Courses

Cultural Humility Core Skills

This intermediate-level set of five 4-hour workshops—the “Core Five”—introduces the core skills of cultural humility as well as nurtures your natural abilities for cultural humility.

Core Skill 1: Self-Reflection and Compassionate Self-Critique
Core Skill 2: Skilled Dialogue and Calling In
Core Skill 3: Humble Inquiry
Core Skill 4: Identity Negotiation
Core Skill 5: Transformational Conflict

Core Skill 1:

Self-Reflection and Compassionate Self-Critique

This workshop focuses on the skills for building a reflective practice, understanding self-interest/ego centered reflection (what’s in it for me?); self-coaching (can I be courageous?); and daily appreciative inquiry skills.

What you will learn:

Understand the depth and breadth of self-reflection and compassionate self-critique
Develop a robust self-reflection practice
Understand self-interest/ego-centered reflection
Develop a self-coaching toolkit
Apply the skill of daily appreciative inquiry

Workshops typically include:

Introductions, energizers, and experiential learning activities
Mindfulness and journaling practices
Overview of the five core principles
Small group discussion on how to foster cultural humility in daily life
Action planning

Who should attend:

DEI leaders, chief diversity or equity officers, administrators, classified professionals, students, program leaders, clergy, community center staff, counselors, educators, therapists, coaches, social workers, and mentors
Anyone who works directly with other people
Anyone who works in an organization/network/coalition dedicated to ensuring the cultural safety, health, well-being, sense of belonging, and equity for themselves and others

Core Skill 2:

Skilled Dialogue and Calling In

This workshop focuses on the skills required to engage in calling in as a means for inquiry and skilled dialogue. We explore what is required to create a culture of dialogue vs. discussion or debate and how best to engage more fully in shaping a culture of dialogue through classroom curriculum, diversity dialogue groups, and equity dialogue/core groups. You will learn the difference between calling in and calling out as well as the underlying philosophy of calling in as a self-care and healing modality for self-preservation, restoration, and shifting the discourse. You will dive deep into the calling-in protocol through examples, case studies, and real plays.

What you will learn:

Understand the depth and breadth of a culture of dialogue
Develop a robust dialoguing practice
Practice the skill of invitation to dialogue
Develop calling-in protocols
Apply the skills of dialogue and calling in to a variety of settings

Workshops typically include:

Introductions, energizers, and experiential learning activities
Mindfulness and journaling practices
Overview of the four core principles
Small group discussion on how to foster cultural humility in daily life
Action planning

Who should attend:

DEI leaders, chief diversity or equity officers, administrators, classified professionals, students, program leaders, clergy, community center staff, counselors, educators, therapists, coaches, social workers, and mentors
Anyone who works directly with other people
Anyone who works in an organization/network/coalition dedicated to ensuring the cultural safety, health, well-being, sense of belonging, and equity for themselves and others

Core Skill 3:

Humble Inquiry

In this workshop, we explore the concept of humble inquiry and the skill of motivational interviewing as strategies for expanding connections and building partnerships with others. We build on calling in and the strategy of invitation into dialogue as means for partnering for safety, healing, and relational rapport.

What you
will learn:

Understand calling in as a communication modality for cultural humility
Practice humble inquiry
Practice motivational interviewing
Practice relational safety, rapport through inquiry, and humor
Maintain boundaries through deep listening and reflection

Workshops typically include:

Introductions, energizers, and experiential learning activities
Mindfulness and journaling practices
Overview of the four core principles
Small group discussion on how to foster cultural humility in daily life
Action planning

Who should attend:

DEI leaders, chief diversity or equity officers, administrators, classified professionals, students, program leaders, clergy, community center staff, counselors, educators, therapists, coaches, social workers, and mentors
Anyone who works directly with other people
Anyone who works in an organization/network/coalition dedicated to ensuring the cultural safety, health, well-being, sense of belonging, and equity for themselves and others

Core Skill 4:

Identity Negotiation

How we see ourselves and how others see us matters, as well as the messages we have internalized about our perceived identities. In this workshop, you will navigate multiple storied and marginalized identities. Part of navigating those identities is acknowledging the role of power and privilege in each interaction. Cultural humility requires an honest assessment of the role of power and privilege in our daily life, and how it shapes our interactions. To fully engage in equity, social justice, and culturally humble engagement, we must not only recognize our privileged identities but also understand how to negotiate them, name them aloud, and move toward allyship.

What you
will learn:

Understand power and privilege in your daily life
Develop skills for navigating personal identities
Develop skills for a real-time reflective practice and ally/solidarity behavior
Practice power analysis, intersectional analysis, and shared decision-making
Apply ethno-relative understanding and a standpoint praxis

Workshops typically include:

Introductions, energizers, and experiential learning activities
Mindfulness and journaling practices
Overview of the four core principles
Small group discussion on how to foster cultural humility in daily life
Action planning

Who should attend:

DEI leaders, chief diversity or equity officers, administrators, classified professionals, students, program leaders, clergy, community center staff, counselors, educators, therapists, coaches, social workers, and mentors
Anyone who works directly with other people
Anyone who works in an organization/network/coalition dedicated to ensuring the cultural safety, health, well-being, sense of belonging, and equity for themselves and others

Core Skill 5:

Transformational Conflict

Conflict is an essential process along the path to a deeper sense of cultural humility. Conflict need not be viewed as a dysfunctional form of engagement or communication; when appropriately handled, it can be constructive. In fact, for individual and perspective transformation to occur, conflict is often required. This workshop explores the opportunities conflict provides and how to engage fully and productively with conflict situations, from a place of cultural humility. Skills include calling in during difficult conversations, real-time feedback, anti-oppression informed/liberation mediation, and identifying episode vs. epicenter focused interventions.

What you
will learn:

Understand the philosophical underpinnings of conflict transformation
Apply conflict transformation as a restorative practice
Increase your comfort in talking about cultural humility during high resistance
Practice conflict transformation through calling in and liberation mediation

Workshops typically include:

Introductions, energizers, and experiential learning activities
Mindfulness and journaling practices
Overview of the four core principles
Small group discussion on how to foster cultural humility in daily life
Action planning

Who should attend:

DEI leaders, chief diversity or equity officers, administrators, classified professionals, students, program leaders, clergy, community center staff, counselors, educators, therapists, coaches, social workers, and mentors
Anyone who works directly with other people
Anyone who works in an organization/network/coalition dedicated to ensuring the cultural safety, health, well-being, sense of belonging, and equity for themselves and others