Listening Seminars 2017
Diversity and Inclusion
Listening Forum- Communicating across Cultures and Differences.
On Feb. 16th and Feb. 18th, Lewis & Clark College will host two Listening Forums promoting dialogue and cross-cultural communication.
The forum and lunch are co-sponsored by the committee on diversity and inclusion, the provost’s office, the Campus Activities Board (CAB), The Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement, and the law school diversity committee.
In this forum members from the entire Lewis & Clark community will work to improve our listening skills and our cross‐cultural communication.
The forum and lunch are co-sponsored by the committee on diversity and inclusion, the provost’s office, the Campus Activities Board (CAB) and the law school diversity committee.
The facilitator for the Thursday event is John Lenssen from StirFry Communications. John Lessen will be joined by Lee Mun Wah of Stirfry Communications for the Saturday event. StifFry Communications describes the forum as follows: Cross‐cultural communication is an art that requires our utmost awareness and understanding. The subtleties are everywhere‐ within a simple question, an insignificant omission, the gesture of a hand or a facial expression. In this training, we will explore how to mindfully transform those subtleties into authentic relationships, where everyone on campus can feel valued and acknowledged for their many gifts and contributions.
Participants will do the following:
1. Learn Mindful Interventions to de‐escalate conflicts
2. Learn the Art of Mindfully Listening and Responding
3. Learn what opens up and what closes down conversations
4. Learn Advanced Empathetic Responses
5. Learn a variety of ways to re-frame our perceptions
6. Explore different methods that can help create a sense of community between diverse groups
7. Practice vignettes on various issues
Thousands of participants from educational, government, corporate and social service agencies have taken StirFry’s trainings and seminars so that they could then begin facilitating discussion groups in their agencies, schools, and communities and learn to engage in authentic and healthy multicultural dialogue. The company is recognized by many of the top 500 corporations as having one of the most outstanding cross-cultural and communications training programs for managers, supervisors, H.R. and top administrative executives. Clients have relayed that their participation in our workshops has been life changing, powerful and applicable to their personal and professional lives.
Please register for this event (registration located at the bottom of the page):
Feb. 16th (Thursday) 12:30-4:30pm in Agnes Flanagan Chapel (lunch from 11:30-12:30 in Stamm)
Feb. 18th (Saturday) 12:00-4:00pm in the Leal Research Center, Student Lounge (lunch from 11:00-12:00)
REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE FOR BOTH EVENTS ON Feb. 12th at 5:30pm.