Courses
Intercultural Understanding offers the following courses to groups as well as to individuals.
We also offer customized courses.
Please contact us if you would like to offer these courses to your staff or team, or if you would be interested in learning about when the next open course will be offered. These courses may be offered online or in person. If offered in person, the facilitators’ travel expenses will be billed separately.
Courses run over a 6-month period, and each are composed of six thematic units. All courses include a needs analysis that can be used towards personal growth as well as towards team goals. The courses start with creating an authentic space for psychological safety, which will allow for optimal learning and development. An overview of the learning journey gives participants a birds' eye view of what to expect and how to show up tor themselves and for others. Each month the focus is on a new content area. Over the month we will gain skills and competencies by means of in-depth learning, practice, and reflection.
Each thematic unit consists of continuous self-discovery through: Thematic Content, Tools for Use, Practice and Reflection, Real-life Application for Integration, Accountability and Sharing.
Confident Communication:
Course Objectives: This course helps you become more productive at work by discovering and trusting your power within, your creativity, intuition, and talents.
Outcome: By doing this program you’ll be speaking from a place of calm confidence.
Thematic Units:
- Cultivating Inner Calm
- Gaining Clarity and Setting Intentions
- Creating a Confident Self Image
- Developing Compassion
- Being Playful
- Finding Courage and Connection
Connecting Interculturally:
Course Objectives: This course helps you to engage in the discovery and purpose of difference by fostering curiosity about your own as well as other people’s cultures.
Outcome: By doing this program you will know how to express your own diversity as well as how to recognize and engage more effectively with the diversity around you.
Thematic Units:
- Exploring Intercultural Understanding and Cultural Dimensions
- Communicating Across Cultures
- Acquiring Strategies for Cultural Sensitivity, Community Engagement and Respect
- Creating and Fostering Inclusivity
- Managing Cultural Conflict
- Practicing Intercultural Competence
Overcoming Challenges, or When Shit Comes Up:
Course Objectives: This course helps you to navigate challenging situations by empowering you with tools and practices, giving you the freedom to show up and respond authentically and compassionately.
Outcome: By doing this program you will feel free to choose how to respond in spaces of challenge.
Thematic Units:
- Connecting with Inner Calm
- Practicing Personal Leadership
- Responding to Critical Moments (Conflict Resolution)
- Recognizing Interconnection and Developing Compassion
- Co-Regulation and Collaboration
- Developing a Trauma Informed Leadership
Fostering Human Connection through DEIB:
Course Objectives: This course helps you in your use of difference to create more meaningful and profitable results on a personal as well as a professional level.
Outcome: By doing this program you will move from the knowledge of diversity as welcome to diversity as useful.
Thematic Units:
- Managing Diversity
- Adapting and Belonging
- Communicating across Differences
- Telling our Stories
- Recognizing Interconnectedness (Linkage)
- Leveraging the Value and Profit of Diversity
Structure
Courses run over a 6-month period, and each are composed of 6 thematic units. A thematic unit last 1 month.
Session 1 - (Full Group) Introduction – Accountability and sharing, thematic content, tools, exercises, and activities. 90-minute session.
Session 2 - (Smaller groups) (2-6 participants per facilitator/coach) Accountability and sharing. 60-minute session.
Session 3 - (Full Group) – Accountability and sharing, thematic content, tools, exercises, and activities. 90-minute session.
Session 4 - (Smaller groups) (2-6 participants per facilitator/coach) Accountability and sharing. 60-minute session.
Group size: minimum 6 people, maximum 18 people per course
Price: Individual price per course – 2,250€
Please contact us for group or company rates.