This workshop will be open for registration soon.

Institutions interested in having this workshop delivered to a staff cohort should contact curriculum@ukat.ac.uk for more information.

Individual registration will open soon. To express an interest in registering on the course, please contact curriculum@ukat.ac.uk

How do your own cultural identity and values affect how you communicate with your tutees? How do your tutees' cultural identity and values affect how they communicate with you? And how does this affect the tutoring process?

Participants will self-reflect on their own cultural identity and values, then consider how these impact the way they communicate with those from different cultures. Participants will have the opportunity to simulate intercultural communication in the advising context, then debrief the experience. Finally, participants will be given tools and suggestions for gaining cross-cultural experience within their own communities. 

1. Critically reflect on their own assumptions about cultural communication and use Rapport Management Model as a human-centred lens to understand how communicative practices manage rapport in advising and teaching interactions.
2. Examine basic theories on intercultural and cross-cultural communication
3. Apply theories in real-case scenarios and formulate possible strategies to identify, acknowledge and respond to culturally different expectations and behaviours.

• …students might make decisions that are rooted in cultural patterns that differ from our own
• .... we have expectations that are rooted in our own cultural identity
• …the way we communicate and behave are reflective of our own cultural identity
• ... behind every culture there is a person who expresses their needs in a unique way. A relational approach might be more effective to understand and meet those.