Cultural Competency Workshop

Free places are still available to all staff and volunteers across health and social care in Wakefield, including people from Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations. This training will be delivered face to face over 3 hours at St Mary's Community Centre.

Some of the things that will be explored in this training include:

• Becoming aware of our own cultural norms, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours.
• To examine our own personal biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.
• Better understand what unconscious bias is and to reflect upon their own.
• Understandingwhat is meant by ‘culture’ and why it is important for health professionals tobe aware of how this can impact health.
• Understanding the impact cultural differences might have on interactions with others.
• Become comfortable with “not knowing” – balancing their expert knowledge with being open to learning from the community and people’s lived experiences.

All training facilitators a participatory approach to this training and very much support participants in becoming comfortable with “not knowing” and to encourage “learning from the community and people’s lived experiences”.