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Get Connected

If you are interested in connecting with other people involved in the intercultural communication field, take a look at the following groups and pages that are now available on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Facebook:
Intercultural Communication Institute
Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication
MAIR — Master of Arts in Intercultural Relations
UoP–ICI MAIR Students Unite

LinkedIn:
Intercultural Communication Institute
Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication

  

Stay Connected

As an interculturalist, you may be faced with difficult questions and situations every day.  The chances are that other interculturalists share, or have shared, many of these same problems. To open dialogue around these issues, ICI Connections will be including a new section in which experts in the field of intercultural relations will answer your questions and offer insights into these common problems.

Please send suggestions of topics you would like to see addressed to mary@intercultural.org.

        Spotlight on MAIR Graduates

Our next issue of ICI Connections will feature a spotlight on two of our MAIR graduates. Stay tuned to find out where these Interculturalists are and what they are doing.



UPCOMING EVENTS

Cultural Detective Facilitator's Training
San Diego, California
November 6-7, 2009

Do you need to manage businesses, make decisions, coordinate activities, and implement strategy with global consistency and local appropriateness? This workshop will jump start your productivity and keep costs to a minimum in these tight economic times.

Learn to facilitate intercultural competence with the values-based Cultural Detective Methodology, a set of tools that is the result of a collaboration of over 100 of the world's leading intercultural specialists. Foster more productive working relationships within multicultural teams. Enhance your executive coaching, corporate diversity training, expatriate relocation and travel preparedness, affinity group learning, corporate culture integration following mergers and acquisitions, and much more!

This two-day course is hosted and sponsored by California State University San Marcos (San Diego, California) on Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7. The price is only US$750.  One graduate-level academic credit is available for an additional fee.

For further information or to register, go to the Cultural Detective website, or contact Kris Bibler. For questions about the content of the course, contact Tatyana Fertelmeyster.

 


Living and Working in an Intercultural World
Tenth Annual SIETAR-USA Conference 
Spokane, Washington
April 14-17, 2010

The Call for Proposals is now available and you can review the information at: sietarusaconference.com. We invite you to submit your proposals by the extended deadline of November 9, 2009.

Submit your proposal online at:  www.sietarusaconference.com

The SIETAR-USA 2010 conference is being held in Spokane, Washington. Historic, yet modern and bibrant, Spokane's past contrasts with cutting edge creativity, forming a city rich in heritage and innovation.

Questions?
Contact:  Tatyana Fertelmeyster

 
SIETAR-USA
603 Stewart St Ste 610
Seattle WA 98101
206-859-4351
206-626-0392 (f)
www.sietarusa.org

 

The Intercultural Communication Institute
is pleased to offer
a Qualifying Seminar for administrators of the

Global Competencies Inventory

November 13-14, 2009
Mark Spencer Hotel, Portland, Oregon

To prepare you to be a qualified administrator of the GCI, we will help you

  • Understand thoroughly the development of the GCI
  • Know how to interpret the GCI scores for selection and development purposes
  • Use the GCI to develop personal development plans for your clients

This 2-day seminar is especially for trainers, consultants, and coaches who want to expand their abilities to work with clients.  As a bonus, the seminar will also review the development and use of the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, a self-scoring instrument derived from the GCI, and suitable for classroom or more general use.

Workshop Dates:   November 13-14, 2009 (9:00-17:00)

Location:  The Mark Spencer Hotel, Portland, Oregon

Tuition:  US$1,500 (includes cost of training, all classroom materials, and taking the GCI)

Registration Form

Contact Information:

http://www.intercultural.org/gci-seminars.php
Phone: 503-297-4622
Email: kozai@intercultural.org

FUTURE GCI SEMINAR DATES

March 12-13, 2010
July 16-17, 2010
November 12-13, 2010
 
 

A New Course: The Intercultural Context of Training

This winter the Intercultural Communication Institute will be offering a 4-day course (see dates below) on the Intercultural Context of Training. Whether you train about culture or across cultures, this course will offer theoretical background and practical tools for successful work in both domestic diversity and global competence. For those who teach about culture, the course will offer frameworks for understanding resistance to intercultural learning, designing training to address learner readiness, and balancing challenge and support. For those who teach or train diverse groups, the course will examine processes for cultural responsiveness through cognitive styles, communication styles, and learning styles adaptations across cultures. All participants will leave the class with an intercultural toolkit of training methods and activities for a variety of intercultural contexts.

Taught by Janet Bennett in cooperation with Chris Cartwright, the schedule and locations for the course are:

Date Location
Saturday, January 9, 2010

 Intercultural Communication Institute, Southwest Portland 
Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2010 Mark Spencer Hotel, downtown Portland
(lunch is included for these two days only)
Saturday, February 13, 2010 Intercultural Communication Institute, Southwest Portland



All classes will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Credit is available through Portland State University.

See the ICI website for further background on the instructors and details for registration.