The Art of Embodied Cultural Sensitivity
Creating Harmony in a Time of Polarization
Noon – 2:30 pm, Pacific Time, 5/3/24 – 7/12/24
10 Zoom Sessions + Online Community | Tuition: $1500
WHY
In today’s multi-cultural world, we constantly engage with diverse cultural paradigms woven by drastically different belief systems, values and attitudes towards life. These differences can be shaped by ethnicity, profession, faith, socio-economic class, gender orientation and more.
Navigating today’s multicultural world requires more than tolerance or even inclusion. We need to cultivate cultural sensitivity as an embodied response. We need to actively engage with differences and transform them into learnings, and foster collaboration across cultural gaps.
This course recognizes that cultural awareness is an embodied learning. Unlearning ingrained biases and rewiring our culturally conditioned patterns requires an integrated approach that engages the mind, body, and heart.
HOW
Through storytelling, poetry-writing, compassionate witnessing and experiential activities, you will
- Explore the impact of cultural conditioning on thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Bear compassionate witnessing of biases and trauma formed through unexamined and unintegrated cultural programming
- Develop embodied practices to enhance cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Go beyond blame-and-shame. Learn to respect differences and transform them into learning opportunities and build bridges across cultures
- Learn energy work rooted in ancient wisdom that help us regulate our nervous system, especially when we are caught in triggering situations
- Practicing navigating uncomfortable territory with grace and understanding
FOR WHOM
This course is for:
- People interested in developing cultural awareness in their daily life and family relationship, especially multi-generational, or multi-ethnic family settings; and
- Professionals and service providers who interact with diverse cultures, including therapists, healthcare providers, coaches, social workers, educators, community organizers, and activists;
- Organizational consultants interested in developing a holistic and collaborative culture in teams or organizations.
- People who are ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery through cultural awareness
FREE Pre-Course, noon – 1pm Pacific Time, Apr 19
This course is open to public and also counts towards a core course in the Living Resonance Leadership MA/PhD program.
Facilitators
This course is co-created and co-facilitated by Drs. Spring Cheng & Stephanie Mines. Stephanie and Spring are scientists, healers. artists and writers. They share their experiences of practicing cultural sensitivity in their relationship as a foundation for this course, alongside their combined decades of interaction with a broad spectrum of cultures.
Dr. Spring Cheng is the co-founder of the Resonance Path, dedicated to the transformation of consciousness. She is the originator of Living Resonance / Holistic Psychology program at Ubiquity University. Spring grew up in pre-industrialized China and experienced the transition from family-based, farming-oriented traditional culture to a merit-based, competition-centered capitalistic culture. Spring currently serves individuals and groups in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. Her work is informed by her experience as a Taoist practitioner, scientist, healer, and artist.
Dr. Stephanie Mines founded the TARA Approach and Climate Change & Consciousness. She is the originator of the Regenerative Health MA/PHD program at Ubiquity University. As a neuroscientist, trauma therapist and embryologist, Dr. Mines serves communities throughout the world at the grassroots level. She develops applications for populations in need in the US, Europe, Latin America, Polynesia, and the Middle East. She is the author of five books on the resolution of shock and trauma.
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Cultural conditioning shapes neurological patterns of our nervous system. It shields us from the intensity and uncertainty of life, by defining what’s right, good and valuable based on past experience. But they also insulate us from the true source of life, which is beyond what’s known and definable. To live to our fullest potentials, we need to shed these patterns like shells, composting them into nutrients to feed our growth. This happens not just on an intellectual level, but also in a full-bodied, somatic way.” – Spring Cheng
In my decades of service to communities in need, I am constantly reminded of the absence of cultural contextualization. If we consider every aspect of human development, from conception onward, it is clear how much we are shaped by culture. Without including it in healthcare or any human service, we fail to resource the whole person. Cultural sensitivity and integration infuse us with enhanced empathy and compassion. They are the crucial ingredients to amplify effectiveness in health and healing.
This course is co-sponsored by
TARA Approach
