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This is one of those things that everyone thinks about and nobody actually tries. To be ambidextrous means to be able to use both hands with an equal level of expertise. Basically it means being able to use your left hand to do everything your right hand can do. So the question is, how do you give your left hand a lifetime of experiences that your right hand has had in order to train it's efficiency. Simple.
Practice.
In order to learn how to use your left hand, you need to practice with it. You can start by doing a daily task with it everyday. Personally, I started by drinking with my left hand. So whenever I got thirsty, I used my left hand to pour myself a cup of water and I'd lift the cup with my left and drink it. At first, doing this will be hard because your brain will always try to make you lift it with your right but with time, your depency will switch and you'll instinctively start using your left for that task.
Next you start adding more basic and regular tasks to your left hand. You can do dishes with it, sweep with your left, even pick stuff up with it. All to train the hand. Then once you're sure that you're a lot better at using your left hand, then you can try writing with it. For me, writing was the hardest part. To be honest, I'm still learning and my left hand writing is still really wonky but I'm making progress. You learn to write with it the same way you did with your right. You start with letters until you can write them all comfortably, then words, then sentences.
Aside from just learning to use both hands, doing these things will help train your brain to depend on both hands also. So if something falls in front of you, you'll use the hand closest to it to catch it, not the hand you depend on most. It's a great skill to have and I hope we both master it. Hope I helped
