We’d been working with the Unistream organization for a few months on ensuring that their programming is culturally competent. When Israel went on lockdown in response to the coronavirus crisis, all (or nearly all) of our previously scheduled workshops and training sessions went online.
Bar Biran, Director of the Shared Living program, Unistream, with Dr. Racheli Ashwal a few minutes before the workshop
So on May 10, we held a Zoom session with Bar Biran, Shared Society program manager at Unistream on Cultural Competence and Diversity Management in a Mixed Society, together with the project’s managers and instructors. Bar had asked us to help her with numerous questions that come up regularly when working with a multitude of identities and ethnicities. To help her and her staff deal with those dilemmas, we designed a workshop that would give special tools and skills to the program’s instructors and coordinators.
The concept that guides us when consulting and advising organizations
The workshop participants learned the guiding principles of cultural competency that should influence everything they do, as they lead programs with participants from diverse identities.
