Expand skills in working with diverse audiences.
Navigating Difference Cultural Competency training helps to equip Cooperative Extension staff members with the knowledge and skills to engage with diverse audiences. The training incorporates techniques and tools to increase awareness and build cultural competencies and provides opportunities to examine how personal and organizational cultures influences our ability to work across differences.
This three-day, train-the-trainer workshop at Allerton Park in Monticello, IL, is designed to equip Cooperative Extension trainers with the skillset and tools necessary to prepare and co-lead the Navigating Difference: Cultural Competency Training in a team within their organizations and/or for community audiences in their states.
The cultural competency curriculum was developed by Washington State University Extension and is designed using key adult education theory and practices that create a safe and welcoming environment for all learners. The learning activities respect and support individual learning styles, and the participants’ life experiences are viewed as an important source of knowledge.
Attendee Requirements
Workshop attendees must be Cooperative Extension/Land-grant staff who have previously completed Navigating Difference Cultural Competency Training as a participant. Trainees must complete all three days of this workshop to obtain a certificate of completion.
Registration Details
- Registration Deadline: September 13, 2024
- Registration is limited to 25 participants; register early to confirm attendance.
- Registration fee: $1,200
- Includes training workshop and materials, breakfast, and lunch.
- Lodging: $137 plus tax per night (not included in registration cost)
3-Day Conference
- October 8, 2024: 8 AM to 4:30 PM
- October 9, 2024: 8 AM to 4:30 PM
- October 10, 2024: 8 AM to 4 PM
Competencies Covered
- Module One: Cultural Awareness
- Explore personal and cultural values, biases, prejudices, and views.
- Identify ways in which culture shapes beliefs, practices, and values.
- Identify similarities and differences among cultures.
- Recognize our own culture(s), including organizational culture.
- Module Two: Cultural Understanding
- Understand the developmental nature of cultural competencies.
- Describe issues and concerns that arise when values, beliefs, and practices differ from those of the dominant culture.
- Recognize ways culture affects participation in organizational programs and services.
- Module Three: Cultural Knowledge
- Develop familiarity with specific cultures, emphasizing the diverse audiences in your geographic area.
- Use conceptual and theoretical models for understanding human culture, especially how other cultures differ from our own.
- Identify appropriate cultural guides and build productive relationships with them.
- Module Four: Cultural Interaction
- Recognize factors impacting successful intercultural communication.
- Use concepts and theories of intercultural communication.
- Manage intercultural conflicts effectively.
- Interact productively with and seek input and guidance from cultural partners.
- Form new programmatic partnerships across intercultural differences.
- Module Five: Cultural Sensitivity
- Identify historical and sociological influences on specific cultural interactions.
- Recognize the impact of privilege, inequality, and oppression in daily contexts.
Trainers
- Ross Wilburn; ross4.wilburn@gmail.com
- Kris Parker; parkerkj@purdue.edu
- Gayle Coon; gcoon@iastate.edu
- Amanda Dickson; dicksona@purdue.edu
Hosting Partners
- University of Illinois Extension
- Purdue University Extension
- Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
- Washinton State University Extension