Maximizing Intercultural Relationships

Whether traveling domestically or internationally, cultural differences are everywhere.  We believe that experiential training is foundational for any person encountering a lifestyle different from their own.  World Servants is committed to providing training events that will help people to learn about themselves and others.  The goal is to create an environment where relationships are built, leadership is developed and lifelong learning takes place.  Through the use of active, experiential learning modules, these trainings simulate such an environment to prepare the participants for true-life change. 

 

Each of our training curriculums use a practice to theory format.  They have been developed to move trainees through this learning process by participation in exercise, followed by a guided reflection process that both internalizes and extracts lessons learned from the exercise.  This style of training is known as experiential learning and is proven to maximize the individuals’ learning potential because of its hands-on nature.

 

World Servants offers experiential learning seminars to churches, non-profit organizations and businesses that are tailored to the customer.  Each seminar is a comprehensive event that includes team building, cultivating awareness of differences, skills for engaging in relationships, developing an orientation toward acts of service, debriefing, and application time.

Cross-Cultural Orientation - How Training Makes the Difference

Building Effective Relationships. Team conflict. Unclear focus. Culture shock. Unrealistic expectations.  These things can and do happen.  Instead of letting challenges like these short-circuit the potential life-change in your team, we want to help you capitalize on potential problems and turn them into opportunities to learn and grow.

 

For more than 20 years, World Servants has facilitated short-term mission trips for over 45,000 participants in 28 countries around the world.  During that time, we have developed a cross-cultural training that prepares our participants to build effective relationships and reach across cultural differences.  Using curriculum developed by experienced missionaries, mission trainers and missiologists, this comprehensive training has been proven over the years through the experiences of hundreds of short-term mission teams.

 

World Servants Cross-cultural Orientation (CCO) engages participants in the learning process.  Active, experiential learning designs provide a dynamic environment that has been shown to be the most effective at leading people into true life change.  If you are bringing a group or family of 3 or more persons on a World Servants missions experience, you will attend our CCO at no cost!  CCO’s are held nationwide in various cities; all you have to do is get there.  We require CCO for all first-time World Servants groups and highly recommend that returning groups take advantage of your free space each year.  Participants are responsible for travel to and from the training event site.  We provide lodging and dinner Friday night, and breakfast & lunch on Saturday.

 

You will receive our extensive training resources and participate in experiential training covering the following critical topics:

• team building
• understanding cultural differences
• conflict management
• cross-cultural communication
• storytelling
• debriefing
• life application
• flexibility

When you return home, you’ll have all the skills to replicate and transfer what you have learned to your group or family.  Our comprehensive two-day training event gives you all the tools and resources you will need to effectively prepare and train your team to maximize your upcoming mission experience.

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