On a regular basis, Sights on Success Consulting offers a free session of the Intercultural Sharing Circle to the community to foster Leadership Development in Intercultural Competence.
The Intercultural Sharing Circle takes both a culture-general and culture-specific approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility based on a broader and more complex understanding of culture.
The Intercultural Sharing Circle also uses leadership coaching to introduce participants to intercultural competence attitudes and skills such as cultural self-awareness, humility, non-judgment, and empathy. This introduction is intended to encourage participants to learn about bridging cultural/value differences more appropriately and effectively across diversity dimensions or identities such as age and generation, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, etc.
Since 2017, the Intercultural Sharing Circle has hosted more than 30 sessions, in person and online, and engaged with more than 200 individuals from various professions and types of organizations, cultural backgrounds, and diverse identities from cities, provinces, treaty and unceded territories across Canada. The Intercultural Sharing Circle is grateful to these outstanding individuals for their openness and willingness to learn and for their contribution to community building through intercultural development.
Left to right: Shelley Tamaki, formerly of the Ranch Ehrlo Society, Philippe Mather, Campion College at the University of Regina, Monica Totton, Regina Early Learning Centre, Angeline Chia, Sights on Success Consulting. March 28, 2024. Photo credit: Sights on Success Consulting.
The next available session is on:
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saskatchewan time.
The topic is: How do you and your organization manifest Diversity and Inclusion?
The deadline to register is 5:00 p.m. Saskatchewan Time on June 24, 2024. Registration is free. Please note this is an online session.
Register for our next session.
I have enjoyed participating in the Intercultural Sharing Circle. It is an easy and positive way to learn and share with people who may have different values and perceptions or different ways of thinking and living. It has also helped me to reflect on my own values and has broadened my perspective. Angeline keeps this one-hour session very organized in a very cooperative and non-threatening format that feels safe for people to share without judgment.
Shelley Tamaki, M.Ed. Clinical Psychologist, Ehrlo Counselling Services, formerly of the Ranch Ehrlo Society.
Thank you for hosting the Intercultural Sharing Circle in June 2023. I was very intrigued by the questions and the responses. I look forward to joining the next session. Thank you for your inspirational and innovative work.
Sunyung Park, Student Advisor/Counselor, English as a Second Language Program, University of Regina.