Peer Support and Cultural Attunement

Compassion, Love, Empathy and Action to Connect

An Invitation

! It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.

I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing… Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Culture Matters

! In what we experience and the sense we make of it,

! What we find helpful,

! Our experiences of mutuality

! How we decide if someone is being genuine or real

Your Authentic Self

Cultural Attunement

Action taken to understand and adapt to another’s values, priorities and approaches to connection to create relational alignment.

What does this look like in peer support?

Attunement = Alignment

What are Our Qualities?

! Compassion

! Love

! Empathy

! Connection

Compassion

! I want to know if you can see beauty even if its not pretty every day… Oriah Mountain Dreamer

! Care

! Kindness

Empathy

! …can you sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it… Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Connection: Can You Be Present?

! I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back… Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The Essence of Peer Support

! Openness,Choice! Understanding! Voice! Dignityand

Respect! Mutuality! AndMuchMore

Attunement Is…

! Cultural Openness (Not Knowing)

! Cultural Insight (Understanding)

! Cultural Acceptance (Humility)

! Cultural Esteem (Honor)

! Cultural Kinship (Mutuality) Oakes, 2011

Invite Each Other “In” for Dialogue Instead of Calling People “Out”

What Action Will You Take?

! What can you learn?

! What will you do?

! What will your commitment be?

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. Angela Davis

Contact

Cathy Cave

Co-founder

Inspired Vision, LLC

cathycave55@gmail.com

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