Training professionals

• Lectures and workshops for professionals (teachers, social workers, psychologists, health professionals, the police & the military, academic staff, etc.) everybody who works in a diverse human environment.

• Inter-cultural meetings with insufficient preparation have the potential for misunderstandings and conflicts, making it difficult to build long-term trusting relationships that enable professionals to provide an effective service.

• Cultural competence includes a combination of knowledge and skills that professionals and organisations require in order to work effectively with cultural diversity.

• But people are not only influenced by cultures, people live in complex realities influenced by many factors, such as economic & social status, their families, health & politics, places of residence, religion, gender etc.  Considering all of these contexts helps professionals adapt their methods to the different needs of their clients.

• In some of the training programs, I work with colleagues from the Nevet team – a greenhouse of context-informed research and training for children in need situated in the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.