Faculty: Fiona Oliphant, Co-Founder & Principal Consulting, Healing Equity United

It is often difficult for any of us to make ourselves vulnerable enough to practice Cultural Humility in a meaningful way.  It is challenging for us to acknowledge the assumptions we may unwittingly rely on day to day. To mitigate this challenge, we strip shame and judgment from the learning process to encourage honest and transparent participation. This workshop is an opportunity for attendees to begin to learn the challenging, self-reflective work of practicing Cultural Humility. By developing the skills of cultural humility, they have a stronger understanding of how to work with people from marginalized communities and have the skills to deliver higher-quality, more accessible services. Participants often feel that they already know about bias and oppression and therefore do not need to fully engage. To overcome that challenge, we universalize bias and prejudice. Consequently, we ALL, without exception, have to work on these issues. We must all be mindful of the assumptions and biases that may, consciously or unconsciously, impact the ways in which we engage clients, colleagues, and funders. If left unchecked, those assumptions and biases may negatively affect our service provision when we work with those of another gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual identity, social class, etc.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the distinction between Cultural Humility and Cultural Competency
2. Develop the ability to begin the process of internalizing Cultural Humility practices.
3. To identify how a Cultural Humility framework may be utilized to strategically enhance service provision.

***This class is free for members as part of the Center’s commitment to support their efforts to embed DEIJ into operations, staffing, and boards. Learn more here.

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