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Intercultural Development Continuum · Stage 4 of 6
Recognize and learn from cultural patterns without judging them by your own standard, and turn that recognition into practical, properly reviewed changes in DHS decisions.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
Describe Acceptance as the first intercultural mindset on the Intercultural Development Continuum.
Identify signs that a team recognizes cultural difference but has not yet built it into its default practice.
Identify signs in your own work of curiosity that has not yet translated into changed behavior.
Explain what separates Acceptance from Adaptation on the continuum.
Take one upcoming decision in your work and write two lines: the standard that must stay the same, and one method that could be adapted with the people affected. Identify which office, if any, would need to approve the change.
Recognize and learn from cultural patterns without judging them by your own standard, and turn that recognition into practical, properly reviewed changes in DHS decisions.
Take one upcoming decision in your work and write two lines: the standard that must stay the same, and one method that could be adapted with the people affected. Identify which office, if any, would need to approve the change.
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
Source for Acceptance as recognizing and appreciating patterns of difference and commonality, curiosity, not yet being fully able to adapt, and the challenge of choosing among approaches; also describes Adaptation. Used as shared vocabulary only.
Confirms the inventory can only be administered, and results accessed and shared, by a licensed Qualified Administrator. Supports the course's rule against guessing anyone's orientation.
Bennett's account of Acceptance, including that acceptance does not mean agreement and that the developmental task is finding a basis for ethical judgment that is not ethnocentric.
Background on how the inventory was developed from Bennett's model. Not a basis for any assessment by this program.
Department commitments to intercultural practice, authentic community engagement, CLAS standards and equity analysis for lasting decisions.
Statewide questions on impact, partner and Tribal engagement, data, access and accountability, used here to link cultural learning to decisions.