We help communities and organizations:
At Intercultural Connections, our mission is to help organizations and communities thrive by providing comprehensive intercultural communication and intercultural competence solutions tailored to our client's unique needs.
Our team is committed to delivering results that exceed expectations.
Intercultural Connections offers various services, including training, engagement, strategy, and facilitation. Our team, led by Kelley Abercrombie, has the expertise to help organizations and communities address complex intercultural communication challenges and find unexpected pathways to shared understanding. Drawing from years of exper
Intercultural Connections offers various services, including training, engagement, strategy, and facilitation. Our team, led by Kelley Abercrombie, has the expertise to help organizations and communities address complex intercultural communication challenges and find unexpected pathways to shared understanding. Drawing from years of experience and degrees in Religious Studies and International and Intercultural Communication, she brings both depth and breadth based on theoretical and practical intercultural expertise.
At Intercultural Connections, we work closely with our clients to understand their needs and develop solutions tailored to their unique intercultural challenges. Our approaches are pragmatic, results-driven, and designed to help diverse organizations and communities achieve their shared goals.
As our communities, workplaces, and classrooms become more diverse, intercultural competence is no longer just for diplomats or people in multinational corporations—it’s something we all need in everyday life.
In this introductory workshop, we explore intercultural competence as an ongoing process of learning to communicate and act more effectively and appropriately across differences.
Participants will come with many different starting points—curiosity, skepticism, fatigue, or enthusiasm—and all of these are welcome in the room. Together, we will name our own “starting place,” unpack what intercultural competence actually means in simple terms, and identify small, realistic next steps that fit each person’s context. This session focuses on understanding the process of cultivating intercultural competence—internally and externally—as an intentional and incremental journey that continues long after the workshop ends.
By the end of this 3‑hour workshop, participants will be able to:
Format: 3‑hour interactive workshop.
In‑person or online.
Bring Intercultural Competence for an Everyday Diverse World to your team:
In a diverse group where people may feel resistant, tired, unsure, or eager, we create space for honest conversation about those reactions and how they shape our capacity to engage across difference.
This extended workshop goes beyond awareness and takes a deeper, more intentional approach to Intercultural practice, reflection, and meaningful interaction. We revisit the core components of intercultural competence (attitudes, knowledge, skills, internal outcomes, external outcomes) and then spend more time applying them to real-life situations in which the participants found themselves feeling incompetent.
By the end of this 6‑hour workshop, participants will be able to:
Format: 6‑hour interactive workshop.
In‑person or online.
Bring Internal Shifts and External Practice to your team:
Learn to Notice, Name, and Navigate culturally based conflicts in ways that protect dignity, reduce harm, and build genuine connection.
Participants will learn to:
Format: 3‑hour interactive workshop.
In‑person or online.
Bring N‑N‑N to your team:
How can your own faith tradition become a resource—not a barrier—for meeting people across cultural, religious, and worldview differences?
This in‑person workshop invites participants to draw on the “roots” of their faith of origin to build “bridges” of understanding and cooperation in a diverse, contested world.
Explore how core teachings, stories, and practices from a range of traditions (including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Indigenous, and other communities) can nurture the attitudes, skills, and behaviours associated with intercultural competence.
Participants are not asked to leave their convictions at the door; instead, they are invited to stand more deeply in their own traditions in ways that open up, rather than shut down, relationships with others in difficult intercultural encounters
Format: In‑person
Bring Faith as a Path to Intercultural Competence to your community:
In every culture, everyday sayings quietly tell us what is “normal.” This interactive 3‑hour workshop to uncover the deep assumptions that shape how we work, relate, and make decisions across differences.
Participants will explore and compare how different cultures talk about time, work, and community. The session builds cultural self‑awareness, deep cultural knowledge, and sociolinguistic awareness in an accessible, low‑risk way.
Ideal for teams, boards, and community groups who want a practical starting point for more thoughtful, effective communication in diverse settings.
This 3‑hour session is about awareness and vocabulary. It’s ideal as a public‑facing or broad internal offering, or as Session 1 of a series.
Format: 3‑hour interactive workshop.
In‑person or online.
Bring Uncovering Cultural Assumptions to your team:
This full‑day workshop takes a deeper dive into how language reveals and can create opportunities to co-create culture.
Participants begin to see how different cultural logics collide in very concrete organizational situations (deadlines, feedback, safety decisions, who speaks in meetings) and how to deliberately open non‑defensive conversations about those collisions.
The 6‑hour session focuses on application and organizational culture change. It pushes into specific organizational domains and commitments.
Format: 6‑hour interactive workshop.
In‑person or online.
Bring Unlocking Deep Culture to your team:
A multi-session, practice-based program that helps staff surface and examine deep cultural assumptions and apply those insights to co‑creating a more inclusive, effective organizational culture.
IIC3 is inherently experiential, participatory, and scalable to different audience sizes and organizational challenges.
Session 1 – Foundations
Session 2 – Time, Work, and Productivity
Session 3 – Leadership, Authority, and Voice
Session 4 – Community, Conflict, and Belonging
Session 5 – Co‑Creating Organizational Culture
By the end of the series, participants will:
Bring IIC3 to your organization:
We want to help your organization or community create intercultural harmony.
Flexible hours to accommodate North America, UK, Ireland, Australia, and NZ.
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