Differences That Make A Difference: Defining Self in an Intercultural Context
Blessing the Community Garden, Christians and Muslims, English and Arabic with a local elementary school Arabic drummer ensemble “The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) is the premier cross-culturally valid assessment for building cultural competence in your school or organization” Mitchell R. Hammer, Ph.D. “I believe and teach that the family therapist usually has the same problems in his (or her) own family that are in the family that he (or she) sees professionally, and that he has a responsibility to define himself in his own family if he is to function adequately in his professional work.” (quote by Murray Bowen in Bowen Systems Secrets by Michael Kerr, MD) In 2018 and I embarked on a journey of study on intercultural competency, anticipating that Bowen Theory would play a role in this study. The hope was that I, as the Rector, would be able to lead my English-speaking Episcopal congregation, comprised primarily of white people of European descent, into forming