Education

Learn how you can become more knowledgeable about diversity to strengthen and enrich your organization and community.

Education at MCoS

The Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan (MCoS) is committed to promoting, fostering, improving and developing multiculturalism in the cultural, economic, social and civil/ political life of Saskatchewan while working to achieve equality of all residents. MCoS is a non-profit charitable provincial organizations cultural organization that provides service and support to multicultural and ethnocultural organizations across Saskatchewan.

MCoS values are rooted in the provincial motto From Many Peoples Strength and the treaty relationships that define our province and expressed as:

Respect for diversity

Recognition and rejections of racism

Intercultural connections

Integration

From these values flow the five streams of multicultural work: cultural continuity, celebration of diversity anti-racism, intercultural connections and Integration. Our education offerings are designed around these themes to help create welcoming and inclusive communities and organizations.

Learn more about our streams of work

Intercultural Training: Module descriptions

The Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan provides workshops, training, presentations and educational resources for members, educators and the community.

Our workshops consist of PowerPoint presentations, activities and audio-visual presentations.
When you contact us, MCoS will designate an appropriate facilitator for you based on your needs. The facilitator will collaborate with you to customize a workshop designed for your audience.
The workshop will be based on our five modules of training, which cover a wide variety of multicultural issues.

MCoS has developed five modules that can be customized for diverse audiences as workshops and consultations. Learn more about our topics below.

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Module 1

Intercultural communications and competence

We explore our cultural identity, with illustration of culture as an iceberg, how it impacts our intercultural competence, where we are on the intercultural development continuum and how we can move forward to enhanced cultural competence. We will offer strategies for enhancing curiosity and responding to differences.

We will examine:

Stereotypes and generalizations and how these shape the lens that we look through at our world
Cultural dimensions and build on our self-awareness and taking informed action
Colonial challenges and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action

Module 2

Cross-cultural engagement in the community

Saskatchewan is seeing increasingly diverse population growth largely due to labour market demands. Any intercultural work, including those undertaken inside organizations, should involve Indigenous groups, established immigrants, newcomers, youth and those who do not see themselves belonging in these groups.

The five areas for promising practices for intercultural relations:

Relevance & Impact; Diverse Engagement & Dialogue
Youth Engagement
Labour Market
Workplace Equity & Community Access
Relationship Building provide a framework for new initiatives

We illustrate these with examples of new projects such as BRIDGES which demonstrate successful intercultural partnership building.

Module 3

Diversity in the workplace

We take a closer look at Diversity in the Workplace in Saskatchewan and the positive impact of diversity on innovation and trade.

We examine the levels of organizational responses to growing diversity with a closer look at:

Recruitment, hiring
Mentoring/coaching
Team building and social effects
Performance review
Promotion and measuring organizational diversity

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action to the corporate sector in Canada with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People provides a reconciliation framework.

Module 4

Embracing diversity beyond the surface

We familiarize participants with the process of embracing diversity beyond the surface for future application.

Topics explored:

Cultural Identity
Current Climate & Social Media
Colonial Challenges
Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Multicultural Values
Five Streams of Multicultural Work
Levels of Integration
Cultural Awareness and Levels of Action Continuum

Module 5

Recognition and rejection of racism

Racism is about power. It seeks to give privileges to some, and to oppress others. Racism affects everyone, therefor anti-racism education benefits everyone.

We explore:

Forms of racism: Individual/interpersonal, institutional/systemic, cultural and internalized racism
Colonial Challenge
Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP)
Residential school legacy in Saskatchewan
Sexism, heterosexism and religious discrimination
Stereotyping, generalizations, perceptions and biases
How to respond to differences and overcome discrimination

MCoS Fees for Services

Workshop Duration	MCoS Member Organizations	Non-Profit & Schools (Pre-K – 12)	Standard (Government, Institution, Business, Municipality, For Profit Organizations)
Full-Day (7-8 hours)	$1000	$1500	$2,500
Half-day (3-4 Hours)	$500	$750	$1500
Hourly	$175	$250	$400

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Regina, SK. S4R 3C1

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Land Acknowledgement

MCoS’ work and support reaches lands covered by Treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 & 10 traditional lands of the Nehiyaw/Nehithaw/Nehinaw/Cree, Nahkawe/Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and Dene peoples and Homeland of the Métis/Michif.