Course - 2023 IDD-ICCF Middle Eastern Learning Lab & Community (Mini) Week
Facilitating Intercultural Discovery - Dr. Nagesh Rao
What is the cultural significance of the everyday situations and objects that we simply take for granted? How might this significance be different for those whose backgrounds vary from our own? How do these differences impact our interactions?
This course will help you see the familiar in new ways and creatively challenge your assumptions so that you can better empathize with the different perspectives that surround you in your everyday environment.
In addition to mentoring and coaching expertise, Dr. Nagesh Rao has led sustainable campus-wide intercultural competence development and diversity and inclusion programs/systems in higher education around the world.
For those wishing to become more sensitized to how and where culture is both hidden yet in plain sight, this course helps you and those you work with expand your intercultural mindset, behavior, and skills through a creative examination of everyday communication practices.
Contact us at info@iddifferences.org if you have questions about the suitability of this course for your circumstances.
In this course, you will learn how to help yourself—and those you work with—so that you/they can better:
- Reflect on individual learning preferences — your own and those of others.
- Explore other ways of learning from cultural and intercultural perspectives.
- Be more mindful of how we make meaning and increase our cultural self-awareness.
- Acquire or improve skills and methods to facilitate intercultural learning.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a Certificate of Participation listing 6 contact learning hours.
This course will combine input, storytelling, interactive activities, and discussion to engage everyone and the instructor will ask you to step outside of your own comfort zone to put into practice what we learn together.
Contact us at info@iddifferences.org if you have questions about the suitability of this course for your circumstances.
This course is for you:
- If you are an educator, trainer, advisor, or administrator of international or multicultural programs who wishes to enhance your observational skills and to lead others toward intercultural discoveries.
COURSE TYPE
Hands-on Tips & Insights
DURATION/DATES
1 day/4 Oct 2023
TARGET LEVEL(S)
New or Experienced Trainers, Educators & All Professionals
TUITION FEE
US$575
includes certificate from IDD
Nagesh Rao, PhD
Currently based in the US, Dr. Nagesh Rao is an accomplished DEI trainer, coach, consultant and professor who uses intercultural competence, cultural humility, storytelling and intercultural listening to develop leaders in healthcare/medicine, education and business.
In Nagesh’s three+ decades of teaching, consulting and training, he has worked with clients in Fortune 500 corporations, top medical schools and hospitals, educational institutes and community-based non-profit organizations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
In 2017, Dr. Rao was named special advisor on inclusion and faculty affairs and asked to design and implement Ohio University (US) Medical School’s Office of Inclusion. He has visiting lecturer appointments at numerous universities including the University of Groningen (Netherlands).
I am inspired by Anais Nin’s quote, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
"Nagesh Rao is an amazing teacher. "
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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