An attempt to provide an alternative set of procedures for cross-cultural training aims at imparting skills which enable the Peace Corps Volunteer to make the necessary adjustment of his own behavioral style and to evaluate host country patterns more accurately, in order to facilitate communication across cultural barriers. The introduction provides a general framework for understanding culture generally as well as providing specific guidelines for discovering plausible alternatives, information gathering methods, and cultural and social dynamics. The first objective is to attack ethnocentrism by finding alternative, and equally plausible, solutions to problems. The exercises progress to the creation of experiences which serve as a basis for discussion of these alternatives, finally putting the trainee in an actual cultural experience without structure in order to allow the previous controlled experiences to aid his recognizing new cultural relevance and/or differences. The latter step is enhanced by a series of exercises in community involvement and country-specific activities, dealing with housing, job and personal experiences, as well as methods of obtaining information through newspapers, films and role-playing situations. References are included. (Author/KSM)