Cultural Humility

Module 1.3 What is Cultural Humility

As we learn about cultural competency and cultural humility the key learning objective is taking in that both cultural competency and cultural humility are powerful tools in how we interact with people and how we understand ourselves and others. Practicing, mutually, both concepts together is what we strive to do as Peer Support Providers and is our guideline for how we work with our clients and the community.

In learning about cultural humility and cultural competency we want aspire to:

• Know that learning is a lifelong process, and we need to be willing to learn from others.

• We want to check our own assumptions and biases

• We want to work together to shift the power dynamic imbalances

• "Advocate and partner with others to charge our systems and institutions to level the playing field so equity becomes the norm, and that humanity becomes the most important identity" as fiercely and humbly said by Dr. Juliana Mosley

What is Culture?

The term ‘culture’ includes not only culture related to race, ethnicity and ancestry, but also the culture (e.g. beliefs, common experiences and ways of being in the world) shared by people with characteristics in common, such as people with disabilities, people who are Lesbian Bisexual, Gay and Transgender (LGBT), people who are deaf, members of faith and spiritual communities, people of various socioeconomic classes, etc.)

Module1.4 Cultural Humility/Cultural Competency Videos

Let's take a moment to watch a short video introducing the concepts of cultural competency and cultural humility:

Now that we have a brief understanding of cultural humility, let's take a more in depth look at the concept and practice as explained by Juliana Mosley a Doctor in Philosophy and a Diversity and Inclusion Specialist:

Let's wrap up what we have learned by watching the Cultural Humility documentary featuring Melania Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia who coined the concept and developed the practice of Cultural Humility:

Module 1.5 Cultural Humility and Cultural Competency Exercise

Please take some time to complete the following exercise in cultural humility and cultural competency