Developing Across Differences

Enhance your skills, expand your network and be inspired at the European Developing Across Differences (DAD) Learning Lab & Community Week. The third annual edition of this advanced professional development and interdisciplinary learning programme will run from 7-13 July 2024.

The event is designed for experienced practitioners and scholars — from all sectors, from Europe and beyond — who wish to continue to hone their expertise in one or more 4 key areas of study and practice in the Differences field: Intercultural communication, Global learning, Anti-discrimination/Diversity & inclusion, and Global competence. Past participants include corporate professionals, faculty and academic advisors, international education staff, government officers, NGO/non-profit managers and other multipliers who help audiences embrace and work with differences for sustainable solutions.

2024 (visiting) faculty include: Milton Bennett, Nadine Binder, Mai Nguyen, Darla Deardorff, Michaela Carrière, Nene Molefi, Sherifa M.B.E. Fayez,  Jana Hollá, Nene Molefi, Maja Nenadinović, Nagesh Rao, and Anjana Singh. The event is offered by the Institute for Developing Across Differences and the University of Groningen/RUG. Enroll today, registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Educating Global Ready Graduates
Discover the demanding yet rewarding paths to developing and assessing students’— and other stakeholders’—global and intercultural competence on campus within the higher education settings.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Building Intercultural Viability in Organizations
Foster collective intercultural consciousness and adaptability. Explore “intercultural viability” —the probability that an organisation can adapt to unpredictable changes in multicultural social conditions— along with applications of a constructivist paradigm, theory, and coherent activities.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Collaborative DEI
Learn how Collaborative DEI—with internal and external stakeholders—serves multiple mutually reinforcing purposes that allow organisations to model what they aspire to achieve: improving organisational culture, improving effectiveness, and enhancing cross-organisational functionality.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Culturally Adaptive Coaching & Mentoring
Culture matters in coaching and mentoring.
Learn how culturally adaptive coaching and mentoring methods can help you and  those you work with build greater trust, create more authentic connections, and generate more productive outcomes.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

(De)Polarising Dialogue
Reclaim constructive dialogue and respectful interactions.
In a time when civil discussions are missing, gain research-based tools and communication activities to defuse tensions, maximize the chances of being heard, and achieve desired outcomes.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Designing Inclusive, Intercultural Organisations
Help your organisation—or those you support—be both diverse and inclusive.
Sustainable, measurable progress is most likely to occur when both structural issues (policies, systems) are addressed and (inter)personal development is prioritised.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Reducing Cross-Cultural Tensions In Groups

Is diversity within your teams proving to be a challenge rather than an asset? Learn how to help lower diversity-borne tensions, repair group dynamics, build cooperation, and improve performance

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Expanding the Repertoire
Understand how ‘tried-and-true’ methods and pedagogical activities/elements for intercultural- and/or diversity-focused trainings can be enhanced and adapted to be effective for different strands of work within the Differences field.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Intersections
Explore the intersecting areas —and gaps—between the Intercultural communications, Diversity & inclusion, Global competence, and Global learning to strengthen how we help individuals, groups, and organizations develop across differences.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Applying Neuroscience
Explore how cutting-edge insights from neuroscience can help create and improve workplace policies and strategies on bias management, diversity & inclusion practices, change management, intercultural communication, work-life balance, and personal development. 

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Brain Science and Working Across Diversity

Learn how to help those you work with confront biases and use effective change management techniques rooted in state-of-the-art “hard” science.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Moving Past The Past

“I feel discriminated against. Help me.” Support those you work with to better understand the historical context for many of today’s misunderstandings—and more effectively lay the groundwork for overcoming them.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

Addressing Hot Global Issues Locally

Better navigate global issues that become local hot-button items. Learn how to use more considered, critical responses and constructive approaches in both your own work helping others and your everyday interactions.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.

DEI & Key Tools to support a sustainable, measurable impact

Transform the commitment to DEI into a measurable, sustainable reality: With 275 best practices and a comprehensive framework, learn how the evidence-based Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks support real change.

Registration closes on 1 July 2024.