Workshop Description:

As in any practice profession, an interpreter’s background, beliefs, and world views can greatly impact the work in many ways. Given this potential, interpreters must consistently look both outward to learn about other experiences and paradigms, as well as inward, to better understand our own values, biases, and potential blindspots.

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In this workshop, participants will complete a survey about values to help make explicit for themselves their own priorities and discuss in small groups how these may have developed similarly and differently from others. The group will also discuss the potential effects that different paradigms may have on interpreting work and how understanding ourselves evermore clearly is paramount in growing as interpreters.

 

Educational Objectives:

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

1. Identify their top three priorities/values in life and work.

2. List values that they rank lower than other people might.

3. Give examples of how the ranking of values can impact choices while accepting,

executing, and discussing interpreting work.

4. Compare their understanding of "normal" upon entering and leaving the workshop.