How To Develop Your Cross-Cultural Skills

Overview This workshop will help students develop a mindset of inclusiveness, which is a conscious commitment to engage and include everyone’s perspectives and different talents and to value and incorporate everyone’s unique contributions. Students will learn how to increase their cultural responsiveness by gaining insight into their own values and by evaluating their perceptions about those who are different from them. In addition, they will identify strategies for becoming more culturally responsive and inclusive, which will help them to be more effective in the important conversations and decisions they are involved in now and in the future. Objectives Examine inclusiveness, cultural responsiveness, and their benefits Increase awareness of ethnocentrism and microaggressions Gain insight into your own current values Evaluate your perceptions and perspectives Identify beliefs, emotions, and/or behaviors that may interfere with interpersonal interactions Discover how cognitive bi