Cultural Humility
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CULTURAL HUMILITY TRAINING
CONCEPTS, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES
Developing mutually beneficial partnerships
with individuals, families, and communities.
For over two decades cultural humility has replaced the insufficient notion of “cultural competence” in multicultural education with a cyclical approach that embraces critical self-reflection as a lifelong learning process to create a broader, more inclusive view of the world.
Goal: Train participants to understand, apply, and facilitate the concepts, principles, and practices of cultural humility in their own work, along with diverse groups of community members and colleagues.
Principles: 1). A lifelong process of critical self-reflection and self-critique 2). Redressing the power imbalances in the patient-provider dynamic 3). Developing non-paternalistic mutually beneficial partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations & 4). Advocating and maintaining institutional accountability that parallels the three principles above.
Outline:
Cultural Humility: origin, principles, and practices
Focus on dialogue among the participants on the application of the Cultural Humility principles in their work, building on preparatory exercises, reading materials, historical contexts, and current political landscape.
Common language: identity, culture, race, isms, power and privilege, microaggression, intersectionality, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, nationality.
Working definitions to explore the everyday meaning and use of these terms: 1) Examples from your work, and the work of others. 2) Exercises to practice being in dialogue with each other and with clients when the elements of identity, power and privilege arrive in the work environment.
Summarize what is useful for your work
Group dialogue and evaluation
Method:
2-day (format customizable)
Brief information presented as the backdrop for highly interactive exercises among the participants regarding each learning objective, using a standard or basic presentation as a template for learning.
Student reflection – exercise and discussion
Overall Learning Objectives:
Participants can state the potential influence of power, privilege, the-isms, and their own history and relationship with clients and colleagues.
Participants can identify personal beliefs and values and how these factors influence their own behaviors when working with clients and colleagues.
Participants can use tools to practice the Cultural Humility principle of "client as the expert" when serving individuals and communities.
Participants practice respectful and curious inquiry about individual and community points of view, values, and life experiences, holding the stance of "listen as if the speaker is wise".
Participants practice strategies to redress power dynamics from negatively influencing or obstructing the content of service delivery.
Participants integrate strategies into organizational structures, policies, and activities.
Participants who complete the full training will receive a copy of the powerpoint slides, facilitator’s guide, and become a member of a lifelong cohort with access to exclusive training and a network of resources.
Who Should Attend?
All are welcome, from community members, organizers, students, educators, healthcare providers, government workers, administrators, to elected leaders. Our entire community can benefit from practicing cultural humility. This training provides professional career development to begin transforming organizational policy and behavior.
Meet The Trainers:
Tyler Sekayouma Walls (Hopi/Onondaga) is the Owner & Principal Consultant of Two Row Consulting. He received cultural humility training from Dr. Melanie Tervalon Consulting, and holds a bachelor’s degree in American Indian Studies with a minor in Geography from Arizona State University. For 17 years, Tyler has been leading training sessions and facilitating dialogue with diverse individuals, community groups and organizations, in addition to federal, tribal, state, and local agencies. His greatest strengths are managing multiple projects that focus on strengthening the health and well-being of local communities – culture, people, and land.
Two Row Consulting was founded on January 15, 2022, in the State of Montana with a mission to cultivate change through collective action by providing professional training and facilitation services. Learn more about these services here. A portion of proceeds from cultural humility training are used to implement community projects that encourage critical thinking and lifelong learning.
The cultural humility model is sourced from a Train the Trainers session taught by Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia, along with their published article: