Train the Trainers
The train-the-trainer model holds significant importance and validity as a transformative organizing strategy. This approach enables the effective dissemination of knowledge and skills within a group by equipping passionate community members to become trainers with the ability to educate, inspire and organize others.
By utilizing this model, future trainers gain insights into establishing guidelines, managing queries, and handling complex situations, and how to develop and maintain a generative and inclusive learning environments.
This strategy plays a crucial role in shaping individual attitudes, motivation, and performance/decision making ethics, thereby contributing to the overall growth and productivity of the our efforts towards collective liberation.
By utilizing this model, future trainers gain insights into establishing guidelines, managing queries, and handling complex situations, and how to develop and maintain a generative and inclusive learning environments.
This strategy plays a crucial role in shaping individual attitudes, motivation, and performance/decision making ethics, thereby contributing to the overall growth and productivity of the our efforts towards collective liberation.
The Train the Trainers program titled: Cultural Humility in Practice was developed by Dr. Crystallee Crain (she/her). She is an interdisciplinary public health scholar and human rights activist. She has academic roots in sociology, political science, and psychology. She specializes in exposing the layers of institutional inequality while supporting communities to shift ways of being and practice to improve life chances by bridging the worlds of academia, healing, and advocacy. Crystallee’s body of work represents a collective need to strengthen our responses to violence through transformative means, the need for liberatory practices, and a focus on healing as a revolutionary strategy for change. Crystallee holds an academic appointment with California State University – East Bay in the Department of Political Science and at Simmons University in the Masters of Public Health Program (Health Equity). She’s also a board member of the Seeding Justice Foundation (Portland, OR). Crystallee is the Founder & Principal Consultant of Prevention at the Intersections, which works to prevent violence and other forms of harm through community-based research and people-centered projects. She is also a Capacity Building Consultant with NonProfit Network.
History of Cultural Humility
The concept of cultural humility has its roots in the development of cultural competence, which emerged during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Initially, cultural competence was conceived as a framework for physicians to effectively engage with diverse patient populations and address health disparities and institutional inequities in the field of medicine. However, it later evolved into the concept of cultural humility, which was coined by Melanie Tervalon, Ph.D. and Jann Murray-García, Ph.D. in 1998.
Cultural humility goes beyond the notion of cultural competence by emphasizing the importance of self-reflection, historical awareness, and a willingness to engage in an ongoing process of learning and understanding. This concept encourages individuals to critically examine their own values, beliefs, and societal positioning, while acknowledging and respecting the experiences and perspectives of others. It underscores the significance of acknowledging personal biases and actively working to mitigate their impact when interacting with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
The principle of cultural humility has become increasingly important in various professional fields, particularly in healthcare and social services, where practitioners are required to navigate multiple cultures and provide care to diverse populations. By promoting self-awareness and a commitment to lifelong learning, cultural humility aims to foster more inclusive and respectful interactions, ultimately contributing to greater equity and understanding in society.
Cultural humility goes beyond the notion of cultural competence by emphasizing the importance of self-reflection, historical awareness, and a willingness to engage in an ongoing process of learning and understanding. This concept encourages individuals to critically examine their own values, beliefs, and societal positioning, while acknowledging and respecting the experiences and perspectives of others. It underscores the significance of acknowledging personal biases and actively working to mitigate their impact when interacting with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
The principle of cultural humility has become increasingly important in various professional fields, particularly in healthcare and social services, where practitioners are required to navigate multiple cultures and provide care to diverse populations. By promoting self-awareness and a commitment to lifelong learning, cultural humility aims to foster more inclusive and respectful interactions, ultimately contributing to greater equity and understanding in society.