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THROUGH THE EYESOF LOVE AND JUSTICE:

Revisioning aMULTICULTURAL

Humanistic PsychologyShelly P. Harrell, Ph.D., Keynote Address

Society for Humanistic Psychology

Santa Barbara, CA - March 3, 2013


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GRATITUDE

David Elkins

Louis Hoffman

Theopia Jackson

My Students

New Friends


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Wake up Everybodyby John Legend, The Roots, & Common


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THE QUESTIONS Is Humanistic Psychology inherently multicultural? If so, how is that

made credible through explicit discussion and visibility in theory andpractice?

Does the community of Humanistic Psychology include the multiplecultural expressions of humanity?

Does the intellectual and theoretical work of humanistic psychologyinclude voices that speak to what it means to be human and theexistential dilemmas of our humanness from diverse cultural

traditions? Is the practice of Humanistic Psychology relevant to serving the well-

being of the marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed?

In what ways is Humanistic Psychology in substantive dialogue withthose in psychology whose work focuses on diversity and socialjustice? (e.g., Divisions 9, 27, 35, 44, 45, 48)

Do the writings and work of Humanistic Psychology demonstrate anunderstanding of systemic oppression, power, and privilege?

Has Humanistic Psychology been willing to step into the discomfort ofdifferences and engage in some meaningful self-evaluation aroundthese issues?


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On Walking the Talk

One of the great tragedies of life is that [people] seldom

bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between

doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so

many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On the onehand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble

principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practice the very

antithesis of these principles. How often are our lives

characterized by a high blood pressure of creeds and ananemia of deeds! -Martin Luther King, Jr.


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OUR HUMANADVENTURE

What more have we to give one

another than our 'truth' about

our human adventure as

honestly and as openly as we

know how?-Rabbi Saul Rubin


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THROUGH THE EYES

OF LOVE AND JUSTICE


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Some of my favorite

Love BooksAl l About L ove: New Visionsby bell hooks

Strength to Loveby Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Art o f Lov ingby Erich Fromm

Love and Wil lby Rollo May


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"When I speak of love I am speakingof that force which all of the greatreligions have seen as the supremeunifying principle of life. Love is

somehow the key that unlocks the doorwhich leads to ultimate reality."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Love is the only sane andsatisfactory answer to the

problem of humanexistence.Erich Fromm


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Agape Love

Love of humanity, of all of our sisters andbrothers in the human family

Experiencing and connecting to the allthrough the uniqueness of the one

Deeply feeling the common humanity ofour oneness while honoring the differentcultural expressions and manifestations

of that oneness that makes us whole andcomplete


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Love is.


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Love is by Common

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

It's a place I got to be

Loving you is loving me

How beautiful love can be

On the streets love is hard to see

Gotta reach that frequency

Loving you is loving me


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INTERCONNECTEDNESS&

COMMUNITY


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The African Ethic of Ubuntu

I am because we are and because we are I am.Every living system (people, animals,

nature) exists in relationship to and

interdependent with every other livingsystem past, present, and future

We thrive and grow optimally when we are

in relationshipBishop Desmond Tutu drew upon this

traditional African ethic of Ubuntu in hiswork on reconciliation in South Africa


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My humanity isbound up in yours,

for we can only be

human together.~Bishop Desmond Tutu


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Nobles Extended Self(African-centered Psychology)

Nobles Extended Self (traditional Africanconception of self)

African self-concept centered in we

I am because we are and because we are Iam (Ubuntu)

We includes family, community, culture,ancestors, descendants, nature, spirit

We are not separate, finite beings and we canonly achieve our fullness throughconnectedness and community

Implies the inseparability of the person,environment, spirit, and nature


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There is no better placeto learn the art of loving

than in community.~bell hooks


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What is a community? Locality-based Communities based on geography

Relational Communities

People, groups, and organizations whose connections

are based upon commonalities or identification and are

not limited by place or geography Four types of relational communities

Identity community

Religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation

Common interest community

Social or recreational clubs, occupation Task-oriented community

School, workplace, committee

Collective power structure community

Labor unions, advocacy groups


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Some Characteristics of Communities Communities are dynamic systems that change

The value and significance of our community memberships canvary widely and can change over time and context

Communities and subcommunities emerge and becomeinactive as contexts and needs change

Communities have identity Shaped and maintained by community narratives (stories) that

are shared and passed down

Communities have intracommunity variability Communities are comprised of diverse individuals

