Course Description: If mentors and mentees have similar backgrounds with matching relational expectations and communication styles, they may have a more straightforward mentoring experience. But with increased global partnerships, there are more opportunities to work together with people from different cultural backgrounds.
The purpose of this workshop is to help participants understand key concepts from three different cross cultural frameworks, and learn how they can affect expectations, communication, and other factors in cross cultural mentoring relationships. Other topics include power dynamics, leadership and followership in different cultures, as well as different approaches to conflict management. Participants will learn how to recognize and draw from the strengths from different cultural approaches so that cross-cultural mentoring can be deeply meaningful.
Training method: Principles and theories will be explored with a combination of teaching paired with interactive activities, personal reflection, and discussion with the goal of applying the concepts to each participant’s context.
Who will benefit from this training?: Anyone working cross-culturally or interested in more effective cross-cultural relationships. Participants will learn about their own preferences for mentoring and how different cultures may have other mindsets and practices in mentoring. Participants will learn how to adjust their mentoring practice to better serve people from different cultural backgrounds.
What will you learn from this course?:
- Understanding cross-cultural mentoring
- Mentoring issues in cross-cultural communication
- Mentoring in the context of different worldviews (with special attention to understanding honor and shame cultures).
- How to apply the Grid and Group cultural framework to mentoring relationships.
- Leadership and power in mentoring
- Cross-cultural conflict resolution in mentoring
Special requirements: None. Just bring a desire to understand your own cultural preferences and that of others.
How to prepare and what to bring along:
Recommended readings (not required to read before the workshop):
- book: Lingentelter & Mayers, “Ministering Cross-culturally“
- book: Jason Georges, “The 3D gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures”
- article: Sunny Hong. “Cross-cultural mentoring: A brief comparison of individualistic and collective cultures.” William Carey International Development Journal, Vol. 1. Issue 3: Summer 2012
- book: Duanne Elmer: “Cross-cultural Conflict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry“
- book: Erin Meyer, “The Culture Map”
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