Cross-Cultural Competency Training: In Person and Online

We live, work and serve in a growing multicultural Canada.  What cultural lenses are we looking through?  What things can I learn about the way I and people from other nationalities communicate?  How will this help me be less offensive in my cross-cultural friendships and help me communicate important truths?

Speaker Professor David Catterick, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Program Director of the BA Applied Linguistics: TESOL program at Briercrest College and Seminary, hosted by Connecting Streams.

This Event will be in person in Edmonton and Online via Zoom.

First 3 hours - teaching with discussions

Understanding the Nature of Culture

• Understanding human culture and cultural change
• National cultures in light of Kingdom culture
• Avoiding essentialism, cultural stereotyping, misattribution, and prejudice
• Representing Canadian culture and understanding Canadian culture from the perspective of the outsider
• Relationship between language and culture (language as a barrier to and facilitator of the gospel)* (*possible afternoon instead of morning)

1 Hour Break

Second 3 hours - teaching with discussions

Aspects of Culture

• Culture’s influence on the way people communicate (high-context versus low-context communication)
• Culture’s influence on family and social relationships (individualism versus collectivism)
• Culture’s influence on attitudes to authority (high power distance versus low power distance)
• Culture and non-verbal communication (interpersonal distance, touch, clothing)
• Managing intercultural conflict (mediators versus intermediaries)

Host or Publisher Connecting Streams