The Regional Center hosts a brown bag lunch this Friday, December 17th as part of our center's training calendar.
Let's take a break from the terms cultural competency, cultural awareness and cultural humility and have an honest conversation about what happens each day in our work and what we can do to make every person feel human, cared for, welcomed and respected. We will use lay language to think together about ways to make our agencies, programs and offices safe, welcoming and healthy. Join us for this brown bag conversation where we'll explore challenges and identify opportunities together.
You will leave this training with tips and tricks to make your own meetings and programs more inclusive, as well as strategies you can incorporate in your own work or your own organization to move your own cultural humility efforts forward.
Please bring your own lunch, the Regional Center will provide tea and snacks.
**Register by emailing rchctrainings@healthier-communities.org your name, organization and contact details or by calling 617.441.0700 and asking to register for the Cultural Competency training.**
One of the many fun things we do at the RCHC during our lunch breaks, other than eating healthy ;), is hold a journal club. Awesome...I know! Every two weeks we select an article to read as a group and discuss it. Every other article is related to our work the other not-so much (for example we read two articles called "Colonial Legacies and Economic Growth" by RM Grier and "Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies" by M. Lange,et. al).
Our most recent journal club meeting focused on an article titled "Cultural Humility" by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia. The authors argue that we can achieve cultural humility through education, although their focus was on physician education. They offer clear examples of how all of us can strive towards and practice cultural humility so long as we do not view it as something we can attain.
I cannot do this article any justice so I suggest you check it out:
http://info.kp.org/communitybenefit/assets/pdf/our_work/global/Cultural_Humility_article.pdf
