CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL COMPETENCE 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.

  1. Contemporary cultural competence and definition
  2. Cultural Concepts & Theories: Worldviews, differential cultural identity, acculturation, intersectionality, humility, relative working & impact on intersectional ‘diversity’ social groups
  3. Exploring the dynamic of self, worldview, and our lived-in and historical culture(s)
  4. Exploring client’s cultural contexts, heritage, national identities, and worldviews
  5. Developing cross-cultural relationships and culturally relative working: roleplay reflection
  6. Exploring client common cross-cultural conflicts
  7. Group Case Study: Putting it together and working inside cultural, worldview, and individual contexts
  8. Towards all-inclusive cultural and worldview competence: Next steps for self-development

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Understand the latest concepts in cultural competence and its universal relevence to all therapeutic work
  • Understand and be able to explain various aspects of cultural and worldview competence, such as its scope, universal relevance to therapeutic work, dangers of working without cultural awareness, and associated psychological theories.
  • Develop a deeper awareness of your own and other’s cultural identity and worldview, and their meaning and relevance to the relationship and anti-discrimination practice.
  • Learn to develop narratives around your own and clients’ cultural context(s), psychological conflicts, and migration and acculturation challenges in preparation for therapeutic work.
  • Be better equipped to assess and conceptualise aspects of culture and worldview as part of a client’s overall problem presentation.
  • Develop strategies to build the relationship, broach cultural differences and intersecting social identities, and build cultural and worldview narratives.
  • Learn common mistakes therapists make in working with diverse cultural groups which form (often invisible) barriers to the relationship and impact outcomes.
  • Situate your learning and edge of development in working within a culturally informed manner.
  • Be better equipped to assess and conceptualise cultural and worldview stress as part of a client’s overall problem presentation.
  • Be better prepared to help clients manage potentially unsafe environments and incorporate anti-discrimination strategies within the room, as well as within service provision.




Audience

Any psychological practitioner such as counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, wellbeing practitioners and psychologists. It is also suitable for trainees. 

What's included?

Access to online Recording (180 days)

Certificate

About #TADF

#TADF is a network of psychological practitioners who work with individuals, institutions and training providers to embed anti-discrimination practice into their cirriculum and organisation.


Instructor(s)

Mamood Ahmad

TADF Instuctor

Mamood Ahmad (he/him) is a UKCP Psychotherapist and an Accredited Professional Registrant (PNCPS Acc.) of the NCPS. Mamood is a UKCP psychotherapist, trainer, author and founder of The Anti-Discrimination Foundation (TADF) which provides diversity and anti-discrimination focused consultancy and training services to training institutes and individuals. He is an expert in Anti-Discrimination practice, Trauma, Race, Culture and Intersectional Diversity. He holds a private practice in Binfield, Berkshire since 2012. He is a lifelong dedicated practitioner of Wing Chun Martial Arts. Twitter: @ahmad_mamood. Web: http://tadf.co.uk. He holds a private practice in the village of Binfield, Berkshire.

Testimonials

“This was a seamlessly run, exceptional training. I don't think that you could've done any better. I am still processing the day's contents but I know that I will be able to access the information when I am in sessions because this has happened after the previous course.(It is embodied learning.) I thought that the structure and organisation of the course material was really well thought out; the start of the course was really powerful and the way that you interwove the case study and built in the role play really helped my learning. I would enrol for a two day course specifically with TADF as I know how exceptional the training is. Thank you for an excellent but sadly much needed day. ”

N.E

“Excellent course. Good pre course prep. Liked the presenters. Loved the authenticity of trainers. Engaging material. I think you delivered a full programme you presented it in such a way that it was art he same time challenging and gentle . Worked well together informative and a variety of teaching methods.”

V.G

“I’ve taken so much learning from the course, including of course a greater awareness of race based trauma and stress through the modules. I feel I can better support my clients as a result. I am glad I have access to the recording as I feel I will need to rewatch and revisit to consolidate the learning and think the platform is a great resource.”

Anon.

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