(12-Week Online Course)
As we emerge into a new context of living with COVID, the Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning is able to again offer the “Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Leadership and Learning” program. Please note: Course instruction will be in English only.The course will be offered as an on-line program synchronous with the Wycliffe College course: “lntercultural Leadership and Learning: Engaging Ministry in Diverse Contexts: WYP1625HS. “Engage Difference!” participants will participate in weekly on-line classes with Wycliffe students.
Ecumenical + interactive program
Practical ideas to use in your own context
Nurture cultural understanding + awareness in your community
Participate on-line from anywhere in Canada
Optional Academic Credit through Wycliffe College
Engage Difference!
Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry
12 weeks focused on faith, heart, mind, and skills for the art of intercultural ministry
Winter 2022 Virtual Program
January 10 – April 4, 2022
Ecumenical + interactive program
Practical ideas to use in your own context
Nurture cultural understanding + awareness in your community
Participate on-line from anywhere in Canada
Optional Academic Credit through Wycliffe College
Learn More About the Program and Register
As we emerge into a new context of living with COVID, The Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning is able to again offer the “Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Leadership and Learning” program.
Winter of 2022, the course will be offered as an on-line program synchronous with the Wycliffe College course: “lntercultural Leadership and Learning: Engaging Ministry in Diverse Contexts: WYP1625HS.
Tentative weekly class schedule:
- Week 1: January 10 – Course overview, Pedagogies for Intercultural Ministry, Gathering and building an intentional learning community
- Week 2: January 17 – Telling our Intercultural Stories and journeys, Mapping stories of migration and experiences of diversity
- Week 3: January 24 – Culture and Interculturality: definitions and models, Faith perspectives on community and culture
- Week 4: January 31 – Exploring power, privilege, racism, social location and the dominant culture, Reconciliation and decolonization
- Week 5: February 7 – History of Canada’s and Christianity’s relationship with “the other” including missiology, Doctrine of Discovery, Biblical texts and Christian theologies, Economics and Interculturality.
- Week 6: February 14 – A case study: Exploring the cultures of our denominations and ministry settings
- February 21: Reading Week
- Week 7: February 28 – Engaging Conflict Across Cultures
- Week 8: March 7 – Theology and culture, Theologies from the margins
- Week 9: March 14 – Theories of change, Small group projects: practical design and implementation of the learning to our contexts
- Week 10: March 21 – Practice and feedback of small group projects
- Week 11: March 28 -Self and Community Care: making the work sustainable
- Week 12: April 4 – Next Steps in Intercultural Ministry and Leadership, Closing Community liturgy
Course learning is built on interaction between participants. Participation requires weekly attendance and access to internet and zoom suitable video-conferencing computer equipment. Participants are expected to attend with video and sound on. Availability for a small amount of group work via zoom, email, or telephone outside class time during the course is expected.
Full course description and syllabus can be viewed at: https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/programs-and-courses/courses/lntercultural-leadership-and-learning-engaging-ministry-diverse-0 Evaluation Requirements are for Wycliffe academic students only.