2024 has already seen one amazing cohort complete our 10-hour virtual Cultural Humility Train the Trainer, training! Congrats to our January 2024 cohort for showing up and opening up to the cultural humility framework and model designed by Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Dr. Jann Murray Garcia, presented by Indigenous Vision. Not unlike previous cohorts, we were amazed by the diverse group of wonderful people who made the commitment to spend 4 days going through our highly participatory and immersive virtual training where our Indigenous-led team guided the group through several dialoguing activities, self-reflection modules, power & privilege activities, and overall presentation on the principles and origins of cultural humility.
What is Cultural Humility?
“More than a concept, Cultural Humility is a communal reflection to analyze the root causes of
suffering and create a broader, more inclusive view of the world. Originally developed by
Doctors Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia (1998) to address health disparities and
institutional inequities in medicine, Cultural Humility is now used in public health, social work,
education, and non-profit management. It is a daily practice for people to deal with hierarchical
relationships, changing organizational policy and building relationships based on trust...“
Who is Cultural Humility for?
Cultural humility is for everyone! Everyone benefits from cultural humility. Using the four principles in a cyclical approach applied to interpersonal and professional life, makes for a more compassionate and better way of being. We spend so much time at our places of work (or at least interacting with work colleagues virtually), why not make those spaces better; practice humble and empathetic communications with each other and the clients/communities we serve, acknowledge our biases and disrupt our assumptions before we act on them, learn about our power & privileges, and redress any imbalances. We have a spot for you to learn these principles and practice them in real time with real people!
When is the next training?
Indigenous Vision presents Cultural Humility, Train the Trainer this May 7 to May 15, 2024! Registration is now open for you and a team member to learn and share this training within your current organization. Each participant who completes the training receives the Cultural Humility Facilitators Guide written by Melanie Tervalon, MD, MPH, Jann Murray Garcia, MD, PPH, with contributions from Ellen Morrison, LCSW and Veronica Keiffer-Lewis, Ed.D, a copy of the slide deck used to present the training, all reading materials, official certificate of completion, and access to a global network of Cultural Humility trainers currently facilitating!
Who are the facilitators?
Indigenous Vision’s Souta Callinglast, MIM, and Melissa Spence are your 2024 facilitators. Souta Callinglast is a member of the Blackfeet & Blood Tribe and is the Founder and Executive Director of Indigenous Vision. For 20 years she has focused her efforts on water quality, mining contamination clean-up, and water-treatment. She has a lifelong commitment to environmental stewardship and has experience in groundwater monitoring, watershed health, and community participatory-based research. She believes that land and Indigenous people are inextricably linked and that sustainable land management must include Indigenous perspectives. In 2018, Souta was chosen for a Boldly Better Roddenberry Fellowship to pursue her interactive map of social, environmental, and climate injustices. A graduate of the University of Montana and the University of Phoenix, Souta holds a BA in Environmental Studies-Water Resources and a MIM in Innovative Leadership and Change Management. Souta has been facilitating cultural humility trainings since 2017.
Melissa Spence is a professionally trained broadcaster who is enrolled in the Lake Manitoba First Nation of Canada. She is an Anishinaabe Ojibway (Turtle Clan) from both her beloved parents and now calls Las Vegas home. With 12 years of professional radio to her credit, Melissa has been a part of several Indigenous broadcast programming on local, regional and national levels. She had been a cultural humility facilitator since 2020.
We are currently scheduled for in-person trainings with AMC Theaters and with Montana organizations this March and April. If you’d like to learn more about potentially having Indigenous Vision facilitate an in-person or virtual training with your workplace, please email hello@indigenousvision.org to discuss details or ask any questions. Follow us to learn more about our upcoming in-person training this fall in Phoenix, AZ.
