Centering Cultural Safety

     Cultural safety calls for “an environment where people of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds can feel respected and safe —spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically — from discrimination and denial of their identity and needs” (UBC VPFO) and viewed as a five step process…

Cultural Awareness -> Cultural Sensitivity -> Cultural Competency -> Cultural Humility -> Cultural Safety

Issue 6 invites you to visualize ways to center cultural safety.

• What are the ways to make our learning community a safe haven?
• How do we appreciate belongingness, promote intersectionality, and intercultural understanding?
• How do you live or express your culture in a learning environment?

Join the conversation and send in your submission for RESPECT’s, Winter Issue (6).

Deadline for submission is Friday, November 1, 2024.

Source: VPFO. (2021). How do we foster cultural safety in the workplace?. The University of British Columbia. https://vpfo.ubc.ca/2021/04/how-do-we-foster-cultural-safety-in-the-workplace/