Issues of macrobelonging and microbelonging Intersectionality issues

People within communities have multiple needs and priorities

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Significance ofCommunity

Sarason (1974)A Psychological Sense of Community

The loneliness and alienation that emerges fromindividualism is the defining problem of many Western

societies Loss or dilution of strong community connections is the

most destructive dynamic in peoples lives

Psychological well-being, quality of life, meaning and purpose,

self-esteem and positive behaviors are strongly related tohaving a sense of belongingness, connection, andidentification with something larger than oneself


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Sense of Community Early work of Sarason (1974) and McMillan & Chavis (1986)

Connection to a larger whole characterized by sharing an emotionalbond or common condition; perception of similarity

A feeling of belonging, identification, and security in relationship to alarger group

Acknowledgement of interdependence, a sense of being in thistogether, that others have my back

Feeling that members matter to one another and to the group

Mutuality of Influence; being willing to contribute to the community andbe changed by the community

Shared faith that members needs will be met through commitment to betogether


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JUSTICE


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Stand by Sly and The Family Stone Stand

In the end you'll still be you

One that's done all the things you set out to doStandThere's a cross for you to bearThings to go through if you're going anywhereStandFor the things you know are rightIt s the truth that the truth makes them so uptightStand

All the things you want are realYou have you to complete and there is no dealStand. stand, standStand. stand, standStandYou've been sitting much too longThere's a permanent crease in your right and wrongStandThere's a midget standing tall

And the giant beside him about to fallStand. stand, standStand. stand, standStandThey will try to make you crawl

And they know what you're saying makes sense and allStandDon't you know that you are freeWell at least in your mind if you want to be


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Power and Oppression Steven Biko: The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of

the oppressed.

Maulana Karenga (1996): Power isthe ability to define someoneselses reality and get them to believe it as if it were their own.

Expressions of Power

Riger (1993)

Power Over control and dominate

Power To pursue goals and opportunities

Power From - resistance

Satyagraha Power of truth (Gandhi)

Principles, active and openly expressed resistance tooppression that is coupled with appeals to social justice

Power With- capacity to build groups, bring people together , createcommunity


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Revolution beginswith the self,

in the self.~Toni Cade Bambara


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The struggle has always

been inner, and is played outin outer terrains. Awareness

of our situation must comebefore inner changes, which

in turn comes before changesin society. ~Gloria Anzaldua

C i i l C i &


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Critical Consciousness &Sociopolitical Development

Critical consciousnessThe ability to observe, analyze, and reflect upon ones

own conditions and the conditions of others

Independent thinking that challenges the status quo

Critical consciousness is necessary to developindependent thinking in the context of anoppressive status quoPsychological empowerment

Self-determination

Independent thinking

Critical thinking


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Sociopolitical Development

The developmental process of awareness and actionrelated to social asymmetries and inequities in valuedsocial, political, and economic resources

Roderick Watts developed a developmental stage

framework to address the psychological process ofinternalized oppression. Stages include: Acritical,

Adaptive, Precritical, Critical, and Liberation

Involvement in social justice and community activismrequires higher stages of sociopolitical development;speaks to the relationship between psychologicaloppression and the maintainence of an oppressivestatus quo


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DIFFERENCE

We are all

AT THE SAME TIME

Like ALL others

Like SOME others

Like NO others(paraphrased from Murray & Kluckhohn)


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5 Ds of Difference

(Harrell, 1990) Denial

Defensiveness

Distancing

Devaluing Discovery


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From MLKs Where do we go from here?

Now, we got to get this thing right. What is neededis a realization that power without love is

reckless and abusive, and that love without power is

sentimental and anemic. Power at itsbest, power at its best is love implementing thedemands of justice, and justice

at its best is love correcting everything that stands

against love. I have also decided to stick with love,for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to

[hu]mankind's problems.~Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)


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Where is the Love?by The Black Eyed Peas

What's wrong with the world, mama, People livin' like they ain't got no mamas

I think the whole world addicted to the drama,

Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism, But we still got terrorists here livin'In the USA, the big CIA, The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK

But if you only have love for your own race,

Then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate,

And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah

Madness is what you demonstrate,

And that's exactly how anger works and operates

Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight,

Take control of your mind and meditate;

Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all

People killin' people dyin Children hurt and you hear them cryin'


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People killin , people dyin , Children hurt and you hear them cryin

Can you practice what you preach, And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us, Send some guidance from above

'Cause people got me, got me questionin, Where is the love (Love).

