Upcoming Events

4-day workshop (or you can just do 2-days – as part I or ii)

Part I: april 22nd & 23rd, 2023

Part II: may 6th & 7th, 2023 (open to part I & past participants of 2/3 day workshops as well)

For a deep look into intercultural work and a solid way to increase intercultural effectiveness, please consider joining me for my favorite workshop! This live online four-day workshop is a comprehensive foundation in an intercultural and Polyvagal-informed approach to diversity work.

Intercultural communication is not generally taught in psychology, social work, or counseling graduate diversity classes. It can strengthen and complement traditional JEDI approaches (justice, equity, diversity, inclusion), which can contribute to increased belonging. This is an opportunity to learn about how to “fill a gap” in your training.

• Schedule is amenable to those on the East to West Coast.

• 10 CE hours for Part I; 10 CE hours for Part II; 20 CE hours if you take both Part I & II, for mental health professionals (see below for more details)

• This is the last time that the comprehensive workshop will be offered in a split option (part I & II)

• Live online workshops for synchronous learning (Zoom); there will be no recording of these workshops.

part i topics include (essential frameworks for intercultural effectiveness):

• How intercultural communication (IC) differs from traditional approaches to diversity used in psychology, and how it is complementary

• Developmental model to approach differences more effectively (a precursor for intercultural effectiveness)

• Working at the intersection of intercultural communication and social justice

• 16 key cultural dimensions for an effective cultural analysis (previous workshop participants — this list has likely been changed or expanded since you took a workshop from me)

• Increase self-awareness about your own cultural perspectives

• Explore culture and emotion, language, and nonverbal communication

• Moving beyond the binary to a dynamic and process-oriented view of culture (previous workshop participants – this section has significantly expanded)

part Ii topics include (enhancing our intercultural interactions):

• Overview of Cheryl’s intercultural synthesis and integration of Polyvagal work, while putting it into context of other common intercultural models and models used in psychology

• Intercultural conflict

• Intercultural empathy

• Using the cultural dimensions and a dynamic orientation (part I) to practice intercultural adaptation in interpersonal and client interactions

• Address how culture is embodied

• Review of key Polyvagal Theory concepts and skills

• Apply Polyvagal work to intercultural skills and interactions, and decreasing polarization

• Apply Polyvagal work to increase “embodied complexity” (Forster, 2022)

There are only a limited number of seats for EACH workshop

• These two workshops are for mental health professionals, but advanced graduate students (e.g., psychology, social work, counseling) interested in this topic are welcome. People in related fields (e.g., education, healthcare, JEDI) are also welcome, and often get a lot of value out of the material, but with the understanding that the focus will be for mental health professionals.

• Part I — Intermediate Level: This workshop is intended for participants who have taken a graduate course in diversity or completed at least one diversity/multicultural/social justice training prior. You do not need to have any knowledge or background in intercultural communication to attend.

• Part II — Advanced Level: This workshop is only intended for participants who have taken Part I or its equivalent. Participants who have completed a two or three day workshop with me in the past qualify. Please contact me if you feel you qualify for another reason.
  
  

Schedule

Date:
Saturday & Sunday
April 22nd & 23rd, 2023 (part I)
May 6th & 7th, 2023 (part II)

Time:
9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
to 3:30 pm PT / 6:30 pm ET

Location:
Live online workshop with facilitator
located in Portland, OR, USA

Registration

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Early bird discount ends March 22nd, 2023

• Early bird price for 4-day comprehensive (part I & II) = $550

• Standard registration for 4-day comprehensive (part I & II) = $650

• Early bird price for Part I or II only = $310

• Standard registration for Part I or II only = $350

• Current student registration for both parts only = $425

• See Eventbrite page for more details about fee structure and registration

• There is an option to pay via check and avoid Eventbrite fees as well (must be postmarked by April 12th). Make check out to Bookmark Connections; include your name and email address; and mail to address on Contact Page.

*Please review important Bookmark Connections’ Policies regarding cancellation and refunds etc.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

One of our core responsibilities as supervisors is to contribute to our supervisees’ development of cultural effectiveness, while also attending to our own growth in this area.  It is impactful work that can also be hard work.  These days it can sometimes feel like we are hearing more about the challenges related to supervision and training when it comes to diversity, social justice, and multicultural counseling, than anything else.  Utilizing clear frameworks can help ground our work as supervisors when these issues occur.

This workshop will explore integrating an intercultural and nervous system approach to some of these potential challenges.  Intercultural communication is generally not taught in graduate programs, but can complement and serve to strengthen and nuance traditional approaches to diversity, like social justice, and multicultural counseling.  The developmental model used in intercultural communication can help pinpoint more specific ways to support supervisees.  Moreover, the use of a trauma-informed nervous system framework can be applied to increase effectiveness in creating more communitarian cultures and working across differences.

While this workshop may not result in the easy answers we sometimes crave when it comes to these issues, it will offer some specific concepts, models, and considerations when it comes to being mentors in these areas.

Topics covered include:

• Using a developmental model to explore common ways that supervisees and trainees may present and how to meet them where they are more effectively, and a related training dilemma

• A developmental interaction model to address the interaction between the supervisor and supervisee

• Some key cultural dimensions that commonly impact supervision interactions; application to feedback

• Addressing the use of shame and cancel culture

• “Embodied complexity” (Forster, 2022) and integrating a nervous system approach to diversity work, and as related to connecting across differences, learning, anxiety, curiosity, appeasement, harm versus hurt, and communitarian values

There are only a limited number of spots for this workshop

• This workshop is for mental health professionals, but people in related fields (e.g., education, healthcare, DEIB) are also welcome, and often get a lot of value out of the material, but with the understanding that the focus will be for mental health professionals.

• Intermediate Level: This workshop is intended for participants who have taken at least one graduate course or workshop each in both diversity/multicultural counseling/social justice and supervision prior. You do not need to have any knowledge or background in intercultural communication to attend.

6 CE Hours for Mental Health Professionals

• Bookmark Connections has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7425. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.

  Bookmark Connections is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

• The above should work for most mental health professionals (it may not work for some psychologists in a few states; it should work for Oregon and Washington state psychologists)

• It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state

• Workshop must be attended in its entirety; there is no partial credit

Schedule

Date
Saturday
March 9th, 2024

Time
9:00 am PT to 4:30 pm PT

Location
Live online workshop with facilitator located in Portland, Oregon, USA (no recording)

additional workshop information PDF

registration

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Early bird discount ends February 20th

• Early bird price is $155

• Standard registration is $195

• Register by paying via Eventbrite link (also below)

• OR register by mailing a CHECK to avoid Eventbrite fees. Must be postmarked by February 29th, 2024. Make sure to include your name and email address; mail to address listed on Contact page of website.

*Please review important Bookmark Connections’ Policies regarding cancellation and refunds etc.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.