Hardback Life: Reading a Short Story to Develop Your Cultural Humility Skills

Thursday, May 5, 2022

3:30 PM – 4:50 PM CT

Location: 343

Primary Presenter/Session Organizer(s)

Lynn Kysh

Clinical & Research Librarian
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Slides

Presenter(s)

Kyle Horne

Program Manager
Literally Healing, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Kelleen Lopez, MPH

Health Service & Behavioral Research Associate
Institute for Nursing and Interprofessional Research

Session Format:
A short story book club where participants will be given time to read independently and then be guided through activities to facilitate discussion and connect the story’s themes to cultural humility.

Session Objective/

Overview:
Health humanities offer different ways of thinking about human history, culture, behavior, and experience, which can be used by practitioners to dissect, critique, and influence practices and priorities. Cultural humility is the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the person. We will be hosting a book club session focused on a middle grade short story to facilitate discussion and deepen participants’ understanding of cultural humility. Participants will receive a copy of the short story to read as part of the immersion session, be led through interactive activities, and leave with a toolkit to facilitate a similar session at their own institutions.

Methods:
Our session will begin with time for participants to individually read the same short story “Sol Painting, Inc.” by Meg Medina. We will provide space for anonymous feedback regarding the short story and passive participation through an anonymous online poll to rank the story and create crowd sourced word clouds. Presenters will provide a brief (15 minute) lecture on cultural humility theory and the dimensions of diversity framework and address any questions. Our last activity will be small group discussions where each group with be provided with the same prompts followed by a large group debrief.

Participant Engagement:
We will provide opportunities for both passive and active participation including individual reading time, an anonymous online poll, small group discussions, and large group debriefing.

Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Caucus
Learning Objectives:
Read the short story “Sol Painting, Inc.” by Meg Medina
Define cultural humility
List one dimension of diversity and explain its significance in the characters of the short story "Sol Painting, Inc." by Meg Medina
Reflect on how cultural humility can play a part in their own professional role