Intercultural Capacity Development

What is intercultural capacity? Intercultural capacity (or competency) is the ability to develop empathy, self-awareness, knowledge, and skills to understand, engage, and collaborate with others whose world perspectives may differ from your own. Developing intercultural competency strengthens the ability to engage productively with difference, both locally and globally.

The goal is the journey as much as the destination.

Resources

True North Intercultural - Blog Tara Harvey’s (PhD) blog posts provide short reads on intercultural development with useful references for further exploration.

True North Intercultural - Website - includes a brief free training to learn more about how intercultural development applies to the work we do in our roles in higher education institutions 

Intercultural Capacity Framework - resources from the University of Calgary

Intercultural Development Inventory - if you are interested in learning more about the IDI or taking the IDI, contact Laura Shier

Intercultural Effectiveness Survey - Kozai