This webinar is the second part in the series, "Decolonizing Clinical Social Work: Integrating Ubuntu Centred Cultural Humility to Enhance Cultural Competency."
This session invites participants to move beyond foundational understandings of cultural harm toward cultivating Ubuntu-centred cultural humility as the foundation for becoming culturally competent. Cultural competence is framed not as a destination or checklist, but as a lifelong, relational journey. Together, we will explore how cultural and epistemic humility deepen our ability to value diversity, navigate cultural differences, and engage in ethical, accountable practice. Through storytelling, reflection, and case-based inquiry, participants will examine how their cultural lenses shape approaches of helping and healing, and how cultural humility calls us into collective responsibility and communal care.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
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Identify and explore the five key steps in the journey toward cultural competence and consider how to integrate them into everyday practice.
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Deepen their understanding of Ubuntu as an intercultural Indigenous worldview that fosters relational, ethical, and culturally competent engagement.
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Recognize how cultural humility promotes an ongoing, relational, and reflective approach to trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and equity-focused practice.
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Critically reflect on how personal and professional cultural lenses shape one’s definitions of helping, harm, and healing, through a case vignette involving ethical tensions.
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Engage in group dialogue to reframe cultural competence as a continuum of communal responsibility, grounded in humility, accountability, and Ubuntu.
