Navigating Difference helps outreach professionals expand their skills in working with diverse audiences. The goals for the training are to assist participants to:

Become more aware of their own personal and organizational cultures;
Examine how our personal and organizational cultures affect our ability to work across difference, in both negative and positive ways; and
Build skills to increase competencies as we work with others who are different from us.
This is an interactive two-day experiential cultural competence training builds on foundations from social justice, intercultural communication and organizational development. The training intertwines research-based theories and frameworks with activities and discussion from participants’ own experiences. Each successive module builds on the previous one, deepening the participant’s learning. The five modules are:

Cultural Awareness
Cultural Understanding
Cultural Knowledge
Cultural Interaction
Cultural Sensitivity