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Workshop - March 2009
March 29, Sunday, 10:00-16:00
Your pre-registration is highly appreciated in order to grasp the participants, although the number is not limited. Send an email with your name and contact number to 
WORKSHOP:
Communication, Culture and Complications: Facilitating Intercultural Groups
LEADER:
Janet Bennett, Ph.D
PLACE:
Reitaku University Seminar Center, Shinjuku i-Land Tower 4F
LANGUAGE:
English
FEE:
Members 8000Yen
Non-members 12000Yen
Member Students 3000Yen
Non-member Students 5000Yen
Non-member Graduate Student 6000Yen
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Cultural differences among participants in classrooms, training sessions, and meetings create special challenges for facilitators. The approach that encourages dialogue among some participants may be exactly the one that discourages participation from others. Just when we assume that everything is working out, something may go mysteriously wrong. This workshop will explore the possibility that "something cultural is going on!"
This course is designed for anyone who tries to facilitate interaction in educational or organizational settings where participants do not share the same cultural styles. The course will:
- Explore the complicated patterns of interaction that occur in culturally mixed groups
- Examine the impact of thinking and speaking styles on classroom facilitation
- Apply intercultural principles to facilitating reluctant or challenging participants
- Review strategies for addressing culture in multicultural groups
WORKSHOP LEADERS:
Janet Bennett, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Intercultural Communication Institute and Chair of the ICI/University of the Pacific Master of Arts in Intercultural Relations program. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota, where she specialized in intercultural communication and anthropology. For 12 years, she was Chair of the Liberal Arts Division at Marylhurst College, where she developed innovative academic programs for adult degree students. As a trainer and consultant, she designs and conducts intercultural and diversity training for colleges and universities, corporations, and social service agencies. She teaches courses in the training and development program at Portland State University and has published many articles and chapters on the subjects of developmental "layered" intercultural training and adjustment processes. She co-edited The Handbook of Intercultural Training, 3rd edition, and recently authored the chapter "Cultivating Intercultural Competence: A Process Perspective" from the forthcoming book The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence.
How to get there?:
i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station it is approximately a 10-minute walk. Once you get to the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. After you get off on the 4th floor, walk to the right until you get to the last door on your left.
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