Your Voice: What Matters? What’s Next
Dialogue sessions at the 2008 Conference
For the first time in the conference series, we invited conference attendees to share questions, concerns and ideas for the future with their colleagues in the field of cross-cultural health. The summary below gives you an idea of how these dialogue sessions worked. We'll be using the information gathered from these sessions and the online surveys to decide on some next steps.
Dialogue Sessions Overview:
Conference attendees chose between café-style conversations, or a graffiti forum that had them writing on the walls.
Café-style conversation
These moderated, small group conversations encouraged collaborative scrutiny of the challenges and questions raised by group members who wanted creative problem-solving and the synergy of small group give-and-take. Sessions began with 15 minutes of speed networking, and moved on to address The Two Big Questions, according to one of the five interest areas:
- Interpretation and language access
- Organizational cultural competence
- Culturally competent care
- Culturally competent workforce; or
- Policy/research.
Graffiti forum
The graffiti session gave attendees a chance to provide the “handwriting on the wall” on issues in multiple interest areas through serendipitous interactions with others wielding markers and colored post-it notes.