IDD learning and community opportunities in 2022 & 2023 + latest updates [September 2022]

While July and August had a bit of downtime for the IDD team — Nadine enjoyed time in Paris and Amsterdam and Melissa discovered what it means to have a “bumper crop” of tomatoes in her New England garden — it was a?productive planning?period too.

We had a brief partners’ meetup in NYC in July followed by an online Confab 2.0 with our fabulous IDD advisors who span 5 continents. Looking back at the IDD’s first year of programming and community-building, we drew up our 2022-23 schedule and recommitted ourselves to a shared vision of?IDD as the dedicated community and learning space for passionate, experienced “Differences” peers across all fields, contexts?and regions.

THE RESULT??A set of?new?After Hours Around the Table with the Experts?2022?online programming?— next up this November are Uli Kühnen and Nadine Binder —?plus dates for not one, but?two!?Developing Across Differences (DAD) Learning Labs & Community Weeks?in 2023. We'll return to?The Netherlands (July 2023), then head?to Cairo for a Middle Eastern & African Edition with local experts in November 2023. Put the dates listed below in your calendar and plan to join us.?

A FORWARD-LOOKING LEGACY.?In August, we were honored to have been asked by Janet Bennett's estate to host a virtual?celebration of her life and work?and to co-organize?the?Janet M. Bennett Intercultural Library. We feel fortunate to help to modernize this extraordinary?resource?— the world's most comprehensive contemporary and archival?intercultural collection — and contribute to?Janet's legacy. We invite you to?support this worthy cause?at?interculturallibrary.org.

Register now for our?After Hours: Around the Table with the Experts?Uli Kühnen and Nadine Binder. In?an interactive, small group setting alongside a small group of global peers,?explore three research-based strategies for designing and holding more inclusive spaces?for a diverse range of learners with different learning beliefs – for use?in workplaces, classrooms, and beyond.

This research?challenges the “East versus West” learning styles paradigm?to look at differences within and among European learners as well as across regional cultural 'boundaries' including those in Asia and elsewhere.

Join us for an?in-depth briefing session?to cover the basics. Want more? Opt to delve into even deeper discussions to get answers from the Experts on?your?specific questions in?an?additional, optional advanced Q&A session.?Join us this?November.

Our After Hours with the Expert programming focuses on real conversations with IDD Experts and spots are limited to ensure meaningful conversations and in-depth learning for experienced peers.?

Meet IDD Global Peer Gra?yna Drzazga. Researcher,?(medical) education specialist, language teacher,?didactic skills trainer, and intercultural competence trainer,?Gra?yna's work and studies have her constantly on the go. Yet across countries, contexts and professional roles,?she is still herself,?welcoming?change metaphorically, philosophically.

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Support?Janet Bennett’s Legacy—and Future Interculturalists. The IDD is a member of the?Janet M. Bennett Intercultural Library Consortium. Learn about how we're ensuring this not only lives on but, with your help, also evolves to become modernized, made more accessible globally and expanded to meet today and tomorrow's needs.??

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Next up: Global Community for Practice?complimentary calls on Nov 23, 2022. We invite you to join and (re)connect with colleagues. Our topic will be the intersections of?Intercultural and DEI. Together with peers from around the world, discuss?how the two can be better weaved together for greater impact?in our work.??

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AND IN OTHER NEWS...?Nadine has just returned from?Young SIETAR's 25th-anniversary?reflections in Luxembourg and was profiled last week virtually at?SIETAR Brasil's conference. Meantime, Melissa's taken a sneak peek and given informal feedback?on?Education New Zealand's forthcoming?Global Citizenship materials; she?heads to Finland next month to work with the?Global Competence in Teacher Education?Erasmus+ project consortium to advance this shared aim.

In between these happenings,?we look forward to seeing?you?at upcoming IDD events!

Until soon,

Melissa Liles (Founding Director) & Nadine Binder (Partner & Community Lead), Institute for Developing Across Differences