Cultural Bridging Facilitators
New Zealand is multicultural country which pays great respect and appreciation to all other cultures.
Currently there is a growing need for Cultural Bridging support to help overcome cultural and linguistic barriers when working and communicating with kiwis from different backgrounds.
We believe that culture is more than language and lack of cultural understanding leads to unproductive, inefficient and sometimes destructive outcomes, and therefore we provide our Cultural Bridging Facilitators with intensive training to enable them provides you with a more positive and effective communication experience.
Some of the main benefit of using Cultural Bridging Facilitators
- develop better communication skills with clients
- develop better understanding of the clients and their families’ cultural backgrounds, values and family members’ commitments, obligations and rights
- develop better understanding of the clients and their families’ new challenges, concerns, problems and worries
- the clients will have better understanding the New Zealand different systems and the agencies work nature
- Client and services provider will develop more trust and more effective and efficient relationship
- CALD community members will integrate more smoothly into their new home country by developing better understanding the New Zealand culture, norms and rules.