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Cultural Awareness

Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readinessany
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional

Builds the ability to communicate across national, ethnic, organisational and generational cultures — the guide treats all four as culture, not just the first two. Participants work their own cultural defaults and where those defaults would misread someone else, in service of organising across difference rather than as a diversity exercise.

Practical

Time
20-25 min
Group
1 · individual, small-group
Settings
in-person, online
Materials
Worksheet in the guide
Mechanisms
perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter
Change scope
state → skill · repeatable

Instructions

Where
unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Step_Up_A_Pocket_Guide_… Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders, open
Availability
Open online — published at the link, free to read

Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026

This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.

Origin

David A. Livermore — Cultural intelligence (CQ) research, adapted in UNFPA's Step Up! pocket guide (2021)

In this directory via Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders

status: checked · added 2026-08-29