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Training and Development Workshops

In Search for our Multicultural Identity: This three-part training program is based on Milton J. Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and 35 years’ experience in multicultural settings. It includes the following components:

A comprehensive understanding and appreciation of culture.

Fully understanding its impact on all aspects of human behavior, values and communication. This includes space, touch, motions, gestures, time, senses, and other elements of human behavior. It also includes cultural impact on norms, preferences, world views, and attitudes. Equally important, the participant is able to understand how culture affects language and how language in turn frames our behavior.

Self-discovery and appreciation of each participant as a cultural being.

Through a series of activities, exercises, and tools, participants can gain consciousness of how their behaviors and values are framed in their own cultural context. They are also able to discover any biases in favor of their personal cultural context. Participants are provided the opportunity to separate their own culturally defined behaviors or values from attributes of superiority, inferiority, or universal applicability.

Development of a Multicultural Identity

One that can comprehend differences in cultural identities and proactively consider and shift day to day behaviors in different cultural contexts. To achieve and exercise this understanding, participants are exposed to and practice various processes, tools, and exercises to improve intercultural awareness and communication skills, develop empathy and shift cultural frame of references.

These components may be offered separately, depending on organizational need and interest.

Maximizing the Advantages of Multilingualism

This workshop familiarizes participants with the intellectual, academic, professional and quality of life (individual, organizational, societal) advantages of developing in a bilingual or multilingual environment. It also promotes consideration of challenges to developing this environment and encourages assessment of strategies to overcome those challenges.

Understanding the Latinx Experience

The workshop provides an introduction and overview to the diversity and complexity of the fastest growing population group in the United States: Latinx/Latino/Hispanic. This includes national origin, cultural, racial, migratory, geographic, generational and linguistic diversity within a group that also shares important common elements and characteristics. Based on this, the participants are introduced to strategies that can be considered to further equity and inclusion based on the composition mix of the Latinx population within the organization or its environment.

Strategic Leadership in Organizational Transformation for DEI

The workshop is designed for top and middle management in an increasingly diverse organization that is seeking to further equity and inclusion. The participants explore the answers to the key questions in organizational transformation: why, who and how. Managers are supported in defining the reasons for embarking on DEI initiatives and the challenges that need to be overcome. Finally, participants are given the opportunity to define the general parameters of the design and implementation of these strategies and their roles as leaders in the process.

Custom designed training and development based on organizational assessment

Educate for Diversity can design and offer training and development workshops based on the assessment of organizational needs. The workshops included in this section can also be customized to reflect that assessment.

Organizational Assessment

Educate for Diversity can provide and facilitate organizations with the internal and environmental assessment needed for the design and implementation of effective DEI strategies. Assessment services focused on DEI include:

Interviews of staff at different levels and key external stakeholders
Focus groups coordination and management
Survey design and administration
Research, analysis and reporting of internal, external and assessment activities’ data.

Strategic DEI Program Design & Implementation

Advancement of equity and inclusion as an organizational response usually goes beyond defining and assessing the situation and training and development. Specific and targeted initiatives or programs must be designed and developed. We can design and present these strategic program proposals as well as assist and support in their implementation.

Consulting services in program design and implementation include, among others:

Preparation of program design and justification
Presentation to internal stakeholders
Design of marketing and outreach strategies for external stakeholders or clients
Program budget preparation and identification of resources
Structural analysis and recommendations for effective implementation
Program staff training and development
Staff assistance during implementation
Design and support of program and outcome assessment and evaluation plan

These services apply to any program or initiative that leads to strategic organizational transformation increasing equity and inclusion, internally and externally. Educate for Diversity additionally provides extensive successful experience in the design and implementation of strategic initiatives that:

increase and improve equity and inclusion for Latinx populations
develop a multilingual/multicultural environment
offer multilingual/multicultural products and services.

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