Diversity Made Simple: Positive & Shame-Free Strategies for Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships

Unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to disconnected personal and professional relationships. Unfortunately, helping professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear that we don't know enough about other cultures to try to effectively support those different than themselves. This training will help reduce those fears by providing an attainable goal for increasing cultural competence, as well as reducing the negative impact of unavoidable cultural misunderstandings on professional rapport and therapeutic effectiveness. This positive and encouraging relationship-focused training will provide practical language and strategies that can help reduce tensions and perceived barriers and help strengthen cross-cultural relationships.

This class meets the 4 hours of cultural diversity/social justice CE requirement for all licensed California psychologists needed each renewal cycle. It also meets the cultural diversity requirement for many other States.

Published: Apr 2025

Format

Online Course

Credits

6.0

Instructor

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv

Price

$ 119

Course objectives

Diversity Made Simple: Positive & Shame-Free Strategies for Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships

  • Describe a healthy perspective on what diversity includes and the benefits of increased cultural competence on improving cross-cultural professional relationships.
  • Identify two strategies for increasing cultural self-awareness and self-confidence, and for conveying genuine cross-cultural care.
  • List two examples of healthy diversity language to avoid division and increase cohesion among culturally diverse families and communities.
  • Describe two practical strategies for reducing the frequency of unintentional cultural offenses and repairing relationships damaged by cultural offenses.

Instructor

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical supervisor, adjunct instructor, author, and national speaker on the topic of multicultural awareness and diversity. For 20 years, Lambers has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit, as well as ministry environments. Lambers utilizes his marriage and family therapist experience to bring a positive, shame-free, empowering, and relationship-focused approach to equip helping professionals in various fields to increase their cultural self-awareness, reduce the frequency of unintentional cultural offenses, as well as repair relationships damaged by cultural offenses. Lambers' Diversity Made Simple training has equipped over 20,000 helping professionals around the country to feel more comfortable, competent, and confident in their ability to meet a greater variety of needs for whomever they have the opportunity to serve. Lambers is the presenter of the popular TEDx talk on What to Do When You Offend Someone which has been viewed over 500,000 times. Lambers is also the author of the award-winning book, Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical and Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses and Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships. For more information about Lambers, visit www.LambersFisher.com.

Course Lessons

How It Works

  • View the presentation. Classes are broken into small video segments of less than 30 minutes, so you can come and go as you please.
  • Take the quiz. Answer a few questions after each lesson before you move to the next lesson.
  • Complete the course evaluation.
  • Print your certificate and you're done!

We Make It Easy

  • Handouts from the class are available as PDF files to view or print.
  • Once you've purchased a class, you can view it as many times as you like.
  • Login with your email address and password. It takes you to your personal library/dashboard of all classes you have purchased.
  • Over 90% of professionals report being absolutely satisfied with their online experience!

Levels of Classes

All of our classes are offered at the intermediate level unless otherwise indicated. All classes are designed for experienced mental health professionals.

Test Policy

You need a score of 75% or higher in each lesson/module to move to the next lesson/module. Most people pass on their first attempt. You have up to 3 attempts to pass each module. After 3 failed attempts, you need to contact our office and we will reset the quiz for one more attempt. 

Refund Policy

We offer a no-risk guarantee for our online courses. You can view any class for three days, and if not satisfied, contact PPS and we will refund your money in full. This refund offer does not apply if you have completed the class and passed all of the lesson/module quizzes.

Technical Support For On-Demand Courses

Please call 877-777-0668, Monday-Friday from 10 am - 4 pm Pacific Time or email info@psychsem.com.

Questions, Special Needs & Grievances

If you would like additional information, require special accommodations, or have a grievance, please contact Professional Psych Seminars at: toll-free phone: 877-777-0668, phone: 805-371-9443, fax: (805) 371-7443 or email us: info@psychsem.com.

On Demand Course FAQs

How long to I have to complete this class?

There is no time limit. You can take as long as you'd like to complete the class.

Can I sign-up for a class now, even though I don't want to take it for some time in the future?

Yes. Customers often do this when we are running a special, offering you a discounted price.

I lost my certificate. What do I do?

Log in to your account, navigate to the course, and view/print your Certificate.

Do I have to take the entire class at one time or can I stop and come back another time?

You can sign in and out anytime, from any computer, to continue the class. We break our classes into segments of 20 to 30 minutes. You can watch one segment and then come back later. You can even fast forward within a segment.

I am concerned about having to remember everything to take the test. Will this be a problem?

No. We ask you 2 to 3 questions after each 20 to 30 minute video lesson. Answer the questions after each lesson and save your answers. You can come back later and watch another video lesson when you have time. You don't have to remember more than one video lesson at a time. Also, most of our questions are very straight forward. You should have no problem answering them if you've watched the video lesson.

Can you print out the handouts for my on-demand class and send them to me?

No. You can view them online or print them out yourself.

My certificate won’t print. Can you help me?

Hold down the keys Ctrl + P at the same time to access the print screen on your computer.