1. INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION
INSTITUTE
Facilitating Intercultural Competence: Experiential Methods and Tools
Maggie Finney
July 2014

2. PORTLAND
ARRIVAL TO A BEAUTIFUL CITY
• Founded in 1845
• State of Oregon
• Estimated population 609, 456

3. PORTLAND, OREGON
• Willamette and Columbian Rivers
• City of Roses
• Liberal political values
• Microbreweries, micro-distillleries, and food cars
• Wine country – Pinot gregio grapes

4. SIGHT SEEING
Saturday’s Market
Riverboat Ride
Sleepless in Seattle
Hunt for Red October Heading to the Downtown Amazing View

5. GETTING DOWN TO WORK
No, really!

6. FIRST THINGS FIRST
One of the first sights!
Our walk to class
everyday.
Lunchroom

7. THE MOST IMPORTANT ROOM

8. THE WALK HOME EVERY NIGHT AND THE
WINE AND CHEESE SOCIAL
Put herself
through school
singing in
Karaoke
competitions
The Blue Bridge
Our Dorms

9. THE ACADEMIC SIDE
Facilitation and Experience

10. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION 2014
SUMMER INSTITUTE

11. DAY ONE

12. INTRODUCTION
• Great instructors
• Absolutely fantastic facilitators
• Incredibly knowledgeable
• If you were to facilitate an IC
workshop, what would keep you up at
night?
• Knowledge
• Facilitation skill – reaching hearts
• Being inclusive
Basma and Tatyana

13. KNOWLEDGE
KEY LEARNING POINTS
• Our knowledge is partial
• Don’t know what others have experienced or thinking
• Four key points
• Right knowledge
• Right moment
• Right attitude – keep looing for times to transfer knowledge and influence the rocess
• Right job

14. WHAT ASSUMPTIONS AM I MAKING OF
WHICH I AM UNAWARE OF MAKING?

15. THREADS OF COMPETENCY
ONE
Realize the good things and be
thankful
TWO
Despair can pull us down
THREE
Faculty
Balancing between grace and beauty
of life and despair
How balanced are we, and why does
it matter
How do we turn events into
experiences?

16. IT TAKES REFLECTION

17. THE REST OF THE WEEK

18. FACILITATION
• If you see something isn’t right, don’t let it go. Get to the heart of the issue straight
away.
• One common mistake facilitators make: not allowing enough time to debrief.