Our aim is to honour cultural diversity by promoting an integral approach to different frameworks of  knowledge and beliefs. 

Today practitioners need inter-cultural competence and a high degree of cultural literacy.  The multi-cultural approach of this course includes but goes beyond faith and religion.  It explores the essence of what it means to be human, beyond the cultural faith-based traditions.

 

Seminars offer opportunities for participants to discuss ‘normal human faculties’, transformational and unusual experiences, and their implications for client care from an inter-cultural perspective. They enable practitioners to gain skills necessary for managing spiritual aspects of their practice.

We want to support participants in finding a sense of meaning in the experiences of living and dying. Seminars complement current approaches of medicine, nursing and social care, by addressing issues that occur every day within therapeutic environments, but are just beginning to be taught in medical schools.

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Programmes

A series of cutting edge seminar programmes  created with medical and health care practitioners in mind.

 

New Learning

Existential questions about the meaning of life often take on great importance when we are ill or have problems.  In order to support fresh dialogue between health practitioners and their clients, we are offering new courses, to explore the relationship of spirituality to health. 

 

Medicine Beyond Materialism course modules address one key aspect of cultural competencies: religious and spiritual beliefs, and the way these influence how people access health services, diagnose ill health, and their treatment strategies. 

People Like Us seminars were developed with Mind in Harrow, funded by NHS Harrow, to effectively address the needs of migrant, refugee and asylum seeker populations in UK.

Our aim is to address guidelines set out in the Department of Health’s report on Religion and Belief (2009); the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG (2009); research on culture and exclusion by the World Health Organisation; and the Delivering Race Equality programme for tackling stigma and discrimination (2009).  Courses were developed to support access to appropriate services for all ethnic groups.

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