FREE Ethnic Communities Capability-Building Programme: Working Well Together - Communication Across Cultures (Online-Zoom)

FREE Ethnic Communities Capability-Building Programme (GROW): Working Well Together - Communication Across Cultures (Online-Zoom)

Date: Thursday 27th October
Time: 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Presenter: Ivan Yeo
Location: Online-Zoom

NOTE: this is a free workshop, and is intended for ethnic community organisations across Auckland and beyond.

All 9 FREE sessions can be found here https://collections.humanitix.com/free-ethnic-communities-capability-building-programme-series

Overview:

This introductory workshop is designed to reflect on the journey of migration and to deepen understanding of cross-cultural communication within the Aotearoa New Zealand context.

The workshop explores the strengths and challenges associated with adapting to a new environment and introduces established cross-cultural communication frameworks.

Participants will examine topics such as collective and individualistic cultures, hierarchy and relationships, task and relationship-oriented approaches, specific and diffuse cultures, and low and high-context communication styles, providing insight into some of the different communication patterns commonly found across Western and Eastern cultures.

The workshop also highlights the experiences of 1.5 and second-generation migrant New Zealanders and the unique challenges of navigating between their families' cultural values and New Zealand's social norms.

Bringing these themes together, the workshop offers participants practical insights and opportunities for reflection on their own communication styles and assumptions, supporting more effective engagement and culturally responsive practice in diverse settings.

Note: Workshop content, including presentations and discussions, remains the intellectual property of the presenter and/or ANCAD. Participants are asked not to make audio or video recordings, use AI transcription or note-taking tools, create automated meeting summaries, or copy, share or distribute session content without prior written permission from ANCAD and the presenter. Any unauthorised AI notetaker may be removed from the session.