Transnational Family Therapy Training: A Collaborative Learning Experience in Cultural Equity and Humility

Abstract

Transnational training experiences offer future family therapists unique possibilities to challenge habitual ways of learning, test their knowledge in new contexts, and develop meaningful tasks that foster critical thinking and timely application of knowledge and skills. This training incorporated global and local issues of equity, history, and social positioning from a collaborative learning perspective to develop family therapy competency in cultural equity, reflexivity, and collaborative responsiveness. This article describes the development and implementation of a transnational immersion training in Cali, Colombia using a dialogical framework involving U.S. family therapy students and Afro-Colombian women.