Intercultural communication theory promotes the idea of developing communication skills which move beyond ethnocentric communication practice towards modernistic communication awareness. Interculturalists - educators, trainers and researchers - have spent much time and energy ...
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Intercultural communication theory promotes the idea of developing communication skills which move beyond ethnocentric communication practice towards modernistic communication awareness. Interculturalists - educators, trainers and researchers - have spent much time and energy developing intercultural competence curriculum/training for students, business leaders and communities in conflict. However, there remain many problems in the world - ethnic, religious and political strife, immigration and diversity management - caused by intercultural conflict. These problems can not be solved even with competent intercultural communication because this traditionally considers just a small, predominantly cognitive range of the whole spectrum of human life, social development, and international exchange.
At the SIETAR Forum 2012+38 we will shift forward by moving into the next phase: cosmopolitan communication. This kind of communication requires the development of a new level of awareness - global integral competence - which incorporates a more complete human and societal dimension of experience.
Using a highly interactive format, we will look at this competence through for channels of understanding humankind and society: mind, culture, brain and system.
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