My notes from the GPS Retreat on January 14, 2013.
- Knowledge + Practice = Competence
- Marginalization occurs when the individual cannot change and the culture is not open. Here's the environment in which gangs thrive because no one goes unclaimed for long.
- We're not aware of our own culture the way a fish doesn't know from water.
- Culture tends not to explain itself.
- We all act normal and natural; it's just that normal and natural vary by culture.
- Make an assumption of positive intent.
- Build a bridge by connecting with another's sense of values.
- The Art of Intercultural Competency
- know as much about the other
- know what informs you
- Falsehood that if I change I am not being authentic to myself.
