About this webinar
Date: April 24, 2025
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Dhwani Joshi, MSW, RSW.
This training is suitable for:
- Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
- Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors.
- Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
Level of training: Introductory/Intermediate.
Client age category: For professionals who work with adult populations.
Trigger warning: Participating in our programming may evoke powerful feelings and can trigger participants who have experienced personal trauma.
Description: Do you ever struggle to connect with clients from different cultural backgrounds? Have traditional cultural competency trainings left you feeling unprepared to engage meaningfully with diverse clients? While cultural competency has long been a cornerstone of healthcare and mental health services, it often frames providers as “experts” on another’s culture—limiting authentic, relational engagement.
This experiential webinar invites participants to move beyond competency and into cultural humility—a lifelong, reflective practice rooted in curiosity, openness, and embodied awareness. Participants will engage in somatic exercises such as body-based mindfulness to explore how culture is housed within the body. We will also use narrative strategies, such as storytelling, and creative practices like art and body mapping, to deepen our understanding of cultural experiences.
By shifting focus from “knowing” to meaningful engagement, this webinar aims to foster a more nuanced, relational approach to working across cultural differences. Additionally, participants will learn practical strategies to create culturally safe teams and workspaces that support ongoing learning and genuine connection.
This session is ideal for mental health professionals, healthcare workers, and service providers seeking to transform their approach to culture from one of expertise to one of humility, openness, and collaboration.
Learning objectives:
- Expand understanding of culture as a dynamic, nuanced concept and develop a more complex view beyond seeing it as a singular entity.
- Learn experiential methods to create safer spaces for clients to explore their cultural experiences and engage in meaningful discussions.
- Gain practical tools to embody cultural humility and confidently engage with diverse populations, while learning strategies to promote cultural humility within teams and organizations for inclusive, continuous learning environments.
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
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Facilitator
Dhwani Joshi
Accessibility
We strive to ensure our online learning programs are easy for everyone, everywhere. If you have any accessibility requirements (automatic transcripts, closed-captioning, ASL interpreters, advanced access to program materials), please email Mary Anne Van Rooyen at mvanrooyen@sickkidscmhlearning.ca to let us know how we can best support your learning experience.
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