Cultural Humilty Practitioner Series - Academic Year 2025-2026

Introduction

The Cultural Humility Institute, hosted by Allied Path Consulting, is a year-long, virtual program tailored to empower and inspire individuals with engaging sessions and practical coaching. Explore key themes of cultural humility, interpersonal communication skills, dimensions of power, and professional/personal growth, with insights into institutional consistency, developing a cultural humility action plan, and how to apply the Cultural Humility Toolkit.

Academic Year Long Cultural Humility Practitioner Series

This series is led by Dr. Veronica Keiffer-Lewis, a 3+ decades Equity and Cultural Humility Practitioner, who also studied under Dr. Melanie Tervalon, co creator of the Cultural Humility Framework, and will be joined by members of the Allied Path Consulting Team.

Join us for engaging discussions, interactive workshops, and insightful presentations on your journey to becoming a Cultural Humility Practitioner.

During the course, we will explore and learn

• key themes of cultural humility
• interpersonal communication skills
• dimensions of power
• professional/personal growth
• insights into institutional consistency
• developing a cultural humility action plan
• how to apply the Cultural Humility Toolkit
• how to lead cultural humility study groups
• develop practitioner skills and abilities

Get ready for a transformative experience with us!

Meet Dr. Veronica Keiffer-Lewis

Veronica has been working in the field of DEI and cultural humility training and consulting for over thirty years. She was the inaugural equity director at De Anza College, where she led the development of the college’s equity framework, lens, and rubric, in addition to developing infrastructure to deepen institutional equity.

Cultural Humility Practitioner Certificate Year-long Program

This year-long program is tailored for campus colleagues, across all roles and levels, who are committed to student success, shared governance, advancing equity and belonging efforts. The series is designed for participants to attend all learning sessions and coaching sessions, allowing participants to gain greater insights, actionable leadership skills, and resources to drive meaningful change through the application of the Cultural Humility Toolkit.

Program Overview

• Class size is limited to 50 participants for maximum impact and anticipated to fill to capacity
• Six 2-hour learning sessions
• Six 1-hour coaching sessions
• One 2-hour practicum seminar and graduation
• Materials are included in the program fee
• Optional: Discounted attendance to our Cultural Humility TOT (training of trainers) 2-day event!

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the history and four core principles of cultural humility.
• Identify strategies for integrating cultural humility into Higher Education and shared governance.
• Build skills for applying the Cultural Humility Toolkit.
• Develop skills for facilitating and coaching for cultural humility.

"Cultural Humility: People, Principles and Practices," a 30-minute documentary by Vivian Chávez.