Been a bit since I posted. New course of study for Dr Beth! More on that later.
My nephew by marriage married in October in New York. He's married a Chinese American, but she lived in the East for many years. And I find it wonderful that someone from the 'East' as has joined the family. I still feel the foreigner in the family after all these years. They are young and in love and beautiful together. They make a stunning couple, but what I love most about what they write and say, is their commitment to each other, to their common goals and to the future. I wish them well!
My travel schedule has stopped entirely! I am completing my post doctoral qualification for counselling psychology. The format is intense with terms running in eight week cycles with nine session per cycle. In a sixteen week traditional semester that's twelve graduate hours and lots of work! Thus far, I'm loving it!
My first course was--ta-dah--MCT. Multicultural Therapy. It was a fascinating look at the issues we all face when trying to understand the other, no matter who the other is. Culture is wonderful, but it can be so divisive! Learning the art of compromise, learning to live with one another cross culturally, understanding what we do to one another--the "micro-agressions", the "micro-insults and micro-invalidations" that we act out against one another--is amazing. And we act without considering the impact of our actions. That's the reason for this course. And while normally, in most programmes, the MCT course is a concluding course, it was our first course.
Good idea. Learning the perceptions of another's culture, even theoretically, is a first step. We live in a global world. No news there. But our global understanding needs to catch up with our economic interdependencies. Easier said than done.
Lanka Blue ² signing off--wishing you many new cross cultural adventures!
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