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Seminar Information

FREE Dementia Workshop -
Dealing with Dementia in Culturally Diverse Communities

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

Rika Asaoka

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Rika Asaoka

Intercultural Diversity Consultant and Facilitator 

Rika Asaoka is an intercultural diversity consultant and facilitator who has been a committee member of AfCAS since the establishment.

 

Professionally she offers services in intercultural diversity and inclusion management and leadership, delivering workshops, trainings, consultancy, facilitation and coaching.

 

Rika brings three decades of cross-cultural professional experience and has assisted individuals and organisations to empower their existing diversity to achieve positive outcomes.

 

Over 1,000 participants from a wide range of industries and sectors, including oil and gas, engineering, not-for-profit, environmental, education and government attend her sessions annually. The past five years has seen Rika extending her expertise to community service providers through the program she designed “See Me See You” with Multicultural Futures.

 

Her facilitation style is highly interactive, providing insights and skills that harmonise and unify diverse people in the workplace and communities. Her sessions set about to promote understanding, collaboration, communication, and effective cultural responsiveness.

 

Rika is a certified licensee of Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), a powerful internationally recognised assessment tool, that captures the levels of competencies on four core intercultural competences. It is used for improving intercultural readiness and effectiveness. She is the founder of Language and Culture Pty Ltd, a representative of IRC-Australia/Asia Centre, Japan Intercultural Consulting, and a certified Brain-based Coach from the NeuroLeadership Institute.

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​​Anne, principal of Anne Butorac Consulting, is responsible for the research and evaluation components of the three Dementia workshops being undertaken by AfCAS through the Age-friendly Communities Connectivity Grants Program Grants Program. Anne combines a strong background in social research and evaluation, as well as lived experience in aged care.

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Anne Butorac

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Anne Butorac

    Research and Evaluation Coordinator

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