The Actualising Tendency Across Cultures - Working with Third Culture and Culturally Multiple Clients

​What happens when a person's sense of self has developed across more than one culture? How might person-centred theory help us think differently about identity, belonging, adaptation, and growth?

In this online workshop, I'll be bringing together my own lived experience as a Third Culture individual, my work as a person-centred therapist, and current thinking from person-centred theory and Third Culture literature.

We'll explore ideas such as the actualising tendency, conditions of worth, congruence, and the organismic valuing process, and consider what these might look like for people whose identities have developed across multiple cultural worlds.

This is a reflective professional development workshop for counsellors, psychotherapists, trainees, and other helping professionals who are interested in culture and identity. It may be particularly relevant if you work with Third Culture, diaspora, migrant, bicultural, or culturally multiple clients, or if these experiences are part of your own story. No previous knowledge of Third Culture Kids is needed.