It just ain't the same, always unchanged,

New days are strange, is the world insane

If love and peace are so strong,

Why are there pieces of love that don't belong

Nations droppin' bombs, Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones

With ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young, So ask yourself is the lovin'really gone

So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong,

In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin' inMakin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends

Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother

A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover

Where is the love?


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The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug

If you never know truth then you never know love

Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know) Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)

Where's the love, y'all

People killin', people dyin, Children hurt and you hear them cryin'

Can you practice what you preach, And would you turn the other cheek

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder, As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder

Most of us only care about money makin, Selfishness got us followin' our wrong direction

Wrong information always shown by the media, Negative images is the main criteria

Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria, Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity,

Whatever happened to the fairness in equality

Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity,

Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under, That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down

There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under, Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found

Now ask yourselfWhere is the love?

One world, one world (We only got), One world, one world (That's all we got),

One world, one world

And something's wrong with it (Yeah), Something's wrong with it (Yeah)

Something's wrong with the wo-wo-world, yeah

We only got (One world, one world)


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Love and Justice

Authentic commitment to socialjustice is born out of

loveEnduring social justicework is sustained byloveLiving social justice is the

highest expression of love.

Harrell (2013)

D i & E ti l


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Despair & EmotionalExpression

Some of the most heart wrenching expressions of

despair come through the music and poetry of people

from oppressed groups

African American traditionSoul Musicmusic that

speaks to, touches the soul

Speaks to potential role of expressive arts therapies intherapy


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Motherless Child by Paul Robeson

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

A long ways from home

Oh my brother A long ways from home

Sometimes I feel like Im almos gone

A long ways from home

Oh my brother A long ways from home

Th M


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The Messageby GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five

Broken glass everywherePeople pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't careI can't take the smell, I can't take the noiseGot no money to move out, I guess I got no choice

Rats in the front room, roaches in the backJunkies in the alley with the baseball batI tried to get away, but I couldn't get farCause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huhIts like a jungle out there it makes me wonder

How I keep from going under


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Existential Themes?

Implications for Therapy?

Ill Ri


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Ill Riseby Ben HarperYou may write me down in history, With your bitter twisted liesYou may trod me down in the very dirt, And still like the dust I'll rise

Does my happiness upset youWhy are you best with gloomCause I laugh like I've got an oil well, Pumpin' in my living room

So you may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyesAnd I'll rise I'll rise I'll riseOut of the shacks of history's shame, Up from a past rooted in pain

I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise

Now did you want to see me broken, Bowed head and lowered eyesShoulders fallen down like tear drops, Weakened by my soulful cries

Does my confidence upset you, Don't you take it awful hardCause I walk like I've got a diamond mine, Breakin up in my front yard

So you may write me down in history, With your bitter twisted liesYou may trod me down in the very dirt, And still like the dust I'll rise

Does my happiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom?Cause I laugh like I've got a goldmine, Diggin' up in my living room


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Is there a place for these

stories, this soundtrack inHumanistic Psychology?


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Re-Visioning aMULTICULTURAL

Humanistic Psychology

An Attempt at Integration:

Love, Justice, and HumanisticPsychology

in Multicultural Context


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First sentence of APA

Multicultural Guidelines(APA Policy, 2002)

All individuals exist in social, political,historical and economic contexts and

psychologists are increasingly called

upon to understand the influence of

these contexts on individuals

behavior.

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Importance of Ecological and


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Importance of Ecological and

Contextual Variables

Oppressive and unhealthy contexts can block the naturalhuman tendency toward optimal growth anddevelopment and present challenges that impede optimalhuman functioning and well-being, compromise orconfuse personal and collective identity, and suppress ormisdirect health-promoting behaviors.

