Episode 2: Stay in the circle: Patient listening can connect across cultures

February 23, 2021 00:19:55
Episode 2: Stay in the circle: Patient listening can connect across cultures
Culturally Attuned
Episode 2: Stay in the circle: Patient listening can connect across cultures

Feb 23 2021 | 00:19:55

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Show Notes

Burning Man Project’s Kim Cook has—literally—danced on the cross-cultural divide. She recalls lessons in cultural competence from her work in creative enterprises like theater and hip-hop. (And one day … there was that chocolate cupcake.) For Kim, humble persistence is the way to overcome our inevitable gaps in cultural understanding.

 

Learn more and read the transcript: https://www.usip.org/publications/2021/02/stay-circle-patient-listening-can-connect-across-cultures 

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