Cultural Humility with Phoenix Smith!

Welcome to the tenth installment of the Cultural Humility Podcast series presented by Indigenous Vision! We're very honored to have Phoenix Smith on the show this week!  Phoenix was a part of our March 2022 cohort and brought so much wisdom to our dialogue we just had to invite them to explore the work further.

J. Phoenix Smith earned a Graduate Certificate in Ecotherapy in 2011 from JFK University in the world’s first ever Graduate Ecotherapy Certificate program and a Masters in Social Work from the historically-black Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Prior to coming to the field of Ecotherapy, she has been a public health leader in the field of HIV for over 25 years, managing and leading public health programs in the U.S.  They are also an Initiated Elder in the Indigenous Afro-Cuban religion Lucumi to the Oricha, or Deity of Nature known as Aganyu, the Spirit of the Volcano and of the Wilderness. They provide spiritual counseling and guidance including divination and Ecotherapy.

Learn more about Phoenix's work here: https://theaesj.com & https://www.ecosoulwisdom.org

The Cultural Humility model provides a method to advocate and maintain accountability by redressing the power imbalances in our communities. For over two decades, the model has replaced the insufficient notion of “cultural competence” with a cyclical approach that embraces critical self-reflection as a lifelong learning process to create a broader, more inclusive view of the world.

Register for the next Indigenous Vision Cultural humility training for Jan 2023, register here!

Learn more: https://www.indigenousvision.org/culturalhumility/

The Cultural Humility model is sourced from a Train the Trainers session taught by Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia, along with their published article:

Jann Murray-Garcia - 'Cultural Humility' 2013, a video on the scripts we hold:

This podcast is produced by Melissa Spence.