Context affects conditions of living and access tosocietal resources

Context determines exposure to particular societal,sociocultural, and community narratives that define

self, acceptable roles, as well as appropriatethoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Context impacts options for support and coping

Context influences opportunities for affirmation andvalidation of person and community

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A PsychoEcoCultural Perspective

The Psychoecocultural perspectiveapproaches the study of the human mind,

experience, behavior, and transformation as

manifestations of the ongoing interplay

between interconnected psychological,

biological, ecological, and cultural

processes. (Harrell, 2012)


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Contextualization of the Person

Emerging from this literature is the theoretical position thata decontextualized self is meaningless; our existence ismeaningful only in relationship (to others, to community,to culture, to physical settings, to ecological contexts, tonature, to God)

Descriptions of human behavior and transformation mustreference the dynamic Person-Culture-Context complexin order to fully capture the transactional processes of theperson as a living system embedded in and

interdependent with other persons, as well as multiplecultural and ecological systems

Humanistic Existential Connections


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Humanistic-Existential Connections

The worldis the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts

and all my explicit perceptionsMan is in the world and only in theworld does he know himself. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Understanding of ones existence as such is always an

understanding of the world. Martin Heidegger

[A] bare subject without a world never is. -Martin Heidegger

Through the Thou a man becomes I. Martin Buber

Be that self which one truly is. -Soren Kierkegaard

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Existential Psychology & Context

Existential Psychology is basically about thehuman dilemma of making sense of our ownexistence and its finitude while developing thewill to create meaning, live authentically,manifest our highest potentialities, and fully

experience our lives in the context of the world inwhich we live.

An individuals relationship to the ultimateconcerns of existence is expressed through the

struggle to function optimally within the multiplehuman created ecological systems and culturalinfluences that create the contexts of our lives.

The Existential Paradox


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The Existential Paradoxand Related Ideas

Face finitude and live life fullyLiving fully and authentically as weare dyingfacing death and life simultaneously

Related to the African-centered approach of diunital logic

o Both/and (vs. either/or) thinking and understanding of issues;approaching a problem holding on to the co-existence ofopposite forces

o Identification of multiple truths in opposing perspectives and thatseemingly conflicting viewpoints can co-exist

Dialectics- A process involving two seeming opposite orcontradictory energies or elements that acknowledges the tensionbetween them and seeks to hold and investigate that tension


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Dialectical Tensions in

Psychotherapy The dialectic of Acceptance and Change in

third-wave behavioral therapies (DBT, ACT,

IBCT)

Dialectical tensions in relationships (identified by

Baxter) include: autonomy-connection,

predictability-novelty, openness-closedness,

inclusion-seclusion, conventionality-uniqueness,

and revelation-concealment


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Set Me Free by Gina Rene

I know the truth hurts but the pain is

gonna set me free. Gina Rene

African Existentialism


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African ExistentialismAfrican existentialism emphasizes the struggle to express

ones authentic essence within contexts that actively work

against validation and affirmation of the person andcommunity.

Fanons writings and Ralph Ellisons The Invisible Manreflect African existentialism

According to the scholar Lewis Gordon

African Existentialism is about Theexistential demand for recognizing thesituation or lived-context of Africana peoples

being-in-the-worldFor people of African descent, existential

questions relate to issues of identity andliberation in the context of oppression

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Paolo Freires Work as a Bridge between


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Paolo Freire s Work as a Bridge betweenHumanistic Psychology and thePsychoecocultural Perspective

Brazilian educator, author ofPedagogy of the Oppressed

Committed to social injustice centered on illiterate peasants

Among the influences on his thoughts and writings includeexistential philosophy, French personalist Emmanuel Mounier,Spanish poet and educator Miguel de Unamuno, psychiatristErich Fromm, and activists Che Guevara & Martin Luther King Jr.

Criticized for the connection of his writings with socialist thought

Strong influence on Latin American Liberation Psychology

Referenced in Community Psychology and MulticulturalPsychology

KEY IDEAS: Humanization, Culture of Silence, Duality of theOppressed, LiberatingProblem-posing Education (vs. TheBanking Concept of Education), Critical Consciousness, CriticalDialogue, Dialogic Action, Praxis

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Freires Humanization through Dialogue


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Freires Humanization through Dialogue

Humanization as the process of relating to others as subjectscapable of knowing affirmation of ones dignity and worth as a

human being. Dehumanization is the objectification of others asthings

Humanization of both the oppressed and oppressor is required forliberation and transformation

Praxis is the methodology of reflection and action

Dialogue is the humanizing process of learning and knowingthrough sharing lived experience; it is the vehicle fortransformation of both the individual and the collective

Requires mutual trust and is a horizontal relationship grounded inlove, humility and faith; faith in humankind is a requirement for

dialogue

Alienation and oppression thwart, block, and impair our power ashuman beings to create and transform ourselves and the world.Experiencing oneself as subject vs. object (to be named and actedupon) can be reborn through dialogue

