Where to go... finding capacity

    Of course the idea of capacity building for cultural understanding is something that I have been focusing on, after all my internship is with Centro Latinoamericano. As I consider what might be some of the next steps for the internship, I am curious to see if there are certain places that do trainings which would have a higher capacity of cultural understanding, to be able to incorporate that more into the training, more than what I received in my basic training. I don't want to show or give the idea that the basic mediation training provided to me by the local community center and faculty of the school was insufficient, or bad. The training itself was great, and provided a great opportunity to not only meet other practitioners and faculty, but a needed time to practice and further understand how mediation works in the typical setting here in the U.S. My only feedback would be that we might have learned more to build our cultural capacity.
    And so, in my search to see where to go with the resource center building for Centro, I am curious to know if there are some community dispute centers that might have a higher capacity for teaching cultural understanding and capacity building opportunities than others. I wonder if there isn't a couple of organizations that might be a better fit for training a Latino staff than others, even if others might be closer. In my opinion, the capacity building portion is far more important than simply trying to find the closest place for which you can be taught and trained in mediation principles. I guess the place to go from here will be to try and find any information that I can regarding who might be a better fit for the capacity building training for cultural understanding... the search begins.