Cultural Considerations

The initial training as well as any ongoing continuing professional development efforts should attend to facilitators’ cultural competency. The ongoing work that goes into developing cultural competence is difficult. There are aspects of this work in which participants are looking at their own personal biases and things can become tense. It is important to take care in developing the objectives of the training and criterion for the trainer. It is great when a trainer can integrate cultural competent practices into their basic facilitator training, but for most facilitators this area requires greater intentionality than what transpires in an integrated model.