Facilitating Multicultural Groups: A Practical Guide

Facilitators are being called upon to work in international and cross-cultural arenas more than ever before. Facilitating Multicultural Groups provides a practical approach for facilitators to enhance their skills when working with people from diverse backgrounds. Based on research and facilitator experiences, it takes the facilitator step-by-step through ideas, processes, and frameworks that are designed to assist with workshop preparation, facilitation, and evaluation. It gives advice on how to adapt learning materials to suit specific situations and offers techniques to deal with conflict. Complete with definition of terminology, useful quotations, references, and electronic resources to follow up on areas of interest, this is essential reading for anyone facilitating multicultural groups.

Facilitators are being called upon to work in international and cross-cultural arenas more than ever before. "Facilitating Multicultural Groups" provides a practical approach for facilitators to enhance their skills when working with people from diverse backgrounds.

Tom Limoncelli is a noted system administrator and network engineer. He speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from firewall security to time management. He is the author of "Time Management for System Administrators" from O' Reilly. Tom is currently employed by Google. Strata R. Chalup is president and owner of VirtualNet, a technical project management and ISP/ASP architecture and deployment company. She resides in the San Francisco Bay area. Christine Hogan is a system administrator with ten years of experience. She recently completed her Ph.D. at Imperial College, London and is currently working as an aerodynamicist for the Sauber Petronas Formula 1 Racing Team.