Training Description:
Living and working abroad involves navigating complex power structures shaped by enduring colonial legacies, global inequalities, and intersecting social hierarchies. These continuities influence how we communicate, collaborate, and build relationships across cultural contexts today.
This online workshop invites participants to critically reflect on their own social positioning, values, and assumptions, and to consider how these shape their roles and responsibilities in international work.
Through practical exercises and group discussions, we will explore our expectations and concerns, examine how concepts such as culture, development, and cooperation are informed by colonial histories, and develop strategies to engage in ways that question and transform dominant narratives.
…in Short
- Reflecting on social positioning, values, and cultural background in the context of global power relations and colonial continuities;
- Exploring approaches to sensitive, self-aware, and respectful communication and engagement;
- Critically examining how concepts of culture, power, and cooperation are shaped by historical and ongoing colonial structures.
Target groups
- Reflecting on your own attitude and background, values and norms
- Getting to know and trying out approaches to communication for better mutual understanding
- Taking a critical look at the concept of culture
Date and venue
SE 01 13.02. ‒ 15.02.2026 (via Zoom)
The training starts at 2.30 p.m. on the first training day and ends at 1.00 p.m. on the last training day. This training takes place exclusively in English, no simultaneous interpretation is possible.
Participation fee
420 € per person.
Participation is free of charge for professionals accepted by Dienste in Übersee in the selection interview. For internal employees of Brot für die Welt, the costs are charged via the seminar booklet. The costs for the seminars of other providers can only be covered after conclusion of the contract.
Technical Equipment
The training will be facilitated online via Zoom.
Please understand that professionals who are about to leave the country will be given preference in the distribution of places.
In order to participate fully in the online training, you will need a laptop (or other suitable device), with functioning camera, microphone and speakers, preferably a headset, as well as a stable internet connection.
Registration
Register until: Friday, January 9th 2026.
Tel.: +49 30 65211-1349
E-Mail: seminaranmeldung@due.org
Online Registration: http://info.due.org/fachkraefte
Registration form via the web-based tool guestoo: https://ewde.guestoo.de/public/event/bf202571-af0a-4697-b83b-5b21955f5de0
Our general terms and conditions apply.
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