In the workplace, providing employees with the necessary resources to facilitate productive interactions with colleagues, customers and suppliers is key to managing diversity and fostering inclusion.
In addition, we all live in an era that demands constant adaptation to change. Whether we like it or not, this produces a state of stress or weariness.
IDE Training helps multicultural work teams build bridges and create a more inclusive environment.
It also helps to increase talent attraction and employee retention.
Recognized hours: 12
Diversity and inclusion can be difficult to manage. Sometimes, just talking about it frankly can trigger intense emotions within a work team.
Other training programs on the market use a theoretical approach that is not suitable for people with different learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic and reading/writing). This can lead to long and dense sessions where participants are little engaged. Concepts are less well understood and training does not fulfill its purpose.
An hour and a half activity that allows us to better understand the difference between our reality and that of others.
Two sessions of one and a half hours each to dive into the subject.
This format is divided into four modules, each lasting four hours:
Develop intercultural skills to adapt to new situations and acclimatize to everyday life.
Increase awareness of diverse teams in their workspaces.
To acquire the know-how and interpersonal skills for a successful personal and professional integration in the work environment.
This training will give you and your managers and employees all the tools they need to start an introspective process leading to inclusive best practices. This can lead to productive dialogues and clarify steps to create a diverse and inclusive work environment on a daily basis.
Due to the need to:
It can be held in French or in English.
Yes, we can offer the training online.
Groups of up to 20 participants guarantee optimal engagement.
The training contains 4 modules, and it is strongly recommended not to do more than 1 module a day. Each module has a duration of 4 hours.
The approximate distribution of the contents is as follows: Presentation of the concepts: 15 min / Artistic activity: 15 min / Dialogues: 15 min / Journaling and pause: 15 min
Yes, your team can benefit from other IDÉ training activities. More information here:
Yes, all materials are included.
Anywhere you want! We can offer the training online or travel to your preferred location. If you need us to travel more than 15 km away from Montreal or to special venues, we may apply extra costs.
The best tool to integrate concepts and tracking changes in personal postures is called The IDÉ Notebook (Journal), which is part of the equipment provided with the training. With it, participants will not only follow the activities, but also track their personal impressions and insights about diversity and inclusion. Months or years after the training, it will be an interesting portrait of the participants’ thought process and evolution for themselves.
Furthermore, PAAL commits to follow up with a diagnosis, evaluation and consulting sessions. It can be organized around six months to a year after the training.
The four core learning styles are visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading and writing.
At PAAL, the term “inter*cultural mediation“ means raising awareness of cultural diversity through the sharing of cultural expressions such as art, storytelling and crafts, to reconcile tensions or differences between individuals from different cultures. While classical intercultural mediation uses speech to bring people together, intercultural mediation as proposed by PAAL rather uses art as a unifying tool. These projects respond to the various Canadian government demands to increase the level of cultural democracy and improve living together.
If you need more information about the training’s cost, structure or the program itself, get in touch!
PAAL Partageons le monde is a social innovation company that educates and raises public awareness of cultural diversity, equality and inclusion through the prevention of racism and exclusion through arts activities.
In 7 years, PAAL hosted 500 workshops and activities for more than 10,000 participants.
Rafael is the co-founder and artistic director of PAAL, and the main trainer of IDE Training. Rafael holds a master’s degree in intercultural mediation from the Université de Sherbrooke and has been actively involved in intercultural diversity and inclusion organizations such as the Conseil Interculturel de Montréal, the Peace Network and community organizations in Montreal. Rafael uses his talents as a communicator to create transformative experiences.
Pilar is co-founder and director of PAAL. She has a master’s degree from HEC Montréal in cultural business management and a specialization in cultural mediation from CÉGEP St-Laurent. For more than 15 years, she worked as a university lecturer and executive coach. Pilar understands the challenges of our multicultural society and is ready to create projects so that each person finds their place in the world.
Claudia has a BA in graphic design and is specialized in marketing communication. With over 20 years of experience in branding and communications agencies with impact in Mexico and all across the Americas, she enjoys developing unique strategies to strengthen customer relationships. Claudia has lived in 6 countries and has experienced the challenges and opportunities of the integration process, building intercultural relationships while adapting to the host society.
Mounir Shami holds degrees in business administration, adult education, intercultural mediation and tourism. Possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills, Mounir speaks English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Italian. Mounir knows how to show people the differences and similarities of their cultures and highlight the points that unite us.
Yaen Tijerina is a visual artist and cultural mediator with over fifteen years of experience. She arrived in Montreal in 2017 and embraced “this city of marked contrasts between seasons, this colorful parade of teachings and cultural diversity. This mosaic gives us an opportunity to meet the world at every corner and to get together”.
Luz María holds a master’s degree in education and was also a teacher at a secondary school in Mexico, where she was responsible for creating and organizing cultural activities with students. She focuses on learning, culture and animation workshops. Luz believes that reading and culture can open up unexpected worlds and serve as a tool for rapprochement. In her career, she devoted herself to conciliation and legal advice for the elderly in rural areas.
Peace, Love, Friendship, Liberty. These values are the cornerstone of our activities. We consider that interculturality is an asset to be exploited to ensure peaceful coexistence. To get to know and talk to each other, to open up to the world, fearlessly! That is what animates us.
Break down intercultural barriers through an environment of dialogue and collaborative activities. Our goal is to stimulate reconciliation between the members of different ethnocultural communities residing in the metropolitan region of Montreal.
Our program values critical thinking in order to communicate and promote intercultural dialogue, while ensuring a climate of respect and tolerance.
PAAL has developed the term “inter-cultural mediation” which aims to raise awareness of cultural diversity through the sharing of cultural expressions, such as art, storytelling and crafts, to reconcile tensions or differences between individuals from different cultures. While classical intercultural mediation uses speech to bring people together, inter-cultural mediation as proposed by PAAL, rather borrows art as a unifying tool. These projects respond to the various Canadian government demands to increase the level of cultural democracy and improve living together.*
*Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy 2019–2022