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 don’t 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: End Time:
Learning Objectives
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