If you enjoyed Mark A Williams' The 10 Lenses training by Wilfrido Cruz and Annette Benson, check out The 10 Lenses theme song!

My colleague Wilfrido "Willie" Cruz and I began using Mark Williams' Ten Lenses: Your Guide to Living and Working in a Multicultural World for staff development in 2006.  We have prepared many different versions of the training over the years, which has sometimes included monologues, skits, video clips...The various versions have taken anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours to present.  This particular version was created to give an overview of Williams' theory at the NAFSA Region VI conference, held during the first week of November 2019 in Columbus, OH.

Dr. Barbara Kappler and Dr. Yuliya Kartoshkina from the University of Minnesota, along with Annette Benson from Purdue, team up to:

1.Identify key findings from educational and cultural neuroscience that can provide insights into how the functions of our brains impact intercultural learning.

2.Discover the complexity of intercultural facilitation and explore how effective facilitation techniques can benefit students’ intercultural learning.

3.Review several examples and scenarios involving intercultural facilitation techniques and analyze how you might apply these in your own practice.

4.Become familiar with several models and teaching tools to enhance intercultural empathy. 

This presentation was first given at the NAFSA Region V conference in Schaumburg, IL, on October 19, 2018, 8:30am, and repeated at the Region VI conference in Columbus, OH, on November 6, 2018, 11:30am.

As each new generation comes into the public eye as college students and then as new employees, the past generations do not necessarily describe the upcoming generation as empathetic, and current generations do not necessarily look back on their ancestors as being empathetic either, so how do teacher and learner enter into a productive dialogue about how to grow in empathy?  The attached presentation offers tools for facilitating conversations about how to grow in intercultural empathy.