As a trainer focused on intercultural development for your students, you know that international and education abroad students speak most often of the transformation they have gone through as a result of their intercultural experience. You may also know that your effort to engage real transformative learning falls far below expectations. Experience without support does not render the intercultural competence that we strive for in our intercultural training. Instead, this competence requires a rich integration of the right training and support.

Is your current intercultural training meeting the transformative learning demands of your students and the field?

In a rare opportunity, you will have access to four intercultural training experts who will share their own key strategies for transformative learning and provide you with insights into how to move toward intercultural training excellence fostering real transformative learning.

In this webinar,

Dr. Mick Vande Berg, vice president for academic affairs at CIEE, asks you to resist the status quo if you seek transformative learning and tells you why

Dr. R. Michael Paige, professor of international and intercultural education in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota, describes why learners need intervention in order to transform

Dr. Janet Bennett, executive director of the Intercultural Communication Institute and chair of the ICI/University of the Pacific Master of Arts in Intercultural Relations program, speaks to the many-layered process of training design 

Dr. Bruce La Brack, cultural anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and International Studies, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, shares his principles for selecting content for intercultural training.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able poised to:

• Critically review your current intercultural training and devise a more effective strategy
• Consider how the appropriate interventions lead to transformational learning
• Revise your current training plan to select, sequence, and time activities that more effectively engage students in their intercultural experience

Refreshments will be served. 

For a full list of GEO Center events, please visit http://colleges-fenway.org/Global/internationalevents.htm