Intercultural understanding is about knowing how culture influences perception, communication and collaboration. Organisations can implement inclusive practices and build intercultural understanding, so that people from diverse backgrounds and cultures feel a sense of belonging at work, because maintaining psychosocial safety and wellness is of paramount importance.

Presented by Auspire – Australia Day Council WA, Inclusive Practices: Building Intercultural Understanding and Belonging in the Workplace, will explore the benefits and challenges of cultural diversity, how to turn diversity into opportunity, and how to create a successful inclusive workplace.

This interactive workshop is ideal for individuals and small groups to enhance their intercultural understanding, to better engage and work with people from different cultures.

Topics include:

Cultural tendencies and achieving alignment
The benefits and challenges of cultural diversity
The impact of pro-diversity beliefs on success
The dynamics of a successful inclusive workplace with intercultural understanding
How to support and engage with people with low intercultural competence
Intercultural strategies through neuroscience and cultural understanding

Finish the session with the confidence, practical tools, and essential framework to effectively work with colleagues, clients, customers, contractors, stakeholders, managers and employees who are culturally diverse.

Morning tea included. Workshop participants receive a certificate of participation upon completion of the workshop.

Thanks to the support of Forrest Research Foundation, pricing is heavily subsidised. A tax invoice is provided for tax purposes.

Please be advised this session may include photography.

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About the facilitator

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Rika Asaoka
Rika is an intercultural diversity consultant and facilitator who delivers interactive workshops, training, consultancy, facilitation and coaching on intercultural diversity management.

With three decades of cross-cultural professional experience with trained intercultural facilitation and coaching skills, she has assisted individuals and organisations to empower the existing diversity within to achieve higher outcomes. Over 1,000 participants from a wide range of industries including oil and gas, engineering, not-for-profit and government sectors have attended her sessions annually.

She harmonises and unifies diverse people in the workplace and communities, and activates the power of diversity by promoting understanding, collaboration, communication, and effective leadership for diverse teams.

Rika is a certified licensee of Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), a powerful, internationally-recognised assessment tool used for improving intercultural readiness and effectiveness. She is also a representative of IRC Australia/Asia Centre.

About Auspire

Auspire is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring active citizenship and community contribution within Western Australia. We aim for Australia to be considered one of the most socially and culturally inclusive countries in the world, and we work towards this by providing capacity-building workshops to businesses and community.

Whilst Auspire attempts to verify information provided during the delivery of its programs, Auspire is not a training organisation and its programs/workshops do not qualify as accredited training. Auspire will not be liable (including but not limited to liability for negligence) to any person for any direct or indirect loss arising out of access to, use of, or reliance upon information, services and materials provided in the course of delivering its services.