This seminar and workshop goes beyond diversity awareness and propels participants towards cultural inclusiveness, cultural competence and empowerment in diversity situations. Participants will examine their feelings, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and actions related to culture and diversity. The intensive activities and discussions support the main objectives: Develop knowledge to reduce ignorance; Develop skills to enhance competence; Make a personal commitment to embrace inclusiveness and promote empowerment.

Pre-requisites: Participants must be willing to select at least four items:

Open to listening to issues about culture and diversity

Willing to discuss attitudes and differences around gender, race, sexual orientation, diversity, etc.

Willing to examine self and personal positions

Open to personal change

Willing to examine information about different cultures

Open to making a personal commitment to embrace diversity and cultural competence

Program highlights:

Explore the costs of cultural intolerance

Examine the ‘isms’: Racism, classism, ageism, sexism & other-isms.

Discuss key information on different cultures

Experience cultural encounters of different kinds: Assess how you feel and act in culturally diverse situations

Examine what cultural competency is and what it is not

Analyze beliefs and attitudes which perpetuate cultural stereotypes

Discuss and explore historical issues which may underlie today’s cultural problems

Take a thorough, confidential and very personal analysis of your own beliefs & attitudes about different aspects of diversity

Discuss and be involved in cross-cultural communication

Explore the barriers to understanding diversity: stereotypes, beliefs, positions & assumptions

Examine the risks and benefits of becoming culturally competent

Discover why it is in your own self interest to be sensitive to & embrace cultural differences

Explore the importance of cultural inclusiveness, competence and empowerment within organizations

Discuss and explore cultural competency skill sets and their relationship to professional and personal empowerment and performance

Identify where you are now and how far you want to go on the journey towards cultural competence with a view to embrace cultural inclusiveness and empowerment

Practice key steps to developing and optimizing cultural competence skills

Discover whether or not you are willing or ready to make a commitment to increase cultural competence, embrace inclusiveness, and promote empowerment of others.