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Intercultural Workshop ~ Weaving cultural Diversity into Your Life

Intercultural Workshop ~ Weaving cultural Diversity into Your Life. Volunteer In-Service: Sponsored By The Spiritual Support Training Team Greater Hilltop Area SHALOM ZONE. Cross-Cultural Experience. Know Thyself.

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Intercultural Workshop ~ Weaving cultural Diversity into Your Life

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  1. Intercultural Workshop ~ Weaving cultural Diversity into Your Life Volunteer In-Service: Sponsored By The Spiritual Support Training Team Greater Hilltop Area SHALOM ZONE

  2. Cross-Cultural Experience Know Thyself Please read carefully the following description of a culture and people who are probably very different than you are. Take note of how this culture behaves in life, and then try as best you can to mimic their lifestyle. Remember to be true to your new culture!

  3. Know Thyself Cross-Cultural Experience

  4. Hospitality • Creating a Safe space within • Taking a Long Loving Look • Receiving the other through story telling • Deepening awareness of God’s presence in the midst of community; finding the Hidden Wholeness of Christ in the midst of life.

  5. Hospitality~ Receiving the Soul: The wild animal within Parker Palmer, HiddenWholeness, Jossey-Bass, pg. 58-59

  6. Gazing with Soft Eyes: • Storytelling and Listening is a matter of Perspective • It is learning to gaze with deep love seeing beyond the surface. • It is learning to look at objects, people and circumstance with the eyes and heart of God. • It is noticing the the shy and tenacious soul within the other.

  7. Foundation: Storytelling and Holy listening Speaker’s story Facts back then Feelings back then Facts now Feelings now Modified from John Savage’ Listening Lab

  8. Spiritual Direction - Story Telling With: Three –Way Listening God Storyteller’s story Facts back then Feelings back then Facts now Feelings now Listener Speaker Listener’s Counter story Modified from John Savage’ Listening Lab

  9. Hidden Wholeness: • What cultures are represented on the west side? • Ethnicity • Economic • Educational

  10. Know Thyself "People are people, wherever you go ..." Self Test 5 minutes How well could you survive in Poverty, Middle Class, Wealthy?

  11. The Anatomy of Cultural Adjustment What triggers culture shock?(page 2) Adapted from Craig Stori, The Art of Crossing Cultures, (1996, Intercultural Press) We expect others to be like us, but they aren’t A cultural incident occurs which shocks us (our assumption of all people being alike is proven incorrect) We react through emotional and physical detachment or We withdraw We reflect on our response, and seek input from locals We stay in the company of people from our culture group We learn the appropriate cultural response We delay or impair our successful cultural adjustment Our confidence and comfort level grows

  12. Step One: The Shock(page 2) The Stages of Cultural Adjustment in the Shock Phase Adapted from Lisa Espaneli Chinn by John Eaves, revised 2000

  13. Stress & Culture Shock(Page 2) High Fight Stage Flight Stage Fit Stage Stress Fascination Stage Low 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12(Months) Time

  14. Fascination StagePage 2 • We might call this the “honeymoon.” We become infatuated with our new environment, and find the differences more intriguing rather than threatening. This stage may last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. • Open to new experiences, meeting new people • Intrigued with new culture • Willingness to explore new environment, to “learn the ropes”, get oriented • Greater risk taking

  15. Flight Stage The newness wears off as you begin to experience “cultural episodes” which serve as a reminder that you are not from this culture. Daily demands of living and working begin to get the best of you. You begin to withdraw from situations that involve differences of opinion or misunderstanding. You feel overwhelmed emotionally without knowing exactly why. • Feels inadequate, unworthy, overwhelmed by the amount of need. • Misses scheduled volunteer times. • Starts showing up late to the volunteer site

  16. Fight Stage • Frustration and anger get the best of you as you focus on the negative aspects of this new culture rather than the positive ones. You can be distant and critical in your relationships. • Trying to impose middle class values. • Minor health problems may arise, usually stress-related • Constant comparison of middle class values vs. desiring “to fix” the situation the person of poverty. • Trying to educate those in poverty to the “correct way of behaving.

  17. Fit Stage • Most people will reach a point when they are able to resolve many of their initial frustrations with living in a new culture. As language skills and cultural awareness improve, one begins to feel more productive and at ease in this new culture. • Begin recognizing our own faith growth and development • Heightens the personal passion for mission. • Engaging and expanding relationships with the least, the lost, and the lonely. • Recognizes God in the midst of diversity. • Accepting and respecting other cultural values without judgment.

  18. Cross-Cultural Continuum of Change (Page 5) Know Thyself 5. Explorer 4. Generalizer 3. Experimenter 2. Imperialist 1. Isolationist

  19. Do your homework – learn about differing culture Know Thyself

  20. Cross Cultural Hospitality( Page 6) The three big questions … ·How do you speak and listen in diverse cultural situations? ·Will I be able to communicate with them? ·Are there differences in personal space?

  21. Do Differently Suggestions: Conversation Not imposing middle class values Perspective/ Assumptions Looking & Listening Food awareness

  22. Videohttp://sermonspice.com/product/14972/get-service Weaving Cultural Diversity into Life.

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