Refining the classic intercultural reflection tool (e.g. DIE, 3R) for work with Migrants, Refugees and their Volunteers: The TRIPS Toolkit
About this Event

Come along to learn how the famous DIE or 3R or similar popular reflective training tools for intercultural competence can be refined and improved, ensuring better learning, rapport and understanding.

Specifically, Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Communication Helen Spencer-Oatey will tell us in an online session all about her new TRIPS Toolkit that can help keen SIETARians in their work with refugees, migrants, and their volunteers.

Then we will open the floor for reflections and discussions among attendees with the goal to understand the toolkit’s applicability when working with migrants, refugees or volunteers who support refugees/migrants.

Date: 14th of Oct

Time: 5.30-6.30pm UK time

Where: Online/ZOOM

Structure: 1h session (35 min talk, 20 min discussion/reflection)

Hosts: SIETAR Switzerland & SIETAR UK

Specifically, this session basis on the assumption that you are very familiar with the DIE, 3R or similar models. If you need to refresh your memory, please have a look here:

3R [Report, Reflect. Re-evaluate] developed by Professor Spencer-Oatey and Davidson in 2018 and available here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/globalpeople2/knowledgeexchange/gp_3r_reflect_final_181204.pdf
D.I.E. [Describe, Interpret, Evaluate]: Developed by Janet Bennett and Milton Bennett in 1975. More info available here: Nam, K.-A., & Condon, J. (2010). The DIE is cast: The continuing evolution of intercultural communication’s favorite classroom exercise. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34(1), 81–87. https://lnkd.in/et39rU44
Applying the D.I.E. Model – https://lnkd.in/eybvF2Xd

We also wish to encourage you to prepare the ‘Report’ (3R)/’Describe’ (DIE) section by reflecting on a specific encounter with a person seeking sanctuary/migrant that surprised you or that you found unusual, puzzling, irritating, upsetting, very pleasing or significant in some way related to cultural differences. We can use your case for further discussions during the session.

Speaker Profile: Professor Helen Spencer-Oatey has lived and worked in many culturally diverse situations and currently helps professionals understand and handle such contexts more successfully. She is Managing Director of GlobalPeople Consulting Ltd. (GPC), regularly posts on LinkedIn, and is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Warwick.

Check out Professor Helen Spencer’s latest book which includes all the details regarding the TRIPS framework called “Making Working Relationships Work: The TRIPS Toolkit for handling relationship challenges and promoting rapport”. If you have bought it/once you have, please leave a review on AMAZON: https://shorturl.at/F9BEk

SIG Migration is a SIETAR Europa special interest group that connects interculturalists interested in or who are working in the area of migration (https://sietareu.org/sig-migration/). This includes refugees, people who seek asylum and volunteers who work with migrants, refugees and people who seek asylum. This network is led by Anne-Claude Lambelet, Dr Katharina Addington-Lefringhausen and Eila Isotalus since 2023. If you are a SIETAR member (local or Europe or worldwide) you can join our network here: https://sietareu.org/sig-migration/membership/