Training for Intercultural and Diversity Trainers
Summer Institute
This course can be applied to the UBC Certificate in Intercultural Studies,UBC Award of Achievement in Intercultural Communication, and UBC Award of Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion.
Strengthen your training and facilitating skills to design and deliver intercultural and diversity workshops. Create participant-centred sessions that engage and inspire learning. Practise how to assess needs for your group, and develop appropriate learning objectives and evaluation tools. Collect strategies for creating safety and curiosity around sensitive issues.
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.
Note: Participants must have prior experience in facilitation or training.
Course Format
This course is offered in two formats: in-class and in-class summer institute.
Requisites
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Prerequisite courses: (1 of the following)