Join our bi-monthly online sessions this year
The IDD is a vibrant global community dedicated to supporting all who do the essential work of helping individuals, organizations, and societies develop across differences. In other words, we aim to serve YOU.
Join experienced peers and friends of the IDD along with IDD host Nadine Binder for the IDD’s regular Global Community of Practice sessions taking place every other month.
Read on to learn how it works, whom it’s for and what opportunities we offer you to expand your global peer network.
DATES IN 2025*
February 20, 2025 – 11am-12pm EST / 5-6pm CET
Responding to problematic remarks and polarized discourse: Good practices
April 17, 2025 – 9-10am CET / 7-8pm AEDT
Micro-aggressions, harassment, and bullying: Strategies for bystanders
June 18, 2025 – 11am-12pm EST / 5-6pm CET
What’s your favorite question? Collecting powerful questions to open and deepen conversations
August 21, 2025 – 11am-12pm EST / 5-6pm CET
Research update: Latest insights and trends from the greater Differences fields
October 23, 2025 – 9-10am CET / 5-6pm AEST
Sustainable interventions: Strategies for engaging clients and learners for lasting impact
December 18, 2025 – 11am-12pm EST / 5-6pm CET
End of year reflections: Practices for personal resilience
Each Global Community of Practice gathering has a broader theme to focus our conversation. After a brief introduction to kick off, we engage in community dialogues in small groups and in plenary to share knowledge, experiences, perspectives, and insights around the broader theme. We capture our main insights and resources to be shared with the whole community after each Global Community of Practice gathering.
*Topics can be subject to change.
WHY JOIN?
Our Global Community of Practice provides a space for dialogue, reflection, and discussion so that we can collectively and individually improve our impact, “nerd out” together and expand the field.
Connect with colleagues from around the world —most with 10+ years in the field (but all are welcome)—from across the greater Differences realm (such as intercultural communication, DEI, global learning, global competence), different professional backgrounds, and sectors.
We meet to discuss and share ideas, practices, scholarship, and experiences in an informal, noncommercial setting.
MORE INFORMATION
To accommodate our Global Peers in different time zones, we alternate the time of our sessions. We also share insights and resources from each session with the entire Global Community of Practice.
Each session offers some opening thoughts on the respective topics, followed by self-facilitated discussions in breakout rooms and in plenary. While you are welcome to share what you have been working on and connect with others for collaboration, please do not use this as a platform to showcase or sell your services.
JOIN THE IDD GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Please only complete this form if you have not yet signed up for the IDD Global Community of Practice in previous years. If you are already a member of the IDD Global Community of Practice, you will receive invitations and reminders for our sessions via email.