Diversity Mentoring: acknowledging and celebrating our differences
Introduction to Diversity Mentoring (Indigenous)
A comprehensive program to advance your knowledge and skills in cultural intelligence, cultural competence and cross cultural mentoring relationships. The AILC can tailor this course to your organisational needs, or apply as an individual.
About the course
This comprehensive 3 day program is designed for Indigenous Australians who wish to further develop leadership knowledge, skills and networks; and non-Indigenous Australians who wish to work more effectively with Indigenous people within the workplace and/or Indigenous communities.
This unique program uses a practical approach to the complexities of mentoring in a cross-cultural context.
- What is diversity mentoring?
- How is cultural diversity included in the mentoring process?
- What are the ethical considerations?
- How do we develop successful diversity mentoring relationships?
Course Delivery
Increasing Our Understanding: Essential knowledge
The mentoring experience
- What it is and what it is not
- Mentoring experiences
- Mentoring in context
Diversity - what do we mean?
- Cultural diversity
- Our multiple layers of diversity
- World views,values, beliefs, and attitudes
Mentoring, leadership and ethics
- Cross-cultural communication
- Influencing in a cross-cultural setting
- Ethical considerations
Understanding diversity mentoring relationships
- Defining diversity in the relationship
- Group membership - access to culture, power and knowledge
- Multiple and shared group membership
- Identification and role-modelling
- Stereotypes: the lens we use to view others
- Comfort zones
Practical Tools and Frameworks: Empathy, Communication, Reciprocity
Approaches to diversity
- Diversity ground rules
- Self awareness
Strategies for success
- Stages in the mentoring journey
- Awareness-raising
- Understanding our world view
- Stretching the comfort zone
- Sharing values and deep diversity
- Effective communication
- Mentoring agreements and expectations
- Empathy and insight
- Meeting the needs of mentees
- Understanding the context
- Reciprocity - two way learning
Addressing perceptions of others
- Perceptions of diversity mentoring relationships
- Perceptions of cross gender diversity relationships
- Inter-generational considerations
The future
- Diversity mentoring and new technologies
- Diversity mentoring in 2020
This course is delivered using a three tiered approach:
- Technical overview of the topic and research
- Practical application of principles in the review of case studies, examples from participants and interactive exercises
- Reflection and analysis
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