Course curriculum

    1. What to expect

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    2. About the Instructors

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    1. Required Texts and Session Overview

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    2. Connect LIVE via Zoom

    1. Session 1 overview - Wed, Sept 4

    2. Week 1 - Zoom recording Sept 4

    3. Session 1 slide deck - Wed Sept 4

    4. Activity 1: How does your story fit with God's story?

    5. Activity 2: Ten Friends

    1. Session 2 overview - Wed, Sept 11

    2. Activity: Test Your Implicit Bias

    3. Week 2 - Zoom recording Sept 11

    4. Five Circles of Identity

    5. The Iceberg

    1. Session 3 overview - Mon, Sept 16

    2. Relationships - Reflection Questions

    3. Handout: A Case Study

    4. Communication Styles - Reflection Questions

    5. Week 3 - Zoom recording Sept 16

    6. Cultural Clashes

    7. DIE: Describe-Investigate-Evaluate

    8. Cultural Detective

    1. Session 4 overview - Wed, Oct 16

    2. Join us LIVE on Zoom

    3. Week 4 - Zoom recording Oct 16

    4. Handout 1 - Two Mindsets

    5. Handout 2 - Institutional & Structural Racism

    6. Handout 3 - Microaggressions

    7. Handout 4 - 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge

    8. Handout 4b - Tracking Chart for 21-Day Challenge

    9. Course Evaluation: Intercultural Competency 101

About this course

  • $125.00
  • Cohort course
  • Sept 4, 11, 16, Oct 16
  • 3:00-5:00pm ET | 12:00-2:00 pm PT

Who should take this course

Wondering if this is the right course for you? Are you a...

  • Faith leader seeking to be more effective in racially and ethnically diverse settings

  • Emerging leader wanting to grow in intercultural contexts and through an intercultural lens

  • Person of faith committed to life-giving interactions with diverse others where you live and serve

Instructors

Kathryn "Katie" Choy-Wong

Instructor

Kathryn Choy-Wong is an American Baptist Churches ordained minister and co-founder of I-Relate Intercultural Leadership Institute, a non-profit educational and consulting organization dedicated to creating and providing training and tools to support the development of culturally competent leaders.

Lucia Ann McSpadden

Instructor

Lucia Ann McSpadden is the co-founder and director of I- Relate and author of Meeting God at the Boundaries: Cross-cultural/Cross-racial Clergy Appointments and Meeting God at the Boundaries: A Manual for Church Leaders.

Dale Weatherspoon

Instructor

Dale M. Weatherspoon, DMin., serves as Senior Pastor of the Easter Hill United Methodist Church in Richmond, CA. As a consultant and trainer, he served as a member of the I- Relate Institute, an Intercultural Leadership Institute, training pastors, lay leaders and church in working interculturally.

Uncover the story of your own culture...

...and then start building the bridge to connect your story with others'!