Culturally Competent Conversations

Welcome to the Culturally Competent Conversations Club. First, this club or any conversation on Clubhouse is not therapy, coaching or any form of official advice. This is the Clubhouse version of the Culturally Competent Conversations for Equity and Belongingness (C3EB) Summit created by Dr. Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta (www.c3eb.com) The C3EB Summit launched in August 2020 as a virtual platform for all of us to move past diversity checkboxes and start having conversations that solve for Equity and Intentional Inclusion through Belongingness. Since then, the C3EB platform has grown into a quarterly summit centered around amplifying the lived experiences and insights of historically marginalized people across racial/ethnic, gender, (dis)ability, cognitive and ideological spectrums. At C3EB we believe that Inclusion is not a Zero-Sum Game. And neither are Equity and Belongingness. What does Cultural Competence mean in this space? It means operating from a space of Awareness, Sensitivity, Humility and Responsiveness with regards to where we are coming from AND where the other person might be in their journey. Competence doesn’t mean mastery in here, it means the willingness to practice toward progress. More information can be found at www.C3EB.com Rules: 1.) Be respectful by not talking over each other 2.) Be ready to receive wisdom through the lived experiences of others 3.) Be open to vulnerability 4.) Expect to face and address your internal biases and assumptions 5.) Be solution focused and not problem or drama focused. This is not a space for therapy.