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From Multiculturalism to Cultural Democracy: A Contemporary Narrative Therapy Approach

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As cultural diversity increasingly becomes the norm, therapeutic approaches must move past inclusion and towards a model of people from non-European communities speaking on behalf of their own healing in their own cultural languages. This calls for a model that moves beyond multiculturalism toward cultural democracy (Akinyela & Heath, 2016; Heath, 2018). This presentation will seek to demonstrate culturally democratic therapy practices in action through the use of session video clips and autoethnography. This is built on the premise that when we invite a person’s preferred method of healing into our conversations it gives people the moral stamina to continue on with living (Epston, 2011). Participants will receive the exegetical comments of the facilitator as he explores why he asked the questions he asked as well as imagining possibilities for where he might have gone.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand Cultural Democracy in Narrative Therapy: Recognize how the principles of cultural democracy can be implemented in narrative therapy to create anti-colonial practices that go beyond traditional multicultural counseling.

  • Explore Anti-Colonial Approaches in Therapy: Learn how to integrate anti-colonial perspectives into therapeutic practices by considering the sociopolitical and ancestral traumas of clients, using mediums preferred by the clients, such as rap music.

  • Examine Practical Applications of Anti-Colonial Therapy: Analyze the case study of "Ray" as well as video exeprts from other sessions to understand how anti-colonial narrative therapy can be operationalized in real-world settings, and how therapists can use culturally relevant methods to facilitate healing.

  • Reflect on Therapist-Client Interactions: Evaluate the importance of language and cultural context in therapeutic questions and responses, and how these elements can support or hinder the healing process for individuals from colonized communities.

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This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Travis Heath

Travis is a licensed psychologist and is an Associate Professor at San Diego State University where he serves as Chair of the Department of Counseling & School Psychology. Past work he’s been involved with looked at shifting from a multicultural approach to counseling to one of cultural democracy that invites people to heal in mediums that are culturally near. His most recent work involves incorporating the work of Black abolitionist scholars into psychotherapy, community healing, and uprising. His writing has focused on the use of rap music in narrative therapy, working with persons entangled in the criminal injustice system in ways that maintain their dignity, narrative practice stories as pedagogy, a co-created questioning practice called reunion questions, and community healing strategies. He is co-author, with David Epston and Tom Carlson, of the first book on Contemporary Narrative Therapy released in June 2022 entitled, “Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography.” The book is part of the “Writing Lives” series with Routledge publishing. Travis has been fortunate to facilitate workshops and speak in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom, and United States.

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