True North Intercultural

How is your school working to build intercultural capacity among faculty and staff? That is, what are you doing to help educators develop their own intercultural competence and their capacity to facilitate students’ intercultural learning? Where have you had success? What challenges have you encountered? Come explore these questions with me and other interculturally-minded educators this Thursday at the Intercultural Leadership Forum. You’ll leave with new ideas, perspectives, and inspiration. Date: Thursday, March 26th Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm U.S. Central Time (1pm Eastern, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific) Register: https://lnkd.in/edM_XNp #interculturalcompetence #culturalcompetence #globaleducation #highereducation #facultydevelopment #professionaldevelopment

Building Intercultural Capacity Among Faculty & Staff: Come Strategize with Us! 💡 How is your school working to build intercultural capacity among faculty and staff? That is, what are you doing to help educators develop their own intercultural competence and their capacity to facilitate students’ intercultural learning? Where have you had success? What challenges have you encountered? Come explore these questions with other interculturally-minded educators at the next Intercultural Leadership Forum. You’ll leave with new ideas, perspectives, and inspiration. Date: Thursday, March 26th Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm U.S. Central Time (1pm Eastern, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific) Register: https://lnkd.in/edM_XNp

Our founder, Tara Harvey, Ph.D., is proud to be serving as a specialist on the topic of intercultural learning and teaching for this new open access GlobalEd resource. Check it out and get your questions answered by Tara and the other specialists!

Over the past few weeks, True North Intercultural's founder, Tara Harvey, Ph.D., attended and presented at two conferences. First was the WISE Conference, hosted by Wake Forest University in North Carolina, which focuses on intercultural skills enhancement in higher education. A week later, Tara was in Tucson, Arizona, for the Community Colleges for International Development- CCID 50th-Anniversary Conference. In the blog this month, Tara shares some of her reflections from these conferences: https://lnkd.in/gfVD938m #interculturallearning #globaleducation #highereducation #CCID50

📢 Dates are set for our next cohort of Facilitating Intercultural Learning! 📢 Are you an educator who’d like to better integrate intercultural learning into your classes, study abroad programs, virtual exchange programs, orientations, staff trainings, or other aspects of your work? If so, the Facilitating Intercultural Learning professional development program is for you! Facilitating Intercultural Learning is a twelve-week online professional learning experience for educators that’s designed to help you (1) develop your own intercultural competence, and (2) build your capacity to design and facilitate others’ learning across cultures (whether at home or abroad, inside or outside the classroom, with students or colleagues). The fall 2026 cohort will begin on September 15th. While that may feel far away, things move slowly in higher education, so I encourage you to start planning now. To learn more about the program and schedule a brief, no-obligation call with me to discuss whether it’s a good fit for you, click on the link in the comments.

As mentioned in a post last week, True North Intercultural turns ten years old this month! 🔟🥳🙌🏼🎉✨ Even a decade in, I often feel like I’m just beginning to figure things out. However, when I look back, I can see how much the business has evolved and how much I’ve learned and grown through the process of building True North Intercultural and serving and supporting so many schools and educators committed to intercultural learning. In the blog this month, I’m sharing a few highlights, reflections, and lessons learned from the past ten years: https://lnkd.in/gwW3qW9x

♦️ Looking forward to kicking off the 20th public cohort of the Facilitating Intercultural Learning professional development program today! ♦️ It's an absolute privilege for me, each semester, to work with a diverse group of educators from a wide variety of roles, institutions, locations, and backgrounds who are committed to developing intercultural competence—their own and others’. Highlights for me include: ➡️ observing as they discover how much broader intercultural learning is than they had realized, and seeing the light bulbs go off as they realize all the unexpected ways it intersects with and supports their work; ➡️ witnessing their personal growth and intercultural development; ➡️ helping them strategize how they can integrate intercultural learning into the work they do, whether through their teaching, study abroad programming, resident assistant training, career advising, faculty trainings, or other areas; ➡️ seeing them become more confident in their ability to facilitate learning across cultures; ➡️ hearing all about the amazing ways they are applying what they learned in the program in their own lives, at their institutions, and in their communities. Thank you to all the educators who have participated in the Facilitating Intercultural Learning program over the years. I have no doubt you are making a positive impact in the world!

What are you doing to bridge intercultural learning and career services at your institution? How are you working to prepare interculturally competent students to both live and work in a diverse, globalizing, complex world? Come explore these questions with other educators involved in similar work, and leave with new ideas, perspectives, and inspiration. This event is free, but registration is required. Date: Thursday, January 29th Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm U.S. Central Time (1pm Eastern, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific) Register: https://lnkd.in/edM_XNp

LAST CALL! The spring cohort of this unique, train-the-trainer program for educators starts next week (on February 3rd), and we have a few spots left. If you’re an educator (faculty, staff, or anyone involved in helping youth or adults learn and grow) interested in developing intercultural competence—your own and others’— this program is for you! Previous participants have referred to Facilitating Intercultural Learning as “the most impressive professional development course I’ve ever taken,” a “highlight of the year,” and “the best learning experience I’ve had since grad school.” You can learn more about the program here: https://lnkd.in/ecpV5iH If interested, use the links on the program website to schedule a call with me to discuss whether program is a good fit and discuss next steps. Or you can message me any questions you have. If you’re committed to fostering intercultural learning in 2026, I’d love to help you do so!

If you'll be at the CCID Conference next month, be sure to check out the Sunday morning session, “Breaking Down Silos: Bridging International & Domestic Diversity Efforts," with our founder Tara Harvey, Ph.D.!