Global Competence Certificate

An award-winning, research-based program designed to build the skills needed to navigate and thrive in diverse cultural contexts.

About

Online learning 

The program includes online learning modules completed at own pace and weekly live online sessions to deepen learning, explore different perspectives and identify additional applications in own practice. 
 

Facilitated sessions
Join a group of likeminded learners, curious and interested in elevating their global skills and share in lively discussions during the weekly live facilitated sessions to elevate your learning when you also share and learn with others. 

Self-paced learning 

This self-paced learning program is delivered online. You can complete the interactive modules, requiring no more than two hours per week,  from the comfort of your home

Group size:  Minimum 5 per school

Learning Outcomes

Self-awareness

  • Increase cultural self-awareness through reflecting on their own personal and cultural experience as citizens in local to global contexts.

  • Identify and understand how cultural groups have shaped their characteristic ways of feeling, perceiving, thinking, and behaving.

  • Analyse and reflect on power relations, privilege, and inequality.

Awareness about others

  • Recognize and understand patterns of behaviour and values of people from different cultural contexts.

  • Empathize with culturally different others.

Emotional intelligence

  • Suspend judgment and be flexible in new and different cultural contexts.

  • Apply effective and appropriate strategies to deal with ambiguous situations.

  • Describe and manage responses to their own cultural biases and emotional triggers.

  • Be aware of personal limits and be open to seek support.

Bridges to others

  • Initiate and develop relationships with culturally different others.

  • Communicate and interact effectively and appropriately in different cultural contexts.