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DIVERSITY
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Program Description
NTL’s
Diversity Practitioner Certificate Program builds on the skills of
both beginning and experienced diversity practitioners seeking a life
changing development experience. Participation in this unique program
will support you in transforming your diversity work.
This
18-month program offers participants more than 35 days of facilitated
face-to-face interaction during seven sessions, practical application
of program learning and ongoing coaching and mentoring from master
diversity practitioners. Beginning in January 2007, DPCP participants
will progress through the program as a cohort group, taking all
their courses together. During the program, participants will:
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Examine
diversity theory and practice from multiple perspectives and
explore eliminating systems of oppression based on race,
gender, ability, sexual orientation, religion, age, class
and other social constructs, · Incorporate the “use of
self” as an instrument of change,
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Develop
skills for working as a diversity practitioner from one’s
dominant and subordinated group memberships,
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Integrate
multiple levels of system thinking and human systems
perspectives,
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Develop
consulting, facilitation and intervention skills for
diversity work at individual, group, organization, nation
and world system levels,
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Identify
policies, behaviors and diagnostic interventions that create
and facilitate inclusion, equity, access and opportunity and
support their application in systems, organizations and
cultures.
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Admission
to the program is selective. Applicants must submit a written application
and will have a personal interview with a program faculty member.
A maximum of 24 participants will be selected for each cohort group.
The application period for the January 2007 cohort will close when
the cohort is filled or December 15, 2006 whichever is earlier.
The
Diversity Practitioner Certificate Program will benefit those
individuals who want to develop facilitation skills and diversity
training methods for application in diverse work and community
cultures. Leaders and facilitators who are charged with implementing
organizational diversity initiatives and those individuals who wish to
pursue professional development as a diversity practitioner will find
this program a challenging growth experience.
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The Program’s integrated approach combines:
In
such an environment, participants: |
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Develop
greater capacity for personal and professional effectiveness
as an agent of change in diverse environments.
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Become
grounded in the theoretical underpinnings of diversity work.
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Enhance
their skills for facilitating and intervening in diverse
groups and systems.
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Learn
to integrate and apply diversity theory and skills in their
life and work.
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Each
session adds new concepts and ideas, building on previous sessions.
Additionally, fundamental concepts and key principles are presented in
new contexts and from different perspectives to deepen and enhance
individual and group learning. In this way, each member of the
learning community, faculty and participants alike, has many
opportunities to contribute her/his unique perspective to the
group’s progress and development.
The
NTL Institute
Founded in 1947, NTL Institute is a not-for-profit educational
organization whose purpose is to advance the field of applied
behavioral sciences and to develop change agents for effective
leadership in all varieties of organizations. NTL has a long, rich
history of working with corporations, government agencies, community
groups and non-governmental organizations to facilitate inclusion and
the creation of equity, access and opportunity.
For
a free consultation or to register, contact our Program Counselors
at:
800-777-LABS (5227) or click
here to send an email.
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