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Psychoecocultural and Humanistic Perspectives:


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y pNine Points of Convergence and Extension

1. Primacy on authentic relationship as the pathway to the

development of strong sense of self and optimal growth isconsistent with diverse cultural constructs such as Ubuntu,

Personalismo, Lovingkindness, etc. (Rogers)

2. Ultimate goal of becoming fully human reflects an individual level

of analysis. This can be extended to the idea of valuing the full

expression of collective humanity and diversity of humankind3. Facilitating experiential awareness can be expanded in a

collective context to the idea of critical consciousness (Freire and

Liberation Psychology), which is also about attending more deeply

to what is observed and experienced in the world around us

4. Emphasis on meaning, purpose, and strengths in the context ofsuffering; movement from oppression and powerlessness to

meaning, liberation, freedom, and choice (Frankl, May, African

Existentialism)

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5. The human dilemma of Being-in-the-World as a focus ofexistentially-grounded

work can be broadened to incorporate more attention to world processes at

the sociopolitical and institutional levels of analysis (most existential approaches

emphasize the Being part)

6. Humanistic approaches have typically taken a less pathologizing view than

other therapeutic orientations, a view that has privileged and honored the clients

freedom, choice, and self-determination; this implies a more collaborative and

empowering approach consistent with multicultural and community psychology

7. Humanistic perspectives converge with multicultural, feminist, community, and

liberation psychology in actively challenging rigid, symptom-focused,medical model, cookbook (manualized) approaches

8. Most forms of therapy that have emerged from Humanistic Psychology

emphasize experiential processes such that attunement with and responsiveness

to the needs of the client are primary; this is consistent with the concept of

culturally-syntonic practice

9. The transpersonal view opens space for extending the conception of the personto include the spiritual dimension of human experience that is so central to

many cultures

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B fit f th P h lt l d


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Benefits of the Psychoecocultural and

Humanistic-Existential Integration

The integration of the psychoecocultural and humanistic-existential perspectives has the following benefits:The concept of Being-in-the-World is consistent with

conceptualizing culture and context as central players inthe human condition

An expansion of focus not only to the development of ourhighest individual potentialities but also to our highestcollective potentialities in the context of community and ascitizens of the world.

Optimal expression of our humanness through wellnessprocesses is more meaningfully pursued and successfullyfacilitated when culturally and contextually situated

Adversity and pain are conceptualized as an inevitable part

of human existence through the experience of Being in theWorld and provide ongoing opportunities for liberation,empowerment, and transformation

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Humanistic Concepts through a


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Humanistic Concepts through aMulticultural Lens

NECESSARY & SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS (The Soil)

UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

EMPATHY

FULLY FUNCTIONING HUMAN

INCONGRUENCE AND CONGRUENCE

EXPERIENCING

AUTHENTICITY

ACTUALIZING TENDENCY

SELF-ACTUALIZATION

EXISTENTIAL PARADOX

EXISTENTIAL GIVENS

MEANING AND PURPOSE

FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY


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Contextualized

HumanisticIntervention

(CHI)

Contextualized Humanistic


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Contextualized HumanisticIntervention

An Integrative Multicultural-Humanistic approach

that emphasizes the interconnectedness of

persons, contexts, and culture

thus expanding the base traditions ofHumanistic and Multicultural Psychologies

and their respective families.

Ultimately, CHI is about optimizing the fullexpression of our humanity and the diversity of

humankind towards the elevation of our collective

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Multicultural Influences on CHI


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Multicultural Influences on CHI African Influences

Ubuntu, Ntu, and Seriti

African Centered Psychology

Extended Self (Nobles), Community of Self (Akbar), Optimal Psychology (Myers)

Native American Influences

The Medicine Wheel, The Four Directions, The Talking Circle

Native American Psychology- Cultural Soul Wounds (Duran)

Latin American Influences

Personalismo, Espiritismo, Dignidad

Latino Psychology

Post-Colonial Syndrome (Comas-Diaz), Liberation Psychology (Martin-Baro)

Asian Influences

Asian Psychology

Interdependent Self, Morita Therapy

Indian Psychology

Oneness and non-duality, Consciousness and Self (Paranjpe and Rao)

Buddhist Psychology (Kornfield)

Lovingkindness, Compassion, Happiness, Suffering, Detachment, Enlightenment,

Mindfulness, Acceptance (Hanh)

Three Core Emergent Ideas from


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Culture-Centered Psychologies

