{"id":12824,"date":"2024-03-27T19:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2024-03-27T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T02:22:02","slug":"training-cultural-awareness-for-short-term-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12824","title":{"rendered":"Training: Cultural Awareness for Short-Term Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: CultureBound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of crossing cultures, do you have short-term teams going out this summer? Would you like them to be aware of the cultural dynamics where they are going? Most groups sending mission teams do their own training but CultureBound has two options that can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CAMP: Cultural Awareness Made Practical<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individual members of your teams register for CAMP and watch the online videos, totaling one hour, on their own time. Each lesson has a video and worksheet with questions and activities for both the preparation stage and when the team is on the field. $30 per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CAST: Cultural Awareness for Short-Term Teams<\/strong><br><br>CAST is a two-hour online or in-person training or workshop that can also be scaled to meet the needs of your team. It focuses on four ways that cultures differ from each other which gives the group cultural patterns to look for and a common vocabulary to discuss them. $150 per group.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturebound.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about CultureBound<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/culturelinkinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CULTURELink<\/a>, which is offering a two-day seminar for team leaders coming up April 19-20 in Virginia, and <a href=\"https:\/\/missionexcellence.global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MissionExcellence<\/a>, which provides regular training on best practices for short-term mission.<br><br>You may also want to check out a new resource called <a href=\"https:\/\/missionworks.global\/missionlinked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MissionLinked<\/a>. It provides a simple, fun, and secure way to link people together while raising funds for a short-term mission or a special project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CultureBound Speaking of crossing cultures, do you have short-term teams going out this summer? Would you like them to be aware of the cultural dynamics where they are going? Most groups sending mission teams do their own training but CultureBound has two options that can help. CAMP: Cultural Awareness Made Practical Individual members of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Training: Cultural Awareness for Short-Term Teams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12825,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions\/12825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}