Intercultural Training/Resources

Current Trainings/Presentations

Cultural Humility: The Roadmap For 21st Century Leadership

  • Being a leader is more than a title. How you lead is a mirror of who you are. Discover what reflection you and others see
  • What is your leadership reflection? How do you and others define your leadership style? Does your personality and how you interact with others inspire or deflate your followers? This interactive session will provide you with a framework for an understanding of leadership based on cultural humility. Whether you are a student organization or community leader, you will gain insight and distinction between the impact of cultural competency and cultural humility on leadership, you will begin to build a personal leadership framework that leads to positive organization behavior

The Journey: It's All About Me

  • Discover how your lived experiences are the narratives that give meaning to your view and interpretation of self and others and the impact on your interactions with others
  • From the time you were born you have been shaped on how to see yourself in relation to the world around you. Your lived experiences are the narratives that give meaning to your view and interpretation of others. Most importantly these interpretations are driven by one's values and beliefs. Participants will engage in reflective activities to uncover how their values and beliefs that they hold to be true influence emotional reactions, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors towards those that are similar and different than us. Upon session conclusion, participants will identify ways in which to begin authentic cross-cultural understanding and engagement with others who are different

Do You Have A Heart?: What Is Your Cultural IQ?

  • CQ is your cultural intelligence and enables you to move beyond cultural awareness, feel comfortable and thrive in diverse cultural spaces
  • Often times when we find ourselves in cultural spaces that are not our own, we feel a level of discomfort and awkwardness. How do you maintain your self-identity while moving beyond cultural sensitivity will be explored during this interactive session. Scenarios and authentic dialogues will guide participants on how to be aware of their own values, attitudes, beliefs, and lived experiences with the goal to understand the values, attitudes, beliefs, and lived experiences of people from different cultures. As participants level of awareness and knowledge is raised, strategies to use their self-discovery to interact authentically -not emotionally - with empathy and understanding will be defined.

Cross Cultural Student Engagement: Preparing 21st Century Global Citizens

  • Understanding that we are global citizens requires a unique perspective of knowing the importance of the intersection between global and domestic cultures.
  • In order to create an inclusive campus community that prepares students to be global citizens who can effectively navigate in our interconnected world in the 21st century requires strategic and intentional opportunities for engagement. This interactive session provides a comprehensive approach on how to address cultural barriers and explore opportunities that purposefully connect and engage international and domestic students. Participants will be provided with examples of on-campus 'glocal' leaning and engagement activities when study abroad is not an option.

Go Greek! An Inclusive Conversation

  • As a Greek community, each chapter exudes pride and brotherhood/sisterhood. During recruitment, and beyond, how do we ensure we are creating an inclusive environment in the Greek community? And at ODU? Participants will explore diversity myths, best practices for inclusive conversations, and how to create a unified Greek community at ODU.
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To request a presentation/workshop, please provide three weeks notice:

Contact Lesa Clark, Executive Director | lclark@odu.edu

  • Time, date, location
  • Number of attendees/participants
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Workshops/presentations can be customized upon special request.