Three common themes among culture-centered and indigenous psychologies

1. Concepts of interrelatedness, connectedness,

and oneness2. Centrality of spirituality

3. Challenge of achieving liberation, positive

identity, and optimal functioning in the context

of multiple threats and blocks embedded in the

conditions of living

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Myers Optimal Psychology


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Myers Optimal Psychology

(African-centered Psychology) An African-centered paradigm and holistic conceptual system

based on the oneness of spirit and matter

Everything is interrelated through networks of human andspiritual processes and each person is an expression of theenergy and essence that flows through all life

Importance of self-knowledge and consciousness of theunified self (consciousness is connection to the energy thatpermeates everything)

Liberation comes from freeing our minds and making contactwith the consciousness of oneness

Intervention (Belief Systems Analysis) is transformative andaimed ultimately at improving quality of life for self and others


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Psychotherapeutic practice based inCHI is about cultivation of an

understanding of the dynamic, here-

and-now, contextualized nature ofhuman existence, and the culturally-

flavored nature of human experience

and transformation.

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CULTURE


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CULTURE

The superordinate context in which human experience,

functioning, and transformation occur by providing thefundamental and organizing foundation for interpreting

and living in the world.

~Wade Nobles

Culture is learned, expressed, and passed along

through a vast network of shared material, social, and

ideological structures including ideas, values, beliefs,

sensibilities, social roles, language, communicationpatterns, physical artifacts, rituals, and symbols.

~David Matsumoto

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The Integrative and Foundational Role of Culture


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CULTURE IS

Embedded in our Environmental ContextsInternalized into our Beliefs, Values, & Thoughts

Expressed through our Choices and Behaviors Culture can be demographically-based (e.g., ethnic culture, gay culture)

or experientially-based (e.g., occupational culture, 12-step culture)

Individuals are exposed to and internalize multiple cultural influences

which intersect in particular ways to create identity

Culture functions as an organizing and linking process between persons

and contexts, as well as being manifested in the transactions between

them

The inclusion of culture in the analysis of human experience, behavior,

and transformation facilitates the identification of constructs, methods,

and strategies that enhance the effectiveness of applied work in diverse

cultural contexts68

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Culture in CHI


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Culture in CHI Ecocultural Processes

The shared core elements of the cultural worldview

General and commonly expressed cultural characteristicsMaterial culture, Social culture, Ideological Culture

Manifestations of culture that emerge from a groups culturalcontext

The essence of a cultural groups way of life passed down fromgeneration to generation

Similar to Matsumotos societal culture

Expressed as the Sociocultural Context in the CHI Model

Psychocultural Processes The unique ways that ecological culture is internalized and

expressed by each individuals, families, and groups

The intentional choices that individuals makes regarding adoptingand participating in particular cultural values, customs, behaviors,etc.

The meaning of culture to the individual

Similar to Matsumotos individual culture

Expressed as Psychocultural Person Dynamics in the CHIModel

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THE QUESTIONS AGAIN


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THE QUESTIONSAGAIN Is Humanistic Psychology inherently multicultural? If so, how is that

made credible through explicit discussion and visibility in theory and

practice? Does the community of Humanistic Psychology include the multiple

cultural expressions of humanity?

Does the intellectual and theoretical work of humanistic psychologyinclude voices that speak to what it means to be human and theexistential dilemmas of our humanness from diverse culturaltraditions?

Is the practice of Humanistic Psychology relevant to serving the well-being of the marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed?

In what ways is Humanistic Psychology in substantive dialogue withthose in psychology whose work focuses on diversity and socialjustice? (e.g., Divisions 9, 27, 35, 44, 45, 48)

Do the writings and work of Humanistic Psychology demonstrate an

understanding of systemic oppression, power, and privilege? Has Humanistic Psychology been willing to step into the discomfort of

differences and engage in some meaningful self-evaluation aroundthese issues?


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My journey of despairand hope during this

conference.

We Shall Overcome


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We Shall Overcomeby Mahalia Jackson

We shall overcome, we shall overcome,We shall overcome someday;Oh, deep in our hearts, we do believe,We shall overcome someday.

We shall all have peace, We shall all have peace,We shall all have peace someday;Oh, deep in our hearts, I do believe,We shall all have peace one day.

We will all be free, We will all be free,We will all be free someday;

Oh, deep in our hearts, We do believe,We shall all be free one day.

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