Session II: July 18-22, 2011

23. Facilitating Intercultural Discovery John Condon and Nagesh Rao This is an experiential workshop that focuses on learning how to learn about culture in more creative ways.

Designed for Objectives Learning Activities John Condon Nagesh Rao Educators, trainers, counselors, and all who wish to enhance their own observational skills and to lead others toward intercultural discoveries. This workshop would be particularly useful for advisors and administrators of international or multicultural education programs. Participants will have the opportunity to: Reflect on their individual learning preferences Explore other ways of learning to expand their own abilities Sharpen their skills of observation of the things and events of everyday life Be more mindful of how they make meaning and increase their cultural self-awareness Acquire skills and methods to facilitate intercultural learning Process the affective and cognitive components of learning These will include: Interpretation of the cultural significance of familiar objects Discussion of the uses of photography across cultures and in intercultural discovery Exercises in the intercultural significance of naming Analysis of television and other forms of popular culture Explorations of culture through a variety of media and genres, including folklore, music, and film Practice with different interview methods to facilitate intercultural learning Discussion of the consequences of cultural exchange   Dr. John (Jack) Condon is a founding faculty member of the Summer Institute and is regarded as one of the founders of the intercultural field. Educated in the U.S. and abroad, Jack has conducted research and taught for 20 years outside of the U.S. He is the author of 18 books and serves on the International Advisory Board for Asia Pacific World. A revised and expanded edition of With Respect to the Japanese, co-authored with Tomoko Masumoto, was published in 2010. For the past two decades Jack has conducted site-specific field seminars on intercultural communication in New Mexico. An award-winning author and teacher, Jack was named Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico, the institution’s highest honor, where he is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and Journalism.   Dr. Nagesh Rao is a teacher, storyteller, dancer, listener, statistician, poet, and a proud father of two daughters. His many marginal experiences—first as a Kannadiga in a Tamil State; as an accountant in an artist’s soul; then, for 20-odd years, an East Indian in Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio, and New Mexico; and now a nonresident Indian back in India—give him a wealth of stories and theories to share about the many Indias, about discovery of self and others, and about how to be an effective change agent. Nagesh also happens to be a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, the premier business school in India.