Harriet Cannon M.C., LMFT, Consulting and Training

Welcome! My name is Harriet Cannon. I specialize in consulting and training on multicultural and multiethnic identity, and intercultural communication.

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor with 25 years experience in the US and internationally. I help individuals, professional groups, and organizations create satisfying connections in their intercultural relationships, and success in their professional environments.

To facilitate effective change through my consulting and training, I believe in a systemic philosophy. I use methods that consider not only an individual client's worldview but also the larger social, economic, and political context in which a client lives and works.

Areas of Consulting and Training:

• Professional Intercultural Workshops for 2012
• Multicultural and multiethnic identity, creating strong relationships;
  Professional development and continuing education credit.
• Presentations and training for families and community groups who want a deeper understanding of how to create successful intercultural relationships
• Intercultural coaching and training for international travelers, expatriates, and people who are adjusting to life in the US after living internationally

Professional Intercultural Workshops for 2012

"Not Your Daddy's Diversity:
Clinical Perspectives on the Emerging US Multicultural Society"
Friday, February 24, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (click link to download PDF)

"Family History and the Immigration Story in Therapy"
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (click link to download PDF)

"21st Century Faces: Multiethnic Families and Identity"
Friday, September 21, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (click link to download PDF)

Register Now (click link to download PDF of mail-in registration form)

6 CEUs per workshop, each includes 2 ethics credits. Approved for MFTs, LMHCs, LICSWs, and LASWs. Each workshop stands alone. Fee: $100.00 per workshop
Workshops will be held in the Seattle/Bellevue area. Exact locations to be announced.

We will focus on:

• How our cultural experiences affect our work
• New perspectives and how to apply them
• Ethical dilemmas in multicultural work

What's been said about our workshop series:

• "A new and different approach. A rich, meaningful experience."
• "Loved the opportunity to do some critical thinking and dissect some real cases."
• "The subject could not be more relevant and I've encountered no other trainers that deal with it this effectively."

For additional information or to register, contact either

Harriet Cannon, MC, LMFT, LMHC 206-780-3843 harriet@harrietcannon.com or

Rhoda Berlin, MS, LMFT 206-919-5771 rhoda.berlin@gmail.com

Multicultural and Multiethnic Identity, Creating Strong Relationships; Professional Development Consulting and Training

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

— Will Rogers

1. Individual and Small Group Consultation

The US has the most diverse population in the world, a trend that has accelerated dramatically in the last decade. I provide very personal, tailored, consultation on multicultural, multiethnic identity and intercultural relationship dynamics. My clients are most often health and mental health professionals, educators, and business executives, who want expert knowledge that can be applied to their specific work environment.

Some examples of consultation themes are:

• Acquiring deep personal knowledge about cultural identity that will facilitate strong intercultural relationships.
• Understanding the structure of individualist and collectivist cultures and the nuances of conflict between them to create trust in individual or group relationships.
• Beyond culture shock, strategies to minimize culture loss and cultural grieving that affects mood and relationships over the life span of expatriates, immigrant, and multiethnic families.

Read FAQ's here.

 

2. Continuing Education Training for Mental Health Care professionals and Educators.

I provide professional development trainings with clock hour continuing education units (CEU's) for mental health professionals and educators through Cascadia Training. www.cascadia-training.org I also work with groups of health care professionals and businesses to provide trainings tailored to specific intercultural communication needs. I can usually provide CEU's for most training.

Some examples of current trainings are:

• The Emerging US Culture; Not Your Daddy's Diversity
• Family History and the Immigration Story in therapy
• 21st Century Clients; Textures of Appearance, Language and Identity

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

— St Francis Assisi

 

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Presentations and training for families and community groups

The heart has its reasons that reason doesn’t understand.

— Blaise Pascal

1. Presentations and trainings for parent groups, community groups, and associations who want a deeper understanding of how to create successful intercultural relationships.

• Presentations on the changing population in the US and the affects of multicultural points of view on parents raising children in the 21st century.
• Engaging experiential training to develop strategies and skills for living and working between western individualist cultures and collectivist cultures that are the dominant worldview.
• Presentations on cultural competence and how to raise culturally competent children.

Life Balance Inventory (click link to download PDF)

Your cultural identity changes as your child grows (click link to download PDF)

 

2. Coaching for multicultural, biracial, multiethnic, individuals, families or extended families who want some practical tools for challenges they find while living as mixed cultural families.

• Multicultural families with mixed race and multiethnic children can benefit from brief coaching to develop strategies that help their children with identity and a sense of belonging in families that may have a wide variety of ethnic and racial physical characteristics.
• Multicultural families with a variety of languages can benefit from coaching for strategies, which allow parents to keep their cultures and languages alive while living in the mainstream US, culture.
• Bicultural individuals and couples who are seeing or have seen a counselor can benefit from adjunct brief coaching on how bicultural identity affects their personal and professional relationships.

Strategies for bicultural parents (click link to download PDF)

Bi-Cultural Families and the In-Law Connection (click link to download PDF)

 

The finest thing in the world…is knowing how to belong to oneself.

— Michele de Montaigne

 

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International Travelers, Expatriates, Repatriating US citizens

Every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you are left puzzling who you are and who you’ve fallen in love with.

— Pico Iyer

1. US Expatriate; Assessment and Training

How? By accessing the relocation risks, coaching to ease those risks, and preparing people for an intercultural life style prior to an international relocation.

I teach the skills needed to cope with intense cultural transitions to avoid the pitfalls of stress-related health problems, relationship problems, and depression, while managing personal and professional agendas.

Time and schedule differences, physical travel stress, experiencing cultures and exhaustion due to jet lag, all make communication difficult when you are traveling for international for business or study. As an intercultural specialist, and former expatriate I tailor just the right advice, resources and collaborative problem solving, which facilitate your successful international transitions.

International Travel Toolkit (click link to download PDF)

2. Culture Shock

Moving internationally can be a philosophical, emotional, and physical shake up to the world as you know it. Additionally, many expatriates and frequent international travelers face challenges in keeping their couple and family relationships satisfying.

I can take you through the phases of cultural adjustment with humor and insight. Practical self assessments, questionnaires and experiential exercises are tailored to your specific needs on how to live successfully and minimize the stress of adjustment to living in a new country and culture.

The Culture Shock Cycle (click link to download PDF)

3. Coming Home after Living Internationally; Expat, Repat and Beyond

I assist clients in navigating the challenges that come with re-entering their culture of origin and taking best advantage of personal and professional strengths accrued while living internationally.

Consultation can help you use your creativity to take best advantage of your acquired knowledge in both your personal and professional life. I can help you manage your life, work, and relationships during re-entry culture shock using practical tips, questionnaires and experiential exercises.

Repatriation and Love of Language (click link to download PDF)

Strategies for Bi-Cultural Parents (click link to download PDF)

There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a Diaspora of their own….They share with each other, across the nations, common values of humor and understanding. When you are among them you know you will not be mocked or resented, because they will not care about your race, your faith, your sex, or your nationality, and they suffer fools if not gladly, at least sympathetically.

— Jan Morris

 

 

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