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