A photo taken by an audience member of a workshop. Allison is standing on the right side of the photo gesturing to the screen on the left. She is wearing a black dress and blazer. The screen says "Self Actualization."

Communicate effectively- or not at all.

Check out Alto Intercultural’s workshops below to fulfill your individual, group and corporate needs.

Featured Workshops

Communicate Effectively- Or Not at All

This theoretical workshop covers the basics regarding interpersonal communication, including contexts, competencies, nonverbal communication, listening, relationship development and needs assessment. Exercises highlight practical and relevant scenarios. Recommended duration is 6 hours, dependent on group size, and can be delivered in-person or virtually.

Next-Door Cultural Awareness

This hands-on workshop focuses on the ways in which participants can reflect on personal perceptions: beliefs, values, attitudes, behaviors and the impact on their communication styles. Through exercises and games, participants increase their intercultural communication competencies. Rather than “learning about other cultures,” participants walk away with new approaches and perspectives. Workshop duration is 4 hours with groups no more than 20 participants, with in-person and virtual options.

Being Content with Your Social Media Content

If humans are exposed to 4,000 to 10,000 advertisements every day, your brand’s message needs to stand out. In order to understand your target audience, you need to ensure you’re reaching them and capturing their attention. In this 4 hour workshop, I review how to brand oneself, utilize demographic information, conduct research on your audience and craft diverse and inclusive content within your internal and external channels. Recommended for Marketing, Communication, Outreach and Social Media teams or small businesses, with in-person or virtual options.

Diversity Icebreaker

Diversity Icebreaker® (DI) is a learning tool that for nearly three decades has helped people around the world understand themselves, others — and how differences can become a valuable resource in collaboration, communication, and innovation. The format features a 90-minute questionnaire and structured seminar. It's most commonly used with groups of 9–30 participants, but it's also well-suited for both small groups and large audiences of 300+.

The Olympics: Intercultural Sports Arena

In this 60-minute workshop, I explore the ways in which sports intersect with intercultural communication discourses through the lens of the Olympic Games. These discourses include (but aren’t not limited to) representation, discrimination, geopolitics, financial barriers, boycotts, social issues, mental health, environmental impacts, human displacement, physical abilities, etc. By examining these discourses, the audience will be able to discuss how interculturalism can be fostered in such spaces, especially on a global scale. The audience will work in teams to participate in exercises of real-life events that have occurred during the modern Games’ 128-year history. Participants will walk away with new reflections, talking points and examples to bring back to their intercultural trainings.

Interculturalism and Infrastructure: Building Bridges with Effective Communication

In this 30-minute presentation, I discuss the ways in which governmental bodies, public utilities and private organizations can utilize interculturalism within their infrastructure improvements by effectively communicating and educating communities that will be impacted and partnering with local leadership. The reason why this is important is because, in order for these projects to be successful, there needs to be community buy-in. These communities engage in elections, board approvals and other cultural functions that will inevitably be affected. By including interculturalism within infrastructure project management, long-term consequences will be avoided.

Custom Workshops

What are topics that you or your company is interested in discussing as related to intercultural communication? I can create a custom program based on your needs and tailor it to deliver the best results.

Testimonials

I met Allison at the SIETAR Europa congress with the title „Re-Thinking Interculturalism“, where she gave a very interesting talk on infrastructure and culture. At first you think, what does infrastructure have in common with culture? In a very successful and refreshing lecture, Allison showed how important it is, even in such an environment, not only to involve society as such in the planning of infrastructure projects at an early stage, but also to take cultural characteristics such as religious holidays into account. Thank you Allison for a new perspective on the topic of how we can better deal with each other and what role culture plays in this.
Linda Hagen
XculturalWorking

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