K'D'Y' Intercultural and Leadership Training Institute

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K.D.Y. Intercultural and Leadership Training
Institute

• Group 5
• Yan Chen
• Kelly Wilkinson
• David Laguatan

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• We have an American problem. It can only be
  solved by all Americans working together I want
  you to find strength in your diversity.
• -Army Gen. Colin Powell

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Intercultural Training Intervention Program

• Program for the United States Navy
• Response to many cases of ethnic harassment,
  discrimination, and racial prejudices filed in
  regards to the Arab and Muslim Americans in the
  U.S. Navy.
• U.S Navy is a huge multicultural organization
• Navy well trained and ready for the defense of
  the U.S

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Theoretical Basis for the Intercultural Training
Intervention Program

• Training program developed for the U.S. Navy
• All other military branches
• A program has been developed to address these
  sensitive issues at all levels of the organization

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U.S. Naval Basic Training

• During the eight weeks of intense training
• New recruits go through following training
  classes to ensure intercultural sensitivity is
  learned
• Training should build a common awareness, skills,
  and knowledge of ones self

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Training Proposal

• A Self-Assessment of Multicultural Awareness,
  Knowledge, and skill
• The Johari Window
• Finding Common Ground with your Best Friend
• World Picture Test
• Capturing Cultural Bias

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Objectives

• To audit your own abilities to demonstrate
  multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skill.
• To understand what we do and do not know about
  ourselves.
• TO generalize the skill of finding common ground
  with best friends to finding common ground with
  people of other cultures.
• To clarify students understanding of various
  countries and cultures through their knowledge of
  world geography.
• The become aware of ones own cultural behaviors
  and biases.

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Participants

• New United States Naval Recruits/Facilitator

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• For those who have seen the Earth and space, and
  for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who
  will, the experience most certainly changes your
  perspective. The things that we share in our
  world are far more valuable than those which
  divide us.
• -Donald Williams

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Annual Intercultural Training

• Each member of the U.S Navy partake in
  intercultural training throughout their careers
• Note May be subject to change annually

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Training Proposal

• Stereotypes of Different Groups I
• Stereotypes of Different Groups II
• Drawing a House
• Action Project
• Two Levels of Communication in the Military
  Culture
• Describing Cultural Identity

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Objectives

• To create awareness of stereotypic attitudes held
  toward different groups of people.
• To identify where stereotypes are found and how
  they are reinforced and to examine how beliefs
  about others influence ones behavior.
• To examine culturally learned behavior patterns
  that focus on leader-follower and
  task-relationship orientations.

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Objectives cont

• To work together as a group to influence social
  change.
• To rehearse ways of managing conflict by
  identifying unspoken messages in military
  contexts.
• To identify the complex culturally learned roles
  and perspectives that contribute to an
  individuals identity and to become more aware of
  ones multiple memberships in different cultural
  groups.

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Participants

• All U.S. Navy military members of all
  ranks/Facilitator

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• As long as the differences and diversities of
  mankind exist, democracy must allow for
  compromise, for accommodation, and for the
  recognition of differences.
• -Eugene McCarthy

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Intervention Training for Specific Occurrences

• Military organization is comprised of many
  different individuals from many different
  cultures.
• Many people do not accept people from other
  cultures.
• May take years of intervention training to teach
  those individuals to be open to others.
• Many get into situations that warrant more
  specific intercultural training.
• The following training program is for those
  individuals that are involved in such cases.
• This training is conducted only after such
  occurrences.

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Training Proposal

• Evaluating A Workshop with a Pretest and a
  Posttest
• American and Contrast-American Values
• How to Sabotage Multicultural Groups
• A Self Assessment of Multicultural Awareness,
  Knowledge, and Skill

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Objectives

• To provide an example of pretesting and
  posttesting to evaluate learning from training
  activities.
• To identify American values, as well as
  contrast-American values that determine
  conflicting points of view in a cross-cultural
  encounter as a means to better understand the
  variety of worldviews in cultures outside the
  American context.
• To identify behaviors that prevents multicultural
  groups from succeeding and thriving.
• To audit your own abilities to demonstrate
  multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skill.

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Participants

• Those individuals that partake in harassment,
  prejudice, or discriminatory occurrences that
  have a direct impact on one of more individuals
  within the organization.
• Trainer and Facilitator

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Trainer Requirements

• Trainers and facilitators be highly trained
• Should be knowledgeable of the U.S. Military
  culture

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Training Evaluation

• Training will be evaluated by Pre and Post
  training surveys, Annual Climate Surveys, status
  of morale within the organization, training
  efficiency, and lastly the number of internal
  ethnic harassment, discrimination, and prejudice
  grievances and complaints field.

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible
  that we paid so much attention to things like the
  amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our
  eyes or our gender instead of the unique
  identities of each of us as complex human
  beings.
• -Franklin Thomas

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Exercise 1 Capturing Cultural Bias

• Handouts
• Circle 5 adjectives describing people that you
  would like to be around.
• Underline 5 adjectives describing people that you
  would not like to be around.
• May add your own adjectives.

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Exercise 2 Describing Cultural Identity

• Handouts
• Ask Who are you?

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What Case Objectives are Met?

• Encouragement to stop harassment and racism
  against all other cultures.
• Educate military personnel of other cultures and
  their values
• Educate military personnel of their own cultures
  and values
• Enable all personnel to differentiate between all
  American cultures
• Create cohesiveness within battalions to allow
  efficiency without internal ethnic abrasiveness

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Questions or Comments?

• Thank you