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- How do your past experiences affect your work?
- Your life experiences influence the manner in which you interact with people and perform your
role as a professional. Your experiences and attitudes can be powerful tools to enhance your
competence or can be stumbling blocks in your work with people. Assess your cultural
competence by responding to the following:
– Examine your knowledge about and attitudes toward difference and identify any deficits.
– Examine your strengths – have your particular experiences, knowledge and attitudes
made you sensitive/ concerned/empathetic/ aware/ engaged?
– Make note of any of your own attitudes that make you uncomfortable or which you feel
you need to improve.
– How do you plan to enhance your cultural competence?
