Witnessing Our Powerful Narratives With Multilingual Multicultural Women Leaders

This interactive panel discussion offers members of the ISU community a space to bear witness to lived realities of self and others. Five multilingual, multicultural women leaders will first model bearing-witness sessions with their personal narratives, and then the session participants will engage in multiple bearing-witness sessions of their own personal narratives. Borrowing Carl Rogers’ Humanistic approach, we conceptualize that the genuine exchange of our lived realities is curative. Session participants will experience a therapeutic alliance during the session which may provide a fertile ground to enhance empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard for self and others.