Improving Intercultural Competence facilitated by Melody Edwards
In this session, participants will learn about:
- Basics of intercultural competence
- Importance of intercultural competence
- Openness and cultural diversity
- Curiosity and intercultural relationships
- Self-awareness and behavior with cultural differences
- Worldview frameworks and different cultural backgrounds
- Cultural differences and communication
- Intercultural empathy
The goals of the session are for the participant to better be able to:
- Interact with people who are culturally diverse
- Describe their own cultural rules and biases
- Discuss differences in forms of communication
- Ask questions of other cultures
- Differentiate complex worldview frameworks
- Recognize the feelings of diverse cultural groups