Multicultural Awareness & Diversity: Powerful Rapport Building Strategies for Helping Professionals

$49.00

SKU: 410756

Description

Heighten your sense of cultural awareness to build rapport with clients in need.
Unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to disconnected personal and professional relationships. Unfortunately, helping professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear that they dont know enough about other cultures to try to counsel clients different than themselves. This information will help reduce those fears by providing an attainable goal for increasing cultural competence and practical strategies for reducing the negative impact of unavoidable cultural misunderstandings on professional rapport and effectiveness.

Date: 2023-05-15 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:05 PM ET

Learning Objectives

* You will be able to identify a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on professional interactions.

* You will be able to review cultural selfawareness and potential areas of personal growth which can enhance professional effectiveness.

* You will be able to define professional strategies for reducing and addressing cultural offenses in professional relationships.

* You will be able to discuss attainable multicultural competence goals.

Identifying Attainable Multicultural Competence Goals
• Appreciating the Value of Cultural Identity
• The Practical Benefits of Cultural Competence
• A Broad Perspective on Culture and Diversity
• Knowledge of Self Culturally in Relation to Others
• Developing Healthy Use of Diversity Language
• Strategies for Reducing Biases, Prejudices, and More

Practical Strategies for Navigating Cultural Offenses
• Accepting the Reality of Offenses
• Reducing the Frequency of Offenses
• Repairing Relationships Damaged by Unintentional Cultural Offenses

Addressing Unintentional Cultural Offenses
• Identifying Offenses in Relationships
• Owning the Impact of Offenses
• Initiating Healing to Relationships After Offenses

Practical Strategies for Increasing Multicultural Awareness
• Common Ethnic Group Characteristics
• Diverse Family Constellations/Multi-Ethnic Families
• Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation
• Abilities, Language, Age, and Religion

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv-Lambers Fisher Counseling, LLC