Know Your Patients: Culture, Spirituality and Health - Natalie Tobert

This series of ten workshops offer an overview of course material Dr Natalie Tobert has taught for years in medical schools, universities, and hospitals.

Times are changing, and with patients and clients “one-size-fits-all” therapeutic strategies are no longer appropriate when engaging with multicultural populations. Already within medicine, Natalie found that recent cohorts of medical students are more aware of cultural diversity and plural narratives than in earlier years.

The series of seminars offer step-by-step insights of cultural topics, and invite participants to explore their own personal understandings for each. The topics and dates are set out below.

Dr Tobert explores ancestral wisdoms and indigenous knowledges through her research in India, Africa, and with first Nation American and Australian understandings. She is a medical anthropologist who knows the discipline honours multiple narratives around health, consciousness and spiritual experiences. She explains how her teaching of medical students was part of a strategy, to help them as future doctors understand the cultural backgrounds of their patients in a deeper way. The aim is to support medical and therapeutic wellbeing practitioners, engage better with their clients. There is more than one way of seeing.

Cultural insights taught as part of this course are critical when working with people whose lands have been colonised, or who have been discriminated against or Othered at home, and with new migrant and refugees. It is important to acknowledge unspoken domination over people’s wisdoms and knowledges.

Throughout history Natalie notes there are changes in attitude, as governments and their law makers shift their understanding over what they believe is morally correct, although it may take them time to revoke old laws and decriminalise people.

Draft Timetable and Structure

February 16, 2023 at 18:00: Meanings of Spirituality to Health

March 2, 2023 at 18:00: On Being a Migrant

March 23, 2023 at 18:00: Cultural Assumptions around Body

March 30, 2023 at 18:00: Women and Wellbeing

April 20, 2023 at 18:00: Conception and Birth

April 27, 2023 at 18:00: Mental Health and Culture

May 4, 2023 at 18:00: Spiritual Experiences

May 11, 2023 at 18:00: Death and Dying

May 18, 2023 at 18:00: Beliefs about Survival Beyond Death

May 25, 2023 at 18:00: Cultural U-Turns

This text book accompanies the training courses: Tobert N, Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 2016

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event:

• Participants feel more confident communicating with their peers and clients

• Participants feel comfortable asking about beliefs of clients with different ethnicities and religions

• Participants can use course toolkit to explore their own perspectives on health

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Front line medical and healthcare staff, wholistic therapists & healers, complementary and alternative practitioners

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Course may reduce practitioner burnout and stress, and enhance understanding and healing between human beings

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Dr. Natalie Tobert

Dr Natalie Tobert is a British Medical Anthropologist, who qualified ten years after gaining a doctorate in Anthropology and Archaeology. She conducted research in Darfur Sudan, undertook two projects in India, and later in London UK, with new migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. She also conducted research in UK on spiritual and religious experiences. Decades ago, she trained in neo-shamanic practice. She has facilitated in person workshops in UK, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA, as well as offering a 15-week training course online to global participants during the first UK lockdown, under the title: “Clash of Beliefs”. For the last 16 years she has offered training courses for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year medical students at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Tobert N 2016, Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32315669-cultural-perspectives-on-mental-wellbeing?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=xCZOJePTDZ&rank=1

Tobert N 2014, Spiritual Psychiatries: mental health practices in India and UK, Charlottesville, Virginia.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22178207-spiritual-psychiatries

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