Training for Intercultural and diversity trainers

Strengthen your training and facilitating skills to design and deliver intercultural and diversity workshops.

This five-day workshop has been designed especially for UBC Certificate in Intercultural Studies participants and graduates who have prior training or facilitating experience and want to conduct their own intercultural sessions.

You may want to
• lead diversity training in your workplace
• help organizations adopt inclusive workplace practices
• support the transition of immigrants
• facilitate multinational teams for global business
• prepare people for an overseas assignment
• support the move towards a just and more equitable society

Join us and
• learn how to assess the variety of needs in your group so that you can ‘meet them where they’re at’
• design learning objectives that are realistic in relation to the training time available
• collect strategies for creating safety and curiosity around sensitive issues
• share experiential learning activities that engage and inspire
• practice designing and delivering dynamic programs
• devise a strategy for evaluating the learning.

Prerequisite: Foundations and Skills in Intercultural Communication or Strategies for Effective Intercultural Communication. Participants must have prior experience in facilitation or training.

Next course offering is in Vancouver, May 14-18, 2012.

Course fee ($1495) includes two hours of follow-up coaching or support. All fees are quoted in Canadian dollars.

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Why didn't I take this course earlier in life? What made me think that I was "well equipped" with the knowledge I had going into various intercultural situations? I never appreciated that an academic approach or model was missing until now when I step back and reflect on my learning from the [Foundations] seminar. ..

- Mindy Bratvold, Edmonton, AB Coordinator, Student Exchange
Alberta Education
8 years of overseas experience.