Who are we?
Wilna Wilkinson is a Eurocentric African who has done it herself! Her personal experience of relocating from Britain to France - living through the difficulties and challenges, as well as the pleasures and the joy - not only enables her to now call France 'home' but provides her with the necessary know-how to be the perfect host of the Vivre en France! course.
For the past 25 years, Wilna has travelled across the globe as a corporate trainer and coach in cross-cultural awareness and communication, in networking and presentation skills, and she brings with her the very extensive and invaluable personal experience of living and working around the world.
When not coaching intending expats in the how's, where's and when's for a successful and happy life in France, she continues her work as motivational speaker and speech writer, being involved in activities in the local community, writing a blog about her life in France as well as a column for a well-known expat website, working as researcher for a best selling author, maintaining an expat network, hosting literary dinner evenings and her monthly Soirée for Interesting Women.
Albert Croce is ideally suited to run the French Language and Lifestyle : Vivre et Savoir Faire aspect of the course.
A French national, he obtained his 'Licence des Lettres' and a 'Langue et Civilisation Anglaise' from the University of Tours, after which he moved to the UK where he lived for 27 years. Whilst there, Albert first worked as a French teacher at the progressive school, Dartington Hall, and later launched the 'Alliance Française Enseignante' at Dartington, in Exeter, Devon. His exceptional work in forging bonds of understanding and mutual respect between the two countries earned him the coveted award from the French government, the Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
With these many years of experience in teaching the French language, literature and the arts to Anglophones, he returned to France in 2004 to open the Centre Aquitaine Langues language school in Bergerac, where he quickly became known for his teaching skills of French - and all things French - as well as for his understanding of the Anglophone culture and his ability to make expat newcomers to France feel welcome and at home.
Combined with their talents, they have gathered together a formidable team of experts in each of the fields offered in the course.
Course dates:
September 9 to 15 2007
April 20 to 26 2008
July 13 to 19 2008
October 5 to 11 2008
Tariffs
Arrival Sunday afternoon, departure Saturday before noon. Six days, all inclusive:
€ 2045 per person
€ 3700 per couple
€ 1750 per person when group booking of four people or more
Booking
Please complete our on-line Booking Form.