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Leading Across Difference

Do you wonder why, despite your best efforts, differences keep you or others in conflict and tension? Whether it’s working on a team, helping another person or leading an organization, differences are part of being in a community. In this course, you will gain knowledge and practical skills in intergroup dynamics, effective communication across differences and intercultural competence. As a result, you will be better equipped to work in diverse settings with more efficiency and understanding.

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You Will Learn:

  • Communication skills aimed at bridging differences and fostering equal participation.
  • To increase your capacity to shift perspective and behavior to embrace cultural differences and similarities.
  • Frameworks to recognize, lead across and leverage differences to achieve goals.

Who Should Register?

  • Working professionals who desire to keep up with the increasing demand of organizations to have leaders and employees who are interculturally competent.
  • Community members who work for, with and alongside diverse stakeholders.
  • Individuals who desire to increase their capacity to build positive and mutually beneficial interactions and relationships with others.
  • Leaders who want to move the needle from good intentions to positive impact.
  • Individuals who desire to deepen their understanding of their own cultural and social identities, and those of others.

Price: $750

You Will Learn:

  • Communication skills aimed at bridging understanding, differences and “equal participation.”
  • Your current intercultural development orientation and receive a personalized plan on how to increase your capacity to shift perspective and behavior to cultural differences and similarities.
  • About culture general and specific frameworks and the ways to recognize, lead across and leverage differences to achieve goals.

Who Should Register?

  • Working professionals who desire to keep up with the increasing demand of workplaces and organizations to have leaders and employees who are interculturally competent.
  • Community members and leaders who work for, with and alongside diverse stakeholders.
  • Individuals who desire to increase their capacity to build positive and mutually beneficial interactions and relationships with others.
  • Leaders who want to move the needle from good intentions to positive impact.
  • Individuals who desire to deepen their understanding of their own cultural and social identities, and those of others.

Price: $750

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Dates & Time to Completion

May 20 - June 28, 2024.

6 weeks.

Class Format

Online content.

1 weekly class on Zoom on Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. (Pacific Time).

Requirements

3 hours of coursework per week.

1 assignment due each week.

Attend 5 of the 6 Zoom classes.

Registration Deadline

May 6, 2024.

Meet Your Instructor

Ayaka M. Dohi

Ayaka M. Dohi (she/her/hers) is a passionate and unrelenting idealist to the vision of a love ethic-based society. She is a firm believer that by holding center the values of dignity of and interconnectedness among all people, living things, and planet Earth, we can repair and restore relationships and communities.

Ayaka immigrated to the U.S. as a child where she and her younger sister were raised by a courageous, resilient Filipina mother. She is a first-generation college graduate of Gonzaga University and earned her graduate degree in Nonprofit & Administrative Leadership at Whitworth University. Her lived experience fuels her vocation as an educator, activist and facilitator.

Professionally, she serves as the Director of Student Success & Equity, & Belonging at Whitworth University. Trained in intercultural competence, intergroup dialogue and leadership development, Ayaka has utilized her knowledge and passion to educate and train students and professionals in various settings such as conferences and classrooms to address a central question: “How will our practice, work and presence cultivate and leave a legacy of inclusion and belonging?”

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