• Handout 1, Multicultural Competence

• Copy Handout 1 for all participants.

Distribute the handout and invite participants to read it along with you. Read the definition aloud, but do not spend a great deal of time discussing it. Move quickly to the characteristics of a person who displays multicultural competence. Read the characteristics, one at a time, inviting clarification questions after each. For each characteristic, provide an example from your experience or invite participants to volunteer an example from theirs. Close the discussion by inviting participants to consider this question: Given your experiences in working with people from different cultural groups (or affiliations and world views), how do these competencies challenge you?