Diversity Made Simple: Positive & Shame-Free Strategies for Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships | Virtual | Friday, March 7, 2025 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Presented by Lambers Fisher, LMFT, MDiv. EVENT FLYER
REGISTER HERE! There will be a 1 hour lunch break.
FREE: 6 IDFPR CEUs for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists, and IAODAPCA
SUMMARY
Unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to disconnected personal and professional relationships. Unfortunately, helping professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear that we don’t know enough about other cultures to try to effectively support those different than themselves. This training will help reduce those fears by providing an attainable goal for increasing cultural competence, as well as reducing the negative impact of unavoidable cultural misunderstandings on professional rapport and effectiveness. This relationship-focused training will provide practical language and strategies that can help reduce tensions and perceived barriers, and help strengthen cross-cultural relationships.
*This training will satisfy the 3-hour Cultural Competency and 3-hour Ethics Professional Development requirements.
OBJECTIVES
- Broaden professional perspective on what diversity includes and its potential impact on building and maintaining rapport with clients
- Identify strategies for increasing professional cultural self-awareness to assist in helping increase client cultural self-awareness
- Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies for reducing unintentional cultural offenses and repairing professional relationships damaged by cultural offenses
- Learn healthy diversity language to avoid division and increase cohesion among culturally diverse families and communities.
PRESENTER
Lambers Fisher, LMFT, MDiv, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, author, and national speaker on the topic of multicultural awareness and diversity. For over 20 years, Lambers has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit, and ministry environments. Lambers has helped thousands of professionals around the country increase their cultural competence and strengthen cross-cultural relationships. Lambers helps professionals in various fields feel more comfortable, competent, and confident in their ability to meet the needs of whomever they have the opportunity to serve. For more information visit www.DiversityMadeSimple.com.
