2 years ago

Diverse Spiritual Meanings: Multicultural Approach to Human Spiritual Experience

Lillian Borges, M.A.
Director of the Milton Erickson Institute in Brazil

Humans actively attribute meaning to their experience, and these meanings are shaped by culture. Different cultures attribute different meanings to spirituality, family, relationships, life and death, respect, honor, work, hierarchy and equality, disease and healing. Different cultures have different gestures, body postures, facial expressions, rhythms, and different concepts of time and space. It is hard to understand and connect with those whose meanings are different from ours. It is even harder to talk about culture effects because culture permeates and shapes our lives unconsciously. Culture, as the anthropologist Edward Hall describes it (Hall, 1976), is like water to fish. It is hard to explain water for fish. Only when the fish is out of water does it feel its necessity and influence. People from the same culture share a lot of experiences. It helps to shape who they are and bring a feeling of identification with each other. Meeting people from another culture or living in another culture can be a strange and uncomfortable experience.

In a world that is becoming more and more global, and big cities are more and more culturally diverse, the need for a multicultural understanding of human experience is vital, specially for health care professionals. Health care professionals want to help people to find meaning in their lives and find meaningful ways of living. In doing so they want to be flexible to cultural diversity so they do not prevent clients from finding their own way,, simply because clinicians do not understand it. Ultimately every human being comes from a different “culture,” when we consider the uniqueness of their individuality. It is also important to understand how culture shapes us, so we free ourselves from the tyranny of external cultural pressures, and allow us to live more meaningful lives. We learn a lot about ourselves when we learn about how we were shaped by our religion, ethnic group, country, family history, etc.

In this workshop the presenter will address basic differences of culturally diverse populations so attendees can understand their worldview. African, Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, Native Americans, and Jewish populations will be addressed. The presenter will discuss how to approach and develop appropriate interventions for different populations. The last topic to be addressed will be the therapists’ awareness of their own assumptions, values and biases.

Education objectives:
1. To name 3 different perspectives other cultures have on spirituality
2. To name 3 different ways to utilize those different perspectives in psychotherapy
3. To name 3 ways the psychotherapist's values and biases about spirituality can interfere in the client's therapeutic process

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