Contact:
Gail Baylor, Public Relations Chair
828 771-2048 gbaylor@warren-wilson.edu
For Immediate
Release
Date: August 30,
2005
“Achieving Diversity Competency
through Experiential Learning”
(Asheville, NC): The next meeting of the
Western North Carolina Human Resources Association will be an
extended meeting with registration beginning at 9:30 a.m., on
Wednesday, September 14, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel in
downtown Asheville.
Program Facilitator for
the meeting will be Patricia Digh, co-founder of The Circle Project
and former Vice President of International and Diversity Programs for
the Society of Human Resources Management. Ms. Digh’s first book,
Global Literacies: Lessons on Business Leadership and National
Cultures (Simon & Schuster 2000) was selected by Fortune magazine
as a “Best Business Book” for 2000. John Wiley published her second
book, The Global Diversity Desk Reference, in 2003. Ms. Digh is
now finishing her third book, Imaginative Facilitation: accessing
group wisdom for inspired results, to be published in 2005.
The objectives of this
experiential workshop are: to demonstrate the centrality of
understanding “Self” and “Other” in developing one’s diversity
competency; to teach a unique model for the development of diversity
competency; to allow participants to truly experience and not just
talk about the self awareness necessary for successful diversity work;
and to provide experiences designed to develop the necessary
self-awareness for successful diversity competency skills growth.
Reservations can be made
by emailing Mike Neely at
mneely@ingles-markets.com, or by calling 669-2941, extension 310.
The cost of the lunch and the program is $25.00 for members and
students, $35 for nonmembers, (a vegetarian option is available by
request when making reservations).
The Western North Carolina Human
Resources Association is a certified chapter of the Society for Human
Resources Management, and is comprised of human resource and other
professionals from various area businesses and industries.
The purpose of the association is to develop the personnel
function in each participating company by close contact and
cooperation with others in the same field, to facilitate the
dissemination of information of value to human resource professionals
individually and collectively, and to promote positive human relations
principles.
