FOSTER STRENGTH BASED INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN ALL SPACES
Traditional approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion focus on identifying and remedying problems. While this is necessary for change, it can perpetuate a deficit-based mindset and weaken relationships. Appreciative Inquiry, a successful approach to fostering positive change, expands our focus to identifying, exploring, and amplifying strengths and opportunities in all our relationships, to build bridges across divides (e.g. people, processes, systems of work, communities, and families).
Learn how to build your intercultural competence by applying Appreciative Inquiry’s tools, processes, and principles into your daily practices. Come prepared to collaboratively inquire into what’s working and what’s possible to create the change we want to see in our workplaces, communities and family systems.
EVENT DATES & TIMES:
Session 1: RENEW | Session 2: RELATE | Session 3: CO-CREATE | Session 4: RESOLVE |
March 6, 2024 | March 13, 2024 | March 20, 2024 | March 27, 2024 |
8:00am-10:00am PST 11:00am-1:00pm EST 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST | 8:00am-10:00am PST 11:00am-1:00pm EST 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST | 8:00am-10:00am PST 11:00am-1:00pm EST 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST | 8:00am-10:00am PST 11:00am-1:00pm EST 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST |
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Co-Creating Strength Based Intercultural Relationships in All Spaces will support you in taking intercultural competence, diversity, equity and inclusion actions with Appreciative Inquiry principles, process and tools. This course is not a diversity, equity and inclusion training, an unconscious bias assessment, nor an anti-racism webinar; however, your trainers will share:
- their expertise in shifting relationships from conflict to collaboration specifically in the field of Organization Development;
- introduce their theory and change model; and
- provide valuable resources to increase your resilience and improve your intercultural relationships.
You are encouraged to come with an Intercultural Relationship Project (big or small, personal or professional) that will deepen your learning through immediate application. Together, we will help you identify the individual and collective strengths within your initiative, develop generative questions to engage in listening and storytelling for positive possibilities, and ensure you have an action plan to co-create a more interculturally competent, diverse, equitable, and inclusive destiny.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
As a result of participating in this virtual series you will be able to:
- Actively contribute to a more intercultural competent and compassionate world.
- Learn bespoke Appreciative Inquiry practices and tools that are interculturally applicable.
- Develop your own intercultural relationship building project at work, home or in your community using Appreciative Inquiry.
- Establish a learning and accountability process and community for your strengths based intercultural relationships work.
- Create an Action Plan to make your intercultural relationship building inevitable.
VIRTUAL SESSIONS:
This virtual series consists of synchronous (live sessions hosted through Zoom) and asynchronous (assigned reading and activities outside of class time) learning over the course of 4 weeks. Each week, participants will meet for two hours to engage in a training session designed to guide you through the full range and depth of what it means to incorporate intercultural competency into your living Appreciative Inquiry practice.
INVITATION: Create a safe container for dialogue and build a community of practice.
DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT:
- Build understanding and trust through paired work and group shared agreements.
- Discuss and identify various diversity markers and explore the term intersectionality, with an Appreciative Inquiry lens.
INVITATION: Introduce “Spaciousness Thinking Partners” peer mentoring and coaching model.
DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT:
- Review and integrate Appreciative Inquiry principles, tools, and processes into each participant’s identified Intercultural Relationship Project.
- Build, brainstorm, and provide feedback using the Spaciousness Thinking Partners model.
INVITATION: Strengthen participants’ intercultural relationships practices by using generative questions to inquire into possibilities.
DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT:
- Reflect and explore how to surface and breakthrough hidden biases and limiting beliefs.
- Craft and use generative questions to center living Appreciative Inquiry and intercultural competency ethos and values in your professional and personal processes.
INVITATION: Solidify participant’s resolve to take strengths based intercultural actions with clear indicators of success.
DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT:
- Reflect and converge key insights and emerging wisdom to create a vast toolbox for practical application.
- Explore into the inner condition and external relationships (with both allies and antagonists) needed for successful action.
ADDITIONAL EVENT INFORMATION:
METHOD OF DELIVERY
The synchronous (live) conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using a computer or tablet. You will receive the Zoom meeting information link and password once you are registered. All course materials and activities are located online and can be found on Spaciousness Works online platform.
PRE-TRAINING WORK
Prior to the start of this training, participants will:
- Receive a confirmation email from The Center for Appreciative Inquiry containing event information, including a link to an intake form. Participants are encouraged to complete the form as soon as possible.
- Log into Spaciousness Works online platform to browse instructional content, familiarize themselves with the platform, post an introductory message, and connect directly with the trainers.
PROGRAM OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
WANT TO TRAIN YOUR TEAM?
Co-Creating Strengths Based Intercultural Relationships in All Spaces can be delivered privately to a team, department, organization, or community and can be delivered in-person or virtually. We encourage a minimum of ten (10) members from any organization, group, or community to participate. Please complete the CONTACT US form to learn how to bring a this program to your team, organization, or community.
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