What does intercultural mean?

 

Being intercultural is a key to living a meaningful life in the current and future world.

Being intercultural is about knowing how human diversity affects one’s identity development, work competence, and life itself. Diversity is all around us. It encompasses both local and global diversity.

Why does the Helix model work?

Your Public or Non-Profit Organization

Your organization is becoming culturally diverse.

Is your staff makeup more culturally diverse? Is the constituency you serve becoming culturally diverse? Are you developing partnership with other agencies and groups that are culturally diverse?

Whatever the types of services your organization provide, there is reasonable, or rather urgent, need for paying attention to cultural impact. Your organization may have some cultural awareness already. You may have your website and brochures in multiple languages, but you wonder if this is enough—you know that there needs to be more steps to transforming the organizational environment and its practice into a truly intercultural one.

We live in a multicultural community—a community which consists of and impact wide variety of stakeholders.

Many organizations have done much work towards diversity and racism awareness. We all heard the message: Let’s not discriminate. Let’s be more sensitive. The questions then become: now what? Where do we go from here? Our approach is to be that next step which is to:

Building intercultural capacity will help your multicultural community transform itself, from one that struggles to “deal with” cultural problems to one that flourishes with cultural richness. We can help achieve your goals of:

  • Developing strong leaders in your organization, who can lead multicultural community with intercultural competence;

  • Advancing staff effectiveness of serving the community members, who bring complex and diverse backgrounds; and

  • Creating inclusive organizational environment, which leverages the gifts of all members so that your organizational efforts are effectively implemented.

Our aim is to support organizational and community leadership by facilitating learning processes towards intercultural capacity building.

For our intercultural training, coaching, and consultation, we begin by listening to your needs and concerns as well as conduct necessary assessments. 

We utilize all data, including statistical data that is objective and reliable, to tailor-make learning processes that best fit your organization’s needs.