Supervision - Ken Hardy's Multicultural Relational Perspective

Question 1

MCP

Answer 1

Multicultural Perspective
defined as “a worldview, an epistemology or way of thinking about the world and where we place ourselves in it” (p. 569)
Hardy & Laszloffy, 2002

Question 2

MCP - assumptions about CULTURE

Answer 2

1. Culture is a broad-based multidimensional concept (race, age, gender, family of origin, etc., etc.).
2. Culture is simultaneously dynamic, fluid, and static. All parts of it interact and influence one another.
3. Culture is pervasive and potent organizing principle (everyone belongs to “a culture”)
4. Culture is multifaceted and multipurpose - serves varied functions in our lives.
5. Culture is timeless - it transcends past, present and future.

Question 3

minimal objectives of supervision (MCP)

Answer 3

1. assist supervisees in seeing the ways in which human suffering and the appendages of culture are virtually inextricable.
2. highlight the ways in which the supervisor-supervisee relationship is powerfully shaped by the intricacies of the culture.

Question 4

10 key foundational principles MRP for training and supervision

(Multicultural Relational Perspective, Hardy

Answer 4

1. Promote relational thinking
2. Embrace Both/And Thinking
3. Advocate thinking culturally
4. Encourage the development of a multidimensional view of the self
5. Encourage an intense focus on the “Self”
6. Focus on SJ by promoting awareness of and sensitivity to the dynamics of power and powerlessness, privilege and subjugation.
7. Promote awareness of and sensitivity to the anatomy of socio-cultural oppression.
8. Highlight, deconstruct and make visible the invisible trauma wounds of sociocultural oppression.
9. Enhance cultural awareness and sensitivity and promote the distinctions between the two.
10. Promote the recognition of the co-existence of multiple realities.

Question 5

MRP’s “Self”-oriented work: 3 interrelated components

Answer 5

1. “Self” Knowledge (developing a sense of awareness that one has and remains committed to exploring with regards to multiple selves)
2. “Self” Interrogation (the process of actively questioning one’s developing sense of self-awareness, i.e. unpacking and critiquing unexamined internalized messages).
3. Location or Use of Selves (the facility with which one can draw from the knowledge one has of one’s self that can be accessed as a potential interpersonal resource to promote connections).

Question 6

“Self” - definition for MRP

Answer 6

“Self” is comprised of many selves in MRP (i.e. gendered self, an ethnic self, a sexual orientation self, etc.) Since m many of our selves are socially constructed, they are imbued with varying degrees of power ad they are reified in the larger culture. Many of us are equipped with both privileged and subjugated selves.