Diversity Made Simple: A Positive & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses and Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships
Friday, July 11, 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Online via Zoom
Join the Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota Center for Rural Behavioral Health as we welcome Lambers Fisher for a day of ethics and cultural competence.
Cost: $99 (early bird rate of $89 before June 1)
- Group discount rate available: 10+ people = $75/person before June 1; $85/person June 1 and after. Email workforce@mnsu.edu for more information.
Earn your board-approved ethics and cultural competence CEUs!
This training has been approved for 6 CEU's, including 3 in ethics and 3 in cultural competence, by the Minnesota boards of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Behavioral Health and Therapy, and Psychology as well as licensing boards in SD, ND, and WI. (Awaiting approval)
Training Summary:
Unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to disconnected personal and professional relationships. Unfortunately, helping professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear that we don’t know enough about other cultures to try to effectively support those different than themselves. This training will help reduce those fears by providing an attainable goal for increasing cultural competence, as well as reducing the negative impact of unavoidable cultural misunderstandings on professional rapport and effectiveness. This positive and encouraging relationship-focused training will provide practical language and strategies that can help reduce tensions and perceived barriers, and help strengthen cross-cultural relationships.
Learning Objectives:
- Broaden professional perspective on what diversity includes and its potential impact on building and maintaining rapport with clients.
- Identify strategies for increasing professional cultural self-awareness to assist in helping increase client cultural self-awareness.
- Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies for reducing unintentional cultural offenses and repairing professional relationships damaged by cultural offenses.
Meet Your Speaker:
Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical supervisor, adjunct instructor, author, and national speaker on the topic of multicultural awareness and diversity. For 20 years, Lambers has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit, as well as ministry environments. Lambers utilizes his marriage and family therapist experience to bring a positive, shame-free, empowering, and relationship-focused approach to equip helping professionals in various fields to increase their cultural self-awareness, reduce the frequency of unintentional cultural offenses, as well as repair relationships damaged by cultural offenses. Lambers’ Diversity Made Simple training has equipped over 20,000 helping professionals around the country to feel more comfortable, competent, and confident in their ability to meet a greater variety of needs for whomever they have the opportunity to serve. Lambers is the Host of the Diversity Dude Podcast where he shares practical tips and strategies for healthily navigating diverse relationships in everyday life. Lambers is the presenter of the popular TEDx talk on “What to Do When You Offend someone” which has been viewed over 500,000 times. Lambers is also the author of the award-winning book, Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships. For more information about Lambers, visit www.LambersFisher.com
Registration Questions: Email workforce@mnsu.edu or call 507-389-1094
Training Questions: Email elizabeth.harstad.3@mnsu.edu
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