Beyond Diversity Awareness!

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, 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 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
	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.

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