BEYOND MULTICULTURAL TRAINING - MENTORING STORIES FROM 2 WHITE AMERICAN DOCTORAL STUDENTS

In the article, ''Preparing Anglos for the Challenges and Joys of Mult iculturalism'', Kiselica (1998 [this issue]) states that he will appro ach the topic using a deeply personal writing style, even though this is very unusual in professional journal articles. We found his persona l style to be refreshing and could easily relate his discussion to man y of our experiences of multicultural training. In keeping with Kiseli ca's storytelling approach, our response to his contribution will take a personal, self-disclosing format. We will start by identifying ours elves. We are two White doctoral students in counseling psychology. We are both 30-something, both natives of the Midwestern United States, and both share a common doctoral chair who has placed a high priority on multicultural issues in our training. One of us is a lesbian woman, the other a heterosexual man. In the course of doctoral studies, we h ave worked together with our doctoral chair on research and writing on various aspects of cultural diversity and have spent many hours discu ssing the critical events that have shaped our experiences with multic ultural training. We have often commented on the value of telling and hearing one another's stories and are excited to be invited to share t hose stories here. We decided that we will begin by providing our sepa rate individual stories that further illustrate Kiselica's ideas and c onclude by making three additional points about multicultural training based on our own experience.