Our mission: To help individuals and organizations move from cultural awareness to cross-cultural skills, through competent, creative and conscious intercultural communication.
We provide cross-cultural training and cultural competency training in the Wichita area.

Our long-term goal is to deliver our 3-step program in association with experts in the field.

1. Knowing oneself: Developing cultural self-awareness:

• Cultural self-awareness exercises
• Cultural values inventory
• Seeing others through my own lenses
• "I" vs. "WE": Individualism and collectivism
• What is my communication style? High-context and low-context communication

2. Knowing others: Developing cultural other-awareness:

• The world according to Hofstede
• Cultural metaphors
• Culture-general knowledge
• Culture-specific training
• The impact of culture in the workplace
• Speaking in tongues: cross-cultural communication
• Ways of knowing: culture and education
• Cross-cultural business practices
• Intercultural relationships

3. Knowing how: Developing cross-cultural communication skills:

• Linguistic and cultural competency in health care
• Steps to cultural competency
• Cross-cultural business practices
• Cross-cultural Presentation Skills
• Cultural adjustment and culture shock
• Pre-departure training and orientation
• Cross-cultural management
• Developing strategies for self-development

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.

Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512
Italian Explorer Who Discovered America

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