Our goal at Cultural Detective is to build strong communities that promote intercultural competence, justice, equity and sustainability in our world, via respect and collaboration. We are happy to share with you the following activities, techniques, tools and resources for use in your intercultural training, education and coaching. Please retain all © and urls.
Classic “Oldies but Goodies”
- Comprehensive Expatriate Support System, and
- Map of Key Cultural Differences (graphic and article)
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- The Nasty and Noble Truth about Culture Shock
- STADIApproach to Intercultural Learning, and
Assessment Instruments
Curricula and Training Designs
- Criteria for Effective Intercultural Learning Tools, intercultural and accelerated learning
- Developmental Intercultural Competence Using Cultural Detective Online
- How to Get Promoted in 3 Hours
- Incorporating Cross-cultural Effectiveness into Existing Programs
- Sample Half-Day Global Competitiveness Design
- Two Solutions for Teaching in Context
- Want to Get Out of the One-shot Training Rut?
Exercises and Activities
- Arrogance as Perceived from Two Different Cultures
- 10 Surefire Ways to Divide into Groups, a list of multicultural ideas
- Advertisements: Catalysts for intercultural conversations and insights
- Bananas! Training activity and nourishment
- Bridging Cultures, a sample exercise
- Cross-cultural Responses to Lava, a video clip with questions
- Cultural Appropriation: The Swastika, ppt slides
- 4 Cultural Detective Training and Coaching Activities, instructions
- Empathy for the Refugee Experience, an exercise
- How Our Thoughts Affect Our Performance, 3 activities
- The Japanese Department Store activity instructions, culture and the use of space, graphic
- Maps and Intercultural Competence
- Me han dicho un dicho, refranes and proverbs for learning values, English and Spanish
- Multicultural Virtual Teams: 4 Activities
- Reconciling Dilemmas: Les Miserables, ppt slides
- Ubuntu, Nietzche and a Learning Activity
- Using Army Recruitment Ads to Develop Cross-cultural Skills
- Using the Body to Transform Conflict, 3 activities
- Using Films in Intercultural Education, 3 techniques
- Using Our Perceptions to Discover Ourselves: 2 Iconic Embraces, an activity
- What Will They Think of Me? An improv exercise
Resources and Articles
- Beyond Cultural Dimensions
- Indigenous Contributions to Global Management
- Language, Food, Culture and Values
- Bicycling in the Yogurt: The French food fixation
- Can You Read This? Using memes to understand cultural and linguistic perspective
- Food Speaks in Many Tongues
- Language Under the Gun
- The Power of French Food Culture
- The Squid Has Been Fried: Language, Culture and the Chinese Food Fixation
- To Slurp or Not to Slurp
- Want to Feel Ukiuki, Pichipichi and Pinpin? Japanese Food Onomatopoeia
- SAGE Encyclopedia for Intercultural Competence
- The Yin and Yang of Tiger Moms
Tools for Training and Education
- Best-kept Secret of Successful Teams, the four-phase model
- Collide-o-culture or Kaleid-o-culture? GPS for Human Beings, an article and presentation
- Essential Practice for Intercultural Competence/EPIC
- Interculturalidad,
- ECOTONOS: A Simulation on Multicultural Collaboration
- “On the Road with Migrants” game (English, French, German)