system!
She teaches French literature and French as a Foreign Language in the Français Special, or "french special", class (FS in Lycée jargon).
Since 1990 she has been entirely responsible for the "Français Special" department: coordinating teams and educational projects, welcoming families, examining admission files.
You and your children will be sure to have the opportunity to meet her.
Like Mrs. Covington, her children went through the Lycée International and therefore she understands its inner workings.

Isabelle RICHARD
Maire Adjoint déléguée à l'animation à la vie citoyenne et au tourisme
Présidente de l'Office de Tourisme
www.saintgermainenlaye.fr


Monday September 19th
CRI (Conseil des Residents Internationaux) welcomes foreigners to Saint Germain and facilitates intercultural exchanges.

Nathalie TIRARD
Life coach


“Daily life made easy"
Monday September 12th

French born and raised in Lyon, Nathalie has a BA in management from ESCP Europe and is a certified CCCP Life coach from the american organization the Coaches Training Institute.
During her studies she lived in France in the UK and in Germany.
She worked for an international corporation for several years as Project Manager.
She lived in the USA for 3.5 years and in Switzerland for 4 years.
She is currently enhancing her business as a life coach and is passionate about helping people
find their energy again and look at their future with pleasure and confidence.
Nathalie is married to a Frenchman and has 3 children, a daughter entering 7th grade (5eme), a son entering 5th grade (CM2) and another son entering 2nd grade (CE1) all belonging to the american section of the Lycee international. Sharing her ideas on how to make your life in France easier is her way to welcome you to the Lycée International.

Priscille Peugnet
Femme Expat Communication
www.expatcommunication.com

“Le choc du retour”
Monday September 12th

Diplomée de Sciences Po Paris, après avoir exercé dans la Finance et la Communication, je suis partie en famille 4 ans aux Etats-Unis.
A mon retour, j’ai rejoint Expat Communication pour apporter mon expérience au service du site internet Femmexpat.com (je m’occupe de l’éditorial) et des stagiaires que je rencontre lors des formations que nous proposons « Réussir son expatriation » et « Le Choc du retour».

Adrienne COVINGTON
American Section
Middle School Principal
Lycée International and Collège Marcel Roby 3ème History
Lycée and Roby 6ème Advisory
BA/MA, Brown University
Ed.M., Harvard University
www.americansection.org

“French school system”
Monday September 12th

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, with a childhood in both New England and Southeast Asia, Adrienne Covington majored in Latin and Asian History at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Teaching and Curriculum at Harvard University.
She and her family have lived in France for over 20 years.
Daughter Billie graduated three years ago from the Lycée International and its American Section, while younger daughter Lucie has just finished Seconde at the Lycée.
For the past sixteen years, Adrienne has served as Middle School principal for the American Section and is also the Section's Troisième History teacher at both the Lycée and Roby campuses.
Most importantly, Adrienne is a huge believer in the French educational system, especially as offered at the Lycée International --quite obviously!-- and recommends it to anyone who is truly serious about their children's education.
She is delighted to have yet another opportunity to address all of you here today about the rigors, demands and benefits of a French education.

Sue EVANS
Sarah HOUILLER
Ann WILLIAMS
Accueil International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
www.accueilinternational.org


"Activities in Saint Germain-en-Laye and the surrounding area”
Monday September 19th

Sue, Sarah and Ann are all native English-speakers and are the leaders of the Anglophone Group of the Accueil International.
Sarah has been in France for many years and does some supply teaching locally. Her son has been through the Lycée International and her daughter is still in the British Section.
Ann and Sue have been here for a shorter period but are enjoying their stay in France. Sue is a teaching assistant at Trinity Tots which is an English-speaking play group attached to the Anglican Church in Maisons Laffitte. Ann is also involved with the International Players, a local English-speaking amateur dramatics’ group.
All three remember the problems encountered on their arrival and strive to help others in the same situation.
The aim of the Accueil International is to :
-welcome women from other countries and help them settle down in France;
-welcome French women on their return from living abroad and help them readapt;
-promote friendship between different nationalities;
-enable members to learn about French culture;
-share the cultures of our members.

Harriet WELTY ROCHEFORT
www.understandfrance.org
www.harrietweltyrochefort.com

“Celebrating cultural differences"
Monday September 19th

Harriet Welty Rochefort was born and raised in Shenandoah, Iowa and earned her Master's in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Bi-national and bi-cultural, Harriet has lived in France for most of her adult life and wrote about the fun but frustrating experience of wrestling with cultural differences in her enormously popular first book, “French Toast” (now out in paperback) which the LA Times hailed as “wise and devastatingly funny” and Diane Johnson called “a classic”.
Harriet is also the author of “French Fried” and is writing her third book about the French: “Joie de Vivre-Wining, Dining, and Romancing like the French” to be published in Spring 2012 by St. Martin’s Press. She is a journalism professor in the International Program at the Sciences Po Journalism School, a occasional contributor to France Today magazine, and a much in demand speaker on Franco-American cultural differences.
Harriet and her husband Philippe live in the trendy East of Paris in an apartment featuring a rarity in Paris: “un petit jardin”. Harriet’s hobbies include yoga, reading, cooking, wine and cheese, traveling in France (every single region in continental France), and her five “ever so French” grandchildren.