1. Cultural Humility & Strategies for Survival
Columbia University SSW Conference
Momentum Education
Jeremy Britton

2. Introduction: CCSW Annual Conference Momentum Education
Experiential Learning
Thank You to Columbia SSW for welcoming Momentum Education back to present after a successful presentation in Jeremy’s introduction and setting of context/tone for the interactive presentation

3. The Knowledge Circle
Knowledge Circle

4. What You Know You Know Knowledge Circle
Blindspots (Inclusive language)- Unacknowledged beliefs - occurring on a daily basis that we’re not acknowledging (speed limits, other drivers, stoplights)

5. What You Know You Don’t Know
Knowledge Circle
Blindspots (Inclusive language)- Unacknowledged beliefs - occurring on a daily basis that we’re not acknowledging (speed limits, other drivers, stoplights)

6. What You Know You Don’t Know
...and You Don’t Even Know You Don’t Know It! KN KN DK
Knowledge Circle
Blindspots (Inclusive language)- Unacknowledged beliefs - occurring on a daily basis that we’re not acknowledging (speed limits, other drivers, stoplights)

7. Hidden/ Unacknowledged BeliefsDK KN DN
Blind Spots
Knowledge Circle
Blindspots (Inclusive language)- Unacknowledged beliefs - occurring on a daily basis that we’re not acknowledging (speed limits, other drivers, stoplights)

8. Blind Spots
CRASHING!

9. Cultural Competency vs. Cultural HumilityKN
Cultural Competency
vs.
Cultural Humility DK KN DN
Cultural Competency & Cultural Humility
Ppl are used to learning more about client populations. Given the knowledge circle, we’re asking to to reflect on yourself. What is the internal conversation.
Learning what you dont know you dont know about YOURSELF vs about others

10. Tervalon and Murray-Garcıa (1998)
“Cultural Humility is a process of committing to an ongoing relationship with patients, communities, and colleagues that requires humility as individuals continually engage in self-reflection and self-critique.”
Tervalon and Murray-Garcıa (1998)
Learning what you dont know you dont know about YOURSELF vs about others

11. Strategies for Success
Define strategies and define success (Call out, turn & talk, etc) larger definition- accomplishing an intended outcome.
Explain Tactic Vs. Strategy
Tactics are tools we use to implement the overall strategy.

12. BREAKS IN Our strategies for success are closely linked to our
BELONGING
Strategies are based on moments where we’ve experienced Breaks in Belonging. Talk about YOUR Break, not your clients’.

13. Breaks In Belonging What happened Our interpretation of what happened
The strategy we put in place in-reaction-to what happened
Jeremy Models his S4S and BIB

14. Identify Your Breaks in Belonging
PERSONAL:
What was a time in your life where you felt you didn’t belong?
Formative Years (Personal & Professional Setting) - What was a time in your life in which you didn’t belong? Time in your professional career you feel you didn’t belong?

15. Identify Your Breaks in Belonging
PROFESSIONAL:
What was a time in your professional career when you felt you didn’t belong?
Personal & Professional Setting) - What was a time in your life in which you didn’t belong? Time in your professional career you feel you didn’t belong?

16. Identify the Strategy for Success
Share out your examples KN DK KN DN
Hidden/ Unacknowledged
Beliefs
-Identify the strategies- Are these strategies still serving you? (Open-ended) We’re in reaction- Overutilizing the strategies that you’ve identified--
GO back to Automatic Beliefs- If we’re on automatic we’re using our most comfortable strategy as opposed to using what’s most effective. Are there Go-To strategies that are outdated and no longer serving you?

17. Which strategies no longer serve you?
We have keys and we keep bringing our favorite key to every single lock, as opposed to seeing which key will open that lock. Cultural Humility- Key of “I have to master the other- so I don’t feel I don’t belong” as opposed to looking at why I feel like I don’t belong- and mastering myself”
Your Strategy for Success is in reaction to what you didn’t want to happen and what you don’t want to happen again. It’s bringing what you fear to the present rather than opening yourself up to new strategies or new possibilities or awareness.
Can you see how you are bringing the same key to every lock?”Coordinator ask “Can you see where you have been recreating the experience of the events from your break in belonging?”
In many ways they are operating out of a strategy for survival rather than a strategy for success. This is an opportunity to be present in the Now. To access all of yourself and choose what works in this moment. There’s an opportunity to make choices and from vision rather than past fears.

18. Strategies of Cultural Competency
Focus on comfort with ‘others’ framed as self-awareness
Use of ‘culture’ as a proxy for minority racial/ethnic group identity
Attempting to ‘know’ and become ‘competent’ in understanding another’s culture(s)
-Fisher, Borne, Cain & Martin
The major emphasis in cultural competency isn’t on self, it’s the “other”
The major criticisms of cultural competency frameworks include: (a) the focus on comfort with ‘others’ framed as self- awareness; (b) the use of ‘culture’ as a proxy for minority racial/ethnic group identity; (c) the emphasis on attempting to ‘know’ and become ‘competent’ in understanding another’s culture or cultures; and (d) the lack of a transformative social justice agenda that addresses and challenges social inequalities.
-Fisher, Borne, Cain & Martin

19. Strategies of Cultural Humility
Acknowledges the layers of cultural identity
Recognizes that working with cultural differences is a lifelong and ongoing process
Emphasizes not only understanding the ‘other’ but understanding ourselves as well
-Fisher, Borne, Cain & Martin
The cultural humility approach includes three core elements: institutional and individual accountability; lifelong learning and critical reflection; and mitigating power imbalances.
To cite this article: Marcie Fisher-Borne, Jessie Montana Cain & Suzanne L. Martin (2015) From Mastery to Accountability: Cultural Humility as an Alternative to Cultural Competence, Social Work Education,

20. Which new strategies can you adopt and apply?
How can you practice Cultural Humility?

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