Meeting a New Me: An Autoethnographic Journey into Kenya and Back

In this article the first author (MG) examines her experiences, reflections, and questions after traveling to Kenya and then attempting to integrate those experiences into her Western life. Using an autoethnographic format, different implications for the author are explored as she becomes more cultu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Contemporary family therapy 2011-09, Vol.33 (3), p.324-332
Hauptverfasser: Gilmore, Miranda, Natrajan-Tyagi, Rajeswari
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In this article the first author (MG) examines her experiences, reflections, and questions after traveling to Kenya and then attempting to integrate those experiences into her Western life. Using an autoethnographic format, different implications for the author are explored as she becomes more culturally aware both of other ways of being as well as of her own identity. MG publically shared her experiences on three different occasions, and then used a reflective stance to consider the implications of the questions posed for her personally, for the therapy field, and for the meaning of maintaining multicultural competencies.
ISSN:0892-2764
1573-3335
DOI:10.1007/s10591-011-9160-8