Description:

Classrooms, workplaces, and communities are made up of people with diverse and complex cultural backgrounds. To navigate these intercultural environments, Intercultural Competence is the ability that helps us to interact effectively and appropriately with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. By developing our intercultural competence, we foster our ability to recognize, acknowledge, respect, and incorporate an understanding of worldviews and their impact on relationships. This workshop will introduce the key concepts related to intercultural competence, such as intention and perception, objective and subjective culture, cultural frameworks and misperceptions, and finally some strategies for navigating cultural differences. 

Presenters:

Lauren Dominici works with students and staff at RRC Polytech to gain knowledge and competencies related to achieving inclusion and equity within our communities. Her experience working alongside the linguistically and culturally diverse youth provided the opportunity to learn the barriers that many students face and then worked toward solutions that created a more welcoming and inclusive school environment for all students.

Stephen Sawchyn works as an English as an Additional Language Specialist with the Academic Success Centre where he helps students develop the language skills they need for success in their programs and industry.   Stephen is also on the ASC Diversity Team and delivers student workshops on a variety of topics including intercultural competence, gender and sexual diversity and anti-racism.

If in-person registrations are low, the workshop will be presented only online. Please check your email the morning of the event to confirm the method of delivery. If the in-person session is cancelled, we welcome you to attend online.