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Step 26. The following cultural mapping practice activity suggestedhere is taken from Hogan, C. F. (in press due 2006)Practical facilitation of multicultural groups. KoganPage, London.As this publication is in press we can only provide a summaryof the activity as follows. Participants form into groups withpeople from a similar culture and then are given ‘culturalheadings’ cards and invited to place them along the top of asheet of flipchart paper.46These headings could include, for example, “Culturaldimensions and behaviours that are part of my culture”;“Cultural dimensions and behaviours that are part of myculture but declining” etc. Thus the title headings shouldcomprise a complete range reflecting cultural dimensions asaffirmative, increasing, decreasing, or negative.7. Then the groups are given a set of ‘cultural driver/valuecards’ and are instructed to decide where each cultural itemfits best under the headings. For example, these couldinclude “Shame/Guilt”, “Relationship oriented/Task oriented”etc. At least 10 ‘cultural drivers’ should be given to eachgroup.8. Following completion of this, a set of ‘behaviour’ cards isdistributed to each group and the same procedure isfollowed. As an example, ‘behaviours’ could include “Peoplegain power and respect as they get older/People lose powerand respect as they get older”; “Much time has to be devotedto the needs of & duties to extended family members/Lesstime required to attend to needs of & duties to smaller