ADVANCED CORE COURSE
Building Intercultural Viability™ in Organizations -Milton Bennett
The Development of Collective Intercultural Adaptability
OVERVIEW
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. In its positive sense, that maxim describes the synergistic potential of organizations to combine unity and diversity into innovation. But it also can mean that the collective organizational culture can perpetuate ethnocentrism and inequity, despite individual development.
This course will show how to integrate tactical training in intercultural communication with strategic organizational transformation towards the goal of generating sustainable viability in unpredictably changing global and domestic social conditions.
Join this course to help your organisation—or those of your clients if you are an external consultant—pursue the strategic goal of sustainable adaptive potential to social change.
In addition to predictable changes such as increasingly multicultural societies and greater emphasis on equity and inclusion issues, future social situations are sure to include unpredictable changes such as the ones that have occurred during the Covid pandemic. Since organizations cannot prepare for such changes specifically, they need help in developing a general adaptive capacity.
The course will use the new concept of Intercultural Viability™—the probability that an organization can adapt to unpredictable changes in multicultural social conditions—to guide advanced practical applications of a constructivist paradigm, a model of perceptual development, and coherent activities that foster intercultural consciousness.
Participants will learn how to approach organizational adaptive capacity in a coherent way, how to explain it to stakeholders, how to coordinate program design elements, and how to select appropriate assessment methods.
In this course, you will learn how to help yourself—and those you work with—so that you/they can better:
- Recognize the challenge of preparing organizations for unpredictable social change
- Acquire conceptual tools for understanding and explaining the idea of collective intercultural adaptability to emerging social conditions.
- Consider various methods for tactical and strategic intervention that will support collective intercultural development.
- Learn how to select appropriate assessment methods to create credibility, diagnose needs, and demonstrate effectiveness.
The instructor will provide a new conceptual structure that uniquely focuses on how relationships of individual and collective intercultural competence can increase an organization’s adaptive potential. Participants will practice using the concepts in reflecting on their own work. Several case studies from administration of the Intercultural Viability Inventory (IVI) will be discussed as examples of this approach to generating a sustainable climate of respect for diversity.
This course is for you if are a in charge of or are a consultant/trainer/multiplier/educator who helps those:
- Leading or significantly supporting the planning and/or implementation of an intercultural development training or education initiative for a corporation, educational institution, governmental department, healthcare facility, NGO or similar.
- Already understand the fundamentals of intercultural competence with emphasis on individual level development and are ready to go further.
COURSE TYPE
Advanced Core: Intercultural Communication
DURATION/DATES
3 days/12-14 July 2023
TARGET LEVEL(S)
Senior (20+ years)
Advanced (13-19 years)
TUITION FEE
€1495
includes certificate from the University and the Institute
Milton Bennett, PhD
Thanks to Dr. Milton Bennett’s four decades of seminal contributions —including the groundbreaking Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)— the study and practice of intercultural development holds, today, a core position within the greater Differences field.
A consummate teacher and eloquent communicator who is frequently requested to comment on current affairs, Milton has held a tenured position at Portland State University (US), executive development positions with Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business (US) as well as several corporate universities, and currently maintains adjunct appointments in Europe.
In addition to his ongoing research, consulting, and training, he has recently introduced the Intercultural Viability IndicatorTM, an instrument designed to assess and support organizational-level intercultural competence.
She has developed new methodologies and approaches, and her participatory, inclusive and interactive approach to training and teaching only further evolves and advances her work.
She is a leader in her field and believe it is fair to say that she is one of the top trainers globally.
CONSIDERATIONS
Neuroscience is often considered a topic beyond the reach of daily practitioners, many of whom may not have a background in the hard sciences. While a general understanding of ?human biology and physiology? is helpful, and we will touch on the anatomy and chemistry involved, the core concepts we will address do not require a specialized understanding in this area.
PREQUALIFICATIONS
While this course is open to all practitioners, it is strongly recommended that you have:
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