Building Bridges with Intercultural Competence
Changing World | Changing People | Changing Times
October 18-21, 2017
Join us in San Diego for a conference designed to support you with stimulating thinking, inspiring insights, expanding skills and renewing commitments—we will work together to explore important questions in our changing world and seek avenues of human connection. Intercultural competence refers to the skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.
Each of us works to bridge transformations caused by change. The system in which we live—boundaries, borders, nations—has accelerated change enormously, sometimes beyond human tolerance or comprehension. We are all involved somehow in this change: change of society, of organizations, of communities, of one person who wants to learn. And each change often puts into action unpredictable consequences, of which may we know little. Some changes amaze and delight; others, not so much.
In addition to sessions of general intercultural interest, there are three tracks for the 2017 conference:
- Healing the Divides: Race, Ethnic and National Origin, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Immigrants, and Refugees Face Challenges in our Changing Times
- Cultural Identity: Fresh Perspectives on Multicultural and Global Identity
- Assessing Intercultural Competence: Measuring Transformative Culture Learning
