Contemporary Cultural Competence

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TADF

Description

CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL COMPETENCE (NCPS CHECKED TRAINING) 10am to 4.30pm | Fri 24th Jan 25
With PLAYBACK RECORDING

“All relationships are cross-cultural relationships. We differ by our contexts, worldviews, and geographically situated socio-cultural experiences”

This training will help you develop awareness, knowledge, and skills in working relative to the client’s cultural context(s)*, identity, belief systems, worldviews, and conflicts of acculturation. This training will move you towards a deeper and more empathic understanding of clients’ difficulties relative to their lived cultural experiences. As research has shown that therapists’ awareness of their own cultural identity mediates client outcomes, this training will guide you through experiential exercises to help you reflect on your own cultural context(s), identity, worldview, and conflicts and develop skills in developing cross-cultural relationships. You will have the opportunity to apply your learning interactively and in small group sessions in preparation for therapeutic practice.

This foundation training will form the basis for working in a socially conscious manner, such as with the effects of cultural normativity on self, when working with the identity, variation, and marginalisation experiences of clients.

*Cultural contexts such as geographical, social, group identities, national, group, family, work, and the psychological effects of displacement, movement, and acculturation within the dominant society

Overview

The training is structured into eight units, with discussions, exercises, case examples, and practical interventions and strategies provided throughout. There will be opportunities to ask questions, bring in your own experiences of practise, and gain insight from therapists with experience working with cultural competence and clients’ worldviews within therapeutic practice.

Contemporary cultural competence and definition

Cultural Concepts & Theories: Worldviews, differential cultural identity, acculturation, intersectionality, humility, relative working & impact on intersectional ‘diversity’ social groups

Exploring the dynamic of self, worldview, and our lived-in and historical culture(s)

Exploring client’s cultural contexts, heritage, national identities, and worldviews

Developing cross-cultural relationships and culturally relative working: roleplay reflection

Exploring client common cross-cultural conflicts

Group Case Study: Putting it together and working inside cultural, worldview, and individual contexts

Towards all-inclusive cultural and worldview competence: Next steps for self-development

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