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?

“Our courses aim to empower Indigenous Australians to cope with a demanding and rapidly shifting social, political and economic landscape. Staying ahead of these shifts means the difference between merely surviving and thriving.”

Professor Mick Dodson, Inaugural Chairman, AILC

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Module 1: 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

Module 2: Practical Tools and Frameworks - Empathy, Communication, Reciprocity

Approaches to diversity

• Diversity ground rules.

Strategies for success

• 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

• Diversity mentoring and new technologies
• Diversity mentoring in 2020